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Now, Microsoft Word will use the ‘merge formatting’ option by default. They do listen to feedback (it just takes decades some times)
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Unbundling Teams from Office has apparently failed to impress EU regulators. There's a lot they should face for Teams, but I'm not convinced antitrust is one of them
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Since ChatGPT dropped in the fall of 2022, everyone and their donkey has tried their hand at prompt engineering—finding a clever way to phrase their query to a large language model (LLM) or AI art or video generator to get the best results (or sidestep protections). Just let the computer do it
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Quote: AI prompt engineering is dead
What a speed... it looks like a google product.
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Developers are still spending too much time on troubleshooting application performance issues, rendering them incapable of spending enough time on innovation and other productive work, new research has claimed. Nothing up this sleeve, nothing up that sleeve...
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Quote: too much time on troubleshooting application performance issues
The faster the hardware, the biggest and most numerous the crap in the apps that make that hardware go to the limit anyways.
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The co-author of SQL, the standardized query language for relational databases, has come out in support of the NoSQL database movement that seeks to escape the tabular confines of the RDBMS. SELECT * FROM table not enough?
You mean, sometimes all data isn't tabular? :boggle:
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Kent Sharkey wrote: You mean, sometimes all data isn't tabular? :boggle:
Of course... we have excel too.
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NoSQL databases and their query languages could help perform the tasks relational systems were never designed for. Surprise! There are tasks relational systems were never designed for! And for those there are other tools!
Well, that doesn't affect the tasks that relational systems were designed for. SQL is still a as good a choice for those as ever!
(Side tracking a bit: Why don't we have a selection of relational languages with different properties? SQL is far from perfect! For general programming we have scores of languages of quite varying character. We should have alternatives to SQL as well!)
Religious freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make five.
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I feel like every time there's a new NoSQL product both Microsoft and Oracle incorporate it into their RDBMS offerings.
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The app is developed by a small group of Microsoft engineers based in Asia, and it’s now getting a big update with an improved “Files Cleanup,” which lets you free up space more easily. I'm sure it will delete files as reliably as Windows Update fixes things
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Kent Sharkey wrote: I'm sure it will delete files as reliably as Windows Update fixes things
I bet it will be really efficient, when it comes to the wrong files.
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Navigating the Multilingual Landscape of Software Development Yes
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The last floppy disk was made over a decade ago and doesn't even have enough capacity to store a modern smart phone picture, so why do some people still love using them? It's all fun-and-games until the magnets come out
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Kent Sharkey wrote: so why do some people still love using them?
Paranoic mode on?
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I think the article gave some pretty good reasons for using obsolete technology, starting with "if it ain't broke, don't upgrade it."
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
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Developing software in teams is not the be-all end-all solution. In fact, there are some issues that arise strictly from the fact that we have a team. Team work makes the nightmare work
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In Germany TEAM = "Toll, Ein Anderen Macht's" (Nice, someone else will do it)
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Microsoft has quietly started testing an intriguing change to the Windows 11 Start menu that could introduce a floating panel full of “companion” widgets. Because everyone loves the widgets
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Article wrote: Microsoft has quietly started testing an intriguing change
And alone for that, they should be hung by the balls.
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"companion" widgets is code for 'ads'? I'm betting it's code for ads.
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Despite overall generous salaries, a lack of raises and falling cybersecurity budgets are leading to dissatisfaction among chief information security officers (CISOs) when it comes to compensation. Time to get the tiny violins out
You can play them while the CISO tells you to ignore the latest 0-day alerts that are currently being targeted on your application/site.
"average total compensation for tech CISOs is $710,000, with a median of $440,000"
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Poor little bastards poor men...
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At those salaries I don't feel sorry for them. The CISOs that really matter don't make that much and have problems getting their CEOs and CFOs to take cyber security seriously.
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