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... but he's trying to make software recommendation / purchases as well.
I'm use to him turning the desktop on when he feels like ti, but this is new: he just walked across the keyboard and opened Office. Which isn't installed. So it listed all the XLSX and DOCX files I've used recently, and was asking if I wanted to pay to install it now? Fortunately, he doesn't know my credit card details ...
This cat is starting to worry me ...
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I hope you don't have any of those Amazon One click purchase buttons... 
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Gawd no. Why on earth pay for a button you have to allow near your WiFi and give your purchase details to so that anyone who passes it can get more cr@p sent to you until the battery runs out when you actually want to use it?
OK, I'd be tempted to give a teenager a Tide Pod one for his birthday, but I don't have children so it wouldn't be my account ... 
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I love this XKCD[^]
Have already done it by a friend... his luck is that he changed "the word" and it doesn't react to "Alexa"
My luck is that I found out the correct word and now he disconnects it when I visit him
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When I was visiting my sister I did this. (ten pizzas instead of creamed corn]
She immediately said Alexa cancel and forbade me from using the "A" word in her house.
But I never wave bye bye
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OriginalGriff wrote: Fortunately, he doesn't know my credit card details
As long as you keep telling yourself that, the cat stays happy...just sayin'...
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If we all run around naked and someone pees on you, you get wet right away. IF you are wearing pants, some pee will get through, but not as much. So you are better protected.
But if the guy who pees is also wearing pants, the pee stays with him and you do not get wet.
Is that clear enough?
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
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Dan Neely wrote: Is that clear enough?
Got it - don't pee in my face mask!
If you can't laugh at yourself - ask me and I will do it for you.
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Dan Neely wrote: Is that clear enough?
can't see a bl**dy thing with my pants on my head.
pestilence [ pes-tl-uh ns ] noun
1. a deadly or virulent epidemic disease. especially bubonic plague.
2. something that is considered harmful, destructive, or evil.
Synonyms: pest, plague, CCP
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Plus, you really want to change your shampoo - your hair smells really nasty.
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It's a pretty good analogy: if you are infected, then wearing a breathing shield face mask helps prevent you from infecting others - it doesn't prevent others from infecting you (except possibly as a tiny proportion of your use of PPE)
I'm sorry for your wife, mine was sent home from the Care Home where she works - with elderly COVID patients yesterday, and we're on quarantine. I don't think it's coronavirus, but we're waiting for a test to be arranged to check, and it's probably the amount she's been overworked in the last couple of months as other staff self isolate (some genuinely, some not) that has brought her to this point.
Keep her safe, do what you can for her, let her get as much rest as she can - this is not a lot of fun.
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sirius-black wrote: I am married to a Health Professional who is currently working 12½ shifts attending to patients with CV-19. When I look into her exhausted face on her return, it's a stark reminder of the seriousness of this pandemic.
Thank her for her invaluable work.
Tom
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sirius-black wrote: I am married to a Health Professional who is currently working 12½ shifts attending to patients with CV-19. When I look into her exhausted face on her return, it's a stark reminder of the seriousness of this pandemic.
I know how you feel. My wife is medical staff too, luckily enough her shifts are not that hard anymore, what brings a bit of physical relax, but mentally still is a big load. I hope you stay healthy.
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The purpose of the masks (at least in USA) is to prevent the wearer from spread their disease to others - or at least, mitigate it.
If you give it some thought, in public locations, the use of a scarf is likely to be as good or better a choice than a face mask. The reason? If you cough or sneeze into the mask (the primary target for it's preventive need) then it will probably be over-pressured by the sudden out rush of air. It will escape through the sized and the results sent sideways and backwards instead of being trapped.
On the other hand, a scarf-like has a material of a looser weave (in general) and it makes the release of pressure easier - now one can wrap said scarf around more than once. As the particles are expelled through the scarf they hit the weave and are trapped. Although coarser, it's much thicker to make up the difference. The mentioning of a study in Viet Nam - totally unsupervised with respect to handling the cloth masks (let alone any mention of compensating for the looser weave with more layers) makes it questionable (at best).
The looser weave not only prevents over-pressure and consequential escape of unfiltered droplets and particles but, since it wraps around, it has far less access to side/backward leakage.
In real life, picture this: In some (southern) US states they have allowed the opening of barber shops. The barber and customer were show, both wearing masks, with the barber behind. A good cough or sneeze and the barber gets a face full (vectored right into the eyes . . . oops!).
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Recently I asked a question which can be summarised as "what's the point of going to Azure, how does scalability even work"?
Some few good answers point to Microservices as the way to take advantage of the scalability of the cloud. And the reason why they have become popular in recent years, as cloud takes off.
At this stage I guess I need to read a bit more about microservice and how you synchronise their data (like, Netflix use microservice to update user password, apparently, but this information need to be spread around for next login to work hey?)
However one thing still nag me right away....
If each of your client app make a query to "myservice.mycompany.com" there is still this one server hit by a lot of query, right? How does microservice really help here?!
(sorry if it's a stupid question, never worked with "server farm" nor do I know how they work)
EDIT
BTW found some good reading on that topic! 
Designing and Developing Multi Container and Microservice Based .NET Applications | Microsoft Docs
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Is this a programming question?
Asking for a friend.
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I dunno... I rather have plain English while short and concise answers...
Is there a forum for plain English language programming question?! 
And by that I mean any article about that, the code will be likely the least interesting and relevant part of the answer... 
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Super Lloyd wrote: Is there a forum for plain English language programming question?!
Not since the SoapboxTrollpit was deleted. 
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
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Not a stupid question at all, and it's mentioned I think in the documentation (at least in the pdf version that I downloaded last year).
I think they recommend using an API gateway like Ocelot (on GitHub), or messaging like RabbitMQ. But the main point is that microservices should be as independent as possible.
To me it is still a mystery how to do all this, even after reading a lot on the subject.
Also see: resources-to-learn-about-docker-deployment[^]
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Thanks for the link! 
Yeah, trying to see if there is any truth behind the hype is particularly difficult for that one! 
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gRPC is just the underlying communication technology... Not specific to the question whether to use microservice, or not!
But it's good, yes!
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