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Researchers have discovered what they describe as a new superhighway network to travel the solar system much faster than previously thought possible. "No stop signs, speed limit"
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Windows 10 update could prove unpopular among some users The feature hardly anyone knows about is going away?
I think most people that do know about it discovered it by accident as well.
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I tried it the other day for the first time in years. It didn't work. I figured either I disabled it or Windows did. Apparently I did.
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A new study by the Woolcock Institute of Medical Research, together with the University of Technology Sydney and the University of Sydney, has uncovered that while working from home in pyjamas during the COVID-19 pandemic did not lower productivity, it was linked to poorer mental health. Works for me
Even when I was in the office.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: while working from home in pyjamas during the COVID-19 pandemic did not lower productivity, it was linked to poorer mental health.
IOW, you don't have to be crazy to work from home, but it helps.
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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In other news, a protest has been filed about the spelling of "pyjamas".
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If you've ever managed any software project, you've probably asked yourself: how could our teams move faster? How fast are we moving today? Because the US is still on Imperial?
And of course Liberia and Myanmar.
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As goes Liberia, as goes the world.
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The real answer is that when programmers find out you're trying to use metrics, they will purposly poison the data so the results are effectively meaningless... or show that they take 0 minutes to perform every task so no improvement can be identified.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010 ----- You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010 ----- When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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This can easily turn into a political discussion.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010 ----- You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010 ----- When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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#realJSOP wrote: This can easily turn into a political discussion.
Nowadays everything can turn into a political discussion. Including that statement.
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Project Reunion unifies access to existing Win32 (legacy Windows API) and UWP (Universal Windows Platform) APIs and makes them available decoupled from the OS The absolutely, positively, fer-surely last WIndows UI programming model (until the next one)
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In the meantime, stick to MFC. That is just not going away
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I thought it was visual basic that wasn't going away...
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010 ----- You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010 ----- When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Both are forms of derpes, and that's with you for life.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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A team of amateur codebreakers has reportedly cracked the Zodiac Killer’s most infamous cipher, solving a mystery that’s had law enforcement stumped for more than 50 years. "Drink more ovaltine"?
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I recently allowed myself to be embroiled in an online discussion regarding Rust and C++. In case these types of debates are your thing
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Kent Sharkey wrote: I recently allowed myself to be embroiled in an online discussion regarding Rust and C++
Oh boy...
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Complexity in software, whether it’s a programming languages, an API, or a user interface, is generally regarded as a vice. And yet complexity is exceptionally common, even though no one ever sets out to build something complex. That's perfect! Now can you make it do this new thing?
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even though no one ever sets out to build something complex.
Really? Tell that to Elon Musk.
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Software is complex because of implemented features that more often than not conflict with each other. The very first time you have to include an "if" statement, the code becomes "complex".
Another factor of complexity is management and/or sales staff that think they know the best way to implement a user interface. Back in the early 90's, I worked on an app that had no fewer than six ways to to pretty much everything in the app. I rewrote the app, and reduced the complexity (and line count) by eliminating the redundant interfaces.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010 ----- You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010 ----- When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
modified 14-Dec-20 8:38am.
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Microsoft promised that Windows 10X would be simple, sleek and faster than the current generation of Windows. The 'X' is for 'soon to be eXtinct'
Because they didn't learn from Win 10S?
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Quote: The plans, however, changed after the pandemic, and Microsoft's new priority is to get Windows 10X work on the single-screen devices.
I fail to see the correlation to the causation.
Unless, two people sitting next to each other on a "dual screen" device failed to meet social distancing criteria?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: The 'X' is for 'soon to be eXtinct'
No, it's for 'times'. Windows Ten Times (Worse).
I'm dreading the day a family member buys a machine crippled by it, and I need to try dignosing the problem over the phone/email (I never did figure out that "Windows Five" was Win 10S mode until I saw the computer in person); or tell the buyer that they bought a piece of crap permanently crippled and unable to do what they want.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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