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It's for the person who wants/needs to use a windows desktop while developing penguin stack software.

I suspect internal use is probably a major customer. Azure needs to support *nix well; but MS's network/user management tools are Windows focused. Letting the azure team do linux dev on windows boxes makes things easier for the rest of MS's internal bureaucrazy.

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So maybe 500 people world-wide, then.

At least it's an improvement in the regard that that's bigger than the user-base that they turned the windows desktop into a phone interface for.

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It has been said that much of the good stuff that Microsoft does is due to internal requirements.

One alleged example is improved long file path length support in Windows. Improvements in this were apparently encouraged due to internal use of node.js and problems that devs were having with path length limitations.

Not surprising. There's nothing quite like eating your own dog food.

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One of the main reason why I so much enjoy that The Old New Thing[^] blog of Raymond Chen is the number of posts he makes about legacy software and backwards compatibility problems. (The fraction of such stories are higher in his book than in the online blog, though).

I have lost count of the number of people I have had to explain why you simply can't lift that maxpath limit and let all programs have access to the full filename with no further question.

Frequently (especially with Linux guys) I have to make parallels to replacing IPv4 with IPv6 - an application setting aside 32 bits for an Internet address, with display functions for showing it as a.b.c.d, cannot simply be thrown an IPv6 address. Or the switch from 7 bit US-ASCII, first to 8 bit ISO8859-1 that couldn't go unencoded through a 56 kbps connection, and then to UTF-8, where advancing to the next character could mean anything from 1 to 5 bytes forward (or alternately, a rewrite to replace char[] with uint32[] throughout and rewriting all libraries).

Lots of people believe that they know the simple and easy way to switch to long file names. None do.

Well, quite. For the avoidance of doubt I wasn't suggesting that improving path length limits in much of Windows/Win32 was easy, only that the (alleged) story is that Microsoft were finally prompted to do it for node.js internal dev purposes. Smile | :)

In fact, didn't Raymond Chen do a blog article about path lengths?

G'wan, you're Raymond, aren't you? Wink | ;-)

I don't think Raymond Chen makes any attempts to hide his identity on the net.
Why would he? He markets his competence and professional interests well enough under his real name!

Dunno about that. Really long path support was available in a halfbaked fashion for a number of years. I first ran into it at a previous job on an XP system ~15 years ago while trying to use IBM irRational Clearcase 💩💩. The part of it's code that initially pulled files from the remote server could handle <260 char paths. The part of its code that updated files (sent changes back to the server???) did not. Nor did whatever version of MS office[1] we were using at the time. The version that instead of having local files instead created a network share IIRC didn't have that problem[2]; but it also slowed VS builds down by a factor of 10 or 20. D'Oh! | :doh:

[1] Clearcase was a hammer, version controlling our documents was a nail. And to be fair, even with all of its warts CC (never mind SVN when we switched a few years later) was a better document management tool than Sharepoint[3]. Dead | X|

[2] This made keeping overly nested folder paths in check a pain, since the management types who loved the idea of having the most of the path repeated in each folder level never saw the problems that left me unable to access their docs.

[3] Terrifyingly I've come to the conclusion that Google Drive sucks even worse than Sharepoint at this. Google both obfuscates the folder location you're at by default; and makes you jump through hoops to do searches rooted at your current location instead of globally. Searching for ex "database setup" against every project my current employer has done for the last decade guarantees that the results won't contain anything relevant. D'Oh! | :doh:

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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

Developer Tech[^]:
Enterprise software provider Sonatype has found a clear connection between DevOps and developer job satisfaction in its seventh annual DevSecOps Community Survey.

If you're happy and you know it, deploy your code

Golly, it's so good to have completely unbiased companies [^] looking into such things.

Yes, their product is used to:
Automate DevSecOps

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Google[^]:
Anyone who signs up will get two free months of Stadia Pro with instant access to nine games, including GRID, Destiny 2: The Collection, and Thumper.

I guess they worked out the scaling issues?

This one's a "usual": "Give us your credit card and sign up for a subscription, but we promise not to charge you for two months. Oh yeah, and we might forget to tell you when the two months are up. So sad." type of offer.

Quanta Magazine[^]:
The laws of physics imply that the passage of time is an illusion. To avoid this conclusion, we might have to rethink the reality of infinitely precise numbers.

Just another reminder that physicists (and theoretical mathematicians) have been doing this, "stay isolated at home long enough to start thinking about weird stuff" for a long time

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a century-old mathematical language called intuitionist mathematics, which rejects the existence of numbers with infinitely many digits.

I'm a strong supporter of this.

In fact, we shouldn't really need more than one number.

I propose that it be four, because three's not enough, and five can get too noisy.

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If numbers are finite and limited in their precision, then nature itself is inherently imprecise, and thus unpredictable.

Exactly!

So if there is only one number, then all the unexpected things in the universe can be explained!

(Like I say, though, let's stick with four, because I've got a headache.)

Essentially, what he's saying is that because we'll probably never have enough data to reliably predict absolutely everything, we should give up trying to figure out the causes and effects of how the universe works.

I don't think I'll be subscribing to his newsletter.

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Mark_Wallace wrote:
So if there is only one number, then all the unexpected things in the universe can be explained!

Of course... 42

Sorry for the obvious, but it was too tempting

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Are you sure that's the answer to the right question?

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Sorry for the obvious, but it was too tempting II

I am leaving it here... enough silly comments from my side for today

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Ars Technica[^]:
The accuracy required is a measure of how unstable and difficult a juggling pattern is.

If they didn't, the balls would fall

In other news, bees can't fly.

But "reaction times" don't come into the juggling thing. Jugglers don't stand there and wonder which ball is going to fall next or where; there's no thinking involved.

Each throw, catch, and movement has to be practised heavily, until it practically becomes autonomic.

So by basing the study on reaction times, they're looking in entirely the wrong direction.

I suppose that's what you get when you let a mechanical engineer and a mathematician make choices on how the body and brain work.

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modified 8-Apr-20 13:24pm.

Right. Besides, you don't need any fast reaction time to know what happens if you throw a ball straight up: It comes straight down. If you throw a ball against the wall at a 45 degree angle, it will bounce back at a 45 degree angle. These are elementary rules of physics. When you have internalized then, you know what is going to happen; you don't have to analyze a visual impression of it to know.

Just restating Mark's valid point.

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A real test would be for a juggler to just stand there and have people throw balls at him randomly from different directions at varying velocities.

Which sounds like fun. Smile | :)

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I'm not very accurate in ball-throwing, and worry that that could skew the figures.

Would it be OK if I threw darts, instead?

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Ars Technica[^]:
Fingerprint-based authentication is fine for most people, but it's hardly foolproof.

All those surprised, don't raise a finger

Kent Sharkey wrote:
don't raise a finger

Damn these KSS rules!

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Kent Sharkey wrote:
don't raise a finger

OK

(I raise 3) .|||.

Can they read between lines? Roll eyes | :rolleyes:

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