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 If every feature is deprecated, what's left?!
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Richard Andrew x64 wrote:  If every feature is deprecated, what's left?!
A monthly subscription fee, if all goes well for the beancounters... 
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So MS is depreciating VBScript. I wonder if they have a replacement for that abomination called PowerShell.
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Powershell was the replacement for VBScript!
The difficult we do right away...
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Yep. Yet PowerShell's syntax is so poor that it's frequently still easier to do file system work in VBScript. There was no reason Microsoft didn't create a C# scripting language.
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Maybe try Nushell. It's fast approaching 1.0. I've only played with it briefly, mind you - about three years ago.
Kevin
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Spending on A.I. is roughly 6 times that of Linux. It's The Year of 2%
Linux kernel spending, that is
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I took a quick look at their report. Not sure why they allow Red Hat to even be a member given that IBM/Red Hat has closed the source code to current and future versions of Red Hat Linux.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Spending on A.I. is roughly 6 times that of Linux
Maybe AI costs 6 times as much.
The difficult we do right away...
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Isn't Linux free? 
Religious freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make five.
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Free as in freedom, or free as in beer? 
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The 'free speech' (or 'freedom') alternative is of minimal importance to the great majority of Linux users. The free beer is what counts. For the fifteen year old wannabe-coding-wizard it is obvious, but it goes for commercial software houses as well: Linux and Linux based tools is a way to reduce expenses, compared to the alternatives.
The 'as in free speech' alternative is essentially for ideological speeches made by the top heads in the FOSS movement. If the common user refers to it at all, it is mostly because he is a little ashamed of making use of the efforts of others without paying anything back, so he needs an 'idealistic' argument to feel a little better about it. Usually, it is rather difficult to have any decent explanation of the 'ideology' that goes beyond 'I can modify the OS kernel if I want to'. Well, that would (hopefully) be a joke, but even for the the beer floating around the OS kernel and further out, those who actually even consider modifying that software are few and far between.
I gladly admit that if I come to a party where the beer is free, I certainly drink it. Then I am talking about the real stuff.
Religious freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make five.
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There is a new sheriff in town when it comes to the lock keyword, and that is the new System.Threading.Lock type that is introduced in .NET 9. Pad? Combination? Bike?
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So, from that article it appears to work just like the existing Lock statement except you have to use an object. This looks like a step backwards for simple locks.
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I read it the other way, that currently you use an object, but soon a specific class:
Quote: Until now, we have done something like:
private readonly object _lock = new object();
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Quote: The new Lock type is a bit more explicit about what it does:
private readonly Lock _lock = new Lock();
TTFN - Kent
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Actually, C# has a Lock keyword and VB has a SyncLock keyword that does simple locking. No object needed (though I suspect one is used in the IL).
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As these models become increasingly widespread, assessing their capabilities and limitations is of utmost importance. I'm sure they're just great at it
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I went to work to explore this idea of checking if a number is odd or even by only using comparisons to see how well it works in a real world scenario. And now we finally know if 4200000001 is even or odd
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I think this belongs in "Weird and Wonderful".
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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It's about time - samuelmarina/is-even[^] hasn't been updated since August 2021. 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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2020 lawsuit accused Google of tracking incognito activity, tying it to users' profiles. In order to collect, victims will be asked to not identify themselves
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Sure, they settle the lawsuit, but will they stop tracking incognito activity? Bet not.
The difficult we do right away...
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 They'll probably just add a line on the 5th deep "help" page that tells you they're always watching. Something to keep the lawyers away next time.
TTFN - Kent
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