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Reading the title, I instantly heard this song playing in my brain: [^]
«One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.» Salvador Dali
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In a paper published in the journal Nature Electronics, an international team of researchers has reported a new technique for magnetization switching—the process used to "write" information into magnetic memory—that is nearly 100 times faster than state-of-the-art spintronic devices. Maybe this will help with the "Visual Studio is busy" messages
Also: yes, please!
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Also: yes, please!
But don't forget: "In an affordable price range for the normal people"
M.D.V. 
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The European Union is set to propose new laws to rein in the power of big tech companies, including measures to ensure customers are protected, smaller rivals are treated fairly, and illegal content is dealt with, the bloc's digital and antitrust chief said on Thursday. Everyone shall be beaten fairly and equitably?
Who gets to define fair? How much does the job pay? Are there snarky blurbs involved?
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And the big tech companies...
- Yeah, right!!! We promise we will do no evil... (crossing fingers behind the back and ROFLing in their minds)
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More like "I solemnly swear that I am up to no good." 
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Who gets to define fair?
Why, the elites, of course! Those in the ruling class know what's best for us.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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The U.S. National Security Agency is rebuffing efforts by a leading Congressional critic to determine whether it is continuing to place so-called back doors into commercial technology products, in a controversial practice that critics say damages both U.S. industry and national security. "I wanna be your back door man" (part way too many)
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I think my comment to the message above can apply here too. Just replace "Big tech companies" with "(some) Acronyms government agencies" and I say some, because many others (in many countries worldwide) are either too weak or driven by too dumbs to do it, not because they wouldn't want to do it
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New training courses will help DevOps professionals learn how to develop secure software and keep the open source ecosystem secure. Lesson 0: Don't put any bugs in the code (the rest is left as an exercise for the learner)
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Lesson 0: Don't put any bugs in the code
Disclaimer: If you still want to, still don't (as far as you can) but don't worry... MS, IBM and others will do it for you
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LinkedIn wants to help job seekers and employees alike who were displaced by COVID-19 find new jobs amid the pandemic. 0 jobs available for snarky blurb writer?
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Perfect... what we really need, a stamina injection for recruiters... 
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Kent Sharkey wrote: 0 jobs available for snarky blurb writer?
Better than "1 job available for snarky blurb writer"
"Hey! That's my job they are listing!"
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  Perfect.
TTFN - Kent
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The Hubble Space Telescope discovered an asteroid in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter called 16 Psyche. The overnight shipping is pretty pricey as well
And it will likely be a bit less after it collapses the market prices on various metals.
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Quote: Asteroid 16 Psyche is possibly worth $10,000 quadrillion dollars
Is that possibly the main reason why Elon Musk wants to get to mars that bad? 
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Probably.
But then the Belters will revolt, drop a few stealth asteroids on Earth, and everything will suck (sorry about spoilers)
TTFN - Kent
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Thanks for the reminder - I've just noticed that book 9 has been announced for next year. 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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It only acquires value once it can be converted into useful stuff. As long as it's orbiting out of reach in the Asteroid Belt, its value is zero.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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If it's name is 16 Psyche, how could the Hubble Space Telescope have discovered it? Doesn't the "16" mean that it was the 16th asteroid to be discovered? That would be many years ago.
EDIT: The ECB can use it to recapitalize all the EU's zombie banks. 
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You are correct - 16 Psyche was discovered in 1852. List of minor planets: 1–1000 - Wikipedia
In the three cases that I was an eyewitness to events that made the local newspaper, the "reporters" did not get a single fact correct. I have no reason to assume that "reporters" elsewhere are any more accurate.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Quote: worth $10,000 quadrillion dollars
Psych!
I see now, that's how it got its name. 
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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...and that's just from tourism!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Why couldn't they just say "10 quintillion" dollars instead of 10,000 quadrillion?
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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