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The error message stated "⚠️ Printer is refreshing".
So I took a bite.
It was not.
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That IS news to me.
"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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Indeed - the real news is that someone has put decaf in the coffee machine!
(Sorry - was meant to put this in the lounge... he ho)
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Windows 10 now uses machine learning to stop updates installing when a PC is in use - The Verge
You know, why don't they just let us decide? Why do we need "machine learning"?
“We heard you, and to alleviate this pain, if you have an update pending we’ve updated our reboot logic to use a new system that is more adaptive and proactive,”
Oh great. So 1) another update to get the new "reboot logic" and 2) no, you didn't hear us. If you want to alleviate the pain, cure the disease, don't mask the symptoms!
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Odd. Haven't screen savers been doing that for decades now? 
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That's one of the main reasons I haven't gone to 10. Let me decide when I have the opportunity to update instead of shoving it down my throat.
Everyone has a photographic memory; some just don't have film. Steven Wright
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That's not what we want.
We don't want them overnight.
And we don't want them, not a byte.
We don't want them in our box,
And we don't want them you musk ox
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Marc Clifton wrote: Why do we need "machine learning"?
What's the software world without buzz-word marketing? 
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Human learning: Services->Windows Update->Properties->Disabled.
GCS d-- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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den2k88 wrote: Human learning: Services->Windows Update->Properties->Disabled.
Machine learning: Services->Windows Update->Properties->RE-ENABLE!
Which is nowadays exactly what happens. Windows re-enables the updater. 
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Fake news alert!
The true version would be:
Windows 10 now uses machine learning to ensure that updates start installing a minute before you need to use your PC.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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PeejayAdams wrote: Windows 10 now uses machine learning to ensure that updates start installing a minute before you need to use your PC.
So close, yet so far. One tiny change, s/start/finish/ and it would be as close to perfect as an automatic default could be. As long as I can continue to override it to reboot when I click yes, there're more important things to grouse about.
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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As a software developer, you want nothing more than to build and deliver great products and features to your customers. But you also know software development isn’t always easy since making changes is a guarantee that bugs will be introduced. Except for the ones that really bug *me*, of course
Yes, mostly an advertisement, but with some good points for discussion
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438-page document intended for GDPR compliance rather than to soothe users' fears To ease, or extend, your fears
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Although most businesses have security protocols in place for sharing information from the intranet, employees do not seem to know the guidelines. There's a company protocol for that?
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Need a helping hand? Tell this robotic arm—with your mind—to grasp that thing you need while your own two hands are busy Just the thing for your upcoming Zaphod Beeblebrox cosplay
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The Google Search appliance is no more, but Google today announced the spiritual successor to it with an update to Cloud Search. Save the hackers time and effort
modified 25-Jul-18 15:45pm.
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An international team of researchers has found a possible link between a parasitic infection and risky business behavior. Don't take business advice (or parasites) from cats
Just the videos. Thank you.
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In this article, I will discuss two features proposed for C# 8. The first one is the Ranges and the second one is Recursive Patterns, both of which belong to the category of Code Simplification. In case you want to play with the deer and/or antelope
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Making code more difficult to read by adding arbitrary symbols is NOT "simplification".
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Early last year, YouTube received a design refresh with Google's own Polymer library which enabled "quicker feature development" for the platform. Now, a Mozilla executive is claiming that Google has made YouTube slower on Edge and Firefox by using this framework. So that's why I've been having to wait for my cat videos!
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One of those "no sh*t Sherlock" moments.
(And in an odd irony, Polymer doesn't use Go. Maybe SpaceX could gather all JS frameworks and launch them into the sun.)
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I think SpaceX will have to wait for their Falcon Heavy[^] - the sheer mass of JavaScript frameworks is starting to cause gravity to increase I think.
TTFN - Kent
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The pursuit of thinner, lighter laptops, a trend driven by Apple, means we have screwed ourselves out of performance. They look at me funny when I set up the mini in the coffee shop though
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Slightly misleading since few laptops use desktop CPUs and GPUs. Heat has always been a problem, along with flaky batteries, lack of expandability, crappy touchpads and breaking in expensive ways.
My kids used to ask why I never bought a laptop for myself and now that they've had the "joy", they've seen the light and have either switched or will be switching to desktops when their current laptops pine for the fjords. (Except my youngest, who uses her laptop for relatively trivial things.)
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