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Quote: This $10 billion network of 3,000-plus satellites and 12 ground stations will cover 95 percent of Earth’s population once its fully deployed.
Jeez, between SpaceX and Amazon, we'll have to tell our grandchildren "When I was a youngin, the stars were fixed points of light in the sky, they didn't whiz by in the thousands. No, they are all not Santa's reindeers."
modified 16-Dec-20 20:42pm.
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I don't know why... but I see Wall-E every day a bit more probable... 
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
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Only if our grandchildren have bionic eyes with light amplification or telescopes built in. SpaceX's currently being launched Starlink design has been modified to be sufficiently non-reflective (by installing sunshades to keep the shiny parts of the bottom on shadow) that from their operational orbit they're too dim to be seen by the naked eye.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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In this post, I’m going to introduce you to a GitHub Action that creates machine-translations for .NET localization. Because sometimes you need to remind people about the amount of eels in your hovercraft
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Even if you’re not interested in working for Tesla or SpaceX, CEO Elon Musk’s favorite interview question is an important one to think about. I guess that's why he's a billionaire and we're not
Well, I'm not, anyway. Elon might be subscribed, after all.
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Hmm, didn't you post this (or something very similar, because I remember replying to it) a couple months ago?  Maybe it wasn't you. 
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That's one or both of us having "efficient" memories again. Probably me - I can barely remember the items posted the day before, let alone a couple of months ago - sorry.
TTFN - Kent
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"I just ask myself, What would Elon do in this situation?"
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Google is facing a new antitrust lawsuit from a group of state attorneys general led by Texas, this time targeting its advertising technology services. The ultimate ad-blocker?
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Ah Texas lawyers. They've been in the news a lot recently. 
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'solarwinds123' won't inspire confidence, if true At least we know there wasn't a criminal mastermind involved?
"IT Service Management without the friction" <- indeed
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They didn't replace the 'a' with an ampersand. Amateurs.
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Wow! How can such a safe password of 13 characters be hacked?
Yes, of course:
- There is no uppercase letter in it
- It also lacks special characters.
See, password rules are important!
Oh sanctissimi Wilhelmus, Theodorus, et Fredericus!
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This document is an output of the planning process for .NET 6. It's written from a Microsoft perspective and it's a collection of problem statements and assertions based on how we perceive the .NET ecosystem. Because sometimes it's interesting to see how the predator think of us prey
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Quote: We need to normalize the practice that application developers can depend on libraries that aren't controlled by Microsoft.
The definition of "normalize": bring or return to a normal or standard condition or state. Which means "control."
Quote: We should use telemetry, customer, and partner input to select a set of non-Microsoft owned libraries that we can help make better.
Telemetry - ah, so they're going to add spyware to phone home when non-Microsoft OS libraries are used.
None-the-less, it's an interesting read. It seems that the "reading between the lines" message is that someone is not happy with Microsoft not being dictator. There's a lot of subliminal fear in that document, namely fear of losing whatever tentative control they think that have or had. And a lot of flailing while somehow still missing the point (or to Microsoft, the elephant in the room) that the OS has evolved into a brutally competitive nightmare. Funny how "open" and (sort of) "free" has created this. I suspect this translates equally well to other "open" concepts, such as currencies, relationships, commerce, and so forth.
Well, enough rambling.
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Is cryptocurrency some weird underground scheme? Or is it entirely mainstream? A new survey offers bracing results. Do they think Paypal counts?
Or is it just that they think their money is encrypted and/or cryptic?
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Or the entire survey industry is FUBAR
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I think you're onto something. Occam's Razor and all. 
TTFN - Kent
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The base class library (BCL) provides the fundamental APIs that you use to build all kinds of applications, no matter whether they are console apps, class libraries, desktop apps, mobile apps, websites or cloud services. One of the challenges we had at Microsoft was making the BCL easier to reason about. Getting to .NET Menthol is left as an exercise for the reader
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I'm afraid at this point, the article just makes me want to throw rotten tomatoes at its author.
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Hehe... Microsoft really have tied themselves in knots over .NET-related naming.
.NET Standard was the one standard to rule them all. Now it's not.
I am reminded yet again of xkcd: Standards[^].
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Retired Microsoft engineer Dave Plummer has continued his series of Windows insights with a rummage around historical Task Manager source code. It's always more fun to laugh at someone else's old code than your own
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The global Google services outage yesterday was caused by the company's Identity Management System failing after a bug restricted its storage space. They are really getting strict about those GDrive limits, aren't they?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: by the company's Identity Management System failing after a bug restricted its storage space.
Kent Sharkey wrote: They are really getting strict about those GDrive limits, aren't they?
I would go more for the slurped data of the users, and the algorithms to sort them out and save it in the correct internal profiles
all what they offer plus all what they take and save from us... that has to be a HUGE amount of data.
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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They should put all that stuff in The Cloud, so they wouldn't have to worry about it.
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