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The trading platform said Monday that a social engineering scheme had compromised millions of users' names and email addresses. Don't worry, I'm sure the perpetrators will just give the information to the poor
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The .NET SDK project templates were updated to use modern C# language features and patterns Please don't take my 'static void Main(string[] args)' away from me
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Quote: .NET 6 new project templates and Minimal APIs. Are you ready?
Seeing the news lately... I suppose the question should be "Is it really ready?"
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?
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Maybe "minimal api" means "most of the methods are commented out because they're not working yet".
".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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Quote: .NET 6 marks the completion of Microsoft’s plan to unify the different .NET implementations.
As usual MS is declaring victory rather than achieving it. The latter would mean I could update my solution from .net 4.x to .net 6 and at most have to click a "fix all the breaking changes" button and be good to go.
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'm not sure that's true.The minimal API thing is just a change to the templates. Personally, I think the minimal API thing is a pile of crap, and essentially changed the way this stuff has been done since the beginning of time. In a bad way.
".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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I wasn't commenting on the minimal APIs; but MS declaring victory in unifying .net. Which as long as there are enough breaking changes that porting from framework to core will require significant work, is not unified.
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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And they're still enhancing LINQ, while failing to fix obvious omissions such as support for the "?." operator. Which means you never know until compilation if you can use certain valid C# expressions in LINQ.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Everyone likes the idea of squeezing as much life out of their laptop as possible, and every new iteration of Windows has made great promises about prolonging battery life. And here I thought I had a perpetual calculation machine
I guess I'm alone in thinking that value should be clamped to never appear as more than 100%?
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So does Android 12 on my phone if you use it while being charged.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: I guess I'm alone in thinking that value should be clamped to never appear as more than 100%?
Even the infamous Windows progress bar never went above 100, as far as I've seen. Must be a new batch of interns...
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Did they took notes from Samsung? 
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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I too run into the issue of underestimating the complexity of projects on first glance. I do it a lot actually. Software estimation is the root of most evil
Unless you go with the correct answer - "it depends"
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Unless you go with the correct answer - "it depends"
Kind of related[^]
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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It will enable enterprise admins to choose the drivers to deliver via Windows Update in their environment out of an assortment of matching options and schedule them for deployment. Pick one from column A, and two from column B
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These clowns - I'm going to make a prediction. Clearly this initial offering is targeting enterprise level shops. Where I work, the IT group standardizes on well know common platforms - you can have any laptop you want as long as it's a Lenovo xxx or a Dell abc. Doing so, they skip the entire driver mess to begin with.
My prediction - under the covers, the clown group, some she-her or a he-him, will decide to fold it into Windows 11 under the covers. Hell, they might even try to do it with Windows 10. And it will be an unmitigated disaster as the automatic update of drivers is already.
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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This is so obviously going to end bad...
I am going to start cooking popcorn for the new wave of news about breaking things or things breaking.
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 landmark 64-bit Visual Studio 2022 is now generally available, for the first time offering developers much more memory to work with, along with other innovations like IntelliCode and Hot Reload. 64 bits, no waiting*
*Just kidding, there will still be waiting
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A newly published patent shows designs for a Microsoft Arc-like mouse that bends. They're all bendable if you really try hard enough
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If you're migrating an app to .NET 6, the breaking changes listed here might affect you. Because you can't make an omelet without breaking some APIs
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Today’s release is the result of just over a year’s worth of effort by the .NET Team and community. The sixiest .NET ever!
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Bet v1 is faster on comparable hardware.
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I definitely would not take that bet. 
TTFN - Kent
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We asked our community to share about a time they sat down and wrote code that truly made them proud. Bath tub not required
Posted to see if we can get a few of our own stories here
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Two stories (the two I was thinking about when I replied to honey the codewitch[^]:
1a: Detecting hydrogen fires in realtime after the Challenger accident - We had a multispectral camera, basically a camera with a spinning wheel having 6 narrowband filters in front of the CCD where this spin rate was sync'd to the cameras 60hz scan rate, and I managed to do two things (quite impressive given this was 30 years ago) - flip the image capture board into capture frame for the desired filter, flip back to display the captured frame for the next 5 frames, rinse and repeat. (By removing the IR filter in front of the CCD it was just barely able to detect the emissions around 950nm from burning hydrogen.) All during the vertical refresh interval, so it had to be assembly code, and the code let you move to the previous / next filter on the wheel. The point being, so you could see just the filter you wanted to see.
1b: The PhD people had created a complicated FFT to analyze all six frames of a captured set of images to determine if a hydrogen fire existed. It took like 30 minutes to run (remember, this was 30 years ago) and produced a questionable image result and then you had to tweak the parameters to try again. I realized that the entire process was just a lookup table of intensity for each filter band. So I wrote a near-real-time translation to produce a single video frame from the six filter frames.
2: The PhD's had been working on analyzing the failure modes of switch rings in satellites (this[^] is a simple but good example). The idea being, analyze the ring that the engineers dreamed up for handling failed TWTA's (Travelling Wave Tube Amplifier) which would be switched to spare TWTA's on the satellite, and determine what the failure modes were that couldn't be handled even if there were available spares. This is not as simple as one might think, as the output of one switch can be the input of another switch as an alternate input.
The point being, the PhD's were using the tools in their PhD toolbox: complicated algorithms of network analysis that they couldn't figure out and if they did, nobody could figure out how to turn into code. I ended up looking at the problem from the opposite direction - given an output combination, what were the valid inputs which then produced a list of inputs that couldn't be handled, based on the simple rule that a T-switch or C-switch (another pic here[^]) could only have a maximum of two inputs and two outputs. This greatly simplified to complexity of the analysis because the rule was simple: if there are 3 or 4 inputs going to the switch, this is a failure case in the ring topology.
The result was that the code could analyze fairly complex rings in less than an hour. Once multithreaded processors came out, I refactored the code to multitask the analysis for the # of cores, so it could handle more complex topologies. To my knowledge, the satellite manufacturer is still using my code to this day, originally written almost 30 years ago in C++, then rewritten in C#, without performance degredation mind you.
Sorry for the long post!
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