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Windows 10 version 21H1 is official, and it's coming this spring. I guess they learned their mistake with Windows 10 2004?
Technically a repost, but this is via the official announcement
Oh, and this: Quote: Microsoft is also currently working on a much larger update for Windows 10, codenamed Sun Valley, that will introduce a rejuvenated UI design, new features, and updated in-box apps. Maybe we'll get some new icons! W000t!
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Quote: Microsoft announces Windows 10 version 21H1 with security and quality improvements Yeah, right...
Kent Sharkey wrote: Microsoft is also currently working on a much larger update for Windows 10, codenamed Sun Valley I think they have a spy in the site... they must have come to the idea of that codename because of us calling them "sunshines"
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?
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Drinking a cup of coffee a day could alter the volume of gray matter in your brain, according to a new study in the journal Cerebral Cortex. How much do I need to drink to get superpowers?
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I know a couple ones that would be safe... there is nothing to alter
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?
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We are excited to announce a brand-new extension for building and debugging Makefile projects in Visual Studio Code: Makefile Tools (preview)! We heard you like IDEs, so we'll make this text editor into one
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Why do I have the impression that Visual Studio Code will soon enough start to have real problems?
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
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Then they can create a new lightweight editor and do the whole cycle one more time.
TTFN - Kent
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Yup, how many more features will it get before it becomes Visual Studio.
Haaaaang on.... Visual Studio is old and bloated. Well, it's old. And old == bad in many younglings' views. So perhaps this is an implicit, perhaps even unwitting, plan to replace Visual Studio!
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Microsoft announced today that the SolarWinds hackers could gain access to source code for a limited amount of components used by Azure, Intune, and Exchange. Our thoughts go out to the hackers during this troubling time as they attempt to recover
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The crowdsourced-support program for independent FOSS devs opens doors to corporate sponsorship. git request-pull cash
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A British developer has lost his fight to claim ownership over software he wrote while working for digital forensics firm MD5. Your work is your work, until someone can make money with it
caveat developer
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Quote: The software is used mostly by police forces, and allows investigators to extract files from a seized hard drive and view them in a virtual machine, thereby avoiding altering any evidence on the drive.
This is one of those scenarios where I really have to question the ethics of what we do in the software/IT industry. Shouldn't someone tell the police they can just mount the hard drive as read only? Actually shouldn't they have IT specialized forensics investigators who know that?
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Quote: Although the judge noted that none of the contracts had been put together by lawyers, leaving dangerous ambiguities that ultimately led to the lawsuit,
And here we see the heart of the problem. Yes [Insert Lawyer Jokes Here]; but when you need a lawyer you really need a lawyer.
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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"While working for" automatically forfeits rights in the EU. Must be a Brexit thing.
If you "work for" here, you don't own it. The one that gave you the funds to do so does.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Citibank was acting as an agent for Revlon, which owed hundreds of millions of dollars to various creditors. On August 11, Citibank was supposed to send out interest payments totaling $7.8 million to these creditors.
However, Revlon was in the process of refinancing its debt—paying off a few creditors while rolling the rest of its debt into a new loan. And this, combined with the confusing interface of financial software called Flexcube, led the bank to accidentally pay back the principal on the entire loan—most of which wasn't due until 2023.
File this one away for the next time one of your coworkers tries to insist a confusing gotcha filled cluster- of a UI is ok because it doesn't really matter as long as everyone follows the happy path like they were trained to do.
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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"I see you're trying to launder some money, would you like me to help?" -- Clippy
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By "launder" are you referring to the incident with a toddler, the toilet, and Daddy's wallet?
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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Where was the "are you really sure you want to send out $500M to {them}?" dialog?
"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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Probably only kicks in above a billion....
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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It looks like Flexcube is Oracle Software.
While Microsoft are not brilliant in some of their UI design, my experience with pretty much anything Oracle UI is that it's as if they want to make things difficult for the user.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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If the UI is difficult, the user is going to require more training, more handholding. -- er, consulting -- that translates to more revenues for the company.
Never give a sucker -- sorry, customer -- an even break!
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Ha! happened to someone else I see. I wrote code, shoot 20 years ago that misbilled customers (the tech lead was supposed to check this). Accounting found a mismatch in what the system was doing and what it was billing. Turns out I had an error in a transaction pre-amable. Since the machine didn't know what to do with the transaction, it parked it and emailed the trouble account.
The only problem was no one was checking the email.... had something like 45k emails asking for help.
The ugliest part was trying to explain to the customer why we needed to collect another $200K. Awkward...
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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On Feb. 18, Perseverance is set to land on Mars. Here's everything you need to know about the NASA live stream and where to watch landing operations. No one would have grokked in the first years of the twenty-first century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than barsoomians' and yet as mortal as their own
I just need to work some Bradbury and Robinson in that blurb and I'll have a full house.
edit: How could I have forgotten Heinlein?
modified 17-Feb-21 20:31pm.
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Scientists used laser light and an electron to exert better control over fragile particles carrying quantum information. Where do you put the sharks?
I mean, "yay?", but also, "huh?"
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The use of "invisible" tracking tech in emails is now "endemic", according to a messaging service that analysed its traffic at the BBC's request. I spy with my little eye, something starting with 'e'
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