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Significant obstacles will challenge quantum computing developers in the coming years, despite the technology's increasing importance as part of the broader wave of digital transformation, according to Lux Research. This headline brought to you by 10 years from now (and likely 10 years after that)
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but... is the headline alive or dead?
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More than 1 in 10 Airbnb guests have found hidden cameras in their rooms, according to a survey of 2,000 people conducted last year. "I always feel like somebody's watchin' me Is it just a dream?"
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As it wouldn't be enough with privacy and security issues, using them ethically correct...
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Black hole collisions tend not to produce light by their very nature — you may catch gravitational waves, but that’s about it. Was it black light?
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[irony]
Be careful... someone could accuse you of being racist...
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Open-source security specialist Snyk has released a new survey combining data on vulnerabilities in available packages with responses from developers and DevOps teams about how they handle the challenge this poses. Trusting in 'many eyes', can lead to many ayayays
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+100000 internet points for you!
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This beta takes us on our first step into TypeScript 4.0, and while it brings a new major version, don’t fret – there are no substantially larger breaking changes than usual. For the types that like beta types
Variadic Tuple Types just sounds mystical to me.
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Have you ever accidentally deleted a file and wondered if you can get it back? It can sometimes prove to be a tricky process to recover deleted files on Windows. Peter Norton is back?
Good timing. I just needed to recover a few DLL files that got deleted somehow.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Good timing. I just needed to recover a few DLL files that got deleted somehow. And drivers deleted by windows updates not?
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A simple VBScript may be enough to allow users to gain administrative privileges and bypass UAC entirely on Windows 10. To be safe, delete all those DLLs!
OK, please don't. It was a jo-
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Was not Windows 10 supposed to be the most secure and mega stable Windows ever?
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Passwords, bitcoin addresses and anything else in clipboards are free for the taking. Well, it is meant for copying, isn't it?
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Mmmm... was it not for pasting?
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Meanwhile, it's hard to walk in an Apple store for the crowds. (well, pre-pandemic)
TTFN - Kent
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Quote: serving customers beyond any physical location
I also wondered if that meant that Heaven is using Microsoft products, and Hell is using Apple? Or do I have that backwards?
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headline says: Microsoft to close all retail stores
Wait...Microsoft had brick-and-mortar retails stores? Hmm...
Never knew.
But, I mean I only used MS products for 30 years so what do I know?
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Yeah, and I was thinking also...what did they even sell in the retail stores?
They don't have a phone...I guess they did in the past, but they didn't have an entire ecosystem of products like Apple does -- watch, phone, laptops, home systems, ear buds, etc.
I guess you'd walk in and there'd just be rows of Microsoft Natural keyboards or something.
Sounds like the stores would'a been really boring. Of course, even the Apple stores bore me.
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They sold their Surface line of hardware as well as a mish-mash of laptops. The staff, at a few stores I visited, knew the talking points of the Surface stuff but the other stuff - the Acer, Asus etc gear? They barely had a clue.
There was no focus. It was "here's what we want you to buy, and here's what we're also offering because we know what we want you to buy isn't enough".
At an Apple store you have Phones, Tablets, laptops and computers. All arranged in sections and each section you have your levels of expensiveness. There was a very clear heirarchy.
At Microsoft stores there was a random assortment of laptops with zero guidance as to which was the best. With Apple, for instance, you choose your cheaper lighter Air or the expensive, heavier Pro laptop. Play or Work. Then you choose how much SSD and RAM. All in one areas and you're done.
At Microsoft you go from table to table wondering if the HP is better than the Asus, or if the Huawei is more powerful than the surface laptop. And what's the diff between the Surface Laptop and the book?
Further, at Apple everything (of consequence) was Apple. You knew, 100%, that quality wasn't an issue. At Microsoft you didn't know. There was no brand trust.
And finally (well, finally for me) Microsoft stores didn't always have the latest and greatest. I was there looking at a Matebook Pro and the staff member helping didn't know the specs. I was looking them up on my phone and realised they were selling the out of date model.
They should have not tried to be Apple and instead backed themselves and sold only their Surface Hardware and had free espresso.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Thanks, that is interesting on what the Microsoft stores were like.
Chris Maunder wrote: They should have not tried to be Apple and instead backed themselves and sold only their Surface Hardware and had free espresso.
Yeah, it's too bad they are closing. I always like more competition in these spaces so we don't eventually get to a place where there is only 1 choice.
And, honestly, I remember going into stand-alone computer shops way back in 1985 and trying to look at computers. There would be 5 computers, each siting on a separate desk and you weren't allowed to touch any of them. You just stared at them from afar while knowing you couldn't afford the $3,000 price tag and the salesmen (yes,actually, all men) condescended toward you.
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Happy Days.
I remember walking into them a few short years later and yup - same thing here.
There'd be 3 or 4 machines in the shop, each on their own little plinth. The cheapest one, a 386-33 if I remember, was about $3k and 486s were years off. Remember standing in line at a shop once and listening to the bloke in front asking about the 80486DX and 80486DX2. He was querying the poor soul about memory latencies and about wait-states. It looked to our teenage minds like the sales-bloke was about to have an brain aneurysm.
Last week spied on old Toshiba Portege with an i5, 4gb, 256gbssd and full-hd 10-point-touch panel.
They wanted $259.
I still remember looking in the green-guide (telly/tech guide offered in a newspaper) at the price of ram. $65 a megabyte? Holy sheet that's cheap!
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Great story. Remember 486SX (no math coprocessor) vs DX (with coprocessor)?
I worked at a shop that was building and selling at that time (386s and 486s just came out).
Ram got cheap at $40 per megabyte.
4 Mb at $160 Phew...
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