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Jeff Healy? If so +50 to you, he was awesome, gone way too soon.
"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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Microsoft has a serious problem on its hands, thanks to competition from...itself? It's almost like demanding that everyone buy new machines isn't a successful upgrade strategy?
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So after 8 years of tweaking, can you do something really radical in windows 11, like move your start menu to the left side of the screen, vertical?
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Nope. Progress!
TTFN - Kent
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I am always brought back to the stupidity and hubris of this video I believe you or someone else pointed out: Windows 11 Inside story - How we made the Start. It just boggles my mind.
edit: even in Windows 10, I am using Start10 to make it look like 7 so I can organize items logically by folders, so their downgrades started before 11 in my eyes.
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Windows 10 now allows folders in the start menu. I discovered this by accident last week.
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I'm fairly tolerant of Windows Upgrades. I'm one of the weirdos who didn't mind Windows 8. Windows 11, however, tried my patience. It has so many needless design changes. Then there is the lack of testing and the absurd hardware requirements. Microsoft shot themselves in their feet (out of pure arrogance.)
(I periodically use my granddaughter's MacBook Air. And hate it.)
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Joe Woodbury wrote: (out of pure arrogance.) or ignorance (in some levels of decision takers at least)
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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Userware is using vestiges of the long-gone and sorely missed Microsoft Silverlight web-dev platform to power its new "XAML for Blazor" offering, which lets .NET developers use markup language within client-side Blazor applications. Next you'll tell me that people are still keeping VB alive
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Next you'll tell me that people are still keeping VB alive Not only VB... VB6
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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The horror! The HORROR!
TTFN - Kent
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This feature lets you visualize the step-by-step expansion of macros. "Eschew obfuscation!"
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In a new GatesNote, Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates says that our concerns about AI are rational, but that fears of AI destroying humanity are overblown. 640 neural networks ought to be enough for everyone?
Sorry, couldn't think of a better 640 something
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Sorry, couldn't think of a better 640 something and why 640?
M.D.V.
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"640 K ought to be enough for anybody" (He probably never actually said it, but it's stuck to him like a bad smell)
TTFN - Kent
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Now... I don't know who said it, but I don't have him as author in my mind, that's why I didn't catch it
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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Microsoft has started sharing the first details on the Windows 11 version 23H2, the next annual update for the OS to be released later this fall. "The enabler will love the addict into darkness."
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This is the updated version of the last update that trashed performance and broke networks?
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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No, this will be the next update to trash performance and break networks.
The current version to do that is the silly-named, "Moment 3".
TTFN - Kent
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Aptos is a sans-serif font that also comes in monospaced and serifed varieties. And millions will continue to use Arial for everthing
And millions more (including me) couldn't tell the difference between Arial, Calibri, and this.
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Don't be a snob; Comic Sans all the way
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uncanny ? incestuous ? ... uncanny ... see footnote
https://www.science.org/content/article/can-ai-chatbots-replace-human-subjects-behavioral-experiments
"Now, researchers are considering AI’s ability to impersonate human subjects in fields such as psychology, political science, economics, and market research. No one is yet suggesting that chatbots can completely replace humans in behavioral studies. But they may act as convenient stand-ins in pilot studies and for designing experiments, saving time and money. Language models might also help with experiments that would be too impractical, unethical, or even dangerous to run with people. “It’s a really interesting time,” says Ayelet Israeli, a marketing professor at Harvard Business School who believes the models’ impact on behavioral research could amount to a “revolution.” “Some of these results are just astonishing.”
footnote : before modern meaning
"1590s, in a now-obsolete meaning "mischievous, malicious;" also in 17c., "careless, incautious; unreliable, not to be trusted," from un- (1) "not" + canny (q.v.) in its old Scots and Northern English sense of "skillful, prudent, lucky" (it is a doublet of cunning).
Canny had also a sense of "superstitiously lucky; skilled in magic." In Wright's "English Dialect Dictionary" (1900) the first sense of uncanny as used in Scotland and the North is "awkward, unskilful; careless; imprudent; inconvenient." The second is "Unearthly, ghostly, dangerous from supernatural causes ; ominous, unlucky ; of a person : possessed of supernatural powers".
From 1773, uncanny appears in popular literature from the North (Robert Fergusson, Scott), with reference to persons and in a sense of "not quite safe to trust or deal with through association with the supernatural." By 1843 it had a general sense in English of "having a supernatural character, weird, mysterious, strange." (OED notes this as "Common from c 1850"; Borges considers it untranslatable but notes that German unheimlich answers to it.)
The Scottish writers also use it with the meanings "unpleasantly hard; dangerous, unsafe."
also from 1590s
«The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled» Plutarch
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Google is adding some new features to its Bard AI chatbot, including the ability for Bard to speak its answers to you and for it to respond to prompts that also include images. The chatbot is also now available in much of the world, including the EU. Ignore it if it asks if you want to play a game
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Does that mean emojis or can I turn on the camera and flip it the bird?
I’ve given up trying to be calm. However, I am open to feeling slightly less agitated.
I’m begging you for the benefit of everyone, don’t be STUPID.
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