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And at that it misses the single biggest problem with the last few iterations of the start menu in it's default form.
99.9% of the time I only want results from 1 location or the other. The start menu has been the local system search hub since whatever OS version first added the feature. The web browser has been the internet search location since they started adding search boxes and search functions to the address bar a few decades ago.
Un ing this is one of the first things I do on any new OS install. MS has made this progressively more difficult (the linked Twitter thread implies it's currently a group policy, which is a PITA to set on a non-business machine and could be completely locked out on something that is joined to a domain). They also have made decisions around other integrations that clearly never considered that anyone would want to split the function. ex I never once even tried to use Cortana for anything; fixing start menu search always disabled it.
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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The Windows 11 start menu is a huge step backwards from the Windows 10 start menu. Windows 10 allowed a user to configure their start menu in a way that made it efficient for use. Remember, from a visual cortex view point, the human mind is 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, scanning. In other words we can detect instantly up to five objects (actually 15 if in a 5x3 grid) but any more requires we scan to find what we're looking for. Windows 10 allowed you to do this; Windows 11 doesn't.
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The reason it's so incomplete vs previous versions is that, in support of some mobile project that ended up being cancelled, a completely new menu was designed to work for that use case. In order to pretest that project wasn't a total loss, it's crappled start menu and task bar was dragged into the main windows build.
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 my opinion, what it needs is an option to behave the way it used to be. Win11 also needs an option to select the location where you want the taskbar. Those two issues make it easy for me to stay with Win10.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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A team of scientists from the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics recently demonstrated a record-breaking experiment that could turn the quantum computing industry on its head. Or at least a breakthrough in quantum computer funding
See: yesterday's quantum news
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So far over 400 people have joined the .NET MAUI Cloud Skills Challenge to learn all about developing mobile and desktop apps with .NET MAUI and get some awesome stickers. Because I know you're all about the stickers
"We’re extending the challenge from August 31 to September 30 so more people can join in!" <- so, you were expecting many more people to sign up?
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I suppose 300 of them are hackers trying to get some steps ahead for later...
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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The FBI warns investors that flaws in smart contracts are being exploited by attackers to steal funds from DeFI platforms. A fool and their crypto are soon parted
But I may be redundant there.
or Caveat emptor: DeFi edition.
"Smart" Contracts. yeah...
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Punctuation is important! I read this as "FBI Crooks are using..."
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Also probably accurate
TTFN - Kent
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A cybersecurity researcher bought the same item from AliExpress and took it apart. Walmart removed the hard drive after Motherboard contacted the company. Caveat emptor: hard drive edition
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Quote: “I knew going in it would be a scam but I thought we might use it as an educational opportunity,” Sure, that's what they all say.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Hmph. Just do a product search for large hard drives on ebay. You'll find many such scam offers.
Oh sanctissimi Wilhelmus, Theodorus, et Fredericus!
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Given that SSD drives typically cost between US $50 to US $100 per TB, anyone believing that a 30 TB SSD disk costs less than US $20 is almost begging to be cheated.
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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The subject of the 10x engineer won’t go away. Just call everyone else a 0.1x developer
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Especially if it's a digital 10x developer, not an optical 10x developer
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There are only 10 kind of people in the world...
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Just call everyone else a 0.1x developer That's likely better: because those under-performers just lack basic discipline.
It works on my machine! - done.
Write tests - no.
What can go wrong - that's negativity.
Write understandable code - why?
Etc.
Oh sanctissimi Wilhelmus, Theodorus, et Fredericus!
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Visual Studio extension expert Mads Kristensen's latest creation is Rainbow Braces, used to colorize brace pairs in order to better understand nested code. "And rainbows have nothing to hide"
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Visual Studio Code already has this.
".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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The article: The new offering was inspired by a Jan. 6 feature request on the Developer Community site that read:
Bracket pair colorization is one of my favorite features in VS Code and now it's supported natively: https://code.visualstudio.com/blogs/2021/09/29/bracket-pair-colorization
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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If your code base is so deeply nested or spans so many screens that this feature seems needed, what you really need to do is refactorde tor it instead.
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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It works with VB as well. While VB doesn't have the overload of {} brackets, in many places it uses () instead of <> or [] and colorizing the () pairs could really help.
modified 30-Aug-22 20:11pm.
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I once utilized an extension which did same . Uninstalled it after not too long . I don't recall exactly why . Could have been the colors were not easily discerned on my non-dark theme . Could have been I simply found the colors offensive . I prefer black characters and am very happy w/ the matching braces highlight feature upon keyboard caret placement .
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