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I did have a quiet smile at the redefinition of the acronym NOTAM.
In the 20+ years I have been reading them it was always "NOTice to AirMen" (and still is, according to the Australian Government[^])
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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yeah that was the current admin's upgrade to NOTAM. The system is antiquated and needs re-work.
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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The tech site has been publishing articles written by AI and edited by humans since November, following other news outlets. Or maybe their previous authors just wrote like an AI?
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Apple could release a MacBook Pro laptop with a touchscreen as soon as 2025, according to a report from Bloomberg. "We've done tons of user testing on this, and it turns out touchscreens don't work."
Slightly paraphrased, but that was His Steve's opinion.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: but that was His Steve's opinion.
But he is not there anymore and the new guy in marketing might be too young to have known him in his teen / adult life 
M.D.V. 
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an interesting recent short piece (Bloomberg, Gurman) that touches on this: [^]
«The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled» Plutarch
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Microsoft will no longer require US employees to formally record vacation thanks to a new Discretionary Time Off policy. That should help clear up the bug backlog
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Kent Sharkey wrote: That should help clear up the bug backlog
It could actually be important for that, the ones working will be the ones willing to do it and probably the ones actually being able to solve things.
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i guess mickey soft found a way to get rid of it excess cash problem
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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Veracode, provider of modern application security testing solutions, today released the results of the Veracode State of Software Security 2023 report, revealing that flaw build up overtime poses a real issue for many businesses. I'm sure if you look again, you'll see that's probably more like 100%
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I think the software they used to determine this has a flaw - it can't count to 100%
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LHS 475 b is just 41 light years away. I see one 100% the size of Earth
It's an exoplanet somewhere
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So, 1 variable (and not even a really important one)... what about all other?
- Atmosphere composition
- Distance to sun
- Class of sun radiation
- Water presence
- ...
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Baby steps, I guess. All I get out of this is that the "fraction of stars that have planets" factor in the Drake equation seems to be quite high after all.
The "people talking to us" still does seem rather low. 
TTFN - Kent
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Kent Sharkey wrote: The "people talking to us" still does seem rather low.
Seriously, if you were so advanced that you could come to say "hi"... looking how we behave, would you come? I wouldn't
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'struth! 
TTFN - Kent
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This is a nascent trope in sci-fi that I absolutely love: Earthlings being shunned by the amazing galactic powers because we are violent barbarians until a Universe ending threat arrives and we are deemed as the last and only possible solution to fight it.
Also the trope of us earthlings being actual badasses who can survive an amputation and even keep fighting despite grievous wounds, breathing rocket fuel (oxygen), being the apex predator despite not having a single body part evovled for it with the exception of the front facing eyes.
I guess that after decades of being shown space elves being utterly superior to us seeing the opposite point of view is uplifting?
GCS/GE d--(d) s-/+ a C+++ U+++ P-- L+@ E-- W+++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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The Mars Society has been engaged in a simulated Mars mission in the US state of Utah since November, and Paro was along for the ride. It's all fun and games until you run out of robot fish to feed it
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Put a ChatGPT program in it, and do that voice training thingy mentioned yesterday to make talk in Elon's voice. Then put reigns on it, have Elon himself ride on it, and drop it onto Mars like the ending of Dr. Strangelove.
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Because when you finally flip out you can club the baby seal?
I’ve given up trying to be calm. However, I am open to feeling slightly less agitated.
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It detects the most stressed crewmember, and ejects him/her through the seal?
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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Updates and deletes remove history that is often desirable to keep. It is not only possible but practical to write a database application that preserves that history. This idea brought to you by the Hard Drive Manufacturers Association
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I thought we already had that and its name was git.
I’ve given up trying to be calm. However, I am open to feeling slightly less agitated.
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I thought it was Chrome. I've never seen Chrome clear the local cache.
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