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Jesus wept, what a suck-up! Is he hoping that Bill Gates will give him some of his millions?
The suck-up wrote: These days, Microsoft gets a lot of credit for its extremely diverse approach to its products.
Yeah, sure!
You want this button to be visible when you edit a document? F*** you! We say that you have to use the effluent interface, and exactly the way we want it!The suck-up wrote: Rather than trying to force you to use its platform, as it might have done in the past
W! T! F!???
The suck-up wrote: Sony’s first experience with video games, decades before it became Microsoft’s chief rival in the home console world
Sony is ms' rival in the console market?
Bwah-hah-haaaa!
That's like saying that Saturn is the Earth's rival in solar-system volume.
So, interesting material, ruined by suck-up-isms.
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Nicknamed the "replicator" by the inventors—after the Star Trek device that can materialize any object on demand—the 3-D-printer can create objects that are smoother, more flexible and more complex than what is possible with traditional 3-D-printers. "Tea. Hot. Earl Grey" Hmph. I'm not impressed yet.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: "Tea. Hot. Earl Grey" Hmph. I'm not impressed yet.
I wouldn't be very impressed if it plonked that nancy-boy, perfumed cr@p in front of me.
Give me coffee or give me... Um... A different coffee!
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Kent Sharkey wrote: "Tea. Hot. Earl Grey"
Surely it was "Tea. Earl Grey. Hot."?
And even that wasn't great - the computer couldn't remember which type of tea he always had, or work out that nobody ever ordered "Tea. Earl Grey. Tepid.". 
"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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TypeScript 3.3 is a smaller release than usual and contains no breaking changes, so it should be easy to upgrade if you’re on an older version. "In order to create a better union"
It might make more sense once you see the new features. Either way, my brain is on the fritz and can't come up with anything better right now.
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I think that this is particularly relevant[^].
Mind you, I only think that because I don't give a bugger about typescript, and don't want to delve into its depths to find something to pick on.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: contains no breaking changes
That's a whole lot of wishful thinking right there. I'm sure SOMETHING in the release is broken.
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The one I like a lot is using declarations. This allows a local to automatically be disposed at the end of the block. In case you plan on using them
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Kent Sharkey wrote: This allows a local to automatically be disposed at the end of the block.
Did they mistakenly use the sales pitch meant for mafia real-estate investors?
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Hackers are realising that it’s easier to defraud someone if you’re using a legitimate email address, rather than creating one yourself. With that in mind, they’re increasingly using compromised emails to attack unsuspecting victims. This blurb is from me - honest (and you've just won $3million!)
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itproportal wrote: attackers are actually using real, stolen email addresses
Well, if you don't want your e-mail address to be stolen, keep it in a front trouser pocket, and if you're walking through a dodgy area, keep your hand in your pocket.
I got that advice from a genuine, nicked several times, pickpocket, and I give it today, because there is nothing whatsoever to be gained from repeating the same bloody things over and over again about e-mail security.
Now everyone just go off and check on the haveibeenpwned site, then change your e-mail password regardless.
Oh, bugger. I repeated it.
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Are we all addicted to the Internet? Maybe. The latest Digital 2019 report, from Hootsuite and We Are Social, shows we’re spending on average 6 hours and 42 minutes online each day. Half of that is spent on mobile devices. Who you calling crazy?
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I'm much closer to 10... and feel absolutely insane...
"The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge". Stephen Hawking, 1942- 2018
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Half of that is spent on mobile devices.
So the three hours and 47 minutes a day that google spends talking to its servers (up to fourteen at a time) from my phone means that I'm addicted to the Internet?
Well, that's just the kind of stupid assumption I'd expect from a web-site that stupidly doesn't follow European law, so gets blocked.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Are we all addicted to the Internet?
No we're not ALL addicted to the Internet. I'm not and I know an awful lot of people who seldom even touch it.
That makes those kind of averages really terrifying.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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That still means we're spending more time offline...
ARE WE ALL ADDICTED TO BEING OFFLINE!? 
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For the most part, the conversations online are a lot more interesting than the conversations I have with the people around me. 
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Number abuse police here:
Of that that time, how much because of work tools are internet based.
If email use maintained between change from desktop email client to web client, does that increase the internet usage.
People switching over from Microsoft Word desktop to web (google or Microsoft word web version)
Then the many other applications which are Web site based applications which 10 years ago would have been desktop installs.
"Ah, but, half of the time is on mobile." : And how is that been classified, by screen size or application type. Again web version applications of products running on tablets might be classified as mobile. I got no issue people writing their next novel on an android 10" tablet (hopefully with a physical keyboard) using google docs, but if that traffic information being picked up and interpreted as internet use, well, no.
Internet use on its' own is not bad. Quality of use is important, like some many other things to rant about.
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Microsoft has finally realized that many average users have no idea what a KB and its numerical ID are and don't know what to do when they appear in a Windows 10 setup error notification. They're changing KB to WTF?
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There is nothing to understand! People who "have no idea" how numbered identifiers work do not exist (if they don't have social security numbers, and they don't live in houses that have numbers, then that's pretty much not existing).
Here's everything that even the casual user needs to know:
The KB things are what you use to identify an update, when you contact ms to tell them that the update has killed your computer.
It looks more like ms is looking for an excuse to do the same as they did with their "friendly dates" (using them instead of timestamps), by using identifiers that are transiently understandable for casual computer users, but totally useless for professionals.
Some idiot who knows nothing about computer users is obviously Hell-bent on making a name for himself.
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I have no SSN and live in a house without number, street or any other address-like identification...
But I know what KB in the Microsoft universe means 
"The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge". Stephen Hawking, 1942- 2018
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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote: I have no SSN
You have an Israeli ID card? A passport? A driver's licence?
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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More to the point, can he get me discount on a CitiHawk[^]?
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Older developers, particularly those in the 38-53 and the 54-72 age brackets, overwhelmingly tended to create games as their first programming project. Those currently aged 21 and under, however, tended to build calculators as their first programming projects. Where's the fun in that?
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They're only making calculators in the hope that they'll become sentient, and say "Hello World".
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