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Came here to say that, along with the fact that in response to internet outrage the developer ended his ad campaign and NPM banned the process going forward.
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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A new website allows you to experiment with Earth-like planets. Is this the same ones they use for all the "Earth-like" planets they keep finding?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Is this the same ones they use for all the "Earth-like" planets they keep finding?
A little, but it's much more grounded in reality.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Will Slartibartfast and the earthman go to Reception immediately?
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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Windows 10's Storage settings is getting a new feature called "User cleanup recommendations" that recommends a list of unused files and applications that can be removed to free up disk space. Oh, good. There are a bunch of "DLL" files that I never use
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If you never use it, how long will it take until it asks to be deleted itself?
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Then again, what does it matter if those files remain on the disk?
Several of my (non-computer-educated) friends seriously believe that the processing speed of their computer is reduced if they have "unnecessary" files lying passively on their disk. Well... Theoretically, there might be a microscopic difference for file system operations on magnetic disks if it hasn't been defragmented for ten years and is 99% full, but people with such worries rather tend to defrag even their 30% full NTFS flash disks every week...
The primary reason for clearing out files is to give yourself an easier task of overviewing your disk(s). After I moved out all my user files to separate disks - one for my music archive, one for my digital video, one for ... - I stopped worrying about the system disk (and it certainly helped me in managing my own files!) I do flush temp directories down the drain now and then. I do delete log files regularly. Maybe once a year I defragment the system drive (even if is a flash disk - it has no effect on the access time to the physical disk, but it can improve the effect of disk caching). I see no reason to overdo it.
Some of these "optimizations" is at the same level as uninstalling the windshield wipers of your car because It never rains in Southern California[^].
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One of my early experiences with Linux was to clean the disk of applications I would never use.
Obviously, the system failed within a few days. Non-*nix people would be shocked to learn how many otherwise completely irrelevant tools, libraries and whathaveyou that are expected by, say, installation jobs, and other scripts. Try to remove gcc, because you make no use of c code! Try to argue that you have switched to bash, that's why you removed sh. Try removing unused libraries, the Perl interpreter, or Python. Or ...
If you are lucky, that which you removed will mysteriously be back a few weeks later, especially if it didn't come with the base OS installation. If it was delivered with Linux itself, you can assume that programs using it (without your knowing) will simply take for granted that it is there, and crash if it isn't.
So I have learnt with Linux systems: Don't touch anything that you don't know what is there for! Never assume that you can remove anything, in particular if you did not install it yourself. (Even then, some program installed later could have taken into use the file you had installed, skipping its own installation of the same file, and crash when you remove yours.)
If there is an OS function that provides a written guarantee that a given file can be removed without causing anything else to crash, I might trust it. But a hard life has taught me that e.g. files in the temp directory should not be deleted, but moved to another directory for two weeks first, just in case some application comes back a few days later and expects to find the file it left in the temp dir untouched. (One graphics card driver I had put its .ini files in TEMP!)
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Wow!
Yet another killer feature that everyone has been demanding!
It's so inspiring, the way they respond to customer requests and bug tickets.
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Like car companies:
Customers: Hey your car keeps breaking down
Car company: We added more cup holders!
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Joe Woodbury wrote: Customers: Hey your car keeps breaking down
Car company: We added more cup holders!
That's pretty much exactly it.
They should move to the domain honest-microsofts-os-showroom.com
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Mark_Wallace wrote: et another killer feature that everyone has been demanding!
Everyone in marketing. 
This is the kind of feature that adds to marketing ticklists.
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Better than that lovely (and where does everyone get the elephant emoji I see in a lot of posts?) feature that would clean "unused" shortcuts off your desktop.
Look, Windows, I may not use it often, but, I bloody well put it there!
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A new study is the latest to show how indistinguishable false memories are from real ones. I think.
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I remember when you were funny
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TTFN - Kent
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Oh, come on, that was some meta humor there.
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In other news: Computers can't tell whether stories stored in their memory are true or not. Computer-science researchers responded to this surprising news, saying: "What are you, an idiot?"
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Microsoft is revealing more about how people are using its Teams app, and it predicts the novel coronavirus pandemic will be a turning point that will change how we work and learn forever. How you gonna keep them coming to the cube, now that they've worked in sweatpants?
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If it gets a lot more people working at home instead of spending a stupid number of hours every week primping for work and commuting, it'll be a huge silver lining.
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Just wait for google's new remote-working app!
It'll be really, really convenient, specially designed to be easy to set up and use, even for people who don't know what a computer is.
With all that personal data to be reaped, google will pull out all the social-engineering and marketing stops to ensure that everyone want to feed it to their reapers, rather than anyone else's.
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Microsoft thinks Windows 10 will forever change the way we work and learn
Caveat Emptor.
"Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
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They also thought Bob was a good idea.
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Microsoft promises better communications as Azure cracks under increased demand during the coronavirus pandemic. Move everything to The Cloud! It scales!
That's a bit of an oopsie.
I guess they need to have Azure Incident Manager Service now?
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