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To answer my own question - unifying the desktop appearance for all devices? Thoughts?
So, I have a new laptop, and it upgraded to Windows 11. Now most of you who recall my rants on Microsoft automatically rebooting machines understand that I consider this abhorrent behavior at best. So I'm trying to work with it, get comfortable etc. But it occurs to me - I work in the world of embedded devices and HMI development. If I or my team or customer changed the HMI on a product like Microsoft does, we'd be laughed out of the factory. You just don't do it.
What the elephant is MS hoping to gain but elephanting around with the desktop like this?
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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I think it's a question of whether MSFT's UI designers have greater push for constantly dicking with the UI as opposed to their users having greater pushback against it. And MSFT doesn't interact with users all that much, so those who think they can make the UI "better" (or justify their jobs, to be cynical) hold sway.
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If they did not change anything, they would be blamed for that as well. Most of the Windows 11 UI changes are pretty "meh" in my book, so I could certainly do without, but do not really mind them either. But I do appreciate they have kept updating the UI and interaction model so it does not work the same as Windows 1, even if it does mean they had to ignore a bunch of "why did they do this" comments.
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You agreed to what? Doctor check-in software harvests your health data.[^]
Not sure if this is used in Europe, but I would not be surprised. What do you do when the doctor office converts to this? I suspect that most offices have no idea the application farms patient data. It's despicable.
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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And not "see_you_later_allocator()"?
I'll allocate my coat and deallocate myself now.
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In a while, blockodile!
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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while (true)
{
var a = "dile";
}In a while-block, a dile!
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You're free to rename it.
"In testa che avete, Signor di Ceprano?"
-- Rigoletto
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Oi!! No programmin' questions here!
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
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I would call it bob_hope()
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Nothing wrong with the name, but I would have made the side-effects of dereferencing a NULL return value much more spectacular. 
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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Daniel Pfeffer wrote: I would have made the side-effects of dereferencing a NULL return value much more spectacular
CRASH!
isn't spectacular enough for you?
Software Zen: delete this;
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That's only relevant to protected-memory O/Ses (most of them, these days, I'll grant). Running on good old DOS, you could easily read (and sometimes write) to NULL, while your program went off into hyperspace.
If every NULL reference cost the perpetrator money out of pocket (e.g. if the computer literally crashed and burned), I'm sure that software quality would have been much higher.
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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Daniel Pfeffer wrote: Running on good old DOS, you could easily read (and sometimes write) to NULL
Back in the day my product ran under the DOS4GW extender (just like DOOM!). In that environment I had both real-mode and protected-mode code for things like interrupt services in order to reduce unnecessary mode switches. Dereferencing NULL meant different things happened depending on which mode you were in. My hindsight has cataracts, so good times.
Software Zen: delete this;
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😡😡😡😡
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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We made some software where new object were created by GOD - the General Object Dispenser.
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I'm sure the coding style would result in a religious war.
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Could have just gone with Allahc!
If you can't laugh at yourself - ask me and I will do it for you.
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I knew that one was coming.
Of course y'all realize you're goin' to hell in a not-particularly-comfortable handbasket, now don't ya?
Software Zen: delete this;
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Organ in derelict church is bliss? (9)
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Ignorance ?
Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Organ in ORGANIN
derelict (anag)
IGNORAN
church CE
is bliss?
IGNORANCE
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Church = ce????
If you can't laugh at yourself - ask me and I will do it for you.
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My guessed is "Common Era"
// TODO: Insert something here Top ten reasons why I'm lazy
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