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Like a lot of different OSs, among other products, Microsoft too provides a bunch of default applications with its Windows 11, Windows 10, and others. And while some users who use these apps find them helpful, others may probably feel they are more of a bloatware. Pretty soon, you're talking real disc space
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Kent Sharkey wrote: And while some users who use these apps find them helpful, others may probably feel they are more of a bloatware.
I am 50% on each group. Paint, Notepad, one browser, something to open multimedia, bitdefender... they are useful and should remain, but... all those pre-installed crap that just say "we are a trial, please update"... go to hell with them 
M.D.V. 
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This could be OK, if there were an easy way to remove them if unwanted.
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Top brass are less likely to commute in every day, according to a survey by Slack, which claims workers are seeing more stress as a result of being required to go back into the office "Do as I say, not as I do"
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Kent Sharkey wrote: "Do as I say, not as I do"
That's something many policemen tell (or think) too   
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Also politicians and other sanctimonious world improvers
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An analysis of the time 23,000 software engineers spent working in 2021 that was published this week by Jellyfish, a provider of an engineering management platform (EMP), finds cycle times on average were down to 12.6 days, representing a 12.3% decline over 2020. Good job everyone (now do better next quarter)
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Good job everyone (now do better next quarter)
That's something I learnt in my first serious job (although it was a sommer job).
It was a big industry line renovation and I was voluntarily working in the night shift (no bosses, less people, not so hot, more money...). We got every afternoon a list of points to do during the night. The first day I tried (and managed) to fullfill the list. The second day, too (at the cost of having less break time). The third day the "senior" taught me a lesson...
"If you work through ALL points of the list, you are going to get a bigger list as soon as they realize it, it doesn't matter if you are stressing yourself or not, they will think it is not enough for you so they will add tasks. Look at the points and select one or two minor things that everyone during the day can do without problems and leave them undone. This will keep you safe from burning out before the end of the first month."
Many years and a lot of projects later... damn, was he right.
It usually doesn't matter at all what you do, as long as they get the result, they don't care a heck about you. Very few bosses thank you your effords properly and noone is irreplaceable.
Keep your stress in a healthy level, do what you can the best you can. That's more than enough. And if they don't see it... screw them.
M.D.V.
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Many PC building enthusiasts may find it easy to geek out over all of the different potential combinations of parts, especially when "theorycrafting" an optimal computer build within a certain budget, in essence, by sticking together a bunch of different parts in a Newegg shopping cart. Cutting corners causes crashing computers
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Mandiant and Google both reported a spike in 0-day bugs in 2021. "You need not wonder why there's no time left for you"
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The real question is... are the hackers getting better at finding them? Or are the 0-day bugs proliferating and becoming easier to find due to either incompetence of the so-called programmers or overworking of the right programmers due to overpressure from their managers?
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We’ve come up with all sorts of mostly silly ways to talk about the importance of data (it’s the new oil, etc.), but perhaps the easiest way to gauge how we think about data is to see how much we spend on it. I like big databases and I can not lie, I SELECT * and I'm going to fry
I
can't
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Has Gartner yet predicted that those "computer" things will become popular?
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Felienne Hermans dives into the cognitive processes that play a role when reading code, showing theories for reading code, and techniques that can be used to read any piece of code. "Would you mind telling me... whose brain... I did put in?"
Longer than the usual, and the transcript from a talk (also with a video of the talk). Hopefully your brain can forgive me for posting this experiment.
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Abby?
...Abby Normal?
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Rust9x brings most of the Rust standard library to all 32-bit Windows versions. It's a known fact that people running ancient OSes love to use the latest programming languages
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Google is introducing new options to reject tracking cookies in Europe after its existing dialog boxes were found to be in violation of EU data laws. Toss your cookies easier than before
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How about one of these on my gmail spam(aka promotions) folder?
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These fines against Google may be why I'm starting to see news sites add a "Reject All" option as well.
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Probably. Lots of companies probably decided it was cheaper to copy the interpretations of companies who can afford lawyers to figure stuff out than to hire their own lawyers. Now that Google's old implementation has been ruled illegal, everyone who did so is now scrambling to make their own updates to Google's new best guess of what they can get away with.
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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We’re excited to fill you in on the latest and greatest C++ debugger improvements in VS Code, including support for the Apple M1 chip, data breakpoints, and a new run/debug play button! Assuming some of you do this kind of thing (debugging, that is)
I'm kind of doubting that there's a sizeable number of C++ devs using VS Code (as opposed to full VS), but here you go.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: I'm kind of doubting that there's a sizeable number of C++ devs using VS Code (as opposed to full VS), but here you go.
I don't know about "sizable", but I use VS Code for C++ development. The only time I start full VS is when I need to debug something Windows-specific.
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Depends - are you counted as "sizeable"? 
I'm curious about your experience though - is it just that you feel more comfortable in the lighter-weight tool, need less assistance from everything VS provides, work on non-Windows, or some other reason?
TTFN - Kent
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1. Linux 2. Better support for other languages I (have to) use, like bash.
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