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  1. Re: Uh on US Seeks To Allay Fears Over Killer Robots (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    And they have hard-coded into them a kill limit, so we just need to send wave after wave of our own people against them until they reach their quota and shut down.

  2. âoe"But they're not quite meeting all the req on Gorilla Glass-Maker Plans To Produce Glass Suitable For Folding iPhones (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    I appreciate them being transparent about their glass.

  3. Re: I wonder... on Scientists Turn CO2 'Back Into Coal' In Breakthrough Experiment (independent.co.uk) · · Score: 0, Troll

    Because next Donald Trump will sign a bill repealing the Law Of Thermodynamics and this will totally work.

  4. Later on Doom was fully embraced by the BoFH community as an admin tool.

    https://m.slashdot.org/story/7923

  5. Brazil on The App Destroying Iran's Currency (foreignpolicy.com) · · Score: 1

    If you want Real currency you have to go to Brazil.

  6. Donald Trump upset on The App Destroying Iran's Currency (foreignpolicy.com) · · Score: 2, Funny

    âoeThis is an outrage! I was going to destroy that currency!â

  7. I wonder if theyâ(TM)re going to run in the same embarrasing problem as Microsoftâ(TM)s racist twitter bot, where the AI learns hiring humans so well that it advises candidates that their college graduation date makes them look too old, that their name sounds too ethnic, that their Facebook profile it scraped that shows a picture of their kids will make employers feel they canâ(TM)t commit to 60 hours/week, etc.

  8. Simple answer on Is Quantum Computing Impossible? (ieee.org) · · Score: 5, Funny

    Quantum computing is simultaneously both possible and impossible.

  9. I donâ(TM)t know why K&R rewrote Unix in C; it was a far more stable and secure operating system in the original JavaScript.

  10. Letâ(TM)s be honest: who hasnâ(TM)t ever fantasized about stabbing their boss with a diamond sword?

  11. Elon Musk: weâ(TM)ll send humans to mars in 2024.

    Jeff Bezos: Hold my beer...

  12. Ridesharing might profitable on Uber CEO: We're Going After Groceries Next (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    But everyone knows that grocery services are where the bread is.

  13. SchrÃdinger on Quantum Experiment Confirms Causality Is Fuzzy (physicsworld.com) · · Score: 1

    So in other words the damned cat is a zombie.

  14. Gutenberg on How Facebook's WhatsApp Destroyed A Village (buzzfeednews.com) · · Score: 2

    The Malleus Maleficarum, the book on how to out rumored witches and caused thousands of women to be burnt at the stake in Renaissance Europe, was spread so widely by the invention of Gutenbergâ(TM)s printing press.

    Did Gutenberg forgo his mandatory social responsibility to prevent inciteful things from being printed?

  15. Giant Trap on Giant Trap Is Deployed To Catch Plastic Littering the Pacific Ocean (nytimes.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    People For The Ethical Treatment Of Giants will start a protest campaign.

  16. Re: The only thing wrong with Agile is... on The State of Agile Software in 2018 (martinfowler.com) · · Score: 1

    Truth. There is nothing more destructive to a project than an indecisive product person.

    Ironically itâ(TM)s the most indecisive PMâ(TM)s who tend build cubicle shrines to Steve Jobs, the most decisive PM ever. Iâ(TM)ve stopped trying to understand it.

  17. Re: YMMV on The State of Agile Software in 2018 (martinfowler.com) · · Score: 1

    What the agile community believes, and what the DarinBob is hinting at (I think) is that the agile community is obsessed with "continuously delivering value to the customer" every increment. In other words, a mandated fortnightly new button the user can click on. To the ScrumPeople creating programmer-focused things like a new XML module isn't considered to be "delivering value to the customer"--even if that module ultimately helps devs on the team deliver new user-facing features at a far faster rate.

    It's actually to the point that many hardcore agilistas feel that a dedicated backlog item for XML module doesn't deserve to be on the backlog at all because it's a "horizontal slice". For you to actually be able to the hypothetical proposed XML module under such a strict agile regime, you would have to sneak it in with a "vertical slice" that adds some user-facing new feature that may tangentially rely on that XML module. Any attempt to overtly create a XML module task/story can and will be shot down by an overzealous PM/PO/Scrum Master. Along with the credibility demerits you'll earn for suggesting such a thing.

    "But if there's a requirement that every complicated non-user-facing piece of technology on the backend this be ensconced in a user-facing feature story, wouldn't that bring a software project to its knees because there's not enough of the lower layers to support the user-visible layers?"

    And that's why I consider adopting agile to be the ultimate act of kindness to your competitors.

  18. Cue post-outage schadenfreude.

  19. 99% percent of second-hand condoms on Two-Thirds of Second-Hand Memory Cards Contain Data From Previous Owners (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 0

    Contain genetic material from previous owners.

  20. Octoclippy on Microsoft Acquires GitHub For $7.5B (microsoft.com) · · Score: 2

    Will github desktop get an Octoclippy virtual assistant?

  21. Re: Shai Hulud on Giant Predatory Worms Are Invading France (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Let me know when these little guys get big enough to ride.

    Thatâ(TM)s what she said.

  22. So long on Did Octopuses Come From Outer Space? · · Score: 1

    And thanks for all the prawns!

  23. Re: High Pure ConcentrationsRare Ore on Was There a Civilization On Earth Before Humans? (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    Typo. Nuke plants and Fort Knox should leave inexplicably large and pure concentrations of lead, uranium, and gold.

  24. High Pure ConcentrationsRare Ore on Was There a Civilization On Earth Before Humans? (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    Fort Knox and nuclear power plants should leave behinf

  25. Your example of irony is neither ironic nor an exa on Your Strategic Plans Probably Aren't Strategic, or Even Plans (hbr.org) · · Score: 1

    According to Bender https://youtu.be/a2krXq8fw90