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Announcing the .NET Core Uninstall Tool 1.0!

11-Mar-20 19:40

Golly.

If he hadn't told me about this, I might never have noticed.

I'd hate to have missed out on things that will make a huge difference to my lifestyle.

I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

Kent Sharkey11-Mar-20 8:30

Re: Announcing the .NET Core Uninstall Tool 1.0!

11-Mar-20 8:30

.NET blog[^]:
In previous versions, SDKs and runtimes were left on upgrade in case those versions were targeted or pinned with global.json. We realized this was not ideal and might have left many unused .NET Core SDKs and runtimes installed on your machine.

System.GC.Collect()

Or should I have just stuck with .NETcore.Dispose()?

Nelek11-Mar-20 10:01

Re: Announcing the .NET Core Uninstall Tool 1.0!

11-Mar-20 10:01

Nasty nasty Core... you have to tidy up the mess before papa comes.

Kent Sharkey wrote:
Or should I have just stuck with .NETcore.Dispose()?

M.D.V.

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Mark_Wallace11-Mar-20 19:40

We actually live inside a huge bubble in space, physicist proposes

11-Mar-20 19:40

Why stop there?

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Kent Sharkey11-Mar-20 8:00

Re: We actually live inside a huge bubble in space, physicist proposes

11-Mar-20 8:00

Motherboard[^]:
What if the Earth, the galaxy, and all the galaxies near us were enclosed in a weirdly empty bubble? This scenario could resolve some longstanding questions about the nature of the universe.

Someone's been into the bubbly beverages again I see

Mark_Wallace11-Mar-20 9:15

Re: We actually live inside a huge bubble in space, physicist proposes

11-Mar-20 9:15

ASTRONOMICAL DICTIONARY

science (n.) sī-ən(t)s: guesswork, fantasy.

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Kaladin12-Mar-20 2:46

Kaladin

12-Mar-20 2:46

Well, certainly anything that's posted on here because its from news sources that (1) are limited by both the writers' and the audience's understanding of the scientific theories or observations discussed and (2) favor more sensational topics regardless of what the wider astronomical community thinks of them.

Re: We actually live inside a huge bubble in space, physicist proposes

Nelek11-Mar-20 10:00

Re: We actually live inside a huge bubble in space, physicist proposes

11-Mar-20 10:00

These guys are just plagiarists... the idea was first published by Lowell Cunningham* and Sandy Carruthers* and brought to the big public later by Ed Solomon** and Barry Sonnenfeld***

*Original comic writers and the **script writer and ***director of "Men in Black"

M.D.V.

Mark_Wallace11-Mar-20 20:57

Re: We actually live inside a huge bubble in space, physicist proposes

11-Mar-20 20:57

AIRI, it was formally proposed as the Eternal Inflation theory, in the early 1980s, but I'm pretty sure that there was a lot of Sci-Fi that talked of it before that.

But they're plagiarists, for sure. It looks like another case of "great scientists" trying to get famous by parroting the theories of earlier scientists.

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Nelek11-Mar-20 21:15

Re: We actually live inside a huge bubble in space, physicist proposes

11-Mar-20 21:15

Mark_Wallace wrote:
AIRI, it was formally proposed as the Eternal Inflation theory, in the early 1980s

I was in kindergarten in that time slot... sorry

M.D.V.

Mark_Wallace11-Mar-20 23:11

Re: We actually live inside a huge bubble in space, physicist proposes

11-Mar-20 23:11

You weren't very well read, then?

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Daniel Pfeffer11-Mar-20 23:38

Daniel Pfeffer

11-Mar-20 23:38

Kent Sharkey wrote:
Someone's been into the bubbly beverages again I see

They should stop serving alcoholic drinks in the Faculty Lounge. Sigh | :sigh:

Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.

Kent Sharkey11-Mar-20 8:00

11-Mar-20 8:00

Buzzfeed News[^]:
Sensor Tower, a popular analytics platform for tech developers and investors, has been secretly collecting data from millions of people who have installed popular VPN and ad-blocking apps for Android and iOS

"Your bait of falsehood takes this carp of truth."

Sorry, struggling today.

Mark_Wallace11-Mar-20 9:11

11-Mar-20 9:11

I'm really annoyed by this, because I take security really seriously!

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Kent Sharkey11-Mar-20 9:47

11-Mar-20 9:47

PCP? Security through angel dust?

TTFN - Kent

Nelek11-Mar-20 10:06

Whisper, an app for sharing secrets, left Its user data exposed on the open web

11-Mar-20 10:06

Next step of root13

M.D.V.

Rob Grainger12-Mar-20 23:38

Rob Grainger

12-Mar-20 23:38

It works - nobody dares approach someone on angel dust.

"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.

Kent Sharkey11-Mar-20 7:15

Re: Whisper, an app for sharing secrets, left Its user data exposed on the open web

11-Mar-20 7:15

Gizmodo[^]:
Whisper, the anonymous messaging app beloved by teens and tweens the world over, has a problem: it’s not as anonymous as we’d thought.

Did what it says on the label: shared secrets

Mark_Wallace11-Mar-20 7:40

Re: Whisper, an app for sharing secrets, left Its user data exposed on the open web

11-Mar-20 7:40

When asked for comment, the CTO said "Shhh!"

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Nelek11-Mar-20 9:55

Details about new SMB wormable bug leak in Microsoft Patch Tuesday snafu

11-Mar-20 9:55

A secret a bit posted in the internet is like a woman a bit pregnat.

M.D.V.

Kent Sharkey10-Mar-20 12:00

Re: Details about new SMB wormable bug leak in Microsoft Patch Tuesday snafu

10-Mar-20 12:00

ZDNet[^]:
SMB vulnerability is currently not patched, but now everyone knows it's there.

Who'll get to the vulnerability first?

Yeah, I'm making it worse by reporting on it, but I blame ZDNet.

Nelek10-Mar-20 21:42

Re: Details about new SMB wormable bug leak in Microsoft Patch Tuesday snafu

10-Mar-20 21:42

Kent Sharkey wrote:
Yeah, I'm making it worse by reporting on it, but I blame ZDNet.

I don't think they are the first source of the leak nor the source of the bug

M.D.V.

Mark_Wallace11-Mar-20 1:14

How the mathematical conundrum called the ‘Knapsack problem’ Is all around us

11-Mar-20 1:14

Kent Sharkey wrote:
Yeah, I'm making it worse by reporting on it, but I blame ZDNet.

The big story set for tomorrow on zdnet is a scare-story about sites that are advertising the bug.

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Kent Sharkey10-Mar-20 10:30

Re: How the mathematical conundrum called the ‘Knapsack problem’ Is all around us

10-Mar-20 10:30

Smithsonian magazine[^]:
A litany of issues in business, finance, container ship loading and aircraft loading derive from this one simple dilemma

We're gonna need a bigger knapsack

Nelek10-Mar-20 10:36