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Navigating between business needs and citizen concerns is difficult. The European Commission's new rules on AI give it a go, and it will inevitably raise skepticism. But they're really good at the 'rules' thing
Quantity, anyway
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It seems to me that they truly believe that reality will bend itself to their rules.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: The European Commission's new rules on AI give it a go, and it will inevitably raise skepticism.
Totally agree.
Looking at what they are ruling lately, there is a raise in the skepticism regarding their common sense and their ability to understand the real world.  
And please note that I agree that some regulation is needed BY ALL MEANS, but this bunch of burocrats with no ![Elephant | [mastadon]](https://www.codeproject.com/script/Forums/Images/elephant.gif) ing clue about tech and its implications are making more damage than helping.
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
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Node.js 16 is now available with an upgrade to the V8 JavaScript engine, prebuilt binaries for Apple Silicon, and additional stable APIs. "You come on like a dream, peaches and cream"
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NOde.js. As in, no, never, not ever will I program in it.
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Why? I've never done it and have no opinion. I assume you have some experience with Node.js to have such a strong, negative stance.
Just curious.
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Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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Not necessarily true... I have a strong (negative) opinion when it comes to anchovies, and will never** eat them. I've never once tried them, but I don't need to, to form a strong opinion against them.
Languages and frameworks can be like that also.
** This is obviously null and void should the zombie apocalypse occur and there is nothing else to eat. But having other options for the time being, I can decide 'strongly' not to eat them and it doesn't impact me in a negative way (that I know of).
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ha ha. so you're saying node.js is like anchovies?
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Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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TheGreatAndPowerfulOz wrote: Why? I've never done it and have no opinion. I assume you have some experience with Node.js to have such a strong, negative stance.
From what I've experienced, granted, peripherally as another developer was writing a node.js service that I was interacting with:
1. Package (npm) hell to start with. It's not quite as extreme as "you need 10 packages with 50 dependencies to be able to perform basic arithmetic", but it's close.
2. Debugging was a PITA. Not really sure why, it just was.
3. We use SQL Server. We're a Microsoft shop, basically. Having to reinvent the EF/ORM/Connection yadayada wheel for things we already have working well in C# is just plain stupid.
4. While we didn't care about performance, if I did care about performance, I wouldn't write JS to begin with.
5. Stupid bugs. Like the CRON package's first time it fired an event would consistently be off by a few seconds. No idea why.
6. Getting the node.js server to start up took hours, if not days, to figure out. The thing called "pm2" to start up a node process just doesn't work right, especially when all you want to do is have the service up and running when the server restarts.
7. Because we're a Microsoft shop, we use IIS. Which means port forwarding shenanigans in IIS to get it to proxy the node port.
It was an experiment that I agreed to instead of putting my foot down and saying, nope C#. The service , startup process, being able to ask it for its internal state, etc., was such a PITA the developer that was pushing for node.js agreed with me that it would be better to just rewrite it in C#, which I did.
So, having the guy who said "Node is awesome! Let's write this simple service in Node!" ended up agreeing with me that we should have done it in C# to begin with. 
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Makes sense. Thanks.
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Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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Apple's M1 chip is finally making its way to iMacs, along with a slew of other long-awaited upgrades. Do they come in beige?
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I will laugh my ass off if we find their chip is throttling!
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Theoretical blueprint aims to suppress overwhelming errors with a new approach to making qubits Of course they're in the box
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or not
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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I see more and more job offers around DevOps, I see a lot of infrastructure providers, the staple cloud providers AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, even Digital Ocean, moving from IaaS to Abstraction services or Software a Service, where they just provide the tools to consume the service, you don't need to worry about securing, patching, etc. all of which were Linux administration duties. What? Alternately, Huh?
Perhaps a good question as today is 4/20 in some areas.
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So it ISN'T the year of Linux?
again.
I’ve given up trying to be calm. However, I am open to feeling slightly less agitated.
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It's certainly not the year of the Linux sysadmin.
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The software enables researchers to design ways to take very small strands of DNA and combine them into complex structures with components such as rotors and hinges that can move to complete various tasks. "Nothing is lost. Nothing is forgotten. It was in the blood, the flesh. And now, it is forever."
Sounds like the old, "Incredible Machine" game.
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Microsoft has silently issued a partial fix for a local privilege escalation (LPE) vulnerability impacting all Windows 7 and Server 2008 R2 devices. Partially 'hurrah'
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With the Agility SDK, developers can now add the newest DirectX 12 features to their games, and gamers can play games with these features without having to upgrade their OS. It will only compile if you can touch your toes
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Microsoft's researchers studied the impact of back-to-back meetings on our brains, and concluded we need breaks. Uhm...don't?
Which after their research...is the conclusion. Brilliant!
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Better than back-to-back meetings are ones scheduled in the same timeslot. Then you can skip both, because everyone will assume you're in the other one.
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Brilliant! I am definitely using this idea, soon.
TTFN - Kent
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Microsoft seems to be getting closer to launching its Cloud PC desktop virtualization service. It also is making moves toward revamping the Windows 10 app store, according to a new report. "Methinks it is like a weasel."
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The Internet Security Research Group has announced that Google has provided funding for Rust developer Dirkjan Ochtman to make improvements to Rustls, a memory-safe alternative to OpenSSL. It will be called KindaOpenSSL
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