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Who got a flashlight stuck in the mouth?
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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"Come into the light!"
"Join the dark side!"
I don't know what to do. It's tearing me apart. 
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Hackers continue to exploit publicly known—and often dated—software vulnerabilities. If it's broke, don't fix it.
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The commonly held belief that programming is inherently hard lacks sufficient evidence. "It depends on what the meaning of the word ‘is’ is"
What does anything really mean, maaaaaan?
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"Programming is hard" is based on anecdotal evidence which I will refute with anecdotal claims and repeating myself and admitting that "certain aspects of programming are difficult".
(Author is an assistant professor of Computer Science, which explains everything. His colleagues must love him. Oh, no, they don't actually love him, rather certain aspects of his pedantry are tiresome.)
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Programming itself isn't hard - it's the implementation of ideas in a constrained environment (hardware or language) that raises the level of complexity. "Work-arounds" for security, hardware or OS limitations usually adversely affects the business logic.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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In my experience, programming is often harder than it should be because somehow people are a bunch of bunglers.
For example, I once fixed a report that took 20 minutes to run and then created an Excel with around 2000 users.
20 minutes for 2000 records is insane!
My first job at that company was to fix this.
They were testing me as many had tried, but failed, as this report was insanely difficult!
I had to read through loops, lots of if-else's, database queries, function calls, duplicated code... Took me two days just to figure out what it was doing.
I then rewrote the whole thing to a single SQL query, which took me another two days.
The query was reasonably readable, in the sense that the whole team could add or change fields within minutes without me explaining how.
More importantly, it now ran in two seconds instead of 20 minutes!
The fact that someone wrote some messed up code in the first place is what made it hard for me to figure out.
If the initial programmer had written the SQL query like I had, no one would've said how difficult it is.
I have lots, lots, lots and then even more examples of simple tasks being made insanely difficult because some programmer needed to use all the design patterns, returned different types from the same function, duplicated code, etc.
It's not the programming that's difficult, it's somehow not making it difficult 
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This is the dumbest article I've read on Al Gore's internet.
I don't mean I disagree (1); I mean the author is functionally an idiot (2).
It reads like something generated by one of those online term paper tools.
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1: It is impossible to disagree with an article that says nothing.
2: I'm making the assumption the article isn't a joke.
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Programming is hard only because other people f*** up their own code, and then those of us that know better have to go and fix it.
Conversely, algorithms can be hard. Just ask the witch.
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With the recent release of Visual Studio 2022 Preview 2 we’d like to use this blog post to dive deeper into the brand-new Hot Reload experience which works for both managed .NET and newly supported native C++ apps. "Third gear, hang on tight. Faster, it's all right."
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Boffins in Finland have scanned the open-source software libraries in the Python Package Index, better known as PyPI, for security issues and found that nearly half contain potentially vulnerable code. So remember to pick the other ones
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Only 50%? That sounds good to the point I question how effective they were in finding them.
(And no, I don't thing nuget or npm are any less likely to be full of bugs either.)
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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I fear you're correct. I imagine they had a cutoff, so that only the most n% downloaded (or some other measure of 'popularity') were selected.
TTFN - Kent
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You won’t be able to outsmart the Windows 11 system requirements when trying to upgrade from Windows 10, Microsoft staff have claimed. Or when you do, we'll shut that down too
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So... what's going to be the most used sentence in the next years?
Quote: Screw you windows 11
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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The hardware folk will be happy with all the potential sales.
I know the last time I went into a laptop store and said, "I need a machine with a TPM 2 chip", I got a lot of blank stares. There's definitely going to be some edjamakating happening soon. Either on TPM chips, or on Linux installs.
TTFN - Kent
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You mean the same people that can't fill orders for machines because of the microchip shortage?
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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 'struth. Sad, but true. I guess I'm putting off a new machine this year (again).
TTFN - Kent
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"Microsoft program manager Aria Carley said “We know it sucks that some aren’t going to be eligible for Windows 11, but the great thing to remember is the reason we’re doing that is to keep to devices more productive, have a better experience and, most importantly, have better security than ever before.”
Dear Aria - you can shove the marketing BS up where the sun don't shine. Security and Microsoft are an oxymoron. Exlusive OR. You are requiring this when we just found out an unprivileged user can edit the registry and gain admin rights? You people are so elephantine clueless as to be stunning in your ignorance. Your group thought the idea of rebooting development machines arbitrarily was for security?
God, where does Microsoft get these idiots?
TPM means UEFI which means a total PITA.
Morons
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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Man, you have to stop sugar-coating things and just tell us what you really feel. 
TTFN - Kent
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Remember when Windows 10 came out, and life was supposed to be most excellent?
- feature: updates will now include device drivers we supply not the oems. Weeks of blue screens
before I figured out what happened to my previously stable laptop;
- feature: hey, we'll auto reboot your machine for updates; there goes my week long debug session;
This issue came up in some sort of MVP meeting. The MS manager chuckled and agreed MS should not
be doing this. Oops;
- feature: we're going to save the planet by turning off power to your USB devices. Oops, there
goes your debug sessions again.
The list goes on. What I find appalling is the way MS *hides* these changes. The lack of thought stuns me.
Just sayin 
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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My hope is I to outsmart it enough that I can avoid "updating" completely. I have not seen a single thing that makes want to get W11 and several that make want to avoid it entirely.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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The newest release brings support for .NET 6 (for iOS, Android, mac Catalyst and macOS), support for Visual Studio 2022 templates, WinAppSDK 0.8.1, Focus management updates, a XAML Trimming feature to reduce the size of WebAssembly apps by nearly 50% as well as many other improvements and bug fixes. Still not bought by Microsoft
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Cassie the robot, invented at Oregon State University and produced by OSU spinout company Agility Robotics, has made history by traversing 5 kilometers, completing the route in just over 53 minutes. Good to know the robot apocalypse can already outrun me
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I really hope to not see the day when some of those researchers have to say: "OMG, What I have done?"
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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