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Quote: Redmond does say that they are working on a fix for this issue to be released in a future Windows 10 2004 version.
Which will presumably also introduce at least three more problems. 
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- Homer
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Like any other tool such as a hammer or a knife, technology can be used not only for good but also for harm. If you outlaw facial recognition, only outlaws will use facial recognition
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Lately, many people around me, developers, CTOs and even some PMs have used the term "modern frontend" to make me understand that he meant something much more complex than it was a few years ago. "I just had to take the hypertext idea and connect it to the TCP and DNS ideas and — ta-da!— the World Wide Web."
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While all of these are bold initiatives, it helps to take a step back and gauge just how far we've come since our baby steps in the world of space exploration. # this section makes rocket go zoom
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Currently, Google pays between $7 billion and $8 billion a year to be the default search engine for iOS and Siri, the analyst estimates. That figure equates to approximately 30% of an estimated $25 billion in ad revenue Google generates from Apple devices.  
Quote: Alphabet is willing to pay the hefty sum in part to fend off attempts by Microsoft's Bing and Yahoo to replace Google as Apple's default search engine.
I think they already do good enough to horrify the users and keep them using google, despite all the side effects.
On the other side... KEEP YOUR ELEPHANTING FINGERS AWAY OF DUCKDUCKGO
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God, I hope that doesn't happen.
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Forsooth
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What a baffling article. Apple should spend a billion so it can lose eight billion and make itself dependent on Microsoft so it isn't dependent on Google.
I doubt most users are concerned about Google's privacy issues. It works; they're satisfied.
(Plus, why spend a billion on buying DuckDuckGo when Apple could do the same thing--crawl Bing AND Google--for far less?)
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The Chromium-based browser, Brave has been profiting from redirect links to affiliate crypto companies. "Trust is built in drops and lost in buckets"
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"We will sell your private data only to the good guys!"
"Who are they?"
"The ones who pay on time... Did I say that out loud?"
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Even when the developers of the browser would try to be nice... Using Chromium and "privacy" in the same sentence... what an oxymoron
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*gets caught with code that violates users which was obviously written deliberately*
*claims it was a mistake*
[wipes tear from eye] Just like using google....
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Is this not to be expected? A reformed spy is still a spy.
Kinda like the Scorpion and the Frog, the activity is in its nature
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Facebook researchers say they’ve developed what they call a neural transcompiler, a system that converts code from one high-level programming language like C++, Java, and Python into another. Sadly, it cannot convert Folders syntax to Visual Basic
Folders is my new favourite example of a language designer's fever dream
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Sigh. This is like all the other AI crap. They have about a 70% accuracy and declare success.
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I wonder if this is to prepare us to accept 70% as success...
Maybe FB should ask their AI how a 70% accurate program differs from total failure...
(and I can write language translators that work much better using HI only)
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote: I wonder if this is to prepare us to accept 70% as success...
Micorsoft is already doing this for a while with its updates
See: The Insider News[^]
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modified 9-Jun-20 3:16am.
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My first project after I completed my degree, in the early 1980s, was to use a translation tool for converting the code base from Pascal to a proprietary language. The company saw that as a way to protect their code from being stolen by competitors.
The major lesson learned was that we would have saved a lot of time doing the complete rewrite by hand, without a translation tool. The translator (usually) created "correct" code, but so far from the way a human mind would have written it that it was almost umaintainable without thorough manual cleanup. Comments were "preserved", but not in the right place. Due to varying identifier syntaxes, many identifiers looked like those created by name mangling for overloaded functions - you don't want to work with that sort of names. The target language had some very nice constructs that every programmer would utilize to save a lot of code compared to the Pascal source, but the translator wasn't capable of recognizing those Pascal structures that would match the target mechanisms, or that might match with a few minor adjustments (the way a human translator would have done it).
35+ years later, I guess translators have improved. Yet, my bad experience with them makes me sceptical. It may work if the languages are reasonably similar, such as C++/C# translation, but the further apart the languages are, the less useful will the translation be.
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@code-witch Maybe your can lex and parse and LALR these outputs to 100%? 
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haha i doubt it. i wonder what the practical purpose of this tech is?
Real programmers use butterflies
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It's for when you're writing code in Java, but you find an example in C# (or vice versa) and now you need to translate it.
Or when your manager decides to rewrite the entire application in another language because he read a book blog post tweet about it.
Because that sort of thing happens all the time 
Seriously though, back in my VB.NET days, I regularly used a translator to translate C# examples into VB.NET code (I couldn't read C# back then) since VB.NET examples are scarce or just very bad.
Of course C# to VB.NET shouldn't be that difficult 
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Heh
Real programmers use butterflies
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Sander Rossel wrote: Or when your manager decides to rewrite the entire application in another language because he read a book blog post tweet
I really wish that was a joke - last contract they moved from MS tech to Java and Python on a managers whim. I quit.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity -
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I'm old. I know stuff - JSOP
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Sadly, it cannot convert Folders syntax to Visual Basic
IF they really wanted to produce something useful: VB6 to VB.net/C# since doing so in more than the most minimal half-![Elephant | [mastadon]](https://www.codeproject.com/script/Forums/Images/elephant.gif) ing baked way was clearly too much to ask for from MS.
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Upvoted! 
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