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Kent Sharkey wrote: we’re making it easier to access personalized content that is for advertisers to reach their targeted markets with ads that are available at a glance and updated throughout the day.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Quantum machines are theoretically great at speeding up the traveling salesman problem, but the near-term opportunity is to bring early lessons back into the classical domain. They certainly seem to be good for people writing articles about how good quantum computers will be
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Yes, we are all bored with working from home -- but do we really want to get back to commuting? A new survey suggests that we do. "It's the only way to live, in cars"
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Basically it just proves how short term our memory is.
1. The traffic.
2. The 2 hours or more a day spent in the car.
3. The endless interruptions when someone walks up to your desk.
4. The toxic environment - noise, air quality, the boss stalking the hallways.
5. The toxic environment again - cubicles, florescent lights, synthetic materials everywhere.
6. The inability to regulate the temperature as fits your needs.
To mention a few things.
On the other hand:
0. None of the above.
1. Your fridge, not the community fridge, not the snack machine.
2. A nice cozy couch or bed to take a 15 minute cat nap.
3. Oh look, windows!
4. Oh look, I can open the windows!
5. What's that sound I hear? Oh wow, it's actually the sound of quiet.
And of course, the emails and conference calls and chat apps won't go away, because we're all used to doing things that way now, so dream on, that working in office will actually be less stressful.
We should consider ourselves lucky to even have the first world / career problem of "to commute or not to commute."
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Marc Clifton wrote:
We should consider ourselves lucky to even have the first world / career problem of "to commute or not to commute." Yeah...
many people whine about things that are fvcking privileges if you compare it with other parts of the world (or even another parts of the own country).
Those "luxury moaners" should get their head out of their ass and look around before complaining that much about things that are far away from important.
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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The interesting thing, in my view, is that while many of us were frustrated at co-workers, or people in the building, or traffic, or that annoying person at the drive-thru for coffee - there's a growing sense that human contact, good or bad, is important.
While many of us prefer to be left alone, we're still designed to be social creatures.
(and you forgot: cold beer in that fridge. No liquor laws to worry about!)
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Chris Maunder wrote: there's a growing sense that human contact, good or bad, is important.
Good human contact is good. I prefer to have a choice.
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Chris Maunder wrote: While many of us prefer to be left alone, we're still designed to be social creatures.
My cat and my wife are more than sufficient. Plus, I can take a break and be with the people I want instead of the same cow-orkers.
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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I am missing something here. In the office I had both emails and the commute - now I have only emails.
The only explanation I have is that commuting is so painful that emails don't even bother us in comparison. Now that the commute is gone, we suddenly notice them.
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I guess you don't have a hovering boss in the office who decided that since they couldn't randomly shouldersurf you every 15 minutes while you're at home is now pinging you several times an hour for status updates.
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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No it's not. I can ignore notifications and e-mails, not the traffic around me or the train timetable or the people around.
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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Microsoft has added a new experimental 'Eco mode' feature to the Windows 10 Task Manager in the latest Preview build available for Windows Insiders in the Dev Channel. Can it throttle the developers instead?
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Can one throttle windows update down to 0% with it?
Yeah, I know... it was obvious
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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The rover successfully used its MOXIE instrument to generate oxygen from the thin, carbon dioxide-dominated Martian atmosphere for the first time, demonstrating technology that could both help astronauts breathe and help propel the rockets that get them back home to Earth. I don't want to rule the world, I just want to control the oxygen supply
10g/hour. This could take a while.
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Quote: The MOXIE team warmed the instrument up for two hours yesterday, then had it crank out oxygen for an hour. MOXIE produced 5.4 grams of oxygen during that span, about enough to keep an astronaut breathing easily for 10 minutes, NASA officials said.
err...
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Playing with arithmetic can lead us to unexpected and profound discoveries that point toward deeper mathematics and sometimes even deeper science. "Where there is life there is a pattern, and where there is a pattern there is mathematics."
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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!
#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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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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