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I'm fairly tolerant of Windows Upgrades. I'm one of the weirdos who didn't mind Windows 8. Windows 11, however, tried my patience. It has so many needless design changes. Then there is the lack of testing and the absurd hardware requirements. Microsoft shot themselves in their feet (out of pure arrogance.)
(I periodically use my granddaughter's MacBook Air. And hate it.)
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Joe Woodbury wrote: (out of pure arrogance.)
or ignorance (in some levels of decision takers at least)
M.D.V. 
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Userware is using vestiges of the long-gone and sorely missed Microsoft Silverlight web-dev platform to power its new "XAML for Blazor" offering, which lets .NET developers use markup language within client-side Blazor applications. Next you'll tell me that people are still keeping VB alive
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Next you'll tell me that people are still keeping VB alive
Not only VB... VB6  
M.D.V.
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The horror! The HORROR!
TTFN - Kent
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This feature lets you visualize the step-by-step expansion of macros. "Eschew obfuscation!"
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In a new GatesNote, Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates says that our concerns about AI are rational, but that fears of AI destroying humanity are overblown. 640 neural networks ought to be enough for everyone?
Sorry, couldn't think of a better 640 something
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Sorry, couldn't think of a better 640 something
and why 640? 
M.D.V.
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"640 K ought to be enough for anybody" (He probably never actually said it, but it's stuck to him like a bad smell)
TTFN - Kent
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Now... I don't know who said it, but I don't have him as author in my mind, that's why I didn't catch it
M.D.V.
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Microsoft has started sharing the first details on the Windows 11 version 23H2, the next annual update for the OS to be released later this fall. "The enabler will love the addict into darkness."
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This is the updated version of the last update that trashed performance and broke networks?
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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No, this will be the next update to trash performance and break networks.
The current version to do that is the silly-named, "Moment 3". 
TTFN - Kent
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Aptos is a sans-serif font that also comes in monospaced and serifed varieties. And millions will continue to use Arial for everthing
And millions more (including me) couldn't tell the difference between Arial, Calibri, and this.
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Don't be a snob; Comic Sans all the way
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uncanny ? incestuous ? ... uncanny ... see footnote
https://www.science.org/content/article/can-ai-chatbots-replace-human-subjects-behavioral-experiments
"Now, researchers are considering AI’s ability to impersonate human subjects in fields such as psychology, political science, economics, and market research. No one is yet suggesting that chatbots can completely replace humans in behavioral studies. But they may act as convenient stand-ins in pilot studies and for designing experiments, saving time and money. Language models might also help with experiments that would be too impractical, unethical, or even dangerous to run with people. “It’s a really interesting time,” says Ayelet Israeli, a marketing professor at Harvard Business School who believes the models’ impact on behavioral research could amount to a “revolution.” “Some of these results are just astonishing.”
footnote : before modern meaning
"1590s, in a now-obsolete meaning "mischievous, malicious;" also in 17c., "careless, incautious; unreliable, not to be trusted," from un- (1) "not" + canny (q.v.) in its old Scots and Northern English sense of "skillful, prudent, lucky" (it is a doublet of cunning).
Canny had also a sense of "superstitiously lucky; skilled in magic." In Wright's "English Dialect Dictionary" (1900) the first sense of uncanny as used in Scotland and the North is "awkward, unskilful; careless; imprudent; inconvenient." The second is "Unearthly, ghostly, dangerous from supernatural causes ; ominous, unlucky ; of a person : possessed of supernatural powers".
From 1773, uncanny appears in popular literature from the North (Robert Fergusson, Scott), with reference to persons and in a sense of "not quite safe to trust or deal with through association with the supernatural." By 1843 it had a general sense in English of "having a supernatural character, weird, mysterious, strange." (OED notes this as "Common from c 1850"; Borges considers it untranslatable but notes that German unheimlich answers to it.)
The Scottish writers also use it with the meanings "unpleasantly hard; dangerous, unsafe."
also from 1590s
«The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled» Plutarch
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Google is adding some new features to its Bard AI chatbot, including the ability for Bard to speak its answers to you and for it to respond to prompts that also include images. The chatbot is also now available in much of the world, including the EU. Ignore it if it asks if you want to play a game
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Does that mean emojis or can I turn on the camera and flip it the bird?
I’ve given up trying to be calm. However, I am open to feeling slightly less agitated.
I’m begging you for the benefit of everyone, don’t be STUPID.
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For many that come briefly into contact with Extreme Programming, it seems that XP calls for the death of software design We'll do that in the next sprint
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Without shooting yourself in the foot, learning lacks motivation. Complexity without reason is really confusing. What does not kill us, makes us write better code (hopefully)
That hopefully is doing a lot of work there.
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to set the mind in the cage of the body free ?
«The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled» Plutarch
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In an attempt to improve workflow between programmers and other departments, some companies bring IT teams, security staff, and even customer-service reps into the coding process. Because we all know many coders have a lot of empathy
Hopefully this link works - it does a silly Cloudflare check, but it works for me in multiple browsers.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: ompanies bring IT teams, security staff, and even customer-service reps into the coding process
With that mix, I understand the need for the security staff. 
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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Worked fine for me in Chrome this morning.
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