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A simple game of global thermonuclear war will solve all the carbon emission problems... Hoping for nice game of chess instead.
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Hello David, shall we play a game? 
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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The top open item for Visual Studio on Microsoft's Developer Community feedback site asks for native Rust support, but the company has taken little action on the years-old request. Isn't VS rusty enough already?
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I assume based on this tweet that MS will be creating a VS Rust workload. "...spending $10M to make Rust a 1st class language."
There is a third-party Rust extension for VS but it's not very good in comparison to the VS Code experience imo.
Kevin
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The VS development team has a serious case of not invented here syndrome. C++ was included because it's used in Windows, but notice that no other non-MS languages have been included in VS.
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Taiwan's Commercial Times (CTEE) reports that Microsoft will be releasing Windows (12) in June of 2024 alongside a wide variety and range of AI-based PCs. Because the TPM requirement went over so well
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Does anyone really care about AI baked into everything?
I am sure AI will be really really really useful one day (shortly before it orders me to biological work camp 35378C) but, right now, it strikes me as very much a gimmick with limited real world uses. Generating 'exotic imagery' for 4chan, company logos, and painfully cheesily written journalistic copy are not (so far) the paradigm-shifting advances we are apparently being expected to think.
Isn't it a bit soon to be building this into to mass market operating systems?
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C# Markup is a declarative, fluent-style syntax for defining the layout of an application in C#. One day, it might even get its marks up to a B
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I like C# but I think I have a headache.
A long time, in a galaxy far [etc.] I used Clarion Professional Developer 2.1 on DOS. If I remember correctly this allowed me to literally draw a text-based UI and include the drawn UI directly in the source code. I suspect I have never been as productive since.
I expect I'd still be using Clarion, if the current owners weren't charging such exorbitant sums of money for it.
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While using std::vector<> is usually good, the opinion expressed on smart pointers is just that, an opinion, and it is baseless. Repeating it is damning generations of C++ programmers to tracking down random crashes. Once upon a time, there was a very clever pointer
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To illustrate why this is bad, I will write the worst possible contrived code.
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In other news, poor design using smart pointers causes crash.
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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The smartest and goodest pointer! 
TTFN - Kent
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AI chatbot deception paper suggests that some bots (and people) aren't very persuasive. News alert: We've been living with AI since the 60s!
But ELIZA couldn't draw a picture of a gorilla wearing a trilby, drinking a mai tai; could it?
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When ad blocking is a cat-and-mouse game, make the mouse slower. Why play fair, when you own the arena?
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Microsoft has quietly reduced the amount of Microsoft Rewards points users can earn, enraging users who have used the points to offset some of Microsoft’s more expensive services, like Game Pass. Using Microsoft products is its own reward
Apologies if anyone hurt themselves over that one
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I use Microsoft rewards and once in a long while will receive an Amazon Gift Card, which I then use for purchases. It's Microsoft's program, and like frequent traveler programs, is wholly owned by the program owner, so expect changes.
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Amazon's AI-powered image generator promises substantial support for businesses in advertising, e-commerce, and media and entertainment by facilitating the creation of high-volume, cost-effective, studio-quality images. Where's content?
I wanted to send this one over to the forum for discussion (it won't be in the mailing tomorrow). I just felt it was time for a rousing game of "Find the article content" on this page full of advertisements.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: I just felt it was time for a rousing game of "Find the article content" on this page full of advertisements.
People seeing this article also bought...?
Kent Sharkey wrote: Where's content?
In their pocket if you bite the bait?
M.D.V. 
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Even at home, SDXL Turbo can create detailed images with startling speed. "The artist is nothing without the gift"
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Despite difficult economic conditions, software development and quality assurance skills remain a priority for businesses, according to a new study. That code isn't going to write itself (if you don't count the CoPilots etc.)
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Kent Sharkey wrote: That code isn't going to write itself (if you don't count the CoPilots etc.)
That bug is not going to fix itself (if you DO count the CoPilots etc.)
  
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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I read this article, and now all of my intelligence has been sucked out of my brain. The first comment has this spot on. And the word "redundancies" is something that should just go away.
Skills gap? I don't think so.
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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Microsoft integrates OpenAI's DALL-E 3 technology into its Paint app. "Must I paint you a picture, about the way that I'd feel?"
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