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Today, Intel announced Thunderbolt 4, it's newest connectivity standard. You might recall that the company is actually letting go of Thunderbolt 3, with its 40Gbps speeds being offered up to USB 4.0. "Very, very frightening me."
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One of my senior-guy hobbies is to maintain a list of different standards and formats I have been working with, all since my teenage years. It covers everything from document formats to dry cell batteries and silver film formats. The size of the list is shocking - every section of it! (and it has made me think of the term "standard" in a quite different way than I did before)
Some of the entries refer to flopping standards. There are a number of standards I considered so seriously that I have decided that they deserve to be mentioned as considered but rejected - I was very close to invest in them, and partially did. E.g. years ago, I bought external disks for long time archival with both USB and FireWire800 interface, just in case USB died out, and I got a FW800 card for my PC. But the disks were never plugged in to anything but the USB port.
For now, I am not even considering TB. I can manage very well with USB3 for disks, HDMI for the screen, while waiting to see if TB4 will be the same great worldwide success as TB1, 2 and 3 was 
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In this blog post I’m going to focus on building a desktop app with WinUI 3 Preview 1 and .NET, leaving C++ for future posts. Try it before they try "fixing" it again
Fixing as in pets, not plumbing.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: I’m going to focus on building a desktop app with...
new icons?
M.D.V. 
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Hardware drivers still appear to be causing havoc for users trying to upgrade to Windows 10 version 2004. I'm sure a lot of people would like to know what settings to use here
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Kent Sharkey wrote: I'm sure a lot of people would like to know what settings to use here
Not only "what", I suppose the "where (the ![Elephant | [mastadon]](https://codeproject.freetls.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/elephant.gif) are they)" is a loved question too.
On a second thought... The needed ones are probably the ones that won't be available anymore after the merge of control panel and settings 
M.D.V.
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I have no updates as today...
But have this:Quote: The Windows 10 May 2020 Update is on its way. Once it’s ready for your device, you’ll see the update available on this page.
It is the 8th of July 2020 now...
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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While the latest TIOBE Index of programming language popularity isn't earth-shaking -- focusing on an all-time high for statistical language R -- perhaps the the biggest surprise is this: Classic Visual Basic (VB6) is still in the top 20. I know many of you were worried for its well-being
Sorry, I can't seem to stop reading the reports about the monthly Tiobe random-list generator output
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Totally inept output by entropy?
I'm sure there is a better one - please enlighten me.
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So how exactly does machine learning affect the world of software development and testing, and what does the future of these interactions look like? Make work?
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If you're doodling your own computer chip yet wondering if you'll ever see it physically manufactured, Google is offering to fabricate it for you for free. I could do with some All-Dressed, thank you
Or "dressed all over" if you're a trailer park boy.
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As today I'm playing with FPGA... It could be a good opportunity to see it 'real'...
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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Kent Sharkey wrote: If you're doodling your own computer chip yet wondering if you'll ever see it physically manufactured, Google is offering to fabricate it for you for free (after modifying it to add telemetry and remote access to it).
FTFY
If someone still thinks that google will do such things truly for free... they should write Santa Claus to get a winning lottery ticket next Christmas.
M.D.V. 
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NASA has announced that its Mars Curiosity rover has started its ‘summer trip’ on the Red Planet, kicking things off with a new panorama featuring the Greenheugh Pediment. Nice that *someone* gets to go travelling this year
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Nice that someone gets to go travelling this year
Well, it's just a road trip after all...
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The rover has been practicing social distancing, and has been quarantined for much longer than two weeks. 
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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DNS entries left pointing to Azure-hosted server names snatched by miscreants for mischief Hurrah for cloud computing, part 240
OK, not a cloud computing issue per se, but it's easier than just blaming it on Microsoft again, isn't it?
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I don't know why, but I suppose this is not the only time (and probably not the only vendor) we are going to hear about this topic.
M.D.V.
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Microsoft has started testing the removal of the venerable System control panel on Windows 10 and instead redirecting users to the modern About page. After all, who needs to go there and adjust anything anymore?
I mean, it's been hours since I had to change something there.
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This has to be one of the most imbecilic Windows 10 decisions ever contemplated, which is saying a lot.
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Quote: "...If you rely on settings that only exist in Control Panel today, please file feedback and let us know what those settings are," Brandon LeBlanc, Senior Program Manager of the Windows Insider Program, shared in a blog post.
So they are unable to look at the control panel that they designed themselves and redesign the systems settings pages to mirror that work without feedback from the users??? 
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They probably have the icons figured out, but the rest of the stuff needs help
TTFN - Kent
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 You have probably nailed it.  So sad! 
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Any software or hardware vendor may develop a .cpl (Control Panel Item) plugin. You don't see them too often, but e.g. Java has (or had?) one. I have seen a few others as well.
So Microsoft certainly ha not designed everything in the Control Panel.
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