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World's first video game in a font! What the elephanting elephant?
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I would like to...
have just a 10% of the spare time that some people have... really
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I want to share the back story and explain why I’ve never really bought into SOLID. 'SOLID' deemed 'FLIMSY'
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I like iconoclasm, or even attempts at it, so thanks for posting!
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With the release of the latest Windows 10 preview 'Dev' build, Microsoft is offering a glimpse at some of the new features and changes they are developing. Not counting the new icons
Which we will all love, of course.
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Quote: A look at upcoming Windows 10 features you will love, or maybe hate
Maybe? That was rethorical... wasn't it? 
EDIT:
- Expanded mode in Explorer: Well... for some fat fingers in a surface... can be an improvement. (Not looking at anyone in particuler, eh? OG?   )
- Virtual desktops personalization: Not using them much, but I can imagine to be a real improvement, since I do use different backgrounds in the VMs for the same reason.
- Max- and minimize animations: Are you kidding me? this is the same as the animated caret in newer Versions of MS Office... what the ![Elephant | [mastadon]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/elephant.gif) ? it brings no functionality but making things slower and even more annoying.
- Additions to "Inbox Apps" (a.k.a. unasked bloatware): I suppose candy crush was feeling a bit lonely 
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modified 21-Mar-21 17:20pm.
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Quote: ...As you can see in the below GIF, Microsoft is spacing out the items, columns, and rows in File Explorer...but testers can switch to the old layout called “Compact mode”...
They are SOOOOOO Close!!!
(As in, logically, compact mode requires old-style menus. But MS isn't logical.)
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Look out, Mr. Beeple: Mr. Whipple is coming for you. At least it's appropriately fungible
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AMD and Intel recently started changing how the x86 chip architecture will handle exceptions. Linus Torvalds, in turn, gave his take on their new approach for forthcoming generations of CPUs. We interrupt this newsletter for exceptional news
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Wow - an actually interesting article on ZDnet. That is a very rare thing.
"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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Scientists are celebrating the long-sought discovery of the odderon, a strange phenomenon that appears only rarely when protons collide at high energies, such as inside particle accelerators. Eveneron still to be found
No, of course they wouldn't name a particle that. It's a "pomeron". Because the person that gave it that name was a fan of little yappy dogs?
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I firstly read it as "oberon" and I was like... really? Where is Will Smith[^] when we need him?
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A survey by Twilio reveals that IT leaders realize the value of developers, yet still aren't giving them a voice in strategic decision making. If we listen to them, we can't blame them later when things go badly
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The problem is not that we don't have voice... the problem is that sound can not propagate in the void...
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As modern application environments are polyglot, distributed, and increasingly complex, observing your application to identify and react to failures has become challenging. "Get the machine that goes 'ping'"
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There are now N+1 competing standards.
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
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Microsoft's appalling track record with problematic updates for Windows 10 shows absolutely no signs of abating. "You put your one foot in You put your one foot out"
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Kent Sharkey wrote: "You put your one foot in You put your one foot out and you shoot it in your toes... twice"
FTFY
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For seven years, Morgan Galen King was vigilant about not updating his Windows PC. So, how was your day?
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I'm not sure if the biggest WTF was creating an environment that would be bricked by any OS updates that wasn't airgapped from the internet, or having done so not having a restorable backup of that environment to allow recovery.
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
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Agreed!
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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When you get data loss after updates, it often, if not usually, means your hard drive was corrupted. Sounds like this idiot was about to actually lose everything and the update probably saved his project.
(This is like that kid who bragged he never changed the oil in his car and then blamed the car when the engine seized.)
Anyone who doesn't do backups, even if to just an external drive, has zero sympathy from me when they lose data beyond a day or so. (I prefer OneDrive, but use DropBox for long term backups and both are simple to use.)
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Joe Woodbury wrote: (I prefer OneDrive, but use DropBox for long term backups and both are simple to use.)
I hope you still have your offline too
Millions of websites offline after fire at French cloud services firm | Reuters[^]
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Since the The .NET Language Strategy was published in 2017, the general belief in the .NET community was that Visual Basic was effectively a dead language. "I'm still standing after all this time"
It was either that, or the parrot sketch, or the "bring out your dead" bit. I figured I'd avoid some Monty for once.
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For some reason my eye played a trick on the subject line and I read "Visual Blight 16.9 in NET 5"
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