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that's a classic.
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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I am now officially an old geezer; I have no idea what they're taking about.
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In the past decade, the growth in low-code and no-code solutions—promising that anyone can create simple computer programs using templates—has become a multi-billion dollar industry that touches everything from data and business analytics to application building and automation. It's the worst form of programming, after all the others?
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And when it really breaks in (because it sadly will do it), the next wave of hacking, scamming, phishing, etc, etc, etc... will get a new dimension.
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The new is well forgotten old. It's used to be called 4th Generation Languages - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth-generation_programming_language. I remember back in the 80-ies and early 90-ies working with DBase, Clipper, Userbase, FoxBase, ... They all waned away because while it's creates and expectation of easy development, it's incredibly hard to push the limits that are provided for you out of the box. The only thing changed is a platform - instead of personal computer or network, now it's browser and cloud. At the place I work for, we have over 4,000 Access DBs that were developed by end-user and dumped on IT when user moves to a better pastures, creating a situation that is impossible to manage long term. And that's not to say about the fact that most of low-code companies will go out of business all together, leaving you high and dry, lucky if you can preserve your virtual environment but without the support. Thanks - I'll just follow Art of War - “If you wait by the river long enough, the bodies of your enemies will float by.”
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gstolarov wrote: And that's not to say about the fact that most of low-code companies will go out of business all together, leaving you high and dry, lucky if you can preserve your virtual environment but without the support.
Good luck with that. Letting you run their platfarm locally instead of only in their cloud (Read "AWS or Azure, but priced about 10x as high and with worse QoS") would deny them the ability to harvest all your IT budget before going bust (read "Retire in luxury to a tropical island").
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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While i can easily imagine the pitfalls ahead for this, i keep in mind how Excel with VBA (replacing the swamp of writing macros) enabled a lot of intelligent people to be more productive. And, way back, was a ticket to lucrative work ... for me.
However, part of that Excel goodness was the ability to use the same Work/Books/Sheets and VBA on the Mac.
Can anything upcoming be as useful, as understandable, as Excel was/is ?
«The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled» Plutarch
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The rare first-edition copy of the Constitution is one of 13 surviving copies. And I'm sure they'll make it available as an NFT shortly thereafter
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*Right clicks*
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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You cannot pet a dog in Meta’s new, high-tech virtual reality gloves. But researchers are getting closer. I'm sure "the street" will find a use for this one
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haptic-vr: i just felt a cold hand on my shoulder, and a chill ran down my back.
«The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled» Plutarch
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Ready Player One (2018) - FilmAffinity[^]
What today is written as science fiction might be tomorrow remembered through a reportage.
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Microsoft's 'Project Reunion,' its development kit meant to bridge its various Windows development platforms, is here. "Come together, right now, over me"
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This update cadence matches the same used by Windows 11, which will also introduce new features on an annual basis. I have to wait that long for icons?
With my sydlexia*, I read that first as 'Windows 11', and thought, "Didn't they already say that?" Then noticed that it was for 10. Which now makes me wonder if the long term result will be two Windows forward, or if they'll merge them back into a TPM-less version by 2025?
* It's like dyslexia, but it's named to drive pedants and the dyslexic mad.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Which now makes me wonder if the long term result will be two Windows forward, or if they'll merge them back into a TPM-less version by 2025?
Most probably...
I see it coming:
The worst of both versions will be running in the new iconized and coloured brand product, full of buzzword bingo crap and new features that nobody asked for and that will massivelly break functionality
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We continue to support and innovate in Windows Forms runtime. Let’s recap what we’ve done in .NET 6.0. That it's still around?
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Quote: What’s new in Windows Forms in .NET 6.0
Icons?
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Microsoft has just released the latest preview version of Windows Subsystem for Linux, bringing with it a lengthy changelog.  Of course they did
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Can you set your own browser in the WSL? Just thinking outside the box, for any disgruntled 11 user.... 
(Maybe this should be in 'workarounds' thread below, but the thought was triggered here.)
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Researchers build "fuzzer" that supercharges potentially serious bitflipping exploits. "By Grabthar's Hammer, by the Suns of Warvan, you shall be avenged."
Sorry, all hammered out these days.
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We are soooooo screwed.
I suspect that there are some really smart people who work in shadowy places that already exploit this.
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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charlieg wrote: I suspect that there are some really smart people who work in shadowy places that already exploit this.
And now there are going to be lots of oportunists joining them as it gets more and more known. 
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Kent Sharkey wrote: "By Grabthar's Hammer, by the Suns of Warvan, you shall be avenged."
That's a great quote. You are well-placed in this snippet-writing career.
I can only hope you are also getting Mega-Rich from writing these witty remarks.
Hopefully they are paying you in crypto so your riches can be realized. 
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