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During the Network Wars between OSI and Internet protocols, one of the most prominent arguments in favor of Internet was its robustness against network failures: Thanks to the dynamic routing principles, a failure of one link would cause the IP packets to flow around the problematic area along other links.
Virtual line switching, with all packets following the same route, determined at connection establishment, was scorned at.
It turned out that the dynamic IP routing didn't scale, especially with respect to speed. We neither have the time nor the processing power to pick an IP packet out of the net, inspecting and modifying it, before re-inserting it into the network 20+ times along its path. In the old days, I did experience communication failures because the default TTL of 20 reached zero, and I had to raise it to maintain a stable link.
That most certainly was a problem. So internet got switches at the physical level, using network level addresses for physical level switching, but what the heck - who cares about clean layer interfaces in the internet?
So where is the difference between this and virtual line switching? Virtual line switching was done on a call-by-call basis. The route could be selected based on loads on different links, problems with certain links or whatever. The modern internet switching resembles virtual line switching, except that it is done with a soldering iron. It is fixed, unambiguous, no alternates. If a link fails, there is no automatic re-routing around it. Not even for new connections. Engineers must come out to change the fixed connections to new fixed connections.
OK, they do not need a soldering iron to make the reconnections, but it is a manual operation, modifying a large number of routing tables. The result is a new configuration that is just as static and vulnerable as the old one.
Yet we insist that no network protocol could ever be as good as IP!
Religious freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make five.
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The Windows Runtime contains equivalents to C++ vectors and maps, namely IVector and IMap. If you have a choice, stick with the C++ versions, and if you have to produce a Windows Runtime version, delay the conversion as long as possible. There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch: Vector Edition
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Article wrote: delay the conversion as long as possible.
Another way to say, always wait until SP1?
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In a statement, Microsoft told Windows Latest that the company is aware of an issue that caused Microsoft Edge 122 to crash with a “running out of memory” error on Windows. Just in case you wondered why you couldn't read the web page explaining that Edge wasn't working
Alternately:
In case you wondered why you couldn't download Chrome for a while
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Kent Sharkey wrote: In case you wondered why you couldn't download Chrome for a while
What's worst... Pest or Cholera?
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With push protection now enabled by default, GitHub helps open source developers safeguard their secrets, and their reputations. Keep your secrets to yourself
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Kent Sharkey wrote: With push protection now enabled by default, GitHub helps open source developers safeguard their secrets, and their reputations.
Until someone finds a way to bypass it...
Do we bet how long it takes?
On the other hand... a secret a bit told is like a woman a bit pregnant.
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Recognizing the limitations imposed by the shift to 64-bit, and its impact on our developers, we have been working hard on features to pave the way for designing legacy WinForms 32-bit .NET Framework applications in the latest Visual Studio environment. Into the penalty box with you!
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With the 32 bit Framwork?
With the people working hard for it?
or with all of them?
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Researchers told an AI models start its answers with the phrase "Captain's Log." It gave more accurate answers, and they have no idea why. They're also better at repairing your warp drive
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Kent Sharkey wrote: It gave more accurate answers, and they have no idea why.
That is the truly terrifying part. If the people building these thing don't know how they work how can they be sure they AREN'T creating Skynet?
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: If the people building these thing don't know how they work how can they be sure they AREN'T creating Skynet?
The same way as big companies and top politicians claim to know what is better for us.
They plainly can't, but it brings money, so what's the problem. People? Bah, that concept is overrated, we are anyways way too many right now... a "small" decimation would even come for good /S
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Worms could potentially steal data and deploy malware. "My birth cry will be the sound of every phone on this planet ringing in unison."
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Kent Sharkey wrote: "My birth cry will be the sound of every phone on this planet ringing in unison."
 My 5 for the quote of the "The lawnmower Man"
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Currently, game developers need to support each upscaling method individually. Up your scale
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Obligatory XKCD[^]. 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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That was my first thought.
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The two primary fears around AI are that the information these systems produce is gibberish, and that it'll unjustly take jobs away from people who won't make such sloppy mistakes. Hopefully beginning with the people that decided this was a good idea
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Kent Sharkey wrote: The two primary fears around AI are
They forgot about global thermonuclear war.
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Quote: the information these systems produce is gibberish
So, how will anyone be able to tell the difference? 
Kent Sharkey wrote: it'll unjustly take jobs away from people
SSDD for our government.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Richard Deeming wrote: So, how will anyone be able to tell the difference?
Sir Humphrey Appleby and Bernard Wooley spoke clever gibberish! 
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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But their days are sadly long gone.
Even Malcolm Tucker[^] would be an improvement!
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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HP's All-In Plan may not come with any up-front costs, but there's a monthly fee and a cancellation fee, too. For only pennies a day, you can print all that we allow
"Extended warranty?! How can I lose?"
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"A penny for your thoughts!" I don't need a penny for these...
$%%@#@ ^&@@$ !##@!
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THIS right here is exactly the PEREFECT example of teh BS some of teh corporate world does that makes the public hate the corporate/executive world.
"We wanted to make printing as easy as possible" translation: we wanted to make stealing $$ from our users as easy and as guaranteed as possible. Yes we have a cancelation policy but if you cancel our sales reps Vinny and Fat Joe will pay you a visit first.
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