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Filed under "stuck on stupid."
Years ago, Microsoft decided to support html and scripting languages in their email client, because "we found that our users wanted a more interactive and dynamic email environment." Up until that time, you could not get a virus from reading email. Anyone remember those days?
Then they added scripting languages to Office apps, and an entire new breed of virus' was born.
And now we're added smarts to PDF files?
We're stuck on stupid.
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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Many of you take advantage of the side-by-side support for Visual Studio and have multiple versions of Visual Studio installed simultaneously. "My name is Legion: for we are many."
As long as all your versions of Visual Studio don't end up in a herd of pigs, it's all good.
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I'd have a validated backup before clicking that button...
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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Complete one challenge and earn a free Microsoft Certification exam Who wouldn't want to win a free exam?
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Microsoft has pulled the plug on support for .NET 5 and the Pro and Home versions of Windows 10 20H2. Not to be confused with all of the other version numbers close to these
I lose track
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Microsoft indicated in a Thursday announcement that it will require the use of Microsoft Accounts (MSAs) for "personal use" of the Windows 11 Pro edition operating system on initial setup. "It's not personal, it's strictly business"
Because nothing gets people to upgrade than having another hoop to jump through.
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Quote: User of MSAs must agree that Microsoft can collect certain personal information. That information includes "credentials, name and contact data, payment data, device and usage data, your contacts, information about your activities, and your interests and favorites," according to Microsoft's "Privacy Statement" document. F*** Microsoft.
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A classic example of, “if you’re not paying for it, you’re the product.”
TTFN - Kent
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Quote: Possibly, the announcement of an MSA requirement for Windows 11 Pro edition personal users doesn't just apply to Windows Insider Program testers, but also will apply more broadly to future purchasers of the Windows 11 Pro edition product. Maybe even if you pay for it. By the sound of it, that 'maybe' is disappearing.
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Why do I suspect that they'll define personal as "not on a domain" to suck in small businesses and schools too?
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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Dan Neely wrote: Why do I suspect that they'll define personal as "not on a domain" to suck in small businesses and schools too? Because you are a realist?
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Because that's how Microsoft has defined personal use since at least Windows 7.
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The hearing comes after the Pentagon report on unidentified aerial phenomena was released last June. Because nothing will solve UFOs like IPPs (Identified Perambulating Politicians)
It's not like there are other issues to solve these days
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UFOs - Unprincipled Financial Operators?
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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A masterpiece!
TTFN - Kent
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Daniel Pfeffer wrote: UFOs - Unprincipled Financial Operators? Will be included in the next C++ revision as the $$$ operator.
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This release brings continued improvements to the C# and .NET experiences, new Git performance and experiences, updates for C++ developers, and new Azure tools for local development and deployment. Because you can never have enough 17.2 versions of products
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1 hour later... and still 0 byte downloaded...
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Intel's 12th-gen CPUs have already made a strong showing against AMD's Ryzen 6000 chips, but now Intel is taking things to another level with its "HX" processors. Not a laptop, but a lap cooker
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Someone should make a video of making an omelet on this CPU.
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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My XPS15 laptop has 10 cores, hyperthreaded to 20. Since even today very little software handles multiple cores I'm not sure the reason for this other than to one-up AMD.
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obermd wrote: even today very little software handles multiple cores Certainly true, and I must admit that I feel a special joy when I run a simple application that manages to utilize my 12 cores (6 hyperthreaded) to 95+% load, doing useful work. It doesn't happen very often! (My most recent example: Using Handbrake to recode a Blu-ray image into a h.265 file.)
Many years ago when I went from a single-core to a two-core CPU, heavy applications didn't speed up that much - but all slogginess in mouse and keyboard response disappeared completely, when interacting with one application while another one was eating CPU in the background. Having one core for each application made a tremendous difference.
Going from one to two is of course a lot more fundamental than going from 12 to 16. You cannot expect very much improved performance from a single application, in most cases. But you can probably start 12 different applications eating CPU at the same time, with each one of them running at almost the same speed as if they were alone.
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More power efficiency's the main reason for this. It'll have 8 fast hyperthreaded cores for heavy workloads; and 8 optimized for lower power consumption for lighter ones.
I haven't see anything in depth about how well the power savings works in the real world. We know it works on mobile (ARMs big.LITTLE), desktop OSes are much more complicated in terms of what they have going on though. On the one hand that means a lot more background crap that can be offloaded because it's non-time sensitive. On the other a lot more stuff makes the scheduling a lot more complicated.
ex At one point MS stated they intended for W11 to send everything but the foreground app to the efficiency cores. While that's a reasonable baseline there are cases where it's not what the user ones, ie when they're doing time filling stuff while waiting for a video rendering job to complete.
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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Rust is infamous for having a steep learning curve. Assuming you never sleep either?
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And the crux of the reason Rust is "hard" is in the first paragraph:
Quote: but with a good mental model of how memory works, how objects move,
Far too many "programmers" today have no clue to how memory works or how you move stuff around in memory.
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