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How Americans really feel about Facebook, Apple, and more. "It is far safer to be feared than loved"
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Shares of Amazon and Microsoft soared toward record highs on Friday, bolstered by strong financial results that had Wall Street analysts scrambling to revise their already sunny forecasts for the technology giants. The stock surge pushed Jeff Bezos’ wealth past Bill Gates’. Those Affiliate Points really do add up!
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There is one thing that C++ does not have a shortage of and that is package managers. I thought everyone just wrote their own?
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Astronomers were stunned to see the first known object flung through our cosmic neighborhood from interstellar space. "That's no moon"
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Quote: a chunk of rock and ice seemingly fired our way from another solar system It's an attack!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Sheesh. Took it long enough.
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Using passwords to get online may soon be a thing of the past thanks to a new launch from Intel. Finally, you can give Facebook the finger
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Microsoft has patched only recent versions Windows against a dangerous hack that could allow attackers to steal Windows NTLM password hashes without any user interaction. Do you pass the hash to the left or right?
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Version 5.0.1 of the math-, science-, and data-analysis-focused distribution for Python uses newly recompiled binaries "Snakes? Did you say snakes?"
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Remember when visual, point-and-click, drag-and-drop, wizard-driven "programming" tools were seen as gimmicky, capable of producing only amateurish, quick-hit knock-offs unsuitable for the enterprise trenches? Yesterday?
Or 5 minutes ago and 5 minutes from now?
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...as are enterprise low-performance dev platforms, as in the shyte hardware they give you.
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If you’ve upgraded your iPhone’s operating system to iOS 11, try this: Go to the calculator app and quickly type 1+2+3. You likely won’t get 6. You're calculating wrong
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Tom Lehrer - New Math (Animated) - YouTube
It's the New Math...
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Oh crap I just tried it. It only works if you type slow.
Jeremy Falcon
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Controlling finger-like growths called dendrites may be the key to safer batteries. "Sit there and count your fingers. What can you do?"
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Microsoft shipped a new runtime release of the nine-year-old Entity Framework object/relational mapper (O/RM) even as it cedes mindshare to the newer, lightweight, open source and cross-platform version, Entity Framework Core. Coming soon: Entity Framework Menthol!
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But will it be a silly millimeter longer?
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Recognizing surfaces and edges key to picking out distorted characters. Great, so now I can get an AI to figure out those silly numbers
And we'll need a new acronym.
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An AI having a decent stab at CRAPTCHA's scribbled characters is pretty cool, I'll admit.
When an AI can unravel the mystery of which of the six images containing trees count as being images containing trees, I'll be truly impressed.
98.4% of statistics are made up on the spot.
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New architecture to enable ultra-dense, low-power, massively-parallel computing systems optimized for AI Just don't flip the power switch
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The Linux Foundation has come up with the Community Data License Agreement, an open source licensing framework for collaborative communities to share “open” data. No lawyer needed. "Shared pain is lessened; shared joy, increased — thus do we refute entropy."
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Everyone wants my data
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Under which license are you open-sourcing it?
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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When a single breach can cause untold damage to your business, from millions in losses to reputational damage, operational disruption, and lost trust, you want to align your security budget with the actual threats you face. "A stitch in time, saves nine."
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