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In 2014, no less an authority than NASA proclaimed in peer-reviewed papers that it was getting mysterious thrust from the EmDrive, a strange, brassy trumpet of a thing that its creators claimed could produce thrust with no propellant. Who had 'pixie dust' in the poll?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Who had 'pixie dust' in the poll? Yes; but it I'd rather have been wrong, as this is quite a setback.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Yet another test passed for General Relativity!
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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Researchers from UCLA have used a 3D printer to create an artificial neural network able to analyze large volumes of data and identify objects at the speed of light. Looks like a Star Trek prop
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Turns out, the new office could have a lot of empty desks if employers force employees back to work after the great work from home experiment of 2020 winds down. In completely unrelated news: businesses report 33% more job openings
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"WFH" was unknown to me; but an office is a building specialized around your work, and built only to facilitate in that work.
If you think your home is better, you're a home-cook.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Microsoft is starting to submerge its servers in liquid to improve their performance and energy efficiency. It works fine until the CPU gets all wrinkled
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Tech companies don’t just want to identify you using facial recognition — they also want to read your emotions with the help of AI. This is my unimpressed face
And yes, unimpressive
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Most camera's are easy to fool, a certain neckalce blurs your face. So why worry about the face recognition?
Bastard Programmer from Hell
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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The new ‘Okta Starter Developer Edition,’ as it’s called, allows developers to scale up to 15,000 monthly active users — up from only 1,000 on its existing free plan. In case you really want to know who are you
Who who, who who?
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A threat group called “Golden Chickens” is targeting professionals on LinkedIn with fake job offers with the intent to infect respondents with malware. In other words: LinkedIn
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SA wrote: with the intent to infect respondents with malware Illegal in the Netherlands, and prolly some other parts of Europe.
"BGS9, we are the cure."
Bastard Programmer from Hell
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Apple's Objective-C finally exits the top 20 list of popular programming languages tracked by Tiobe, but a 'dinosaur' language has had an unexpected boost. Not that I'd use this as an example of the quality of these lists or anything
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I looked at FORTRAN again myself just a couple of months ago.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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So you're to blame!
TTFN - Kent
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Microsoft is making its OpenJDK Java release available to customers on Windows, macOS and Linux. "Nothing's gonna stop us now"
Didn't take them long to dust that off
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Microsoft J++? No, wait, we've been there haven't we.
Rebase C# on the JVM?
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Security researchers Mark Ermolov, Dmitry Sklyarov, and Maxim Goryachy discovered two undocumented x86 instructions that can be used to modify the CPU microcode. The instructions can only be executed when the CPU runs in debug mode, which makes them not easily exploitable, though. Because no one will ever find those
My first three reactions kind of rhymed with 'for fox ache'
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For fox sake
FFS, took me five minutes. Do the next CCC, would ya?
Bastard Programmer from Hell
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Must be my accent
TTFN - Kent
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No, works fine, we just needed to repeat it a bit
Bastard Programmer from Hell
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Yahoo Answers, one of the longest-running and most storied web Q&A platforms in the history of the internet, is shutting down on May 4th. That’s the day the Yahoo Answers website will start redirecting to the Yahoo homepage, and all of the platform’s archives will apparently cease to exist. The platform has been operating since 2005.
Verizon continues its campaign to destroy every last bit of internet history it owns...
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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Utterly baffling.
How much can it cost them to run it? Even if that is too much, how much can it cost them to store read only archives?
They could donate it all to the Internet Archive, of course, if they don't even want to pay the cost of storing an archive.
As someone in the UK, Verizon is not directly inflicted on us here (as yet, at least). But from what I have heard it is a singularly 'corporate' corporate, the kind of corporation that Scott Adams would especially mock.
modified 6-Apr-21 15:04pm.
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Verizon would burn the Library of Alexandria to the ground if someone was willing to pay them for the ashes in the name of sHaReHoLdEr VaLuE.
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
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Unfortunately, true.
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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