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'struth - I remember back in the old days where you'd end up having to rebuild your machine annually due to patches breaking stuff. And elephant forbid if you tried installing a Beta patch.
TTFN - Kent
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Or even a beta application. MS released multiple VS betas a few years back that had un/installers sufficiently broken that you couldn't do a side by side or upgrade install of the release version when it came out or remove the beta version; meaning your reward for testing a beta app was having to reinstall your OS.
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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Kent Sharkey wrote: We're all beta-testers now
now? I thought we were it since windows 8.1  
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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Hasn't this been the case since... well... always?
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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In this post I will explore what you can do using only the code in the dotnet/coreclr repository and along the way we’ll find out more about how the runtime interacts with the wider .NET Ecosystem. Getting to the core of the matter
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Don't eat the pips.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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"hic sunt dracones"
«Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?» T. S. Elliot
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Since the launch of Windows 10, Microsoft received criticism for its data collection practices, with telemetry you can’t complelety turn off on the desktop OS. Earlier this week, users complained that Windows 10 apparently continues logging your Edge browsing history in the cloud even after disabling activity history on both the computer as well as online. "And we would have gotten away with it, if it weren't for those pesky kids and that dog!"
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Other slight glitches in naming by microsoft include:
- Renaming the X button in the window-control toolbox of the "Do you want to update to windows 10?" dialog from "Close", to "Install that cr@p without my permission".
- Naming windows 10 as "the best windows ever".
- Calling what Steve Ballmer did "dancing".
- Calling Clippy an "assistant".
- Missing out the "ef" at the beginning of "fluent".
- Calling the Nokia acquisition a smart move.
- Zune. Just Zune. I mean, Really.
- Calling every cack-handed UE **ck-up from vista to windows 8 to the current "material" cr@p "the way of the future".
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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You forgot: requiring using COM for the simplest API operation.
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Quote: ... the company also confirmed that you can absolutely prevent your Edge browsing history from showing up on Microsoft’s online privacy dashboard. To do that, you have to follow these two steps:
* Under Settings -> Privacy -> Activity history, make sure that “Let Windows sync my activities from this PC to the cloud” is not checked.
* Under Settings -> Privacy -> Diagnostics & feedback, make sure that Diagnostic data is set to “Basic” (when set to “Full,” information about websites you browse is sent to Microsoft).
Absolute nonsense. I've had both of those set for months, and I still get activities logged in the online dashboard. 
Currently waiting to see if the registry key described here[^] makes any difference.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Richard Deeming wrote: Currently waiting to see if the registry key described here[^] makes any difference.
If it does work, it probably won't for long.
ms has shown a penchant for moving and renaming policies and keys that can be used to stop them spying on their users.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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It could lead to safer medical scans and other breakthroughs. What about the things under my bed?
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Great!
Let's use it to walk all over the recaptcha w@nkers!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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why not just switch on the light
Caveat Emptor.
"Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
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Can we get an AI for that?
TTFN - Kent
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Yes, yes they could. And I would no longer bet they won't. Here's why. After a cold day in Redmond
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The question to ask is "what would it be worse than?"
Since one answer to that is not "windows 10", I think the way forward is clear.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I like how they simply dismiss issues with Linux stability and security as "scare stories." Then it repeats the canard that Evil Microsoft stopped linux from becoming popular on the desktop. Until around 2013, Linux was barely usable on the desktop; despite JSOPs claims, it's still pretty damn unusable.
Besides, the Windows Kernel kicks the Linux Kernel's ass. It is WAY better designed.
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I think it's usable for people that don't do much more than web browse/email, which is probably 80% of the computer users in the world.
I agree though, Linux is its own worst enemy.
As far as the windows kernel being "better", there's no empitracle proof of that statement that I know of. However, if a reasonable test was created, it would be interesting to see the results.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Re: Kernels
This is an entirely subjective thing. Having programmed to both, I find the Windows kernel better designed and the Linux kernel archaic. One example; there is no corollary on Linux for WaitForMultipleObjects, requiring excessive hoop jumping in several situations.
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Initiatives like DevOps and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) were designed to bring development and operations teams together to deliver better software. However, a recent report has found the shared accountability these initiatives promote is actually causing problems. That sound you hear is my "Oh, Really?!" alarm going off
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Kent Sharkey wrote: That sound you hear is my "Oh, Really?!" alarm going off
Oh, Really? 
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The second annual AI Index report pulls together data and expert findings on the field’s progress and acceleration. "We cannot quite know what will happen if a machine exceeds our own intelligence, so we can't know if we'll be infinitely helped by it, or ignored by it and sidelined, or conceivably destroyed by it."
I hope this isn't a dupe - I thought we posted something about this report recently, but I couldn't find it
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"Dammit, our grants for 4GL dried up and blockchain is getting there... ooh, suckers, er, investors still like AI."
"But the AI they're talking about is just trivial sh*t with a new name, not the stuff of dreams."
"Shut up and fill out the application."
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