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ANDY GREENBERG, WIRED.COM - wrote: the team points out that they also used a relatively cheap electro-optical sensor and analog-to-digital converter, and could have upgraded to a more expensive one to pick up quieter conversations. LED bulbs also offer a signal-to-noise ratio that's about 6.3 times that of an incandescent bulb and 70 times a fluorescent one.
Bugger!
Now then, where did I leave those carbon-arc lamps?
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How about the candles
Director of Transmogrification Services
Shinobi of Query Language
Master of Yoda Conditional
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Are you going to try it?
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Wine is actually fantastic. I have been using it for years and it works perfectly for most W32 applications (including SQL Server, graphics, serial ports etc.).
But I have never tried it with WPF applications until now.
It does not solve my Problem, but it answers my question
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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Microsoft shuts down hacking spree that preyed on misconfigured machines. I stand corrected. People *are* using Azure.
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The project completes and success is declared! Then nothing happens. For months. No news of customers. No field bug reports. Complete radio silence. You forget all about the project, and you never hear of it again. Puts hand in air
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We're pretty much driven by what the customer wants.
Conversely, what we want:
1. Clean up code
2. Rewrite code
3. Automate processes
4. Improve error reporting
5. Unit & Integration tests
6. Internal documenation
The customer doesn't care the least about (except maybe #4 indirectly), and #1 and #2 if they end up introducing bugs to things that were already working, because, after all, who actually does #5.
And for all of the above, "we" usually means only us developers to make our life easier, and getting management to sanction these activities, especially when "it works, why change it, and how much will this cost us" because management can't see beyond its collective noses, well, you get the idea.
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In an exchange on Twitter this week, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk elaborated on the design tweaks his space company is considering to allow its massive Starship spacecraft to safely land on the Moon. I wouldn't think that landing was the hard part (safely; well that's another story)
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The 'Destination Moon' method has always seemed very dodgy to me.
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Just don't let them story nuclear fuel there.
Quote: Musk added in the tweet. “They can serve as part of moon base alpha.”
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The human brain avoids taking unnecessary effort. When a person is reading, she strives to gain as much information as possible by dedicating as little of her cognitive capacity as possible to the processing. That explains why I can't find that (*&#)$*& missing semi-colon!
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If you work on any type of app that has a user interface (UI) you probably have experienced that inner-loop development cycle of making a change, compile and run the app, see the change wasn’t what you wanted, stop debugging, then re-run the cycle again. Just like webforms had back in 2000.
Edit: Actually, I realized that it was better in 2000, as you could use the designer side to edit the file and get the resulting (bad) code. This is still only one-way.
modified 11-Jun-20 16:58pm.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: If you work on any type of app that has a user interface (UI) software you probably have experienced that inner-loop development cycle of making a change, compile and run the app, see the change wasn’t what you wanted, stop debugging, then re-run the cycle again.
Good morning and welcome to the first Introduction to Programming lecture.
GCS d--(d+) s-/++ a C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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That's nice, except I would never code web apps in ASP.NET WebForms. 
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Cool plug-in.
<script>
setTimeout(function () { location.reload(); }, 1000);
</script>
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VS Code's Erich Gamma details how GitHub, Electron and Chromium helped deliver world's most popular code editor. Sometimes, less is more
Although for memory usage, it's probably pretty close to full VS.
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Loved the apropos Commit Strip cartoon in the Daily News email right above this story.
Well Played.
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Unsafe for more than a decade, universal plug and play strikes again. Remember when UPnP didn't work at all? Good times.
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The Wall Street Journal reports that the EU will soon bring antitrust charges against Amazon for its illegal treatment of third-party sellers. People who liked this lawsuit also liked...
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Does this mean that prices are going to go up?
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I suppose so...
The "suckers charge" will be added to the normal price.
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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markrlondon wrote: Does this mean that prices are going to go up?
Yes, that's generally an unintended consequence when World Improvers poke their noses into something.
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I'll gladly take a million dollars and let your prices go up. 
Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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