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Almost read it.
But then there's chilli on the stove, and a new youtube post I just need to watch.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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I like to ask this question to everyone who is somehow involved in software development. And I always get a different answer. A creature used by software to increase their dominance?
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Quote: What is the definition of a good software engineer?
An advanced biological form that transforms caffeine, pizza and bacon into code?  
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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If they ever decide on a definition, don't let my company know. I'd be out of a job.
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They know what not to do.
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Linux is more secure than most operating systems, but that doesn't mean it can take security for granted. So, Google and the Linux Foundation are funding a pair of top Linux kernel developers to focus on security. ...and maybe put a few advertisements in there
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Kent Sharkey wrote: ...and maybe put a few advertisements in there
nah...
Advertisements will come throught the natural way.
What they (google) are whishing are a couple of secure user data slurpers without compromising the integrity of the system or the security of the user, after all... burned users don't bring revenues.
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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Interesting long read on the players and shenanigans: [^]Quote: The synergy between Washington and Silicon Valley can be seen as the latest manifestation of the Beltway’s revolving door. But the size and scope of Big Tech – and the increasing dependence of government on its products and talent – suggest something more: the rise of a Digital-Intelligence Complex. Like the Military-Industrial Complex that President Dwight D. Eisenhower warned against in 1961, it represents a symbiotic relationship in which the lines between one and the other are blurred.
Quote: If it appears there is a steadily revolving door between tech companies and national security workers and officials, it may be because Gordon is in favor of exactly that. In an interview with Wired magazine when she was still in office, Gordon advocated what Wired described as “more of a revolving door.” Gordon was characterized as envisioning “a new paradigm for sharing talented workers between the government and the private sector.” According to Wired, she claimed that techies should start in government where they can learn what the problems and challenges are. They should move over to the private sector where they will have more freedom to innovate. “And then when they are ready to slow down and leave the rat race,” Wired quotes her as saying, “they can return to government.”
Gordon calls this “cross-pollination” and “talent-sharing.”
«One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.» Salvador Dali
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I've puzzled over why various big tech companies are obsessed with deplatforming dissenters and creating echo chambers, and this kind of revolving door would go a long way to explaining it.
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Greg Utas wrote: deplatforming dissenters and creating echo chambers,
Those are eloquent analogies ! I sense a fellow poet 
«One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.» Salvador Dali
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I've read some of your poetry posts and won't be coming up with anything that poetic any time soon. 
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Microsoft's WSL 2 is getting graphics support. Here's how to get ready for it. It's The... meh, whatever. At least maybe I can play all those great Linux games now.
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Linux users are more knowledgeable regarding computer maintenance than Windows users, right? Maybe. If only they had some sort of service that updated their machines when it was least convenient
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Last year, back in March, Microsoft announced that all of its events until July 2021 would be held digitally, and that allowed the company to change things up a bit. It ended up splitting its Ignite 2020 conference into two, and the second part of the event is coming up soon. Hopefully it fits in your travel budget
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Be careful about what you’re oversharing online, because it makes it easier for (unethical) hackers to target you. Him, not me. I wouldn't hack you even if you sent me your account numbers and mother's maiden name
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No facebook, no twatter, not even LinkedIn.
Hack my social media, go ahead and scam me.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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LinkedIn, the professional social network Microsoft purchased back in 2016 is reportedly getting ready to enter the market of freelancer platforms currently dominated by Upwork and Fiverr. You mean people use it for something other than finding out when your friends are looking for work?
Any of course by recruiters.
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A new survey from AppDynamics reveals that the COVID-19 pandemic continues to put growing pressure on those responsible for digital transformation projects. The other 11% are managers?
OK, mean I know - they feel pressure too - probably more than individual contributors. It's just they get to shovel it downwards more readily.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: The other 11% are managers?
Employees; working under a manager who's responsible for targets. I ain't even doing overtime. Not my problem if the sales-people overpromise.
What pressure?
Bastard Programmer from Hell
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Using a method called quantum annealing, D-Wave's researchers demonstrated that a quantum computational advantage could be achieved over classical means. It solved the "Visual Studio is busy" problem?
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Or they finally know how much wood a woodchuck could chuck.
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No worries, MS will just make VS consume 3 million times more resources.
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New tech reports reveal the top-paying .NET skills and most in-demand programming languages in the Microsoft-centric developer landscape. I'm a little shocked it wasn't NetCOBOL
Although the actual answer is about as frightening for some.
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Quote: the No. 1 in-demand programming language for 2021 in that landscape is Visual Basic, not C#
Not sure where they are getting that from. When I look on job boards it's all C#, very little VB.
Not that it matters much, but still.
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I can only assume this was an attempt to create the worst of all possible language rankings. 
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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