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Riverbed's report indicates that over a third of enterprise devices aren't ready for Windows 11 Look to your right, look to your left, look in front of you. At least one of those machines can't run Windows 11
Or more, if you're in a Linux shop.
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Yup. mac running windows via bootcamp. No idea what the companies long term plans are, and I doubt they do either.
My guess is, assuming I remain a primarily Windows dev, in a few years I'll get a new W11 PC and keep the old mac to debug safari problems. 
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 put a hold on purchasing new PCs last year until Windows 11 machines started hitting the market. Remember, when you see a machine listed as Windows 10 with Windows 11 upgrade what this really is is a Windows 11 license using the downgrade rights.
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The NHTSA said its previous rules are "logically unnecessary" in light of new vehicles built with automation in mind. What's the worst that will happen?
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Don't need nuclear bombs when you have idiots for politicians.
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A great tutorial isn't about what you write, it's about whether developers can be successful without having to read every word. You can lead a dev to a tutorial, but you can't make them learn
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Quote: People aren't going to read your tutorial.
Skipped every word to this point, and didn't read anything beyond.
I got the gist of it. 
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That was a strange blog post. It started off talking about why tutorials fail, i.e., because people don't read them, then morphed into an actual tutorial on containerized development, which, indeed, I didn't read because I wasn't looking for one.
Here are the problems I typically have with tutorials:
- They spend 1/2 of the tutorial telling me to create a new project, then showing me how. Why is that a problem? Most readers already know how to create a new project, and they probably already have a project created and half-written that they need to add this new thing you're showing us to.
- They typically don't show me 'using' list in the code, i.e., what libraries I need to make your example code work
- The code examples are too often too simple to be useful
- The tutorial uses a library that is now obsolete, replaced by a new version with a completely different name and a completely different set of methods and properties. (That's not the fault of the author, but of Microsoft/Oracle/Amazon/whoever wrote the package you're learning.)
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP.
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Most software engineers love to code (citation needed), so a technology called “no-code” is commonly and understandably met with disinterest or dislike. For those who no code no-code
Yes, it's (very) thinly veiled marketing by a company with a no-code solution, but his points stand separate from the tool (IMO).
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No-Code and "The Year of Linux on the Desktop" must be getting pushed by the same marketing monkeys.
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Linux desktop is coming. Soon. Perhaps 2023?
To err is human to really elephant it up you need a computer
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When it comes, it won't look like Linux, with its arcane command shell interface.
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no it won't it will be more like Mint with Cinnamon or Garuda Dragonized.
To err is human to really elephant it up you need a computer
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"But as time went on, the state of the art for runtimes improved dramatically, and today, it takes a lot of skill to write a complex program in C++ that outperforms a similar program in Javascript running on a highly optimized engine like v8."
Really? I'd like to see some actual evidence of that.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Until you have to deal with the terrible UIs they generate, slow, bulky, full of unexpected features...sigh.
Common sense is admitting there is cause and effect and that you can exert some control over what you understand.
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How a company reacts to an employee's departure can say a lot about the company. "All's well that ends well"
This one goes out to those that complain I only post nasty stuff about Redmond.
Also, I really wonder if Amazon would have done the same thing in the reverse situation.
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no no no, I want to hate Microsoft  .
Common sense and decency...
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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Yet another top-tier PC maker seemingly isn't interested right now in Microsoft's vision of hardware-level security for Windows 11 systems. Looks like it might end up being a dwarf security chip after all
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Quote: Intel, for one, has not implemented Pluton in any 12th-Gen Intel Core processors, code-named Alder Lake. These chips instead come with their own Intel-designed TPM support.
Dell laptops coming soon with 12th-Gen Intel Core processors will therefore not use Pluton for their TPMs. The modules they will use, we're told, are certified by the Trusted Computing Group, and satisfy the FIPS 140-2 standard set by NIST.
"Opts out of" is an interesting way to phrase "can't offer because their key supplier doesn't support it", but somewhat lacking in accuracy IMO.
Edit: Must've been brainfried when originally posting this to use the wrong quote convention. 
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
modified 14-Mar-22 9:04am.
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Software in 2022 is overwhelmingly built with little to no consequence and is made up of other components which are overwhelmingly developed by unpaid volunteers on an AS-IS basis that are being financially neglected. A rant. With bonus squirrel burgers
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Well, except maybe writers
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Joe Woodbury wrote: Well, except maybe writers
And alternative "therapies."
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Most of the other professions listed there involve significant risk to health or life if the practitioner gets it wrong. This is true of some software projects, but not at all to others.
People had been building for millenia before practice was standardised and regulated. Engineering had a few hundred years. Software has been around for around 70 years in total its still a very new area. I'm not convinced we yet know what good practice really is, and premature regulation could impede establishing that.
However, where the results of mistakes can involve significant harm, we should probably be moving towards some form of regulation.
In the UK, government contracts have requirements of the methodology for development, and they seem to have got it utterly wrong, as government IT projects are notorious for being late, buggy and expensive. So much so that I will no longer accept work in these fields.
Incorrect regulation can be more harmful than none.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Quote: Software practitioners should be licensed
Stopped right there. People who say this have no understanding of unintended consequences and how things get politicized and corrupted. The writer is ignorant and, as is proper to the ignorant, should shut up.
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