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You’re assuming someone is actually running the ship? 
TTFN - Kent
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How do you define good code? But to be fair, no one reads the bad code much either
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Mediocrity is underrated.
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Just months after Neil Armstrong’s historic moonwalk, Jim Storer, a Lexington High School student in Massachusetts, wrote the first Lunar Landing game. There's always "just one more" bug
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Good news for call center operators who are worn down by hostile customers with unreasonable demands—artificial intelligence technology can alter angry voices into calm ones. Or... (crazy talk here, please bear with me) you could not treat your customers like the stuff stuck to the bottom of your shoe?
And also, don't yell at the customer service people. They're not to blame.
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Hearing a bunch of expletives in an absolute tirade from a calm measured voice would most definitely be more likely to have me checking door/window locks that night.
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YouTube reportedly now injects ads directly into video streams to make it more difficult for ad blockers to block advertisements. And now, YOU WILL see a word from our sponsor
The industry seems ripe for a new video site. I wonder if one of the many cloud providers might set one up to show how great they are at scaling and streaming?
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The controversial feature won’t ship alongside Copilot Plus PCs. A Recall recall
TTFN - Kent
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Total Recall? 
If you can't find time to do it right the first time, how are you going to find time to do it again?
PartsBin an Electronics Part Organizer - Release Version 1.4.0 (Many new features) JaxCoder.com
Latest Article: EventAggregator
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Which one?
Arnold or Collin?
I’ve given up trying to be calm. However, I am open to feeling slightly less agitated.
I’m begging you for the benefit of everyone, don’t be STUPID.
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MarkTJohnson wrote: Which one?
Arnold or Collin?
I call those Total Retard. 
If you can't find time to do it right the first time, how are you going to find time to do it again?
PartsBin an Electronics Part Organizer - Release Version 1.4.0 (Many new features) JaxCoder.com
Latest Article: EventAggregator
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One of the few scenarios for us older one's, where not being able to Recall is a good thing.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Ars Technica has had a few very interesting articles about this. My previous remark calling it a debacle seems to be an understatement. For their CEO to proclaim security is their highest priority and then to come up with this is completely clueless of them, to put it lightly. If I were him there would be a LOT of bonuses withheld, if not terminations. It is entirely inexcusable. That is, if his proclamation had any truth to it at all and considering this is Microsoft that is uncertain, at best.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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i hope they just make it an optional feature. no single person on the planet asked for it. seems like some program manager at Microsoft needed to keep his job doing something..cause all they do is polish icons.
Caveat Emptor.
"Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
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This is most certainly a way to let the noise die down and then just slip it quietly into a future update hopefully with less "fanfare" this time. I was frankly surprised the even let a cat's paw out of the bag on this "Hi, you all thought we were spying on you before? well, it's all about to get real up in here. Don't worry though, AI's got you"
Viva la Windows 7 - yet again.
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Just like 1 + 1, the concept of mathematical equality is one that is far from simple or universal – and that’s becoming a big problem. How about equalish?
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Well there is
Java == (because = is the assignment operator)
Delphi = (because := is the assignment operator)
Javascript has == AND === (I'll let someone else explain that)
Is this what they are meaning? Because other than that, 2 = 2 doesn't seem that complicated.
No it isn't becoming a big problem, it's only a big problem for mathematicians who don't operate in the real world.
I’ve given up trying to be calm. However, I am open to feeling slightly less agitated.
I’m begging you for the benefit of everyone, don’t be STUPID.
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The math is beyond my interest level, but it does seem to be very much an edge case scenario. Something along the lines of “how can we tell that these two sets are completely identical?”
Plus, it gives him a chance to take a lame potshot at Russell.
Yeah, math jerk.
TTFN - Kent
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Hmm... I didn't read it as a swipe at Russell.
I did read it as similar/related to some fringe stuff I was saying about Terrence Howard's assertion that 0 does not exist though. Pretty sure he happens to be right about that one.
To have =, you need 0. Why? Because that's the supposed 'difference' on either side? Integers are useful illusions. It's fine and very useful to pretend, but if there is no real-world corollary, it's definitely just pretending?
The Piraha of the Amazon have no real concept of numbers, no words for them. From what I understand, it goes back to their culture basically thinking there is no =. No two stones, fruits, whatever, are alike, and so you can't really "equate" them just by assigning an integer and to do so is so foreign it's not even taboo, but just impossible.
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(1 egotistical mathematician) + (concept of equality) = idiot.
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Well, neither are programmers.
Consider:
class A
{
};
class B : public A
{
}
bool operator=(A const& lhs, A const& rhs);
B b;
A a = b;
if (a == b) {
}
You could claim that the result should be "false", because a and b are manifestly not equal, but the Standard requires us to compare only the 'A' components of each variable, and therefore a and b are equal.
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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Makes me think of that English teacher pointing out to the student: "That that that that that refers to is is not the same that that that that refers to!"
Religious freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make five.
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1 + 1 = 3 for very large values of 1.
There are no solutions, only trade-offs. - Thomas Sowell
A day can really slip by when you're deliberately avoiding what you're supposed to do.
- Calvin (Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes)
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Wells Fargo fired more than a dozen employees from its wealth and investment management division in May after the bank investigated claims that they were faking work, according to a media report. If the mouse is jerking, I might be working
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The real question is why is Wells Fargo using keyboard activity to define productivity? It sounds to me like those workers figured out management's game and exploited it.
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