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The difference are that they have lawyers that cost in an hour, what some of us earn in a year or two...  
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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Visual Studio 16.8 includes the Windows Forms Designer, so Visual Basic is ready for you to migrate existing applications or create new applications. Because I know many of you have been waiting for this
Code like it's 2005!
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The purpose of this page is to describe the functioning of a computer built in Conway’s game of life. If this one plays DOOM, our society is complete
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Most PCs tend to boot from a primary media storage, be it a hard disk drive, or a solid-state drive, perhaps from a network, or – if all else fails – the USB stick or the boot DVD comes to the rescue It's got richer sounds and better fidelity than CD
Today's theme seems to be nightmare experiments. Details to follow.
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NASA has published a photo of a distant ‘cinnamon bun’ in space, one made of stars and gas dust collected together in an unusual way. These large serving sizes are getting out of control
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Probably a Dane lost his "KanelStaenge" over there 
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Is something rotten in the State of Denmark? Or perhaps the fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Quote: According to astronomers, UGC 12588 is a spiral galaxy even though it doesn’t look like one.
That's only true for obliviots who're unaware of anything other than grand design spirals. It was obviously a spiral from the first I looked at it (and before looking at the article text); one with a large bulge and small disk, no bar (meaning the bulge is circular not eliptical), and short loosely wound arms which are visible even in the bulge (traced by bright blue - young and massive - stars).
... which if you click the link in the article to the NASA source page[^] says roughly the same thing; proving that I'm as smart as a NASA blurb writer  , while slashgear authors can't even understand something dumbed down for the press. 
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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It certainly is more compact. But is it cleaner? ?? ?! !!
Edit: fixed title (as below, I blame the nulled wine)
modified 22-Nov-20 16:01pm.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: It certainly is more compact. But is it cleaner?
My mother always said: The cleanest is not the one who cleans up the mess, but the one that doesn't mess everything up...
I nevr thought I would use it in a context different of my room 
M.D.V. 
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You may want to check your title again.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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Thank you
Too much nulled wine last night
TTFN - Kent
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nulled is right
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A group of American scientists and designers have developed a concept for a grow-your-own steak kit using human cells and blood to question the ethics of the cultured meat industry. Mmm-mmm. I do make a good pot roast, don't I?
Tastes just like Mom's cooking
As in "Mom is cooking"
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Huh. It's merely nose-picking and fingernail-biting taken to a new and expensive level.
Software Zen: delete this;
modified 23-Nov-20 11:50am.
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If you have followed Windows 10 at all during the last few years, you know that the Windows Subsystem for Linux, or WSL for short, is the hot topic among developers. Partial solution is partial. News at 11.
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The article is typical Linux fan-boy douchbuggery.
Any mature adult is going to understand that the purpose of the Windows Subsystem for Linux is to make it easier to run Windows and Linux application stacks within the same environment. The purpose is not to act as a substitute interface for morons unwilling to learn how to use Windows because they learned Linux first, and they don't want to get Windows cooties.
Software Zen: delete this;
modified 23-Nov-20 11:50am.
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It does seem that way, doesn't it.
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The author does seem to think that Windows should be Linux. I infer from the article that he works for Microsoft and is working on Azure. If so, then he should surely know better than to think that Windows should be made to work like Linux merely because that's apparently what he expects.
If one needs to use Windows in one's job then surely one should just learn the Windows way of doing it and stop limiting one's career progression by moaning about one's employer in public!
Some of his desired capabilities could be provided by installing Cygwin. E.g. These can be done from Cygwin if I remember correctly:-Quote: Can you imagine how cool it would be if you could type ps or top within a WSL session and see Linux and Windows processes side-by-side, able to mutate their state with kill?
Can you imagine how cool it would be to manipulate Windows services from the WSL session?
Cygwin has only been around for 25 years!
Or he could install the Sysinternals tool like PsList, PsKill, etc. for a slightly *nix-y feel.
He also goes on to observe that NetBSD has had a Linux compatibility later for 25 years but I can't see why he forgets about Windows Services for Unix (in its various incarnations) which goes back almost as far.
He also says that "NetBSD even had support for… 🥁… PE/COFF binaries—that’s right, Win32 binaries" but as far as I can see that project was never completed. From what I have read, the support for COFF binaries was actually there to support Unix binaries using COFF.
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I've just skimmed through his blog and it does look very much like he's experiencing not insignificant culture-shock (having worked so long at one place that definitely isn't Microsoft).
In one of his earlier blogs[^], he writes:
Quote: I know nothing about Windows and surrounding technologies (like C#) but have been interested in them for a while, so this will be my chance to absorb completely different technology. After all, I’m a systems person and the Windows ecosystem is my blind spot.
Fair enough. He's learning.
I like him more now.
modified 23-Nov-20 13:58pm.
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At GitHub, we are deeply invested in democratizing software development. "Instead of imagining that our main task is to instruct a computer what to do, let us concentrate rather on explaining to human beings what we want a computer to do."
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Kent Sharkey wrote: "Instead of imagining that our main task is to instruct a computer what to do, let us concentrate rather on explaining to human beings what we want a computer to do."
Is that not what we have been trying the last 30 years with management and marketing?
M.D.V.
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Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
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Kent Sharkey wrote: At GitHub, we are deeply invested in democratizing software development.
By dictating the use of the latest browser version only (and no Internet Explorer, of course!) ...
Oh sanctissimi Wilhelmus, Theodorus, et Fredericus!
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The first to be rigged with microphones, the agency's latest Mars rover picked up the subtle sounds of its own inner workings during interplanetary flight. "Oh man, wonder if he'll ever know he's in the best selling show"
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