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another programing language that's gonna bite the dust.......
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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After May 2020 Update, the next real feature update will debut in the first half of next year and it will be codenamed Windows 10 21H1 or Iron (Fe). Fingers crossed for new icons!
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Asking bing (look below)...
Will this time work good?
At least the chances are 50% to be "yes"
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Quote: Unlike the current Start menu, the new layout offers a more unified background colour in both dark and light modes and app colour does not dominate the background colour.
Making it harder to distinguish between your apps is a good thing in who's demented mind? Whoever is in charge has lost the big picture. Thank God for Start10.
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In 1992, I was asked to write a history of what I actually did by the ACM for their second “History Of Programming Languages” conference. A need to stay classy?
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The primary thought process is to first stop thinking in terms of linear imperative programming. If you can free your mind from that, you begin to realize that the world is very object oriented. A cell converts CO2 to O2. A leaf is composed of cells. A tree has branches with leaves and roots. Roots pull in nutrition and water from the soil. The leaves fall and decay around the tree, adding nutrition back to the soil. A tree grows, is cut down, turned into firewood or planks to build a house. Etc.etc.etc.
The point being, you look at nature and you see processes that are contained within other processes, and processes that interact with other processes, and suddenly processes become the key thing, and the data is just ancillary to what the processes "transform." In fact, the data is what triggers the process, not the other way around.
Sometimes it helps not do have a college degree.
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Don't tell a meetooer that you look upon her as an "object"!
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The one weakness of OOP is that the objects do not behave independently, as they do in real life. A "new Object()" really should start a new thread running asynchronously with the caller. You can of course simulate that, but traditional OOP doesn't invite to it.
With the APL "workspace" concepts, you are like in a playpen: You can throw in a function now, a data structure then (since this is APL, "data structure" is an array, from 0 to n dimensions). And you can take out a function without affecting the others (except that they won't find the removed function when they need it). If you could start a function to run asynchronously, your idea of independent objects cooperating in a world-like playpen would have been much closer to reality. At least classical APL doesn't have that option.
I never programmed Smalltalk, but I have heard claimed that they provide both a workspace and objects executing asynchronously. But then again, I haven't heard anything about Smalltalk for umpteen years, so I consider it a dead language, even more so than APL.
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Could a blurry, 128×128 version of a 1980 arcade game change the future of game dev? And then they came for the ghosts, but I did nothing as the power pellet wasn't close
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Quote: Hello David, do you want to play?
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The yes/no summary uses natural-language modeling and comes with a carousel of sources. 'Should I do this search in Google instead?'
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Kent Sharkey wrote: The yes/no summary uses natural-language modeling and comes with a carousel of sources.
really?
if (pseudo_random_number % 2 == 0)
say.yes();
else
say.no(); or...
answer = shake_the_eigth_ball();
done
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You too could be a highly paid Bing programmer!
TTFN - Kent
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I don't think so... I am just too sofisticated for a job over there  
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Google software engineers are looking into ways of eliminating memory management-related bugs from Chrome. Maybe try to use less then?
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these are the bug that they should have fixed in the first place lol
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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We are excited to announce the open-sourcing of Microsoft GW-BASIC on GitHub!
Yes, seriously 😀 Biggest news all week
Clock started to see how fast it gets ported to .NET Core...
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now we know what the developers at msft are doing with their paid time at home or office...
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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Giving us yet another reason to scrub our hands for at least 20 seconds minutes.
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Sadly, this becomes less and less of a News for each subsequent update. The news would be an update which does not mess everything up. I disabled automatic updates, and only install them several weeks after they have been released.
"Five fruits and vegetables a day? What a joke!
Personally, after the third watermelon, I'm full."
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What did you use to disable them?
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Several things: first disabling the wuauserv service, of course; but this needs to be checked regularly as it tends to re-enable itself. You can setup an automatic task on logon, for example, launching the following command: net stop wuauserv
Second, I created a new value in the registry HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate\AU: a DWORD value "AUOptions" set to 2. This code for notifications for downloading as well installing. But this does not seem sufficient, as a few friends told me that it had not worked for them (meaning: they observed a spurious reboot of their computers after an update of which they did not have been notified).
On my former laptop, I also deleted anything from a folder in Program Files, whose name I can't remember unfortunately. It contained a program that was automatically launched and reverted any modified settings regarding the update policy. Then I did set authorizations on this folder to prevent anything from accessing it. But this is an old trick, it was in 2018 iirc, and on my new system it does not seem to have been reinstalled. (I think I talked about that on the Lounge back then, but I'm not 100% sure I did).
If you have a professional version (or entreprise), you can also play with the group policy: gpedit.msc, go to Computer Configuration -> Administrative Templates -> Windows Components -> Windows Update, and select "Configure Automatic Updates". But this isn't possible with home editions, unfortunately.
Last, on each update that I install, I take the time to inspect every new service/automatic program launch on next boot, and disable anything that could prevent me from having a precise control on update policy. But this needs to know your computer quite well, to be able to spot what has been added. For that I thoroughly inspect the registry and the tasks planifier.
"Five fruits and vegetables a day? What a joke!
Personally, after the third watermelon, I'm full."
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