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obermd wrote: That gives Microsoft a few weeks to work out the worst of the bugs. That's preassuming they pop up or someone finds them fast enough...
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Microsoft is making Windows 10 22H2, its annual feature update, available to mainstream users on select devices starting October 18. Coming up tomorrow: see what breaks!
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Coming up tomorrow: see what breaks! So... time to get offline for a week or two? I'll check the Insider with the phone
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Writer, lawyer, and programmer Matthew Butterick has some issues with Microsoft's machine-learning based code assistant, GitHub Copilot, and the way it is apparently mishandling open-source licenses. Who could have foreseen this happening?
OK, everyone outside of GitHub and Microsoft. But other than them...
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Han Solo may be a hunk. But "Pan Solo" is a hunk of bread. You love it. I know.
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If that's chocolate... someone is going to get a biiig stomach ache
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Meta confirmed to The Verge that it will sell off all of the US-based Giphy’s global operations. {Insert sad trombone GIF here}
It's pronounced, "Ha HA!"
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Another option: Ha Ha Simpsons GIF - Share on GIPHY[^]
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The upstart start-up has differentiated itself from incumbents like Google and OpenAI by letting anyone use and build on its its model with little oversight. Investors say this open-source approach is a winner. I'm sure they'll make that amount in profit in the first year, selling...something
And people used to worry about Apple's and Microsoft's stock valuations.
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"A fool and their money are soon parted." And my biggest lesson these last few years are there are far more fools than I ever imagined could exist.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: I'm sure they'll make that amount in profit in the first year, selling...something Or changing the license system once it is already used wide enough?
(I am not looking at you oracle )
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Errors are bad, k? We don’t want errors. More importantly, we don’t want weird errors. To reach...the unreachable exception. To fix...the unfixable error.
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catch{
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MessageBox("This should never pop up #XX. If it does, something went veeeery wrong. Please contact us and tell us the number");
} You would be surprised how often you can find things like this.
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Sadly, not too surprised. I think I may have written that a few times.
TTFN - Kent
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In interpreted languages, you don't even need all that catch/throw red tape. Just write a line of
"This should never pop up #XX. If it does, something went veeeery wrong. Please contact us and tell us the number" with no stash or wrapping. When the interpreter tries to parse the message, it will fail, and crash.
Details depend on the language. If the language allows random constants (as I have seen some do!), remove the ""s and phrase the message so that it cannot be interpreted as valid code.
One alternative is to use a static code analysis tool, with proper flow analysis. If it is a good one, it will tell you that 'if x is between 0 and 10 in function so-and-so, when calling function this-and-that and y is 0, and then ... then it will cause this statement to be executed', giving you the recipe for reaching that unreachable code.
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A customer was doing an inventory of the files on their system, and they found files named passwords.txt that were filled with somebody else’s passwords. And I've been saving all my passwords in that file
No wonder it keeps telling me they're no good
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Next time use another name, like 'ctrl.com' or something similar and the passwords will stay safe.
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GitUI provides you with the comfort of a git GUI but right in your terminal For those who like the command-line, but not really?
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Quote: GitUI provides you with the comfort of a git GUI but right in your terminal
Supporters of Terminals and GUIs immediately declare a ceasefire to attack the blasphemers.
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
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In a viral LinkedIn post, a CEO said he fired two engineers for secretly working two full-time jobs. Are you working hard, or working two jobs at a time?
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Dilbert 2020-12-24[^]
If someone can work part-time and do what is touted as a full-time job to their manager's satisfaction, good for them. High performers are usually way underpaid, and this is one way to rectify it. This CEO is probably grossly overpaid himself, which makes him a sanctimonious butthole who should have tried to keep performers like this on staff. Imagine what they could contribute if working for the company full time.
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I would agree with your sentiments in the general case, but in one of the cases, the engineer was not meeting expectations:
Quote: Bell said Canopy discovered the first engineer was secretly working a second full-time job after 2 1/2 months of poor performance, which had been flagged by the engineer's teammates.
In the other, the new hire was told before hiring that the company does not allow dual full-time jobs, and he/she lied about it.
Quote: The second engineer showed similar red flags before they even started the position, Bell said, and HR told the person directly that the company was not OK with dual full-time employment. An employment-verification request soon confirmed HR's hunch was correct, despite the engineer's initial denial.
Firing was justified in both cases, but for different reasons.
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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When I clicked on the link, all I saw was a headline and a photo. There wasn't even a scrollbar, let alone part of an article. I'm guessing it was because of my ad blocker, but there was no prompt to turn it off.
I'll still be cheering for anyone who pulls this off while performing satisfactorily.
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Greg Utas wrote: When I clicked on the link, all I saw was a headline and a photo. There wasn't even a scrollbar, let alone part of an article. I'm guessing it was because of my ad blocker, but there was no prompt to turn it off.
I didn't run into anything like that this time; but it has become annoyingly more common. IN the good old days you could just block the modal and it's full screen background and be good. Increasingly I'm finding pages that skip the fullscreen modal background and just disable scrolling on the main content instead. With the tools I have the only LART I've found that works is often to fully disable js on their site.
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
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