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What lessons can we learn from the demise of 'mini' form factor, architectures and companies? It's hard to carry them to a LAN party
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The one where Copilot mischievously moves your icons around in multiple monitor setups If only it worked like that for Windows 11
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This phrase is, by now, common programmer knowledge, a reminder that the person first writing a piece of code shouldn’t buy convenience at the expense of the people who will have to read it and modify it in the future. And programmers are blue more than they are red
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Primordial black holes can theoretically be turned into powerful and rechargeable "batteries," a new paper says. But it has some supermassive caveats. The cord keeps getting sucked down the black hole
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A new global study of over 1,600 software testers reveals that 78 percent have already adopted some form of AI to improve productivity. Software...testers... What's that again?
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The cutting-edge technology was used to tease a new chapter of the rock band: after 50 years of Kiss, the band is now interested in a kind of digital immortality. They missed having the headline, "Kiss and ABBA collaborate"
That should go down well with both sets of fans (I'm assuming the Venn diagram of the two groups fans don't overlap much)
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On November 30, we reported about an unwanted “HP Smart” app being installed on some systems without user knowledge or consent. Our initial findings revealed that HP Smart is being pushed via the Microsoft Store on Windows 11 or 10, which stands true, but this issue isn’t as simple as it may appear. HP, Brother, Canon. What's the difference?
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It is 40 years since Turbo Pascal revolutionized the coding marketplace with a slick (for the time) Integrated Development Environment (IDE) and performance to spare. So why aren't we all using it today? "Those were the days, my friend. We thought they'd never end."
Except to close off a block, of course.
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The semiconductor market is poised to return to growth next year, driven by AI increasing the volume of orders for memory and causing a spike in prices as demand catches up with the capacity of silicon manufacturers. In case I forget
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This weekend we published a feature looking at the performance improvements, or regressions, one can expect if they were to move from a clean-installed Windows 10 22H2 system to a clean-installed Windows 11 23H2 PC Should I just pin a news item "Windows upgrade causes problems" and say my job is done?
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We’ve captured insights from 26,348 developers worldwide in our annual Developer Ecosystem Survey 2023. You are here (well, some of you)
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Kent Sharkey wrote: We’ve captured insights from 26,348 developers worldwide in our annual Developer Ecosystem Survey 2023.
Have they said what are they going to do with the insights?
MS would dump them to the bin...
M.D.V. 
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Microsoft has released a new Insider build for testers in the Canary Channel. Build 26002 includes changes to the taskbar and system tray, but the standout feature is a new Energy Saver tool. Is it called, "Don't generate images with AI"?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Is it called, "Don't generate images with AI"?
I wish it was "remove all the unneeded crap" 
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
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This is the first time the carbon emissions caused by using an AI model for different tasks have been calculated. What does that work out to in hamsters?
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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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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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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.
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