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"There are some things only humans can do in space. The rest can be left to robots." "Not the bees! They're in my eyes!"
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Quote: Astrobee is "a compact one-foot-cube of a robot...
That's one helluva bee! It must be short for Astrobehemoth.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Damnit, that only works if you use the common mispronunciation of "behemoth"!
You wuz robbed!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Well I'll bee damned! 
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Recently, the PowerShell Team shipped the Generally Available (GA) release of PowerShell Core 6.2. Since that release, we’ve already begun work on the next iteration! Because v6 wasn't an upgrade for v5, but v7 will replace both. Hurrah.
Imagine that - a Microsoft product with a confusing version history.
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At work, the security nazis recently took away our permissions to run Powershell. :/
".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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??? Was there a justification? Or was it the usual, "There are people sending scripts via email and doofuses are clicking on them. So, no one has anything that can do stuff."?
TTFN - Kent
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The reason is "classified", which is another way of telling us that "you'll take it, and you'll like it". The least they could do was gives us a cigarette to smoke after bending us over the barrel like that...
".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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Ultimate power is Hell absolutely?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Instead, the S/360 proved to be the most successful product launch ever and changed the course of computing I guess that would have been too much to ask for?
It definitely would have changed the course of the industry
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Google today disclosed that it has dissolved a short-lived, external advisory board designed to monitor its use of artificial intelligence, following a week of controversy regarding the company’s selection of members. Ethics, shmethics!
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God forbid that gender-as-f***ing-neutral-as-it-gets AIs should not go on lgbt* marches, on legs that AIs don't have, or that any ethical body should dare to say that a web-site shouldn't make money out of killing people.
WTF is the world coming to?
Fruggin' liberals!
* Am I the only one who can't help thinking of sandwiches, when I see that initialism?
I must be watching the wrong kind of interweb pron
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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A HTML standard called hyperlink auditing that allows sites to track link clicks is enabled by default on Safari, Chrome, Opera, and Microsoft Edge, but will soon have no way to disable it. As it is considered a privacy risk, browsers previously allowed you to disable this feature. Now they are going in the opposite direction. "Ah, I see you have the machine that goes 'ping!'. This is my favourite."
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All the more reason to keep using Firefox.
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Why do I see this as an invitation to inject malware into someone's computer?
Director of Transmogrification Services
Shinobi of Query Language
Master of Yoda Conditional
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There are two opposing camps in this:
0. It does bugger-all harm, and really doesn't intrude on your privacy unless you decide to shout out and tell everyone that it was you who clicked on those links that your missus wouldn't want you to, so who gives a F***?
1. What I click is hyper-personal! So F*** you!
Personally, in this case, I'm going with option 2:
2: I don't give a F*** who wins this "epic battle"
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Microsoft's HealthVault personal-health-record service is closing on November 20 and any data left in it at that time will be deleted, Microsoft officials are telling users via e-mail. Health-what now?
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HealthVault was one of the last pieces left of Microsoft's original foray into first-part health services products.... just like zune ...nokia...and others...in other non original areas...
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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Kinda bites, kinda doesn't- was thinking of using this as a bridge.
I have a chronic condition am on a monitoring service provided by my health plan which really cuts down on my cost of supplies and medications. They really don't have an API but they can connect and push the records into HealthVault. And then there is my health care team that won't access my monitoring services GUI because of privacy concerns. But they do have a program of their own which can connect to HealthVault.
So naturally the developer in me thought of using MS HV as an intermediary to keep the two disparate groups synced and add in what was missing; and within the last couple of months started diving through the Privacy Bureaucracy and figuring out what the reward would be for me. At least it would be a resume addition.
In the mean time; I did cobble together my own system which tracks the same information as the original and what I have added in. Sure, I am using an Excel charting component and have to do manual data entry... but the doctors are happy with the result. And I learned a few things here as well so it wasn't all in vain.
Director of Transmogrification Services
Shinobi of Query Language
Master of Yoda Conditional
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Although .NET Core 3 won't ship until the second half this year, it's available as a preview in VS 2019 so developers can try it out (with a simple tweak). And it's not even deprecated (yet)
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What they don't twll you is that if you enable the "tweak", it permanently prevents you from ever uninstalling VS2019... or installing new extensions... or writing apps with "legacy" frameworks.
On the bright side, it displays some of the new icons that shipped with the product, so... silver linings.
".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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#realJSOP wrote: it permanently prevents you from ever uninstalling VS2019... or installing new extensions... or writing apps with "legacy" frameworks.
Look, John, I know that you're a long-time CP member, but your being on the .Net sales team and so blatantly promoting their product is still a bit out of order!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/04/email-chain-prompts-microsoft-to-investigate-reports-of-sexual-harassment-ignored-by-hr/
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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This is a problem of middle management, which are far more treacherous as a group that low level or executive management. (My theory being that most middle management is stunningly incompetent, largely having gotten their jobs because they got an MBA and/or they knew someone.) I've dealt with Microsoft middle management only through a few interviews and various beta programs, but what I found only reinforced my negative views of middle management. It's made all the worse in that Microsoft executive management is more concerned in preening and claiming to be woke than in actually running their damn company, with Brad Smith (president) being the worse offender (and Nadella not doing his job.)
PS. At smaller companies, my experienced with HR were almost always great. At larger companies, HRs job seems to be to make everyone's life a living hell. You know it's bad when, in one case in my job history, even the company president complained that HR wasn't being helpful.
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