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If cleaning the jack doesn't work, I can highly recommend the Audioquest Dragonfly (comes in 3 different levels; Black $99, Red $199, Cobalt $299). It is my portable headphone source of choice and is quite small. It is amazing how good it is, and if you care about music, not too expensive for the sound quality. If it is for only at home and you don't need portable, then there are many options and I would suggest looking at schiit.com for a good dac/amp combo or separates (you would just need to use the preamp outputs for your speakers).
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Quote: Pfizer Inc. Chief Executive Officer Albert Bourla cashed out 62 per cent of his stock in the company on the same day it announced the success of its experimental COVID-19 vaccine, a regulatory filing showed.
Barnum and Bailey.
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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If memory serves, something similar happened with Moderna many months ago.
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Silly question.. is that legal?
Also, it does not show much faith in the company's future.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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It's legal because the information was public knowledge when the trade was executed.
It can show a lack of faith in the company's future, but in this case I think it shows that the reaction to the announcement was overdone, so the shares were overvalued. If I owned shares, I'd be interested to see how many he eventually bought back, though he probably has options that he can use for that purpose.
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I also just saw a story saying that the shares were sold by an automated system once the price had reached a certain level.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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That's certainly possible. It's a limit order. You can submit one in your brokerage account and it will remain active for about a month.
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Pfizer Coronavirus Vaccine News Raises Questions About CEO's Stock Sales : NPR[^]
Quote: "The sale of these shares is part of Dr. Bourla's personal financial planning and a pre-established (10b5-1) plan," Pfizer said in a statement. "Through our stock plan administrator, Dr. Bourla authorized the sale of these shares in February and renewed that authorization in August with the same price and volume terms."
The company spokesperson said Bourla's plan authorized stock sales when the share price hit a certain target.
maybe a happy (for him) coincidence?
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A Panda will spend 10-16 hours a day eating.
This is the same as a adult working from home for the first time.
That's why it's called a Pandemic ...
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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No more Eucalypti? Pandemonium.
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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... when he saw himself in 4k?
HDMI
I'll take my coat on the way out
Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello
Never stop dreaming - Freddie Kruger
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What did Yoda say to Anakin on his wedding day?
"May divorce be with you."
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Did you know Yoda had a last name?
"Layheehoo"
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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You're killing me.
Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello
Never stop dreaming - Freddie Kruger
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Yedi: "Master Yoda, what should we do with the prisoner?"
Yoda: "Kill him..."
BZZZZZZT!!
Yoda: "...You must not..." 
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Why didn't they let Yoda name the dinosaurs?
Because the do-or-do-not-ceratops sounds f***ing stupid.
Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello
Never stop dreaming - Freddie Kruger
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That took me way too long  
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Glad it's not just me. 
Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello
Never stop dreaming - Freddie Kruger
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Why did the Star Wars movies come out as episodes 4,5,6,1,2,3,7,8,9
Because Yoda, releases, in charge of, he was.
If you can't laugh at yourself - ask me and I will do it for you.
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Someone was kind enough to gather them up into one blog post for your cautionary enjoyment: .NET 5 - The breaking changes you need to know about | Miguel Bernard's Blog[^]
(( I figured it was noteworthy, but not newsy enough for the newsletter. Please forgive me and/or indulge me.
Let me know if you feel otherwise, as I know you would have even without this notice.
Why am I still writing? ))
TTFN - Kent
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Most code access security APIs are obsolete
Ouch! 
Real programmers use butterflies
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honey the codewitch wrote: Most code access security APIs are obsolete
Ouch!
Yes, indeed. But I'd have thought that most people using CAS are still on NET Framework. Or am I wrong about that?
** edit **
Ah yes, everyone using CAS is still on NET Framework.
modified 11-Nov-20 16:09pm.
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Assuming that's true (and I am) then in standard and core ThreadPool.QueueUserWorkItem() and ThreadPool.UnsafeQueueUserWorkItem() must do the same thing. Interesting.
Real programmers use butterflies
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I based my "Ah yes, everyone using CAS is still on NET Framework" from the quote below from Breaking changes, version 3.1 to 5.0 - .NET Core | Microsoft Docs[^] in the 'Reason for change' subsection[1]:
Quote: Reason for change
Code access security (CAS) is an unsupported legacy technology. The infrastructure to enable CAS exists only in .NET Framework 2.x - 4.x, but is deprecated and not receiving servicing or security fixes.
Due to CAS's deprecation, the supporting infrastructure was not brought forward to .NET Core or .NET 5.0+. However, the APIs were brought forward so that apps could cross-compile against .NET Framework and .NET Core. This led to "fail open" scenarios, where some CAS-related APIs exist and are callable but perform no action at run time. This can lead to security issues for components that expect the runtime to honor CAS-related attributes or programmatic API calls. To better communicate that the runtime doesn't respect these attributes or APIs, we have obsoleted the majority of them in .NET 5.0.
This does seem to me to imply that the only people successfully using CAS will be in NET Framework.
Footnote:-
1: I'd have linked directly to the 'Reason for change' subsection but the anchor in the website appears to link to the wrong 'Reason for change' subsection.
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It certainly seems so. Well, I learn something new everyday - at least if I'm lucky. Thanks!
Real programmers use butterflies
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