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Lately I've been using timers daily. By that I mean timeouts, for example 20 minutes: Start at 20 minutes, Slowly goes down to 0. But it mostly makes sense if I add a visual widget for it. So I built one baked into my wm. I call my "timer" a "nagger" and use it via a shell nagme() function.
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From the Insider: [^]
My mother was a classically trained typist and could manage 85-90 words per minute. It drove her crazy to watch me type "hunt-and-peck" style without looking at the keyboard, especially since I was so fast.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Writing code is very different from writing documents. There is no reason for one typing style to suit both.
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While I've never been quite that fast having topped out around 70 WPM typing, I'm also amazed at how fast some hunt and peckers can type.
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It’s still very early days, but the race to develop the first safe and effective mRNA-based influenza vaccine is gathering momentum. "It's just a bad cold."
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I'm still waiting for an mRNA vaccine against stupidity, psychopathic behaviors, and the pointless wars they cause.
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Marc Clifton wrote: mRNA vaccine against stupidity, psychopathic behaviors, and the pointless wars they cause.
You'll need a different type of messenger for that... 
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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Yeah, at best, a messenger that picks them up and brings them directly to hell, without going throught the start box and without getting the 20$
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A groundbreaking epidemiological study has produced the most compelling evidence yet that exposure to the chemical solvent trichloroethylene (TCE)—common in soil and groundwater—increases the risk of developing Parkinson’s disease. It makes a great solvent, so let's put in anesthesia?
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GitHub recently experienced several availability incidents, both long running and shorter duration. We have since mitigated these incidents and all systems are now operating normally. Read on for more details about what caused these incidents and what we’re doing to mitigate in the future. *taps forehead* You can’t have downtime if you just blame it on the customer/
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When I woke up today around 6:45 AM PDT, I didn’t seem to have internet service available. My phone told me that I was connected to my Wi-Fi network, but it didn’t have connectivity. “Hmm, that’s weird,” I thought. Unfortunately by the time this news comes to you, you've probably already suffered through a solution.
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Sean Ewington wrote: My phone told me that I was connected to my Wi-Fi network, but it didn’t have connectivity. “Hmm, that’s weird,” I thought.
That happens me quite often, but a reset of the wireless at the cell phone solves it 99% of the times.
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Reading that post, I can't help but think, things are way more complicated than they need to be.
Maybe I'm just an old deprecated developer, but whatever happened to just wires and chips to connect things, rather than all this bloated Unix software in every device? 
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Marc Clifton wrote: whatever happened to just wires and chips to connect things, rather than all this bloated Unix software in every device?
I'm sorry, but I must disagree in part.
A full-blown Unix (or Linux) system is overkill for many tasks, but paring it down to the bare minimum is surprisingly difficult. How do you handle the case of a router that also provides printer and storage ports? At the very least you need:
- Networking services
- Printing services incl. spooling
- Disk I/O
- Auto-mounting for filesystems
- Sharing (possibly incl. security)
And to manage all of this, the easiest tool to implement is a Web interface, so we need a Web server as well
About the only thing you definitely don't need is a graphical desktop!
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
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Google Analytics was the go-to analytics tool. It set the standard, we all learned on it, and we all used it. But Google Analytics 4? It’s a nightmare. I’ve tried to figure it out for weeks and it’s just…confusing. GA4: "Come with me if you want to live and lose some of your historical GA data."
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Texas A&M University–Commerce seniors who have already graduated were denied their diplomas because of an instructor who incorrectly used AI software to detect cheating "In other news, a professor was fired for using ChatGPT to do his job."
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Why do I feel, that this won'T be the last news on this topic? and that it will probably go even more south?
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Because you're not an idiot. I was talking to a friend the other day about this very thing. Students can just drop a query in and let the report be generated. People are working on AI to detect AI generated papers. It goes on and on...
Years ago, I worked in electronic warfare. It was always a responsive environment - reminds me of this.
The sad part is - and I hope at least one student reads this - the purpose of papers is to force you to research, learn, teach yourself, organize your thoughts. You NEED this training. Don't go to the dark side.
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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charlieg wrote: he purpose of papers is to force you to research, learn, teach yourself, organize your thoughts. You NEED this training.
I've worked with people from places where cultural pressures to succeed in school far outweigh any ethics. Get to a certain point regardless of how is somewhat standard operating procedure unfortunately. I witnessed this many years ago in college.
"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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Completely agree. My point was that real knowledge >> grades. My best classes were where I got a B or a C but busted my butt. We will see the results of this over time. But I'm approaching the end of my career.
A very long time ago I worked with a s/w guy who came across as whip smart. He knew all about Windows. I had to write the code to simulate a linear feed back line.
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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charlieg wrote: My best classes were where I got a B or a C but busted my butt
 Ditto.
charlieg wrote: real knowledge >> grades.
Could not agree more, though in some places, grades >> damn near everything, unfortunately.
"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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Sean Ewington wrote: In other news, a professor was fired for using ChatGPT to do his job.
I hope this idiot gets fired for this move, even if he's tenured. The firing would be for flagrant academic misconduct, which is about the only way to fire a tenured professor.
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Google Colab will soon introduce AI coding features using Google’s most advanced family of code models, Codey. And other things we hope increase our share price.
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Sean Ewington wrote: And other things we hope increase our share price.
Only if it doesn't get canceled in the pipeline or short after...
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At this point int time, the phrase, "AI coding features" is perilously close to an oxymoron.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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