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Article wrote: I’ve come to recognize a fundamental truth about being a software dev: the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
So... Moronic managers, non realistic deadlines, way too vague specs, non competent information deliverers, chaotic IT infrastructure, being the only one with common sense in the room...
all that has nothing to do with failure? .i..
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I wonder how much different it would read in a native tongue.
The bit I gathered skimming is almost the same as prevailing wisdom that diverse teams produce better results not because they share the same idea but tend toward different ones.
But that seems to be the point and it's littered with all kinds of other things that definitely do not ring true on first glance.
"You will fail if you develop a product that tries to appeal to too many users."
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...so you too can collect unemployment!
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Microsoft has made a range of baffling decisions and awful mis-steps recently. You can trace everything back to insatiable desire for money. discuss
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Kent Sharkey wrote: You can trace everything back to insatiable desire for money.
I thought it was for security  
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Security is Job #1.
Making money by whatever means, of course, is Job #0.
"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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"Despite the hype surrounding Microsoft's lead in this category, what's often less talked about is how much further ahead Microsoft would be if Satya Nadella and the team at Microsoft hadn't made a range of baffling, short-sighted decisions in previous years."
I blame AAPL.
No, truly, I do. Not that MSFT isn't blameless but it's relative moralistic bar lowering in the name of the buck and once AAPL dropped the bar to the center of the earth... It's "oh crap, we need to be a bit more evil or we'll be financially smoked in the charts". It's not just MSFT they collaterally damaged like this with their wanton greed.
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Google’s new Gemini ‘Gems’ feature lets you customize a Gemini chatbot with personalities and abilities, such as an upbeat gym buddy, just by asking. Chris is totally going to replace me, isn't he? ;(
AI, replaced by AI
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Chris is totally going to replace me, isn't he? ;(
He wouldn't dare...
All other AI's still have to get close to pass the "coffee spit on the monitor" test.
That's way more difficult than Turing.
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No , you are irreplaceable ...
AI without us humans goes astray
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Even if generative AI hides SQL behind the curtain, it will continue to play a critical role in how we interact with and use data. WAY OUTER JOINs?
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Quote: SQL at 50: What’s next for the structured query language?
51?
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Windows Latest found an advertisement in a utility app, Microsoft PC Manager, which was recently updated with “Repair Tips,” Files Cleanup, and other improvements. If it ain't broke, do what you can to break it
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Repair Tips = Turn Bing search on
Files Cleanup = uninstall other browsers
other improvements = activate telemetry, unfold ads, reactivate and hide the windows updater...
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it's just getting tacky.
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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Ebury backdoors SSH servers in hosting providers, giving the malware extraordinary reach. Were they just trying to maintain it?
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Where is now the "in Linux it doesn't happen" group?
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They're busy hunting down more of these issues 
TTFN - Kent
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I don't think many people are onboard with my level of... we'll just call it paranoia because I don't care...
Nearly every machine on the planet is likely compromised. I think there's stuff 'living' in bioses, harddisk firmware, any bits of ROM that are somehow accessible, and all sorts of other ways I wouldn't even think of. Probably from here, I read about one that pulled its real payload from the YouTube comments sections where they'd commented a random video with code to pull down!
We don't do it, and I don't know that we could afford to, but once you know a machine is compromised I'm not sure why the assumption wouldn't be that unless you incinerate it then it is still infected.
I don't actually believe every malware/rootkit some scam call center bought actually goes to this 'nation state' seeming level of act. But I also don't think it's so sophisticated as to require a nation state and think there's more than a few nation states whose existence collectively makes it safe to assume that amongst them, someone has written "the one". It being some bits you can poke for and find just about everywhere... which should not be there.
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The app lets them share screens, peripherals, and storage. "Thunderbolt and lightning, very, very frightening me"
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Galileo, Galileo, Galileo, Galileo... 
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Microsoft fixed a known issue breaking VPN connections across client and server platforms after installing the April 2024 Windows security updates. Coming soon: reports of what this broke
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Article wrote: after installing the April 2024 Windows security updates.
And that some days behind the "we will increase security"? 
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International Monetary Fund managing director Dr Kristalina Georgieva has warned of a "tsunami" hitting the global labor market as businesses adopt AI technologies. Time to get your surfboards out
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Time to get your surfboards out
I would go more for oxygen bottles, because a lot of places will sink like Atlantis
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