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?!?! Now you're psychic too? Dammit!
TTFN - Kent
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Quote: BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU And I was thinking we where on our way to a brave new world...
“Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.”
― Terry Pratchett, Hogfather
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Read the article - the CCP is either trying to scare the Chinese people into compliance or they have created a system to ensure they stay in power, at all costs. Anyone who thinks the CCP is benign is what Lenin referred to as a "useful idiot."
And yes, this post may be seen as political, but the article definitely dove into politics.
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CoreWCF 1.1 is an incremental release for the project that provides some smaller features, mostly implemented by community members. Sorry for those that need it
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The European Parliament on Tuesday ratified landmark laws that will more closely regulate Big Tech and curb illegal content online, as the EU seeks to bring order to the internet "Wild West". European Parliament regulating something? Is this new?
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I'm just glad they put world hunger, inflation, and homelessness on the back burner for this. I feel safe knowing that they are tackling the big issues.
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Scientists working with the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) have discovered three subatomic particles never seen before as they work to unlock the building blocks of the universe, the European nuclear research centre CERN said on Tuesday. They're still on the search for the 'zesty', 'gochujang', and 'cool ranch' particles
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In 1972, Alan Kay, Dan Ingalls, and Adele Goldberg at Xerox PARC created a revolutionary new programming language called Smalltalk. It's going to get popular, aaaaaaaany day now
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I had the misfortune to be a support engineer for a Smalltalk product. The main problem was that none of our team knew the language, so were trying to learn it at the same time as identifying or fixing faults. It was later replaced by a C++ version.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: It's going to get popular, aaaaaaaany day now
It was relatively popular for a while and IBM was behind it. Then Java happened...
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Ah, that explains why an investor had suggested we move to SmallTalk (mid-90s?). I thought he was just being a hippy-dippy, but it was because he used to work for IBM (pre-Java).
TTFN - Kent
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A sample of the data included crime reports going back to 1995. "Even if you're a one-in-a-million kind of guy, there's still 1,000 of you"
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A satellite the size of a microwave oven successfully broke free from its orbit around Earth on Monday and is headed toward the moon, the latest step in NASA’s plan to land astronauts on the lunar surface again. It's trying to get away! After it!
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The worst possible device for watching YouTube or any video content. "All I see now is blonde, brunette, redhead."
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Except for the green I remember all TV looking like this.
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The best code will run for decades, says Amazon CTO Werner Vogels. Think twice, code once?
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Backus led the team that developed the Fortran programming language in 1957, still touted today as “the first high-level programming language” on web pages at IBM. Nailing 95 punch cards to the computer?
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Autocode was the first high-level language.
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Yeah, but IBM couldn’t claim that one.
TTFN - Kent
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In this blog post we will make a small excourse to new features which might come in the close or distant feature of the C# language. "The future's not ours to see"
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Example 1:
Quote:
</div>var timer = new DispatcherTimer
{
Interval = TimeSpan.FromSeconds(5);
};
timer.Tick += (s, e) => { ... };
The proposal exactly wants to tackle that behavior:
var timer = new DispatcherTimer
{
Interval = TimeSpan.FromSeconds(5);
timer.Tick += (s, e) => { ... };
};
looks like something I'd try to write and then swear at the compiler when it errored. Fixing these things are the best sort of enhancements.
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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Notably, the army's verified Twitter account began displaying fake NFTs and bogus crypto giveaway schemes. Or they're trying a new way to pay for their tanks
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Software companies need to do better root cause analysis of the security bugs they patch. And the other half is code pushed on Friday afternoon
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Software Freedom Conservancy, a not-for-profit organization that provides support and legal services for open source software projects, has called on the open source community to ditch GitHub after quitting the code-hosting and collaboration platform itself. "We will prevail, in peace and freedom from fear, and in true health, through the purity and essence of our natural..."
I kept reading the organization's name, and wondered why does the San Francisco Conservancy worry about this?
Welcome to the latest round of, "Beware Micro$oft"
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Are they for software that is unencumbered by honorous licenses?
Or are they a phony front for non-Microsoft corporate interests?
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