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Last month at Build, we introduced the new WebView2 coming to Windows, powered by the upcoming Chromium-based Microsoft Edge. What a tangled web we weave when first we stick a browser in a Windows app
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And it's a win32 version, too!
That's great!
You'll love it!
Except when it crashes -- just vanishes with no warning and no usable Event Viewer entry -- if you try to save a page or open a page from your file system, because one of the very first winio updates severely borked the win32 common dialog library, and they still haven't fixed it.
But they've gone through a dozen icons, mindlessly removed the status bar, made dragging an html file onto the browser window a pointless exercise, taken away 95% of the useful settings, and committed hundreds of other crimes against browsanity, so everything is right with the world!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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“We will eventually see if they are actually habitable and, perhaps, even inhabited,” astronomers predict. * Objects appear closer in mirror
This one's for you, Mark 
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Only two? Why not twenty-three? A-hundred-and-sixty-seven?
If you're going to bullsh1t, you might as well go large.
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Mark_Wallace wrote: Only two? Why not twenty-three? A-hundred-and-sixty-seven?
Because there are two of them, perhaps?
"Potentially life supporting" is not the grandest of claims - it could be used to describe several objects in our own solar system without any controversy. Most of us would agree that Titan has the potential to support life but would consider it unlikely to be doing so, why should such a claim become preposterous when applied to an exo-planet?
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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Yes, but we get several thousand billion photons a day from Titan; we can see what it's made of, and we can "hear" the rest of the electromagnetic spectrum that's bouncing off it.
They are, typically, basing a "great revelation" on a couple of hundred photons a day, which:
0. Are reflected from and distorted by a very nearby star.
1. Have passed through God-only-knows-what in the twelve light years between us and them.
No-one on their right (as in "honorable") mind would declare with any certainty that there are even planets there, let alone that they could support life.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Keyboards have had a dedicated Windows key for decades, and now it looks like Microsoft is at least considering adding one for Office. Because starting Excel is haaaaaaarrrrrrd
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ms said: The concept was spotted in a survey form asking users for feedback related to the Office key.
That's "a survey form", as in "one" -- but I'll bet even that is an exaggeration, and the only place it appears is in a question ("Do you want an Office button?", to which everyone replied "Are you out of your f***ing minds?!?") (I paraphrase, of course.)
"Never mind fixing the things that have been broken for years, or fixing any of the things that we've broken with each update -- that's tooooo boring! Let's add something new that no-one wants, and that will break even more things!"
"Oh, and we haven't had a new icon for WEEKS! We need to work on that! Nine-hour brainstorming session in my office, tomorrow! We can set a series of planning meetings for it after that."
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Ooh! Make it Big! Make it Big! < /sarcasm>
And next, a Touch Bar! < /more sarcasm>
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Quote: However, it would require keyboards and laptop makers to dedicate more space to yet another key.
Two second journalist.
I look down at my keyboard.
"Oh hey, there is a right windows key as well."
Look at (likly mock) image.
"Oh hey, they using the right windows key position for that office key."
conclusion.
I should be using the right windows key more often when locking my keyboard instead of two hands or stretching to the left windows key.
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Meanwhile I still have 12 F-keys at the top of my keyboard that are under utilized.
Director of Transmogrification Services
Shinobi of Query Language
Master of Yoda Conditional
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As a former WordPervert victim, I agree with this statement 
TTFN - Kent
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Oh, but the keyboard stencils were so beautiful! 
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I at least come to use 6 of them
F2, F3, F4, F5, F11 and F12
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
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modified 20-Jun-19 10:47am.
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I too use quite a few
Director of Transmogrification Services
Shinobi of Query Language
Master of Yoda Conditional
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With .NET Core 3.0 Preview 6 out the door, we thought it would be useful to take a brief look at the history of our infrastructure systems and the significant improvements that have been made in the last year or so. Large projects are like sausages. You should never see them made.
Oh, they *do* still code in Redmond. I thought they were now a 100% icon-oriented shop.
Worth it for the dependency diagram, I think.
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You mean the dependency diagram encoded with a lossy JPG encoding that means the text is barely legible, if at all. Right.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Yes, but those assembly codes and date stamps had to be squeezed in somewhere or the whole diagram wouldn't make any sense ...
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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Docker has realized that Microsoft's new Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 has made Windows much more attractive both to Docker and its container developers for both Windows and Linux platforms. Two great things that might work well together?
I struggle to care about either, but some of you might.
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OK, serious question:
Does anyone actually need either of these cross-OS subsystems?
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Mark_Wallace wrote: OK, serious question:
Does anyone actually need either of these cross-OS subsystems?
Yes, they need an excuse to mess everything up
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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At Build 2019, Microsoft revealed that new Windows Terminal, a modern and fast terminal application for users of command-line tools and shells like Command Prompt, PowerShell, and WSL. Microsoft today revealed the new icon for Windows Terminal, check it out below. ... sob ...
It's
so
beautiful
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Kent Sharkey wrote: ... sob ...
Yes, I feel like crying, too.
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It looks like they took a satellite picture of my cubicle. They have the L shaped desk and my shelving units. Do I get any kickback on this?
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NASA’s computing required perfection. Anything less had serious consequences. Grammar police were pretty strict back then
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