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One of my favorite songs of his.
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A wonderful song - both part I and part II.
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Deep learning‘s reached the end of its rope. At least according to a group of MIT researchers who recently conducted an audit of more than 1,000 pre-print papers on arXiv. I think I may have heard that before
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Modern computers say we’ve squeezed nearly as much out of AI researchers as we can
FTFY
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Or too much of AI has squeezed these researchers out of Natural Intelligence.
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This sounds like one of those Bill Gates statements when he said nobody would need more than 640K of memory.
Ha.
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#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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Ok, but the sentiment is still valid.
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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Microsoft has ported the popular Sysinternals Procmon utility to Linux so that users can monitor running processes' activity. Finally, they have something to monitor and manage processes
But it's pretty?
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I like sysinternals tools but a lot of them are things that do stuff that linux already can do.
like the one that tells you what process is locking a file.
Real programmers use butterflies
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Dogs are renowned for their world-class noses, but a new study suggests they may have an additional—albeit hidden—sensory talent: a magnetic compass. So they're not actually sniffing each other, they're just aligning based on their polarity?
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Dung beetles use the Milky Way, but you've got to be nocturnal to do that.
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Wow! The old 'Dogs Poop Pointing North' research has become incredibly refined!
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The cat sometimes farts something close to a carrion smell. Still dogs sniff intently, as if it is a subtle scent.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"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 rise of DevOps is more an evolution than a revolution, and developer jobs aren’t going anywhere Uh, the 'dev' part?
Someone actually thought devs were going away just because some of them also deploy to the servers?
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Quote: Instead, argued Knupp, the tyranny of DevOps was forcing coders to become generalists rather than specialists. The history of labour is largely one of increasing specialization. Trying to reverse this trend is usually imbecilic.
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Ops is maintenance. You can't dev while doing ops.
So, one is paying dev to do ops, wasting money where development takes a backseat to maintenance. I spent years as a dev cleaning up mistakes of rockstar programmer (Hi Ralph!), got fired for the effort and had to sign a contract that the rockstar wasn't to blame. Haven't touched ops since that day. If the software complete, then maintenance shouldn't require a dev in the first place. If it does, you're wasting money.
If you can't afford ops, you can't afford dev. Go buy a lottery ticket. If you want dev, you pay for it, without them doing ops (or support, we had that discussion already)
How about DevOpSales? If you want to combine jobs you do not understand, why stop at two? DevOpsManagement will never be a thing, but what about DevOpsCleanToilets?
How about just blaming us for all that happens and taking all the credits for the good stuff? Aw, wait.. Hi Ralph!
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"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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Eddy Vluggen wrote: DevOpsManagement will never be a thing, but what about DevOpsCleanToilets? That's what was going through my mind reading this, and then you wrote it.
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Guilty as charged.
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I have never understood DevOps.
Wikipedia:
Quote: DevOps is a set of practices that combines software development and IT operations. It aims to shorten the systems development life cycle and provide continuous delivery with high software quality. DevOps is complementary with Agile software development; several DevOps aspects came from Agile methodology.
So it's a practice, that nobody seems to know how to actually implement, to achieve a bunch of buzzwords. And the fact that it's associated with Agile is, for me, a "time to read Dilbert comics instead" moment.
AWS:
Quote: DevOps is the combination of cultural philosophies, practices, and tools that increases an organization's ability to deliver applications and services at high velocity: evolving and improving products at a faster pace than organizations using traditional software development and infrastructure management processes.
I guess this is the kind of stuff that upper management likes to read.
I wonder who the people are that actually sit around all day thinking of names for things, and then obscure the definition into meaningless words, simply so that they sell consulting services to the incompetent.
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Marc Clifton wrote: I have never understood DevOps.
It's simple. It's an attempt to make a thin veneer of build automation serve as justification for being too cheap to employ sysadmins sound cool.
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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They're calling them "campfires" — and our star appears to be covered with them. It's actually just a bunch of flashlights strapped together
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I expect that closer investigation will find that the Sun's surface exhibits fractal self-similarity:
Big flares have little flares
Upon them to ignite 'em
And little flares have smaller flares,
And so ad infunitum
EDIT: fixed scansion.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
modified 19-Jul-20 16:57pm.
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A deep dive into why the world depends on simple, reliable, well-understood technologies As a bonus, you get $200 every time you pass it
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