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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
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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?
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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"
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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!
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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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A few days ago, we announced the general availability of Visual Studio 2019. But I’ve been using Visual Studio 2019 exclusively since the first internal build – long before the release of Preview 1 in December of 2018. During this time, there has been a lot of little features that have put a smile on my face and made me more productive. If the little things don't get you to upgrade, what will?
It's not like there are any huge differences between this and 2017 are there? Or 2012 for that matter? (Maybe I'm just not paying enough attention. Or paying Microsoft enough.)
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Little as in 32x32 pixels?
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I thought icon files were bigger than that these days?
TTFN - Kent
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Big? They're the biggest thing ever!
Bigger than God Jobs!
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Well, I'm on 2017 at home, and we're on 2015 at work (because 2017 isn't on the approved software list).
I still think the intellicrap is too intelli-vasive, and it gets in the way of actually writing code. I watched the overly enthusiastic 2019 keynote, and saw no compelling reason to update.
".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
modified 5-Apr-19 9:15am.
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#realJSOP wrote: because 2017 isn't on the approved software list
I wonder why the development tool of development tools, which his existed for decades, created by what I assume is also your supplier of probably most of what runs in the office, even needs to be approved...
Does it go something like this?
You: "Hey guys, the new Visual Studio 2017 is out now!"
Someone: "Wait a minute... We need to approve it first."
Y: "But... We've been using 2005, 2010, 2012, 2013 and 2015 and it's mostly just new features..."
S: "Yes, but actually no."
Y: "So when will you approve it?"
S: "By the time a new version comes out."
Years later...
You: "Hey guys, the new Visual Studio 2019 is out now!"
Someone wakes up and remembers he still has to approve 2017: "Oh crap, guys, 2017 is now approved!"
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Two words:
"AirForce" and "ClusterF*ck"
".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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"AirFarce"? 
"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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They made the stupid decision to make VS 2019 C++ backward compatible with VS 2017 by not making an ABI change required to make VS 2019 C++ standards compliant.
Then there is a color scheme change that nobody asked for. Then there is refusal to fix several known bugs in favor of crap like color schemes. Frankly, the VS 2019 beta process was so much like the VS 2012 beta process that I finally just threw up my hands. (In addition to having very arrogant people in charge who refused to listen, they closed bugs in a haphazard, and often quite rude, manner, and started deleting ALL negative comments on their blogs.)
So, I'll stick with VS 2017 until they get their collective head out of their asses.
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IBM CEO Ginni Rometty says methods used in the traditional human resources model are failing American workers and need assistance from machine learning. Can it also tell which workers IBM will layoff in the next round?
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The article says: AI, which has replaced 30 percent of IBM's HR staff
... Can't possibly do worse than human HR staff.
On this, we can agree.
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