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Kent Sharkey wrote: But what if you forget your face or finger?
Often, in the mornings (particularly weekend mornings), I see a completely unknown face in the mirror. What happens if the login mechanism insists that that strange fellow is the one allowed to log in, rather than me?
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There are way too many passwords to remember...
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Kaladin wrote: There are way too many passwords to remember...
that's why many people only use one 
M.D.V. 
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Kent Sharkey wrote: But what if you forget your face or finger?
I wish the iPhone would go back to the finger. It's such a PITA to have to make direct eye contact every time you want to unlock your phone. Sure, better than typing in a password, but not exactly a step forward.
Jeremy Falcon
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If you are a game developer, a mobile developer, or are interested in learning new tricks to better debug your code, check out this latest release. I still think it needs a longer product name
Maybe work the build number, some random animal names, or the Lead PM's mother's birth date in there.
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C++ developer Phil Nash contends Python is the best starter language, or a great second language for frontend and web developers. It's a BASIC choice
edit: yet another typo
modified 14-Mar-23 17:00pm.
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Quote: But what’s wrong with JavaScript as a first language? Well, JavaScript is a good choice, but it was never really designed as a beginner-friendly language,
FTFH (fixed that for him)
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Or he could have just left it at, "JavaScript was never really designed"
TTFN - Kent
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Which "designed" languages ever made great success?
Pascal was designed as a language for teaching programming. It had a few good years, not that many, until language(s) with not very much of a design took over.
DoD had a language designed for military systems. Rumors say that for the first five years of Ada being the only accepted language for new defense software, every single project were granted an exemption from this requirement.
CHILL, maybe one of the best designed algorithmic language that I ever met, was in use for its intended target usage - embedded software in digital switching systems - for a few dominant systems, for a few years. It never was marketed as a general purpose language; there is no good reason why except that the developers and users didn't care to. It never became any success.
Now if you come and say "But K&R C was designed by K&R!" - then you could say that any language is "designed", including Javascript. There is of course a thick, fuzzy line between "designed" and "scrapped together", but honestly, I consider both Javascript and C (including its derivatives) to lie on the same side of that dividing line, without even touching its fuzzy edges.
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I agree for the most part. Languages designed by committee for wide use rather than designed on-the-fly by a small team for their own use.
For the most part, only the first few languages (such as ALGOL, FORTRAN, COBOL, maybe BASIC, not so much Assembly) would have been created in a vacuum. All languages since then have learned from the strengths and weaknesses of earlier languages and evolved -- such as CPL > BCPL > B > C.
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And leave the real programming to the experts.
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C is the better choice to start with if you want to move to C++ eventually. If you want to be a frontend web developer then master JavaScript, TypeScript, Node and eventually a language that has a WASM compile target. Only a n00b who's lying about their experience would recommend Python for learning FE web work.
Jeremy Falcon
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Also, even for backend work... everyone knows Python is slow. I would avoid it like the plague. If you want to get into AI or testing, that's a different story. But for web development, speed of execution still matters.
Jeremy Falcon
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Any language where code formatting is significant is fundamentally flawed.
That's especially true for a "starter language".
"Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed."
- G.K. Chesterton
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Make no mistake about it, Ethernet in 2023 remains the foundation of all modern networking and is likely to remain so for the foreseeable future. But I have all this coax lying around
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Ethernet runs over coax, just not as fast.
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Details, details... 
TTFN - Kent
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Ethernet over thinnet COAX is limited to 10 Mb/s. Ethernet over thicknet COAX is limited to 2 Mb/s.
I had the joy of designing networks using both.
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The original ethernet was running on thicket, 3 Mbps (unless you insist on rounding down 2.94 to 2), but never commercialized. The first commercially successful ethernet were using thicknet on 10 Mbps (10BASE5). Thinnet, 10BASE2 came several years later.
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What are all those tokens?
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See, I’m not the only one who goes there. 
TTFN - Kent
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obermd wrote: It appears dilbert.com is gone
Yeah... the author has been crucifixed for racism
M.D.V.
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I wish some hardware expert (I am a software guy) would set up a table listing ethernet versions across and ethernet characteristics downwards, like cable technology, speed, signal encoding, plug type(s), network technology, physical medium access control, power delivery support, link frame details, ... indicating when support for it appeared and ended.
I guess one line in the table should be 'Marketing name', i.e. 'Ethernet'. That would give us at least one property to relate the thicknet ethernet of my student days to today's ethernet. I cannot really think of any other.
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Seek, and ye shall find: Table of Ethernet Standards
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
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