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Just as an aside - I used to purchase the Kodak Easy-Share cameras in the (what is now called) super telephoto class - really bridges between SLR's and point-an-shoot. When Kodak was going bankrupt I upgraded to the latest and greatest, a Z990 (30x Schneider lens that is just amazing). I got it for $150, new, just after they announced bankruptcy and stores were dumping inventory. Not long after, you would have to pay full list $300 to get one in new condition, sometimes more. One other thing I loved about this series is that it used four AA batteries. Easy to keep spares; cheap, too, even for the best NiMH slow discharge. I've gotten over 200 shots one set and it wasn't used up. Alas, I dwell,
Finally, the point:
Well - they were in bad financial shape and licensed their name to some China based company and now called PixPro. They are now, basically, junk.
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I think quality sucks because we still buy the things.
For example, these cheap 2 in 1 Chopper from Kmart[^], they're actually terrible quality, but they're so useful that I find my self recommending to people that they buy a few, because they don't last much longer than 6 months before the plastic starts to break down and fall apart.
In conclusion, I'm definitely a part of the problem.
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My primary example of the absolute loss of quality control is HDD's. Especially for more than 1TB, they often arrive inoperable (making DOA a common term in computer parlance). Or, they start making noise and crash in a week or so. This is happening a lot. The reason is rather simple - it is cheaper to skip QC and just replace the drive than to actually make sure they're working. QC is now your job and not only aren't you paid but often you need to pay shipping for the return of the junk.
Prices for HDD's are amazingly low per TB - mainly you are paying for rest of the hardware, except the very latest models.
And, consider trusting your data to an unreliable HDD. They effort in transferring data, possible setup time if it's a bootable drive. Loss of data when it crashes. It is from there that I coined my phrase: "An unreliable Hard Drive is overpriced at free".
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The "powerful 300-watt motor" ...
With a top end of 750 to 1500 watts for a blender, it's not surprising that they'll burn out after 3 minutes. Got to know your limits. (and your watts and calories)
It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it.
― Confucian Analects: Rules of Confucius about his food
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I am currently in the process of setting up Azure DevOps for the first time, which will be self hosted on one of our dev servers. (I have never used TFS before either... well, aside from a failed attempt in setting it up a few years back).
Any of you lot have any experience with it? Particular any obvious "gotchas" that I am likely to hit that you could pre-warn me about?
Currently we use Mercurial for source code, so that will be a conversion job over to Git at some point.
Thanks in advance for any advice. I also welcome your input if you just want to laugh at my impending doom.
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Do not use TFS - go with Git from the beginning... in any case Microsoft made it the default for new project...
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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Yep I will use Git. 
My TFS comment was just because I know DevOps is just TFS renamed and wanted to highlight the whole thing is new to me, rather than just being new to the latest stuff.
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It started as online-hosted TFS, but got renamed when started to expend and now TFS is only a part of it... and actually unnecessary...
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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If project and team is small and server must be in-house, you can consider Azure DevOps Express. Free for 5 member teams and runs on single machine. However, hosted Azure DevOps would be my choice. When you consider hardware, configuration, maintenance, updates , backups , TCO is cheap.
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Sauron's foot soldier caught in a tree like a pig. (7)
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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porcine
Sauron's foot soldier: orc
caught in a tree: p ine
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Yay! You are up tomorrow!
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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You should have seen what happened when I put the United States in a sage bush.
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Sausage ?
"We can't stop here - this is bat country" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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pkfox wrote: Sausage ?
Of course, but we can't stop there. Next we should try putting Sauron's foot soldier in a Milla tree.
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If you could bring a female gun onto the scene, I guess it would straighten up.
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Nothing so crude necessary!
Just have some kind of powerup you collect in game - maybe a blue pill.
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I suppose he saw Wanted (2008) - IMDb[^] and wanted to do something...
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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Ok so I've registered my net core API and a client app with Azure AD, I now have lot's of keys and ids that I need to access my API from the client. All is working as expected. I can't help thinking I've created another problem. I need to put these keys somewhere accessible but secure. Any recommendations?
"We can't stop here - this is bat country" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Add a method to your API that retrieves them from your DB...
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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I should have known this would happen 
"We can't stop here - this is bat country" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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To be serious - the probably only safe way is to do server-to-server call...
(what kind of application is it?)
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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It's a net core API
"We can't stop here - this is bat country" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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