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The South Pole is now the South Hole, dug by the feet of those walking in ever-diminishing circles.
Maybe the oomadiddle bird was their inspiration....
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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That explains why it's one of the entry points to the Hollow Earth.
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Peter_in_2780 wrote: Your one mile West can be several laps of the Pole.
Ah! Now I can visualize it. Cool, thanks!
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I don't know of a single kid of 10+ years who are not familiar with that riddle.
Let me suggest a modification: You can't go one mile south, that is impossible. So you go one mile north, and then one mile west. How far are you from your starting point?
(It is the same riddle, but in a different wrapping.)
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Theoretically there are two more answers, at least if using a compass. The North Magnetic Pole and a location near the South Magnetic Pole.
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Quote: [Musk] tends to care less about whether or not the person gets the answer than about how they describe the problem and their approach to solving it. I've heard this countless times concerning trick questions, and have concluded that it's a form of confirmation bias. That is, the decision to hire or not is made in the first thirty seconds and everything else just confirms that decision. When you ask the interviewer what they actually learned about the interviewee, they rarely have a more than trivial answer.
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I wonder what position in his company requires this specific knowledge
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Base commander - Martian colonists training base.
(The temperature at the poles approximates that on Mars, but there is much less sand...)
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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The fence around my garden has both a south pole, a west pole, a north pole and an east pole.
The almost square lot is oriented with its sides in 45 degrees angle from the N-S / E-W direction.
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Serious defects happen, despite the best efforts of QA departments. Here’s what you can learn from real world screw-ups, so you can avoid making the same mistakes. Step 0: Point finger at someone else
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In this post, I’ll share with you different tools and libraries that you can use to build WebAssembly apps. Now that Flash is (a) gone(r), we need a new cross platform platform
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Hackers can now reverse engineer updates or write their own custom firmware. Those AMD machines are looking nicer all the time
Fortunately (hopefully) just chips from 2016-2017? Goldmont only, anyway. Maybe.
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While still early in the design phase, we are creating a new extensibility model. This will make extensions more reliable, easier to write, and supported locally and in the cloud. Because there's always something else to shovel in there
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Microsoft first revealed the Xbox Series X nearly a year ago, and the internet went wild and immediately compared it to a fridge. Nope, you can't play DOOM on it
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Apple may build its own search tools as ties to Google come under antitrust scrutiny. If all the other kids make a search engine, would you make one too?
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First humans to receive a "stentrode" demonstrate that home brain-computer interface systems are feasible Easier than getting a SCSI jack in your head
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Microsoft wants to 'reinvigorate' the Windows 10 user interface next year. Apparently they ran out of icons to update
ssssssssssssiiiigh
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<sarcasm> You know what would be really cool? If MS replaced 'reinvigorate' with 'finalize' in the quote. As in, "Microsoft wants to 'finalize' the Windows 10 interface they began over five years ago, by finally making all the UI elements consistent and logical."
**** This is not sarcasm because it would not be really cool. It is sarcasm because I'm so jaded I know it is an impossibility.
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Does that mean they are going to retire it?
Sun Valley is a large retirement community in Arizona( I believe that's the right state.)
I’ve given up trying to be calm. However, I am open to feeling slightly less agitated.
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Oh, I missed that - you're right. I wonder if that was the connection they were hoping for?
(I'm assuming they meant the ski resort in Idaho, but your answer is better)
TTFN - Kent
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They asked their developer community to predict what developer programming skills will be important over the next three years. Somehow they missed Forth and SGML
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Well, let's see.
Knowing how to mask bits is always a useful skill when when working with hardware. Separation of concerns is an important social distancing for objects. Obviously anti-virus software is a necessary vaccination to the bad guys out there. And unit/integration testing is always important to exercise your software.
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While voice assistants can greatly simplify the way in which we use our smartphones, PCs, tablets and other devices, they also raise a number of privacy and security-related concerns. Beware of hackers that want to access your computer to convert your data to DTMF tones
I suspect this one won't get into bad hands anytime soon (they have far easier methods - like "ask the user to email them the data")
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I was going to make a joke about anyone who purchases a smart speaker deserves any hacking that comes their way, but my phone wouldn't let me. I guess it has my higher interests in mind...
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Last week, Canonical released the latest intermediate version of Ubuntu, 20.10 "Groovy Gorilla"—which, for the first time, adds first-class platform support for the Raspberry Pi 4. "We've got a groovy thing goin', baby"
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