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Ah, like the old days of copy windows. 1 minute, 40 seconds, 7 minutes, 12 days, 1 second, 1 hour...
GCS d--(d-) s-/++ a C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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Bingo! 
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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I don't want an estimation... I want a "I don't want this damned update" flag that is respected when set to TRUE by the user.
M.D.V. 
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Ah, the "good old days" of perpetually-vulnerable machines that could never be updated because the user decided they never wanted to install one update, which then prevents other updates that depend on it from being installed.
But of course, MS should have no problem correctly updating the infinite variety of installations caused by letting users pick and chose which OS updates they do and do not want installed, right? 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Well, they could display a dependency graph of updates, with nodes labelled with different colors (e.g., red for a critical security update), also indicating which updates the user had blocked, so that better decisions could be made.
Actually, this isn't tongue-in-cheek for serious systems with knowledgeable administrators. We had live patching 40 years ago and eventually developed a system to track which patches were prerequisites for others, superseded others, and so on. The patching capability was so good that many customers asked for new features to be delivered via patch, as this allowed the short outage for a new software release to be avoided. Naturally, the yes-men acquiesced.
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If they were not rolling out unfinished / untested updates and using their use base as beta testers, overwriting user configuration in things that has nothing to do with security and things like that... I would not be missing the times of Win7 updates.
And note that I am not telling to have the computer un-updated, I have always had all the pcs in the family up to date but I have not installed 100% of what it was offered
You can't now discriminate the crap from the security updates and updates are way more intrusive than before and more than what I think it would be needed to do the job.
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modified 2-Jul-21 11:29am.
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I have once had an update start just as I was about to leave office at the end of the day, when it said "Please don't unplug your computer. Updates are getting installed", and this made me miss my bus back home.
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If the new system only has 2 values "5 minutes" and "5 hours" I'll be happy. Unexpectedly triggering a multi-hour biannual feature update and then having to chose between losing half a day of system use or power cycling mid-update and gambling that the recovery mechanism will work has been my biggest hate with W10's upgrade process since beating the random reboot while you're AFK feature to death.
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
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Funk was a member of the "Mercury 13" group of women who underwent the same testing as NASA astronauts, but never went to space. Better late, than never?
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No offense intended... but will she survive it at that age?
On the other hand... kudos back then and kudos today too.
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Hard to tell from just that photo, but she looks like she's in better shape at 82 than I am (or ever was).
But yeah, major kudos for her, and good on Bezos for bringing her (one of the few good things I can think about with him).
TTFN - Kent
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Yeah, where are the space flights for out of shape nerds who can't even afford a GTX 3080?
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Animation is fixed, but is evidence of the typo still in the blockchain? I always knew there was something fundamentally wrong with the web
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Of course...
that price was only due to buy "the first", to have it error free costs another $2M 
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47% of respondents' organizations currently use the technology. Can't have bugs if there isn't any code, right?
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Sorry... too obvious but mandatory[^]
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How safe is that open-source software in the Git library, the one with the questionable history? Scorecard 2.0 can quickly tell you just how secure, or not, it really is. Can't tell who's winning without a score
Lame, lame, lame and sadly lame. I should be diminished in your eyes. Sorry, but it seems my brain has taken Canada Day off (It even still wants to call it Dominion Day. Dumb brain.)
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And who is goign to give the score?
I hope not the same who decide which software can be signed at MS 
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Can you be diminished more than zero? (Sorry, couldn't resist.)
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Well, I am very negative 
TTFN - Kent
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open-source software security is not bullet proof 
imagine hacker retrieving source code, injecting his code and releasing another similar version
or
hacker retrieving source code and finding a backdoor by reviewing code
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The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence
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With the release of Visual Studio 16.10 comes a new analysis engine for the Performance Profiler, with the .NET Object Allocation Tool being the first tool to be onboarded. "Soon he will be released. Glory Hallelujah! We're building the Perfect Beast"
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Kent Sharkey wrote: We're building the Perfect Beast"
Beware it doesn't bite you in the hand when you try to feed it
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The latest mega-auction of an NFT tied to a piece of internet history is complete, with Sir Tim Berners-Lee selling a digital item representing source code to the original web browser for $5,434,500. Anyone want to buy the source to 'Hello World'? Cheap - only $1,000,000
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