GOP Rep. Steve King calls out “illegal aliens” who just “invaded” his D.C. office.
Quite the invasion.
Congress is not a bunch of amateur stupid people. They’re professionals.
As a novelist, Daniel Suarez spins dystopian tales of the future. But on the TEDGlobal stage, he talks us through a real-life scenario we all need to know more about: the rise of autonomous robotic weapons of war. Advanced drones, automated weapons and AI-powered intelligence-gathering tools, he suggests, could take the decision to make war out of the hands of humans.
Wow! Chilling.
It’s not okay that we have secret court that have secret interpretations of secret laws, what kind of democracy is that? I felt like, this is a fight worth having. If there’s fall out, if there’s blowback, I would absolutely do it again, because I think this information should be public.
NagOps
08:36:44 A | http://****.org is down
08:39:07 B | oops
08:39:10 B | the machine ran out of procs!
08:41:30 B | A: fixed, thanks.
08:41:50 A | B: you are welcome
08:43:17 A | B: it is not monitored?
08:43:30 B | A: i don’t know, seems as if it’s monitored pretty closely
08:43:39 B | every time it hiccups i get over 9,000 messages from strangers :)
08:43:46 A | :D
08:43:47 B | also, i just woke up. :)
08:43:56 A | community-driven monitoring
08:44:22 B | i’m leveraging the lo-tech power of human complaining
08:46:14 C | nagops :)
WHY
April 30, 1993, the first WWW page was published.
What does “Heavens to Betsy” mean, anyways?
… that moment when you write a Java unit test expecting to throw an UnknownHostException from InetAddress.getByName(“…”) and you use some made-up host name like “bleep.bloop.com”, but the test doesn’t fail because that host actually exists … :-/
The top eight most popular programming languages are stagnant in their order. Isn’t that interesting?
C and Java are much-maligned these days, and have been for a decade or more, yet the popularity doesn’t change. There are constant announcements of new languages designed to be “C” or “Java” only better - Clojure, Scala, D, Go, Rust, etc. - yet none of these come close to knocking the kings off the hill. That said, the full list of languages is definitely looooong, perhaps so long that too much choice is preventing one from rising to the top?
I wonder if it will be a generational thing. Perhaps in 20 years, teens will be creating operating systems in Bash or something.
