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if only the developers and testers in the windows team would go the same lengths to do their job releasing a properly usable task bar horrible people
Caveat Emptor.
"Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
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Quote: Microsoft has released a number of interactive guides and experiences in an attempt to help reassure users about moving to Windows 11 Like how to work around Start menu being broken (previous Insider News post)?
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Create beautiful SVG diagrams from ASCII art. A picture is worth a thousand XML elements
Yes, cleaning up my backlog of random websites
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Intel Linux GPU driver developers have released an update that results in a massive 100X boost in ray tracing performance. Let he who is without coding errors cast the first patch
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Yep, software is hard. In addition, anyone here who has watched Honey the Codewitch's struggles with hardware knows that software driving hardware is excruciatingly painful to get correct.
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Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt compared AI to nuclear weapons and called for a deterrence regime similar to the mutually-assured destruction that keeps the world’s most powerful countries from destroying each other. Not when you drop them on places
Too soon?
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The only difference is that if we really manage to build a real AI, it won't give a rat crap in which country it was build, we ALL will be screwed.
M.D.V.
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Natural intelligence has been doing a pretty good job at screwing us, no need for assistance from AI.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Rob Grainger wrote: Natural intelligence stupidity FTFY
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Microsoft has admitted its last Patch Tuesday (and update previews) broke the Start Menu for some Windows 11 users and issued a Known Issue Rollback to solve the problem. No 'Stones music for you!
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Microsoft has admitted The first step towards improvement is admitting own faults...
but somehow I don't think it will make a big difference in this case...
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Odd they didn't fix it in the patch, given they were doing release previews.
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The pros weigh in on how to recognize when it's time for a career change. Don't give notice at the job interview. They hate that.
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How long have the "experts" been at their jobs?
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Half of organizations are still utilizing manual testing to validate applications, and the current testing techniques are unable to meet the quality engineering demands for their digital products and services. The other half aren't testing at all?
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GitHub Issues is a core component of how developers get things done and, as we built more project planning capabilities into GitHub, we’ve found some fun and unique ways to use the new projects experience for personal productivity. GitHub: it's not just for merge conflicts anymore
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Kent Sharkey wrote: it's not just for merge conflicts anymore merge them? I thought it was producing them
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My favorite mistake to make when I'm in a hurry is to think that I have to build new features the sloppiest way possible. Yet, we do
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I know some people that sloppy would be an improvement...
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Blake Lemoine, the Google engineer who publicly claimed that the company’s LaMDA conversational artificial intelligence is sentient, has been fired, according to the Big Technology newsletter, which spoke to Lemoine. Is the AI going to take his job?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Is the AI going to take his job? I think the real question is... will the AI take his job with a tear or with a smile?
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In a rapidly changing world, what can tech companies offer the talented of the future? Not as much as they used to. How ya going to keep them down in the shared office space, now that they've seen their house?
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To be honest... I don't want a career in a big company. I just want a job with something to do that I don't dislike with a fair to good pay and nice colleagues.
Executive / Manager path is definitively not for me.
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So.. big companies have had record profits of late.. but they can't afford to pay their employee an attractive wage?
I call bullshit!
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The unmanned mission will test NASA's deep space exploration systems, ensuring the agency is ready to send astronauts to the Moon and beyond. I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a woman on the moon and returning her safely to the Earth.
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