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Linux on Windows is continuing to grow ever more powerful and functional. Now, graphical Linux programs are being integrated into WSL. Step 0: Embrace...
OK, ignore my disbelieve on that last one
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Open-source software advocate Eric S Raymond has penned an argument that the triumph of Linux on the desktop is imminent because Microsoft will soon tire of Windows. "Dream until your dreams come true"
I'll have an ounce of what he's having.
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Around 40 per cent of staff in British and American corporations have access to sensitive data that they don't need to complete their jobs, according to recent research. With great permissions comes great responsibility?
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Which, as of now, cannot quite be described: [^] Quote: “We are at a point in terms of computing platforms where there’s a certain level of maturation that’s led to a decline in innovation,” says Humane president and chairman Chaudhri, who worked on the UI design of the iPhone and the iPad during his 21 years at Apple. “For us, it’s really about how we actually bring vitality and how we bring a new opportunity to computing. How do we move the needle?”
Quote: The startup’s ambitions derive in part from Chaudhri reckoning with the downsides of the products he was instrumental in creating—particularly the ways in which smartphones can nag at and monopolize our attention while siphoning away private data for corporations to profit from. But that doesn’t mean that Chaudhri and Bongiorno, a former director of software engineering at Apple who worked with Chaudhri to launch the iPad, believe that technology is a net negative force in society.
“We’re tech optimists at heart,” says Bongiorno, who is Humane’s CEO. “But we believe it’s also time to question everything to build something better.”
In my crystal ball I see: two or three screens, foldable.
«One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.» Salvador Dali
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I see non-rounded corners, for a surer grip. 
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BillWoodruff wrote: In my crystal ball I see: two or three screens, foldable.
A triptych tablet! Plus ça change...
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The Milky Way is filled with planets. Now astronomers have found the first candidate planet in another galaxy. Is it making the galaxy wobble?
I'm surprised there isn't a rendering of the surface.
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Amazing!
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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A feature that was added to .NET Core apps was the ability to publish as a single file. Coming soon: Why is my hard drive full again?
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I'm getting the impression that it is a big Zero.
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So, essentially, it's ILMerge on steroids?
".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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Digging through the code, The Verge has found that Microsoft actually had a secret, unreleased Microsoft XP theme that looked exactly like Apple's Aqua interface from 2000. "Some day soon I'll make you mine. Then I'll have candy all the time."
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A physics student named Germain Tobar from the University of Queensland in Australia says that he has figured out the math that would make time travel viable without paradoxes. Still, try not to kill any butterflies if you go back
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Kent Sharkey wrote: A physics student named Germain Tobar from the University of Queensland in Australia says that he has figured out the math that would make time travel viable without paradoxes, for those who survive.
(Restating Kent's phrasing?)
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So the theoretical math for a theoretical problem checks out, theoretically?
It's like my software: theoretically bug-free.
Got it 
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With the name Smarter, you might expect a network-connected kitchen appliance maker to be, well, smarter than companies selling conventional appliances. But in the case of the Smarter’s Internet-of-things coffee maker, you’d be wrong. Welcome to the Internet of Tomfoolery
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I find the existence of an Internet-connected coffee maker, and the fact that people would buy such a thing, necessary and complete proof that natural selection isn't working fast enough and should be lent a hand.
Software Zen: delete this;
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It always amuses me that the most luddite of people are those who work develop software or otherwise work in IT.
This tells me something about the anti-wisdom of some ideas that are floating around nowadays.
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You didn't get that memo?
That's what this whole year is all about. 1 in 7,800 and counting.
Naturally and terribly sadly, there have been some targeting errors.
What was that old Russian saying again. In 2020, you don't get virus. Virus get you!
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The creator of the C programming language and co-creator of Unix never got his Ph.D. because he didn't file his dissertation Just imagine what he might have accomplished if he got those three letters after his name
That didn't come out as sarcastic as I had hoped.
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Here's a takeaway from this week's Ignite 2020 event: An advanced Azure cloud portends the death of the traditional, high-powered dev machine packed with computing, memory and storage components. It's all fun and games until the network goes down
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 for your comment.
Plus it'll have a subscription fee and overage charges for extra cores or memory.
And your codebase will get hacked and stolen.
Pass. With prejudice.
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Greg Utas wrote: Pass. With prejudice.
Indeed. The cloud (what we used to just call "someone else's server") is cool for much stuff but this seems like a risk for no real advantage or benefit. If we want to work from anywhere then this can be arranged without having to put the entire environment on someone else's server.
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Funny. We're moving our dev stuff to the cloud, and they say we will no longer need our dev machines as a result.
".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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Who are "they"? And what is your view?
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