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Amazon One is expanding to its biggest area yet: the company is now testing its palm-scanning payment technology in Whole Foods, starting with a single store in Amazon’s home city of Seattle. Charge to the hand, because the wallet ain't opening
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We’ve previously introduced dotnet monitor as an experimental tool to access diagnostics information in a dotnet process. For those monitoring that software
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The UMN had worked on a research paper dubbed "On the Feasibility of Stealthily Introducing Vulnerabilities in Open-Source Software via Hypocrite Commits". How not to do things: Golden Gophers Edition
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Perhaps the original paper title was "Successfully patching Open-Source software." The advisor looked at their code and suggested the new title.
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The EFF, Mozilla, Brave, Vivaldi, and DuckDuckGo say "no way" to FLoC. We also would have accepted, "FLoC off, Google"
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Forsooth! Get a real job, Google!
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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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FLoCing A!
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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/*
My FLOC is bigger than yours.
*/
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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My FLoC can walk right through the door.
GCS d--(d+) s-/++ a C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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One thing must be granted...
Thanks google, all other endly agree with something
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
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Windows testers can now try out Linux tools and apps I can finally install Xeyes?!
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Windows testers can now ... A.k.a. forced beta testers with Windows 10 home edition where mostly don't know how to even get that started?
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
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If there is one topic that divides the C# developers community, it is the Hungarian notation for fields. "Here I go again on my own. Goin' down the only road I've ever known"
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What he speaks of is not Hungarian notation, but rather scope notation (local, static, member).
Hungarian notation, as practiced, prefixes the type of the field to the name, as in m_ListOfCustBase or m_strName . This is bad.
Hungarian notation, as originally intended, names the field for what it is or contains, as in m_Customers or m_Name . This is good.
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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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TheGreatAndPowerfulOz wrote: Hungarian notation, as originally intended Read Joel Spolsky.
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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I have and nothing he says disagrees with what I said.
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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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Navigating between business needs and citizen concerns is difficult. The European Commission's new rules on AI give it a go, and it will inevitably raise skepticism. But they're really good at the 'rules' thing
Quantity, anyway
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It seems to me that they truly believe that reality will bend itself to their rules.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: The European Commission's new rules on AI give it a go, and it will inevitably raise skepticism. Totally agree.
Looking at what they are ruling lately, there is a raise in the skepticism regarding their common sense and their ability to understand the real world.
And please note that I agree that some regulation is needed BY ALL MEANS, but this bunch of burocrats with no ing clue about tech and its implications are making more damage than helping.
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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Node.js 16 is now available with an upgrade to the V8 JavaScript engine, prebuilt binaries for Apple Silicon, and additional stable APIs. "You come on like a dream, peaches and cream"
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NOde.js. As in, no, never, not ever will I program in it.
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Why? I've never done it and have no opinion. I assume you have some experience with Node.js to have such a strong, negative stance.
Just curious.
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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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Not necessarily true... I have a strong (negative) opinion when it comes to anchovies, and will never** eat them. I've never once tried them, but I don't need to, to form a strong opinion against them.
Languages and frameworks can be like that also.
** This is obviously null and void should the zombie apocalypse occur and there is nothing else to eat. But having other options for the time being, I can decide 'strongly' not to eat them and it doesn't impact me in a negative way (that I know of).
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ha ha. so you're saying node.js is like anchovies?
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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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TheGreatAndPowerfulOz wrote: Why? I've never done it and have no opinion. I assume you have some experience with Node.js to have such a strong, negative stance.
From what I've experienced, granted, peripherally as another developer was writing a node.js service that I was interacting with:
1. Package (npm) hell to start with. It's not quite as extreme as "you need 10 packages with 50 dependencies to be able to perform basic arithmetic", but it's close.
2. Debugging was a PITA. Not really sure why, it just was.
3. We use SQL Server. We're a Microsoft shop, basically. Having to reinvent the EF/ORM/Connection yadayada wheel for things we already have working well in C# is just plain stupid.
4. While we didn't care about performance, if I did care about performance, I wouldn't write JS to begin with.
5. Stupid bugs. Like the CRON package's first time it fired an event would consistently be off by a few seconds. No idea why.
6. Getting the node.js server to start up took hours, if not days, to figure out. The thing called "pm2" to start up a node process just doesn't work right, especially when all you want to do is have the service up and running when the server restarts.
7. Because we're a Microsoft shop, we use IIS. Which means port forwarding shenanigans in IIS to get it to proxy the node port.
It was an experiment that I agreed to instead of putting my foot down and saying, nope C#. The service , startup process, being able to ask it for its internal state, etc., was such a PITA the developer that was pushing for node.js agreed with me that it would be better to just rewrite it in C#, which I did.
So, having the guy who said "Node is awesome! Let's write this simple service in Node!" ended up agreeing with me that we should have done it in C# to begin with.
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