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Quote: A team searching for signs of extraterrestrial intelligence has put together an Exotica Catalog, which lists every known type of celestial object
Well that narrows it down. 
"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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Mac users who rely on Windows virtualization software might be left in the lurch when Apple transitions to its own custom ARM processors later this year, as the company's Rosetta Intel-to-ARM translator does not support virtual machine apps. Looks like Apple has decided to save me some money
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The company says it will now delete new users’ history after 18 months -- on a rolling basis -- by default. After all, that's ancient history in internet months
They get to prune data that may not be relevant anymore, and make themselves looks slightly, slightly, every so slightly less evil.
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And what about the "old" users?
M.D.V. 
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They have to set this (but the "good" news is that you can set to "only" 3 months).
Oh and because we all trust them:
Quote: If you’ve already had Location History and Web & App Activity turned on, we won’t be changing your settings. But we will actively remind you about the auto-delete controls through in-product notifications and emails, so you can choose the auto-delete setting that works for you.
TTFN - Kent
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To me, there is not much difference between "information" and "information marked as deleted". It is still information.
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Exactly...
I don't think they are going to actually delete data. At least not as long as they can have some usage for it, another thing is obsolete or really irrelevant data. That's something they will probably delete gladly to (as Kent said above) reduce the amount to deal with and to try to look a bit "less evil"
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Wen asked several times for a quick and easy way to install the most useful extensions, I said “sure, I’ll make an extension pack”. Because Visual Studio is never big enough
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This new extension pack has two requirements:
Must only contain extensions relevant to all developers(Emphasis added)
Seems if that's the criteria, Visual Studio would have it. And thank goodness he included icons!
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Joe Woodbury wrote: And thank goodness he included icons!
At least these icon changes look useful if you compare them with the ones from other "updates"
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Quote: Must only contain extensions relevant to all developers
Really 
They need to try harder. 2/7
I can't remember the last time I created a file that it didn't make sense to go through the new file wizard for, or that wasn't created elsewhere and drag/dropped in. Not worth bloating context menus even farther for something I might use a few times/year.
Again, I can't remember the last time I did any of these. ![Elephant | [mastadon]](https://codeproject.freetls.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/elephant.gif) off UI bloat.
- EditorConfig Language Service
Don't use this.
Insert Snark Here 
Actually this is the first one I installed, it has a icons for a few file types I occasionally use that VS doesn't.
For 2-3 times/year, going to my browser is a small price to pay for less UI bloat.
Could be useful, second one I installed.
I don't edit markdown in VS. Ever.
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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Slack Connect allows organizations to use channel-based messaging for both internal and external communications. You'll take my email from my code, dead fingers...
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Slack announces email product to replace email
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Which will probably be about as successful as all the other "email-killers" that have attempted (like Slack)
TTFN - Kent
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Perl 7.0 is going to be v5.32 but with different, saner, more modern defaults. "There's no obfuscated Perl contest because it's pointless."
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Sort of like "The International Obfuscated APL Coding Contest".
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That would be difficult - it's such a write-only language.
TTFN - Kent
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Most tech workers wouldn't be happy with Facebook's localized salaries, which are set to take effect next year. It's not who you know, it's where you live (and work)?
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Apparently, many of these need to go back to first grade in Ontario.
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I suppose in the US is the same or even worse, but I am only to speak about Germany.
Working for Company A in Munich for let's say 5000€ a month... and working for the same company remotely from let's say Gunzenhausen with 4000€ a month... I think I would get the second option.
Some cities are just damned expensive and 50% or 60% of the salary is gone in fixed costs.
Living anywhere else might get that % reduced drastically. So depending on how big the cut is and where you live, you might finish the month with more money in your account.
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Brilliant. So companies can save money by reducing office space, remote workers tend to work longer hours (this is based on a survey of one, namely me, but anecdotally from my coworkers as well) and sick employees that can work remotely often work at home while under the weather...
...and we get a pay cut.
To quote Spock in Star Trek 6: "If I were human, I believe the response would be 'go to hell'. If I were human."
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Another human here agrees with you 
TTFN - Kent
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We had that (or at least a try) - I told them something very rude...
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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I worked for a company that had localized salaries, although they never really made up for the cost of living in truly expensive locations.
But if people can choose to work remotely, where they live is up to them, so salaries shouldn't be adjusted for location. This is one of the most asinine pay-related things I've seen. Then again, FB are probably so constipated that their employees won't be working remotely.
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Strange. They were quite happy to take a COLA up, when they moved to Expencity. 
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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