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So if you don't use google maps, there's an outside chance that you'll be stuck in a traffic jam.
But if you do use google maps, there's a 400% greater chance that you'll run into the car in front of you, and have to pay twice as much insurance next year.
There are reasons for the laws against using phones while driving, and few things are as attention-grabbing and distracting as google apps.
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This new, long-awaited technology will change how virtual private networks work first in Linux and then the rest of the VPN world. Whatever Linus wants, Linus gets?
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Two places I've worked at have tested implementations of WireGuard, and the results have been very positive, so, even though it doesn't look like hype, it might be good.
This, of course, is at variance with the the status quo of stuff that is highly hyped, but cr@p.
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In future versions of Windows 10, Microsoft is making it so you can now completely uninstall the venerable Notepad, Paint, and WordPad programs from the operating system. Now how am I going to draw really bad diagrams?
I really can't think of when I last started them not by accident (trying to run notepad++ and/or paint.net)
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Gigabytes of storage saved!
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They're saving space for more icons, obviously.
Either that, or an update to something else broke them (like a security update broke desktop wallpaper).
But I hope that this is the beginning of a display of realisation that much of the cr@p that they dump on us is neither needed nor wanted.
It's an OS. It should handle the hardware, and let us run the apps that we want to run. Fullstop/period/end of requirements
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This newest discovery, evidence of “frame dragging,” is yet again evidence that Einstein was right. Maybe switch to carrying it in a space-time basket?
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So the 30,000,000 other frame-dragging events that they haven't recognised will be used as scapegoats for all the bollocks they've announced in the past -- including the photo(shopping) of a black hole, exoplanets, dark energy, etc.
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The Let It Crash philosophy is an approach to error handling that seeks preserve the integrity and reliability of a system by intentionally allowing certain faults to go unhandled. You mean all these years my programs have been crashing I've been following a philosophy?
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Maybe Boeing should stop listening to Erlang programmers.
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Syntax error: 'horizon' not found.
'CriticalSystems.exe' will be terminated. Please check the log for details.
"Five fruits and vegetables a day? What a joke!
Personally, after the third watermelon, I'm full."
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Is this new?
Or is it, as I remember very clearly, exactly what we used to do, back in the days before we had all the advanced debugging tools that we have now?
Me, I prefer the advanced debugging tools.
You don't give up the successful gold mine because someone's found a vein of clay.
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Mark_Wallace wrote: Is this new?
It's another form of "on error resume".
When my applications would go into an exception (meaning ANY exception), it would terminate, since from that point I could not guarantee that the data had not been corrupted. It would simply state and log the error, and exit.
Now imagine Windows doing the same. Wouldn't be very workable as an OS, if every exception were to cause Windows to shutdown without saving.
The area between those extremes is big and gray; but it is better than being extremely religious about it.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"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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Can't believe you missed your chance to describe this article as:
"The code never bothered me anyway."
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Individual programs are harmful walled gardens - a stifling barrier to true expressiveness, productivity, freedom and consistency of computing experience. Those who do not fear COM are doomed to repeat it
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He's quite right.
For a start, we should stop using Private functions, and make all variables global -- across the entire computer, not just per program.
The problem with pipe dreams is that you might fall asleep while having one, and set fire to the house.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Those who do not fear COM are doomed to repeat it
Olé, Olé, Olé
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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>Quote: A new kind of object-orientation
Which was the original concept of "objects" - that they would be autonomous and "smart", a vision that has failed utterly. 
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Marc Clifton wrote: Which was the original concept of "objects"
True.
Now we have "frameworks" as a poor man's substitute.
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Let him prove his big mouth with his own migration product, and make the connection-strings available, not only computer-wide, but accesible over the internet.
Wouldn't that spark a lot of creativity and innovation?
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"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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To help advance and improve access to FIDO authenticator implementations, we are excited, following other open-source projects like Solo and Somu, to announce the release of OpenSK, an open-source implementation for security keys written in Rust that supports both FIDO U2F and FIDO2 standards. *Dongle not included
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Programs written in the language include one for fortune-telling from the I Ching In case you'll need to program any Chinese classics in the future
Journey to the West, perhaps.
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OK, let's give this a try...
Ming wing jing ding... or is it bing?
It's no good. I'll have to get the missus to translate my code for me.
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Come for the anime fansites, stay for the Spice Girls MIDIs "Sometimes, dead is better."
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It's nice that he has a hobby, but maybe he should consider getting a life, too.
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