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Whatever comes next should be closer to how humans think "git reset --hard HEAD" is your friend
Or at least mine
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I totally agree with this. Having spent many years using other version control systems, I've found Git the hardest to get to grips with. Conceptually it's quite simple, but at the detailed level it's insidiously difficult.
"There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult." - C.A.R. Hoare
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Agreed, and when stuff goes even slightly wrong, it gets difficult rapidly.
SVN was transparent most of the time (especially with TortoiseSVN. Even SourceSafe was easier (until you got to the point where it would break - just before launch usually)
TTFN - Kent
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Gimme good old PVCS, Lock those files down until I'm done with them.
I’ve given up trying to be calm. However, I am open to feeling slightly less agitated.
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As long as you weren’t the guy that locked files, then went camping for a month... 
TTFN - Kent
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SubVersion is a far better solution for most projects in my experience.
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It's a lot simpler if you don't use the command line. But for some reason using a UI to hide all the absurd and complicated switches and options is like walking into a biker bar and ordering a Shirley Temple. You get beaten up for no good reason.
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Exactly, yeah. The burly CLI folk dominate in a lot of the discussions. Most of our team has standardized on GitHub Desktop, and it's great - as long as nothing goes wrong.
TTFN - Kent
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Most of our team has standardized on GitHub Desktop,
I use SmartGit but my activities are really only create branches, commit, merge, resolve conflicts, and sometimes revert, which sucks (not SmartGit's fault) because you can't just merge the branch back in. Git thinks the changes have already been applied because it's in the commit change.
I haven't dared to figure out how cherry picking works. One of my coworkers wants me to start doing pull requests. Given the repo is managed by BitBucket, which sucks, pull requests add a few precious minutes to the work day for each commit. And the only person qualified to review the changes is, well, basically me. So I fail to see the point, as I'd simply be approving my own pull requests! A very off-color NSFW analogy just popped into my head. 
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What does a metaphor like “technical debt” mean? And what doesn’t it mean? A good metaphor is like two birds on your plate (or something)
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Microsoft is working with chip makers like Intel to bring its Pluton security processor to all Windows 10 PCs. Nice paperweight you have there - sorry about that last update.
"A body of intrusive igneous rock" - not the happiest analogy for a product name, IMO.
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A rocky hernia?
cheers
Chris Maunder
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So, MS is embedding a sub-processor of it's own inside of future Intel and AMD CPUs.
<<<INSERT HOWLS OF PANIC AND TERROR FROM PENGUINLAND HERE>>>
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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Microsoft is investigating a new known issue causing enterprise domain controllers to experience Kerberos authentication problems after installing security updates released to address CVE-2020-17049 during this month's Patch Tuesday, on November 10. "Update" now means "disabled". Good to know.
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"Did you test?"
"I thought you did."
(This may be a conversation in the sole Microsoft tester's head. Then again, s/he may be occupied seeing if windows have rounded corners or just appear to have them.)
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Update to the ultimate usability experience: NaN (-o NaN-o)
(The bourbon I drank tonight said this was funny - my intellect said it wasn't so much, since it borders on stupid, and too obfuscational of the 'none' that was my original response after the colon. What the 'ell! Full steam ahead!)
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A security update broke Windows Security.
the irony is rich but we've all been there, right?
cheers
Chris Maunder
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It’s no longer just about issuing a laptop—the world and our requirements have changed. 640KB isn't enough for anyone
Or 2GB these days...
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I want a new desktop. I know, I'll write an article!
(So, stop snarking, Kent, and start writing articles!)
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Joe Woodbury wrote: So, stop snarking, Kent
But that's my job description! 
TTFN - Kent
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I hear that a 5950X CPU and a GeForce 3080 increases snarkiness by a factor of a bazillion.
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@chris-maunder - in case you need to update my snarkage :P
(Full disclosure: Chris doesn't buy my hardware. Sadly, I do, and I'm a cheapskate)
TTFN - Kent
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I think there might be a snarkiness inflection point, or possibly singularity, where one actually starts becoming more conciliatory and accepting of other people's flagrant stupidity.
Messing with the laws of time and space is a dangerous thing, Kent.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Especially these new keyboards which strip the final "e" from your message subject. 
Although technically, "anymore" isn't valid outside of the USA. It should be two words: "any more".
"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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Yeah, nowadays it has to be sanitized and handed to you while both parties are wearing PPE through a plexiglass box that is under negative pressure to suck up any remaining virus trapped inside.
And no, I didn't read the article. I clicked on the link thinking I'd find something marginally interesting and realized I was looking at one of those articles where several thousand words are splattered onto a blank page, much like a Jackson Pollock painting, but in the case of the article, has no meaning, consciously or subconsciously derived.
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