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Didn't 911 occur on the same day that a 911-style emergency management exercise was taking place?
And didn't the current pandemic begin just a month or so after an international modelling exercise of a very similar pandemic disease took place?
Just... you know... noticing. Synchronicity is really strange sometimes, isn't it.
And there do seem to have been a lot of reported fireballs/bolides recently, more than usual.
2021 is going to be a great year.
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markrlondon wrote: And there do seem to have been a lot of reported fireballs/bolides recently, more than usual.
Where's Bruce Willis when we finally need him? 
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Microsoft has announced that the Windows May 10th 2021 Update (21H1) is complete and being prepared for release. Incoming!
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The Bytecode Alliance, formed by Fastly, Intel, Mozilla, and Red Hat to move WebAssembly beyond the browser, has created a non-profit organization with the help of Microsoft to further their cause. Shining a silver light on the technology
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Producing effective code means understanding more than just programming As opposed to the rest of us?
Although what he is asking for is kind of hidden in the language of that headline. (dang English, and words that mean multiple things!)
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If you have a multi-monitor setup for your Windows 10 PC, you would have experienced this annoying issue often. The most annoying part is that this has never happened to me
One monitor, one monitor. This guy is a technical bore.
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I wonder if that's what's going on with my work laptop, although it'd require one of my USBC-HDMI dongles having a hidden DP-HDMI converter inside, since it always is the same effect: Everything on monitor A moved to Monitor B (the primary display), I'd just assumed the dongle running A (or possibly A itself) was too slow to restart coming out of sleep and Windows gave up and decided the monitor wasn't there a moment too soon.
EDIT: Engadgets writeup of this makes it clear that my problem is this and should be fixed whenever this change comes out.
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 29-Apr-21 10:34am.
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We've never seen a Mars rover from this vantage point before. So they're both on the same sound stage?
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Users couldn’t care less about the programming language you used or how beautiful, clean, modular and maintainable your code is. In fact, they don’t give a crap about it. That's a relief
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Yes, but I do.
And ultimately the user does, though they don't know it. Ugly dirty monolithic unmaintainable code has a way of revealing itself to the user as bugs, performance problems, stupid UI's, absurd menus, and general "wow, this stuff is crap but we're stuck with it" grumbling and complaining.
Quote: Ultimately, there is no right or wrong approach
I despise it when people say that. Yes, there is a right approach, yes there is a wrong approach. If you think there isn't, all you're demonstrating is that you aren't thinking. It's like when someone say "everything is relative." It's always amusing to point out that they just made an absolute statement.
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I guess what he's saying, is that sometimes it's better to make something that's good enough quickly than it is to make something that's great slowly.
Also, lots of companies got big with software that's ultimately crap and unmaintainable.
After they've made millions or even billions with this crap software they start working on version 2 and tell all their customers to migrate, which makes them another couple of millions (or billions).
Exact comes to mind, a Dutch company that offers accounting, ERP and other software for small to medium enterprises.
I talked to a developer and he told me they can release one update a year because that's the time it takes to test everything and fix bugs that are guaranteed to happen when something's changed.
Meanwhile, their revenue in 2018 was €209 million
They're now building a cloud version, which is supposedly better, and customers have to migrate which nets them new revenue from sales and consulting.
So basically, I agree with that guy, it's not how you build it, but how you sell it.
Customers can't see the code and even if they could, they couldn't tell good code from bad code.
Create vendor lock-in, hold your customers hostage until they get Stockholm Syndrome and then cash out again with v2.0.
Is it ethical? No. Is it profitable? Hell yes.
And the best part, are customers satisfied? They often are, despite it all.
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I agree with you Marc.
My experience has been that ugly code produces ugly results, which are defined as incorrect output or not meeting the application's purpose in some way. Beautiful code doesn't guarantee correct results, but at least it's possible.
Software Zen: delete this;
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In this blog post, I will show you how you can set up, configure and customize Windows Sandbox in Windows 10 using advanced Windows Sandbox config files. Windows Sandbox is based on Hyper-V technology and allows you to spin up an isolated, temporary desktop environment where you can run untrusted software. Maybe build a nice castle, and of course you need some Tonka trucks
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It’s the first time the default Microsoft Office font has changed for nearly 15 years Is it too late to put in a vote for Papyrus?
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or Wingdings... 
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Kent Sharkey wrote: It’s the first time the default Microsoft Office font has changed for nearly 15 years
Times New Roman, because corporate policies are even more glacial than the Office team.
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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Who cares?
If it's for my personal documents, I've reset the "Normal" template to do what I want. At work, some drone has provided a set of templates that we are supposed to use, so all "official" documents have the same look and feel.
Problem solved.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Nobody mention this on Reddit, or we'll end up with Comic Sans. Or Fonty McTypeface.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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In a strange turn of events, Ubuntu developers are asking users not to upgrade their Ubuntu 20.10 installations to the recently-released Ubuntu 21.04 due to a strange bug. They really are trying for that Windows experience aren't they?
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Holographic tech in the corporate sector is rapidly advancing, but will today’s hybrid workplace see widespread adoption? Because you're our only hope
Although it was the hologram saying that, but I hope you can forgive me.
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Case began two years ago and is one of several involving the iPhone maker. Turnabout is fair play?
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So clever that more than half are using their own gear for work, says Gartner "I think the people in this country have had enough of experts."
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Joint advisory urges organisations to stay alert when it comes to attacks by Russian's Foreign Intelligence Service - aka APT 29. "One ping only, please."
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Do they really let you drive from state to state? No papers?
Thanks,
Sean Ewington
CodeProject
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