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Kent Sharkey wrote: Does involve those X-Ray glasses?
Perhaps this is how the glasses for They Live were developed? We'd better get on this technology - could save a planet!
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these researchers just re searching pesky things.....while they should have been searching how it can directly reach our brains
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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What's the trickiest part of DevOps? It's software testing, hands down. Isn't that what customers are for?
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A dozen malicious PyPi packages have been discovered installing malware that modifies the Discord client to become an information-sealing backdoor and stealing data from web browsers and Roblox. There you go - Python is popular
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And no one ever thought to ask?
This is group software sex.
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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From the internet to virtualization to cloud computing, there has always been a tech game-changer in play in recent decades. But not so today. "Everything that can be invented has been invented"
That quote never fails to make me giggle, along with "This is the end of history"
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apple is coming out with iphone 14 pro max and you can run visual studio on it so there is no need to carry big laptops etc... isn't that innovative enough
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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I thought AI was my only bug bear, the term innovation seems to be the other.
All the amazing things we have around IT today are slow, and grown, and expanded, and improved upon over the last 50 years.
What I mean is, sure HTML made internet usable in a differnt way, but I dont see the 90s being when it made the internet WOW. consider more when doing previose tasks became the default through the internet or a web page or app on phone, 2006, 2010 maybe. like paying council tax. ordering pizza. The default of the vast majority of people. Same for video watching. Sure 2005 you could watch a movie online. but Netflix is simply improvement ontop of existing things, and took time before is common place.
Micro services, been available on cloud computing services since maybe 2010, but takes a number of thinks to make an avanalce of a change in software development placing micro services as the default.
As for AI 😒 Machine Learning tools, this is either at their infancy still, or just on the cusp of just 1 person making something commonly usable and then a dozen copy cats. Slow is not an issue either, github copilot and the small changes in Visual Studio 2022 with intelisense over the years will lead to an explosion of output.
ps5 with its high bandwidth storage, yeah it will take some time before one idea on, or gameplay mechanic is then repeated by someone else and become THE THING to have in all games.
GPS tracking, slow things hear and there, some geo location game, some tracking, then mix with popular IP, BOOM, and sparks off others to have related ideas with using geo location.
Innovation for lack of another term, seems to come in waves
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According to the latest update from Microsoft on the official Windows Health Dashboard website, KB5015878 causes all sorts of audio problems on systems running Windows 10. Otherwise you won't be able to hear that WAV of a big sigh
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who invented devops ?
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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abmv wrote: who invented devops ?
A CTO trying to get a bonus by sacking all his sysadmins?
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
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The software industry loves young people, but old-timers serve an important purpose, too. So you're saying get rid of the middle-aged programmers?
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Mark Seemann wrote: We need the old to tell us the truth, because they have little to lose.
But will the young listen?
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So you want someone to debug all the Javascript Frameworks those young people cooked 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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If you have ever considered writing and you work with technology, you should definitely put yourself in the frame for creating technical articles. "We should not write so that it is possible for [the reader] to understand us, but so that it is impossible for him to misunderstand us"
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"Clarity is not to be obfuscated."
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Quote: Should you start by explaining that SQL is a DSL (Domain Specific Language — and yes, unless they are obvious, you should also spell out acronyms)? Yes, because there are firm consequences for knowing that you can do everything with a limited set of commands.
When I explain what SQL is to noobs, I start with that the acronym means Structured Query Language and that SQL is neither structured, nor exclusively about queries, and not really a language.  I kid you not.
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The Holy Roman Empire of databases?
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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Someone said: It is not important that you understand why I am being paid so much money; what is important is that you continue to do so.
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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Kent Sharkey wrote: "We should not write so that it is possible for [the reader] to understand us, but so that it is impossible for him to misunderstand us"
The problem with trying it (at least when planing things) is that you end being called "Nitpicker", "Nerd", "awkward", "you can't leave things in peace"...
Weirdly enough, the biggest successes were in projects where I perseverated to get everything really good cleared and described. But at the end, nobody seemed to remember that it would have gone totally different without my "nitpickerness"
And then they wonder why some workers leave some jobs...
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 think he should have started with "get to the point", with a side comment that reading technical content is done to learn about the topic, not hear the writer drone on and on.
Write as much as you need to, and not a word more.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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The author completely missed the most fundamental principle in writing, especially technical writing: Consider your audience. If you fail to recognize and write to the needs of those reading your work, the quality of the work is immaterial.
Programmers will expect technical details, code snippets, block diagrams, and so on. Technical managers need advantages, disadvantages, case studies, technical debt effects and such so that they can make decisions about how your topic relates to their requirements. Business managers need the minimum amount of technical information so that they don't make fools of themselves. They need information on costs, scheduling, and other business concerns.
All of these lead to very different documents or presentations.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Gary Wheeler wrote: Consider your audience
 Exactly, that seems to be rarely given a thought.
"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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A new report published today by business monitoring firm Anodot reveals 49 percent of businesses find it difficult to get cloud costs under control, and 54 percent believe their primary source of cloud waste is a lack of visibility into cloud usage. Mission Accomplished (Well, almost half accomplished)
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Surprise, surprise!
And I wonder how many of them are paying more than needed and even more than hosting their own server.
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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