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Why would a glitch in Windows cause a change in the data stored by a program?
This sounds like the data were stored as a text string, and something is wrong with the string manipulation routines.
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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rather a ploy to escape negligence and a law suit...
Caveat Emptor.
"Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
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Quote: The memo states that 10mg may display as 100mg and 15mg could display as 155mg.
That's absolutely weird, I cannot imagine how to get to such a result with data proper. But on the other hand, the text says "display" - and that could mean a driver glitch for the display, without any change to the actual data, and thus the dose administered...
By the way, that EMR should qualify as a "medical product" and be covered by the respective regulations. An update of the OS without proper regression testing or even an OS auto-update? That should not be possible.
Oh sanctissimi Wilhelmus, Theodorus, et Fredericus!
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Seems very unlikely to be an issue with an update.
Unless it's an update of their own software, maintained by Big Corp Co. costing gazillions while still being written by a bunch of bunglers on a nice government contract with no incentive to learn or even do a good job (if they would even be able to) because the money supply is endless and no matter how hard they mess up they won't lose their contract anyway 
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The article states "It's a patch relating to upgrading to Microsoft 10." That suggests to me that Big Corp Co. charged gazillions to rebuild the software for Windows 10 and messed something up.
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maj000 wrote: charged gazillions to rebuild the software for Windows 10
And a very specific minor, patch and build number 
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In all the media articles I've seen about subjects about which I knew some of the details, the journalists have always got stuff wrong. Often massively wrong, confused, wrong-end-of-stick.
I think that one needs to bear this in mind when reading the media. Even in cases where articles are a genuine attempt to convey the news without spin (rarer and rarer), they still get stuff wrong. This can even happen in specialist media.
So what we read here as a "Windows upgrade" could easily be misunderstood-speak for a software upgrade.
That said, blaming this on a Windows upgrade does kind of sound like someone's feeble attempt to deflect a negligence lawsuit, doesn't it.
It seems to me that even if a Windows upgrade is somehow to blame, it is still very likely negligent to allow that to negatively affect one's product (especially if the product was shipped as a hardware/software system).
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Technical recruiting firm Built In published a report on what developer tech that job candidates are looking for, finding that C# had the biggest year-over-year increase from 2019 to 2020. "You never get away, everybody wants you"
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It has been 20 years since the Manifesto for Agile Software Development was published, and even longer since the idea was first formed, and yet there still isn’t a clear understanding in the industry of what Agile really is. If we can't agree on what something means after 20 years, maybe it's not worth it?
Just spitballing here...
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It's not very agile anymore, given the hip and knee replacements, the walker, and the O2 tank.
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20 in software years is like 100 in human years.
It won't be so agile when it gets arthritis...
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With the arrival of Extreme Ultra Violet (EUV) technology, the intricacies of multipatterning techniques developed on previous technology nodes can now be applied with the finer resolution that EUV provides. It's all fun-and-games until you lose them in the dip
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A team of researchers from the Harbin Institute of Technology in China have developed a system by which invisible ink and a basic cipher can be combined with relatively simple AI to create an ‘uncrackable’ offline encryption method. Good luck with that
I was going to go with, "Sure, Jan", but I've been telling Sean I'm opposed to using memes.
Believe it or not.
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I believe them. They don't need invisible ink either - I cannot read Chinese characters anyway...
Oh sanctissimi Wilhelmus, Theodorus, et Fredericus!
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Is it ok to have if clauses that will basically never be run? Surely, there must be some performance cost to that... If deemed inexpensive (mostly)
So, the conclusion is just don't have thousands of them?
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"if" - the love word of the new age used to dispute facts and science.
(ok, not sure where that came from, but it made sense when I wrote it.)
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SN15 became the first Starship prototype to survive a high-altitude launch Fifth time is the charm!
I think I'd be happier with >20% chance of success before I sat on the top of this one.
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Grain includes functional programming features (e.g., type inference, pattern matching, closures) while allowing mutable variables. Grain also has a standard library with composite data structures (Option, Stack, Result) and system calls (e.g., I/O, process handling). Caution: may contain gluten
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If you use Google services, get ready for two-step verification to become the norm. What about the rest of the 12-step program?
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Microsoft is now planning to refresh the Windows 95-era icons you still sometimes come across in Windows 10. Of course they are
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Yet the save icon remains a floppy disk 
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Which many computer users have never seen, let alone used. I do wonder what would be a good replacement though. I guess that's why I don't make those big icon-designer bux.
TTFN - Kent
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Yup. I mused recently that it might have become a kind of generic symbol in itself. I.e. Younglings have never seen an actual floppy but they just accept that that icon means save.
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Yeah, it's a little like Kleenex for tissues, it's generic by now.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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