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Recently, a think tank called Applied Physics—based in New York and focused on understanding and eventually creating a warp drive—got one step closer to making that dream a reality by creating an in-lab “black hole” primarily out of sound waves and glycerin. Things are only impossible until they're not
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Perhaps it will unlock faster than light travel in a medium of glycerine?! 
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Quote: ...Critically, a real-life warp drive would not just be a power source that makes you go really, really fast. Rather, it’d be an engine that “warps” the fabric of spacetime around the user, allowing a ship to travel great distances without actually having to physically move across those distances. ... According to a paper published by researchers from Applied Physics in 2021, “warping” spacetime like that could theoretically be possible under the current laws of physics. And as we know, there is no better way to warp spacetime than with intense gravity...
I think I'll pass on that type of travel. If they create that 'intense gravity' around you, at least you never have to go through the Event Horizon?
On the other hand, "The Black Hole" - a little childhood nostalgia. The scariest robot I remember.
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WordPress users with the Advanced Custom Fields plugin on their website should upgrade after the discovery of a vulnerability in the code that could open up sites and their visitors to cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks. XSS marks the spot
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At least this time was not microsoft... 
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One of the longest running schisms in programming is that of static vs dynamic typing. I've heard a million arguments from both sides throughout my entire career, but seen very few of them ever convinced anyone of anything. Ruby with explicit, static typing would be like a salad with a scoop of ice cream.
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I've been bit by runtime bugs relating to dynamic typing too many times over the years. I'll stick with static typing, thank you. Even though it means I have to explicitly convert between types I find static typing far better matches my mindset.
modified 10-May-23 12:50pm.
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I believe the argument is that everyone is realizing that dynamic typing sucks, which is why TypeScript is so popular and why "new" languages are static typed. Of course, maybe this is just the WrongMarc dynamic type. 
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The one that believes, doesn't need any proof.
The one that doesn't believe, wants no proof.
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Here’s a keynote I gave at RubyConf Mini last year: Learning DNS in 10 years. It’s about strategies I use to learn hard things. I just noticed that they’d released the video the other day, so I’m just posting it now even though I gave the talk 6 months ago. Why do people find DNS so difficult? It's just cache invalidation and naming things.
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The link is not correct. (It is the same as for the thread immediately below this one.)
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Maybe it's a DNS error.
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LinkedIn is laying off its last sales and product teams in China and discontinuing its app as it finalizes its exit. It was the last US social network there. Mama put my guns in the ground. I can't shoot them anymore.
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At least they are consequent...
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Windows 11’s Settings panel has been seen with a number of adverts in test builds of the OS, in what’s becoming a sadly familiar theme for preview builds of late. Takes me back to the Kazaa and Limewire days.
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We will all lean to third party lean images. That, or patches (either software or eye ones).
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
The shortest horror story: On Error Resume Next
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As if it there were not enough annoying things on the new windows... 
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By now, you’ve likely heard that passwordless Google accounts have finally arrived. This alternative for passwords is known as "passkeys." It all sounds well and good ... right up to the point Google decides to abandon the program in three years.
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I am sorry... but AFAIK I don't start with Alzeihmer / Dementia / or something similar I will continue using my passwords, thanks.
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Today I’m in the town of Kemmerer, Wyoming, to celebrate the latest step in a project that’s been more than 15 years in the making: designing and building a next-generation nuclear power plant. Don't write-off nuclear energy just yet.
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Tell him to watch out for spiders.
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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The spin doctor is in. 
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Space: 2030.
This time, the Earth gets blasted out of the Solar System. 
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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Google promised to create a better, faster web for media companies with a new standard called AMP. In the end, it ruined the trust publishers had in the internet giant. Ahh yes, AMP. Where I get to load a page a second time to get rid of AMP.
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The Verge wrote: In the end, it ruined the trust publishers had in the internet giant.
Just a bit more patience... it will probably get cancelled soon 
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