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I had the same reaction. My thought was StarLink will eliminate the coverage gaps but there's still a cost associated with connections.
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What if they simply do not care to be online?
When I go to a mountain cabin, one reason is to get away from all sorts of electronic media. When I go on a three week vacation in my car, sleeping in its back, I do not want any internet, no TV. I can go as far as to listen to some music on the radio, and I do bring my smartphone because people tend to fear that I am dead if I do not answer it (yes, I have had the police breaking into my house to 'save my life' because I didn't answer the phone when I was away), but I never make any outgoing calls myself when on vacation.
I could easily lots of people who would answer 'What for?' if you suggested that they get an internet connection. Mostly in non-Western countries, but even some within our own culture.
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The day has finally come! Windows Terminal is now the default command line experience on Windows 11 22H2! By their command(.com)
"The setting for the default terminal is on the Privacy & security > For developers page in Windows settings and on the Startup page of Windows Terminal’s settings. " <-- in case you need it
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USB-IF's new USB-C spec supports up to 120Gbps across three lanes. * CAUTION: may cause data loss as it can't brake in time to stay on the target device
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The main question remains: Over which distances can it beat a 60-ft container stuffed with 1 TB microSDXC cards?
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I actually had a question like that on an exam for my networking class back in 1991 except it referenced a station wagon and 5.25 floppies.
I’ve given up trying to be calm. However, I am open to feeling slightly less agitated.
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Discmaster lets you sift through 11 terabytes of CD-ROM and floppy disk archives. In case you didn't save that ray-traced marble image you made
Or your Encarta CD wore out
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The Task Manager shortcut returns to the taskbar, alongside a new suggested actions feature in the latest Windows 11 updates Now they need to change the name of the product to Tabs
Bonus points to those that guessed the Taskbar
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I'll wait for the November update cycle. That gives Microsoft a few weeks to work out the worst of the bugs.
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obermd wrote: That gives Microsoft a few weeks to work out the worst of the bugs. That's preassuming they pop up or someone finds them fast enough...
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Microsoft is making Windows 10 22H2, its annual feature update, available to mainstream users on select devices starting October 18. Coming up tomorrow: see what breaks!
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Coming up tomorrow: see what breaks! So... time to get offline for a week or two? I'll check the Insider with the phone
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Writer, lawyer, and programmer Matthew Butterick has some issues with Microsoft's machine-learning based code assistant, GitHub Copilot, and the way it is apparently mishandling open-source licenses. Who could have foreseen this happening?
OK, everyone outside of GitHub and Microsoft. But other than them...
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Han Solo may be a hunk. But "Pan Solo" is a hunk of bread. You love it. I know.
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If that's chocolate... someone is going to get a biiig stomach ache
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Meta confirmed to The Verge that it will sell off all of the US-based Giphy’s global operations. {Insert sad trombone GIF here}
It's pronounced, "Ha HA!"
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Another option: Ha Ha Simpsons GIF - Share on GIPHY[^]
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The upstart start-up has differentiated itself from incumbents like Google and OpenAI by letting anyone use and build on its its model with little oversight. Investors say this open-source approach is a winner. I'm sure they'll make that amount in profit in the first year, selling...something
And people used to worry about Apple's and Microsoft's stock valuations.
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"A fool and their money are soon parted." And my biggest lesson these last few years are there are far more fools than I ever imagined could exist.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: I'm sure they'll make that amount in profit in the first year, selling...something Or changing the license system once it is already used wide enough?
(I am not looking at you oracle )
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Errors are bad, k? We don’t want errors. More importantly, we don’t want weird errors. To reach...the unreachable exception. To fix...the unfixable error.
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catch{
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MessageBox("This should never pop up #XX. If it does, something went veeeery wrong. Please contact us and tell us the number");
} You would be surprised how often you can find things like this.
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Sadly, not too surprised. I think I may have written that a few times.
TTFN - Kent
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In interpreted languages, you don't even need all that catch/throw red tape. Just write a line of
"This should never pop up #XX. If it does, something went veeeery wrong. Please contact us and tell us the number" with no stash or wrapping. When the interpreter tries to parse the message, it will fail, and crash.
Details depend on the language. If the language allows random constants (as I have seen some do!), remove the ""s and phrase the message so that it cannot be interpreted as valid code.
One alternative is to use a static code analysis tool, with proper flow analysis. If it is a good one, it will tell you that 'if x is between 0 and 10 in function so-and-so, when calling function this-and-that and y is 0, and then ... then it will cause this statement to be executed', giving you the recipe for reaching that unreachable code.
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A customer was doing an inventory of the files on their system, and they found files named passwords.txt that were filled with somebody else’s passwords. And I've been saving all my passwords in that file
No wonder it keeps telling me they're no good
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