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He also says, rephrasing a book about plain writing:
Quote: Rewriting is the essence of programming.
So true, but many fail to do it once the code works. Rewriting will probably break something, and the thought of having to debug it again is oh so painful.
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Explain to me why I thought of Clutch Cargo[^] when I read the thread title.  
"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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The Zero Day Initiative originally rated this Linux 5.15 in-kernel SMB server, ksmbd, bug a perfectly awful 10. It's The Year of Linux hacking!
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This year, 2022 marks the 60th anniversary of that fateful day in 1962 when a 24-year-old Donald Knuth started writing “The Art of Computer Programming.” "I think that I shall never see a poem lovely as a tree."
Or even a hash.
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Well, I watched a few minutes of the lecture.
Then I went out and looked at the first 3 pages of Volume 1.
About the same as I've done for the last 20 years or so.
And somehow I still don't have vast knowledge of algorithms!!
I supposed I just need some more work with HTML, JavaScript & CSS and I'll understand the things that Knuth talks about. 
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You should rather study IBM 360 assembler code. That would give you a better background for understanding his code samples.
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The C++ 2023 standard won't have an asynchronous algorithm feature called senders and receivers. It will instead remain perpendicular
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A Microsoft employee tweeted a photo of the Notepad tabs before quickly deleting it. Oops. If they keep this up, they might just make it useful
instead of convenient
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So Microsoft's Notepad may get 1% of the features of Notepad++?
And what high school student did they give that project to - given that it looks like shyte on that screenshot?
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"The fact that Xbox’s dominant competitor has thus far refused to accept Xbox’s proposal does not justify blocking a transaction that will benefit consumers."
Graeme
"I fear not the man who has practiced ten thousand kicks one time, but I fear the man that has practiced one kick ten thousand times!" - Bruce Lee
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Acquisitions that reduce competition NEVER benefit consumers!
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Password manager says breach it disclosed in August was much worse than thought. So, they're the last place you want to save your passwords?
TTFN - Kent
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When the initial reports on this breach were released, I let everyone in my company know they needed to immediately change their passwords everywhere if they used LastPass.
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 For any grief that may have caused them, they should be grateful now. This is class-action, shut down the company bad for them. As the saying goes, they had one job... 
TTFN - Kent
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I prefer 2FA authenticator app over services like this.
But reading this: LastPass Review 2022: is it safe and reliable?[^] it suggests that even if a hacker got the source code, which they did, and user data, which they have twice now, they still don't have access to the user passwords.
FWIW, I'm no fan, nor supporting LassPass, only stating known facts.
But, the class action lawsuit could be the end of the company.
Graeme
"I fear not the man who has practiced ten thousand kicks one time, but I fear the man that has practiced one kick ten thousand times!" - Bruce Lee
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worse than they thought means they tried to cover it up...
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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Internet grifters are angling to take advantage of jobseekers, and collect personal information. Caveat job hunter
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Its part of the company's push to democratize privacy-enhancing technologies (PETs). Just in time to hide yourself from the holiday movies
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The U.S. Federal Communications Commission proposed today a record-breaking $300 million fine against an auto warranty robocall operation that made billions of calls to more than 550 million phones across the United States. It's a start
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How do I get my cut? These bastards must have called me at least 10 times.
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Today? 
TTFN - Kent
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Insufficient. These jerks need to have all their assets seized and sold off.
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Microsoft has published its plans for Entity Framework (EF) Core 8, its .NET ORM (Object-relational mapping) library, including a proposal for pre-compiling queries, better support for “database first” models, full support for JSON columns, and a new experimental SQL Server provider for .NET, codenamed “Woodstar.” Because it's all about the data
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I believe the conventional idea of "writing a program" is headed for extinction, and indeed, for all but very specialized applications, most software, as we know it, will be replaced by AI systems that are trained rather than programmed. "The report of my death was an exaggeration"
It's been ending since it started, hasn't it? (at least back to 4GL, but I suspect the machine fiddlers hated those new high-level languages like Assembly and C)
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