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How could they miss the obvious pun: "FooBar is FUBAR" 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Now, it's Oracle's turn to jump into the Red Hat open-source Linux code kerfuffle. Because Oracle has always been about defending the little guy (assuming the little guy is an Oracle support contract)
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A 3D visualization displaying upwards of 5,000 galaxies showcases the Webb Space Telescope's breathtaking capabilities. "Space...the final frontier"
Your choice of narrator, but go boldly.
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Starlink satellites executed 25,000 avoidance maneuvers over a recent six-month period—an orbital situation that's set to become even more challenging. "If you can dodge a wrench, you can dodge a ball"
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Are they all avoiding each other?
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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Sounds like a drunken group of frat boys has taken over the dodge'em cars arena. Come to think of it, how else would you describe Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, et al.?
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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Daniel Pfeffer wrote: how else would you describe Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos
Brilliant entrepreneurs?
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Yes, and no.
Yes, in that building Amazon, Tesla, etc. have affected our lives, mostly for the better.
No, in that launching massive satellite clusters is ruining Earth- and LEO-based astronomy and contributing to the already enormous space clutter issues, all for a marginal increase in connectivity to remote and less-developed places. They may make a lot of money out of it, but at the cost of ruining the Commons for everyone else.
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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Last month, security researchers at FortiGuard Labs, the security research organization of Fortinet, published its findings regarding a ransomware variant that was infecting devices by disguising itself as critical Windows updates. Only install updates from the genuine update website, or whatever other site people post saying it only contains OKdOK updates
I mean, how hard can it be?
Windows Update story 2 of n (I think/hope that's it)
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EU-US data pact approved; privacy advocates to appeal because of US surveillance. GDPR says what now?
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Dev Box combines developer-optimized capabilities with the enterprise-ready management of Windows 365 and Microsoft Intune. "What's in the box?"
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Microsoft is gearing up to launch the consumer edition of Windows 365, which is anticipated to be more affordable than its enterprise counterpart. Same Office taste, now with more recipe templates!
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All engineers are good writers… of code. But I believe that in order to a become better engineer–you should improve your writing skills. right?
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imho, depends on context: you gotta a programmer cranking out valuable code critical to product completion ... you don't send them to writing class; instead you get someone like me to revise/improve the comments or explanations, and, i would want to do that because i know i'd learn from the experience.
that happened at software companies i worked at, like Adobe, and Wild-Tangent.
«The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled» Plutarch
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Technical writers have their place, but I have found that the best speakers-to-machines (aka programmers) are also pretty good speakers-to-humans (lecturers, writers, etc.).
We've all heard of the genius coders who can't utter a grammatical sentence, but they are more urban legend than reality. Most of the cases are wannabes who believe that if they are surly enough and their code opaque enough, people will believe that they are geniuses. It doesn't work that way.
Too many decades ago, when I was in University, I was privileged to hear lectures from some of the luminaries in the Physics world. Contrary to what you might expect, their lectures were usually a model of clarity, and the Q&A after the lectures showed that they really knew what they were talking about.
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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hi, daniel,
i think you misinterpret my comments.
i intended to make no generalization about programmers ability to communicate, or being unable to write effectively ! i described a specific scenario with deadline pressure, and a programmer being focused on mission-critical code ... about the possible value in off-loading required documentation tasks in that context.Daniel Pfeffer wrote: genius coders who can't utter a grammatical sentence, but they are more urban legend than reality. Most of the cases are wannabes who believe that if they are surly enough and their code opaque enough, people will believe that they are geniuses.
this sounds like traumatic experiences' ghosts of stereotypes that injured you in some way ... or you observed injured others.
Daniel Pfeffer wrote: We've all heard of the genius coders who can't utter a grammatical sentence, but they are more urban legend than reality. Most of the cases are wannabes who believe that if they are surly enough and their code opaque enough, people will believe that they are geniuses. It doesn't work that way.
wow: that's bizarre, and i have never seen things in that kind of light except in movies and tv.
you have turned my simple, specific, words about what i have seen and experienced into ventilation.
 
ps:
i was a board certified therapist before becoming a card-carrying geek at age 35. i was a {paid) technical editor for Addison-Wesley on two of the major books on .NET/C# 20 years ago; 25 years ago, i was the major author of an Addison-Wesley technical book.
now, near age 80, i'm not impressed by such little slices from my 15 minutes of fame !
cheers, bill
«The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled» Plutarch
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My apologies for misunderstanding the context of your words.
As for the rest, all I can say is that your experiences differ from mine.
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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With this project, we can now update operating systems as old as Windows 95 all the way through Windows XP RTM like we used to back in the day. We heard you liked Windows Update
Especially the people still running Windows 95 and XP
Part 1 of n today
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Harvard professor Avi Loeb believes he may have found fragments of alien technology from a meteor that landed in the waters off of Papua, New Guinea in 2014. And I believe fragments of crazy have been found at Harvard
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Isn't this the same dild who said Oumuamua was an alien spacecraft?
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Yup. Seems we have a special case there. 
TTFN - Kent
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Off Papua New Guinea? That isn't alien tech, it is proof of Amelia's crash.
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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