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Well, it's perfectly clear that you can't code a cloud-based AI without a standing desk, preferably with a built-in cup-holder for decaf mocha frappuccino and a mounting-plate for alexa.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Can we skip the rest of it and go strait to the jar of Whiskey?
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Several years ago a marketing guy in the next cubicle declared that standing desks were the next best thing. He lasted a week. He said what I found; after a few hours of standing in one place, the back and leg pain gets intense.
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It takes a week or two to switch over (or possibly just to get used to the new pain). Still, I only use the standing desk about 1/2 time. I can't manage it mentally full time.
TTFN - Kent
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Joe Woodbury wrote: a marketing guy in the next cubicle declared that standing desks were the next best thing I guess he meant that they're next-best to sitting desks.
The ability to stand was given to us by The Lord for attending the immediate locales of coffee machines.
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The SqlClient team is moving forward with continuous updates and improvements to the Microsoft.Data.SqlClient data provider for SQL Server. Am I the only one that's really confused by this namespace?
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Quote: a breaking change to clients That's as in: if you set up a temporary test environment, it will break your clients.
Sheer genius.
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They've been doing this for a while, and are now the experts at it.
TTFN - Kent
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It's because of where their glorious leader's push for the cloud has led them: cloud cuckoo land.
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What will be the fate of an open-source project relied upon by so many? Error 451: Unavailable For Legal Reasons
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As long as my desktop wallpaper keeps working, I don't care.
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Hacked corporate sites and news blogs running using the WordPress CMS are being used by attackers to deliver backdoor malware that allows them to drop several second-stage payloads such as keyloggers, info stealers, and Trojans. It's not bad enough that we can't trust updates from {that company} or {the other company}?
Fill in the above tokens as desired
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Malware disguised as google?
A wolf in wolf's clothing?
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Eight major mobile carriers have agreed to share customer location data with the European Commission in a bid to track the spread of COVID-19, the GSMA said in a statement on Wednesday. Little Virus brings Big Brother
It seemed to help in Taiwan and Singapore, so maybe this will help. But I expect they may not want to stop when things calm down.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Little Virus brings Big Brother Nope... only the opportunity to make it publicly and officially without having to hide (and not only in the EU)
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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I thought that mobile carriers already do share your location whenever some big shots need it. At least this is not a news to me. So it's better to leave your cell phone at home when you're up to something
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The other day I read 20 most significant programming languages in history, a “preposterous table I just made up.” It's not dead, it's just pining for the compiler (or interpreter)
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Once upon a time, people Skyped. Now they are Zooming. What happened? Because: Skype
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Wait, didn't another company buy Skype, a few years back, and "modernise" it?
It used to be pretty good, so now it must be perfect!
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I used zoom yesterday to help a co-worker with her code. It's fairly decent. And free.
Is Skype free?
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010 ----- You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010 ----- When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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I... think so? It’s been a while. I know I pay to use it to phone landlines, but I think it’s free for voice & video chat.
TTFN - Kent
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While there’s plenty of information out there on artificial intelligence, it’s not always easy to distinguish fact from fiction or find explanations that are easy to understand. A is for Armageddon, brought by SkyNet. B is for Battery, soon to be your job. C is for Computer, your new overlord
And y'all can do the rest.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: A is for Armageddon, brought by SkyNet. B is for Battery, soon to be your job. C is for Computer, your new overlord It really is at the pre-school level.
I'd want to at least add:Item 6: AIs don't know what they're looking at, because, for example, pictures to them are just big arrays of numeric values, and they know even less about what they're doing and how they're doing it.
We don't have a clue how they do what they do, either.
What could possibly go wrong?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: A is for Armageddon, brought by SkyNet. B is for Battery, soon to be your job. C is for Computer, your new overlord
And y'all can do the rest.
Challenge accepted!
D and E are for Dumb Elephant, the kind of person who hypes AI.
F is for Failure, the future of AI startups.
G is for Garbage, what they are actually peddling.
H is for Huckster, what all of them are.
I is for Inane, what true believers are.
J is for Joke, what the rest of us think of them.
K is for Kill, Skynet likes this.
L is for Ludicrous, what they are claiming.
M is for Manure, AI smells like this.
N is for Nope, what reality has to say.
O is for Orwellian, where it's all going.
P is for Prison, what the world will turn into.
Q is for Quack, not just for medicine.
R is for "Really?", how all claims should be addressed.
S is for Suckers, what the people funding the startups are.
T is for Tattered, like their connection to reality.
U is for Unlikely, which is putting it kindly.
V is for Vomit, what you probably expected me to reply with.
W is for Worthless, the future of their stock options.
X is for Xterminate, Skynet says hello again.
Y is for YHGTBSM, an appropriate response to the hucksters.
Z is for Zoo, the best we can hope for from out future overlords.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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