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 And new coatings for the spinning discs, and new ways to read them... You're right - that may never end.
TTFN - Kent
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Pretty soon the news will be 'Quantum Disks!'
Salesmen will be tripping all over themselves! 
(Not to mention all the physicists tripping over themselves for the grant money!  )
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We are introducing ONNX Runtime Web (ORT Web), a new feature in ONNX Runtime to enable JavaScript developers to run and deploy machine learning models in browsers. Because they may as well be something intelligent on the web
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A relatively cheap, simple way to give the ARM version of Windows a spin. For your next palmtop computer
Altoids tin sold separately if you need a case.
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Back in 2011, Microsoft introduced Windows Thin PC to help customers repurpose their PCs as thin clients, thereby driving down the cost of VDI. The what now?
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No one expects you to have a ten year memory.
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It's barely 10 minutes these days. Especially if I go through doorways. 
TTFN - Kent
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I wonder how many users (a) there ever were, and (b) how many there still are?
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It'll be up to robots to keep space stations clean and functional while humans are away They're definitely going to kill everyone up there, aren't they?
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"I can see you're really upset about this. I honestly think you ought to sit down calmly, take a stress pill, and think things over."
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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Now where have I heard that idea before[^]? 
"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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The .png file doesn't display (latest version of Edge).
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Works fine for me in Edge 92, Firefox 91, and Chrome 92.
"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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The title of this post was a trending Quora question, with popular responses boiling down to “it’s not, the unemployment rate is 3.6%,” “there are too many developers and not enough engineers,” and “it’s a natural consequence of microeconomic theory.” "You never get free, everybody wants you"
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A serious answer, for once:
It is possible that employers are looking only for experienced developers. This does not mean those who have had 1 year 20 times or even those who have had 5 years 4 times; it means that they've had 20 years of experience, learning and becoming more professional all the time.
The problem starts when they want to pay them the salary given to entry-level developers.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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hypothesis:
1) demand is highest for programmers with mastery of both traditional languages, mastery of multiple platform development, and web development, and JavaScript/HTML/CSS, etc....
and
2) among the developer pool, those whose experience matches those criteria, for years, are ... rarer, and, as Daniel pointed out, their salary expectations would be high.
A better analysis could require knowledge of what entry- and higher- level jobs are in demand, what skills they require.
«The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled» Plutarch
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My experience job hunting and talking to my brother about one of his sons is that employers want engineers with about ten years experience willing to take lower-than-average salaries for that amount of experience (and the cost of living in that area.)
On top of this companies are a bit jaded to actually create a hiring requisition. Few people in direct management like laying people off and they are worried about ramping up new projects only to be forced to do that (especially when they have existing projects which require maintenance.)
All this is quite valid.
(BTW, I think two interesting effects of COVID were a) a lot of marginal projects were scuttled and b) companies realized they had a lot of dead weight built up over time. In short, people started asking "what do they do anyway?")
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Twitter on Wednesday announced it is testing a new feature that automatically blocks hateful messages, as the US site comes under increasing pressure to protect its users from online abuse. In related news, no one can connect to Twitter
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We are teetering on the brink of a golden age of AI. It must be true, we keep being told so. If everything looks like a nail, I'm going to avoid you for a while.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: If everything looks like a nail, I'm going to avoid you for a while.
It doesn't matter how many times you say the monkey is pretty... it will still remain a monkey.
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
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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New estimates suggest developers are losing interest in releasing new apps on the Mac App Store, with new releases per month down to below 300 titles in June and July. It's gone negative?
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It seems more to me like a mature market, not one in which people are necessarily losing interest.
One of the illnesses (as I see it) of everything commercial related to computers is the assumption that everything must be growing at a rapid rate all the time. No, that can't and won't last. At some point, maturity will arrive and growth rates will slow down. A much gentler growth rate is more sustainable in the longer run (and this is true in all areas of industry and commerce).
Sure, there are beancounters and venture-funders always seeking the new rapid-growth area but they must always, ultimately, be disappointed in order for real, substantive, long term sustainable economic development to take place and stick.
Capitalism does not (or should not and cannot in the longer term) rely on exponential growth and 'disruption' all the time. Maturity and gradual development are what eventually pay the bill in the longer term.
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International Programmers' Day is coming up on September 13th, are you ready to celebrate? Buy yourself a nice present
Just remember to box it if it's a value type
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My birthday is close to the 13th, and my laptop turns 5 this month, so this is a great excuse to replace it. 
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