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I'm not even going to read the article.
Over my 40+ years in the industry, the single biggest issue I have seen is management wanting to control. When you are hiring, you want smart people, yes? So you hire smart people, and guess what? They might just know more than you. Embrace this.
Example: I built up two development teams. I only had one rule - you will use version control. They all stared at me. I said, "What?" They said, "which one?" I said, "we're paying you a $hit ton of money to develop. If you people cannot figure it out, I want your resignations. I clearly hired the wrong people."
Deer in head lights look.
Just before I went into a passionate profanity laced tirade, my chief a$$hole - Ray, I hope you are well - said "we'll let you know." And it was solved. I had people with masters degrees and others so stupefied by management as to be almost non functional.
Managers don't need to MANAGE if they hired the right people. Your job is to give your developers the tools and the freedom to get the job done. So many people who become managers think they need to be in control. Fail. Oh, another thought. If their is a bad player on the team, get rid of them. No mercy. The remaining team will bless you.
Band of Brothers - Speirs Takes Command - YouTube[^]
is the best example of management in a crisis situation. Delegate, depend on your people, demand that they perform and reward them accordingly. In my 4 years of management, I only stepped into the role because I wanted more money and a different challenge. I was completely unprepared for what I would encounter. But, this is systemic in the tech industry. I was promoted because people thought I was smart and "able to get things done." Sheer BS. If a company wants to develop true leadership, follow the armed services...
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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The idea for the new stillsuit came from Frank Herbert's Dune novels. Now they don't have to visit the lemonade stand
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To be a Dune stillsuit, they also need to recycle sweat.
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In the not-so-distant future, we may all be doing that, whether we're in orbit or down "in the well."
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Marc Clifton wrote: In the not-so-distant future, we may all be doing that, whether we're in orbit or down "in the well."
Looking how we treat water sources... more sooner than later 
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Article wrote: The idea for the new stillsuit came from Frank Herbert's Dune novels.
What today is written as science fiction might be tomorrow remembered as a reportage.
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Been there, Dune that
GCS/GE 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
The shortest horror story: On Error Resume Next
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Microsoft has provided a temporary workaround for a known issue preventing the Microsoft Photos app from launching on some Windows 11 systems. Install and run paint.net?
Hoist on their own policies
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The ultimate way to computer security - block usage.
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obermd wrote: The ultimate Microsoft's way to computer security - block usage until you get the abo.
FTFY
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In my opinion, those working on visual programming would be more likely to succeed if they started with aspects of software that developers already visualize. Here we go again again
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The TreeMap thing is cool. I need to find one of those.
I think *actual* visual programming is fine and all (where we replace code with shapes or something).
I don't really think that's the important bit. I want WYSIWYG code-behind UI elements a la old school VB where I never ever have to think about there being an iota of js. Super bonus points if there actually is none of it.
MSFT could redeem themselves wholly overnight with something like that.
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VB7 would be a dream of mine.
GCS/GE 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
The shortest horror story: On Error Resume Next
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Model rocketry has always taken cues from what’s happening in the world of full-scale rockets, with amateur rocketeers doing their best to incorporate the technologies and methods into their creations. We've found out just who is in the department that cares where the rocket goes down (or at least how)
For those that don't get the "joke": Tom Lehrer - Wernher von Braun - YouTube[^] (or Lyrics[^] if you'd rather read it)
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It's not as if the model rocketeers didn't get some serious help. The SBC that flies your everyday drone is available for purchase.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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So what? Even with the SBC it still took a lot of time and effort to make this work.
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Thanks for the cutting into the joke. That's a pretty nice bit. Haven't even got to the article yet, but that's pretty self-explanatory.
Edit: What?! This dude's name is Aryan? Oh, I suppose that's maybe partly how we get to Wernher.
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UTM SE can ‘run classic software and old-school games’ for Windows, Mac OS 9, and Linux on your iPhone. Because Candy Crush is better in the original ASCII
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And now the devil chases its own tail.
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Tech companies will have until August 2nd, 2026, to comply with new EU rules for AI around copyright, transparency, and uses like predictive policing. New fines incoming
If it's anything like GDPR compliance, you'd better start soon
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As long as the fines do not really hurt...
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Kent Sharkey wrote: predictive policing.
Do they mean like in Minority Report?
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Without the third (minority) vote, probably. Just "we think you might do something bad one day". 
TTFN - Kent
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Yes. I was curious about that too.
(from Google)
"The law also prohibits the use of AI for predictive policing based on profiling and systems that use biometric data to categorise people according to specific categories such as race, religion, or sexual orientation."
You know, other than not being able to spell some words like categorize and color, they smash the nail pretty squarely on the regular and in fairness it probably should be Aluminium.
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Some of the best and brightest work in open source. Who are these people? How did they get there? Where do they see open source going next? It's the cookies
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