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Hey, as I type this, I'm using my Surface Go.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Now we just need one other Windows tablet user to pipe up to prove Kent wrong.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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GitHub announced a public beta of Codespaces prebuilds to speed up the creation of the cloud-hosted Visual Studio Code-based development environments. Prebuild in the cloud so you can build in the cloud
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After years of development, Microsoft has finally shipped its virtualized Android-on-Windows subsystem. But a paltry selection of apps and excessive resource demands make this option hard to recommend. How else are you going to play Candy Crush on your PC?
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The transition to .NET 6 has left some useful tools behind. The open source community is updating the ideas behind them for a new, cross-platform world. 525, 600 .NET UI options, 525, 000 options to choose
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Warning - if you're an experienced WPF dev, Avalonia will cause you significant fits of frustration.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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With companies reaping increasing amounts of data from consumers and firms, the EU is looking at wrestling back access to that digital information under a Data Act proposed Wednesday by the European Commission. Again?
GDRP 2.0? GDRP++?
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In my reading it goes like that - one can horde data as much as one wants as long as the government has access to it and control over...
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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That's how I read it as well.
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ML concepts are hard to understand. The industry is still mostly in the research phase, with the beginnings of a movement towards making systems and learning resources consumable by the average developer. Bad news for those software engineers doing ML
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Serious question. Should we rename machine learning to 'advanced pattern matching,' and ostracize anyone who uses the term 'AI' for it? My understanding is that is the true extent of what is going on, but maybe I've missed something.
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You've probably missed lots of things, but this isn't one of them 
I've said it a couple of times too, AI is something out of science fiction (for now) and what we call AI is really just ML and ML is like computers finding patterns in Excel sheets that are too big for humans to read (or for Excel, for that matter).
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Still doesn't make items like this any less concerning. 
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Around 70% of IT decision makers will allocate 6% to 10% of the IT budget to AI, doubling from 2021. Management seeks intelligence: news at 11
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Nearly six years after its last release, FreeDOS 1.3 came out at the weekend… in case you're feeling nostalgic for a 1980s enterprise-grade OS. In case you want to party like it's 1989
"FreeDOS 1.3 not only runs Doom, it includes a copy."
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Last time I tried to install MS-DOS 6.22 on a reasonably modern PC, it failed. The article writer ran in a VirtualBox; I'd like to run it on bare metal. Has anyone succeeded in doing that? My current PC isn't 'the latest and greatest', an i7-5820K which is too fancy for MS-DOS 6.22.
Why? The reason why I tried a couple years back was that I still remember some of those applications having some nice UI features, much due to their simplicity. Even being full screen oriented, they could fully be operated from the keyboard in an efficient, intuitive way. One of those that comes to mind is Norton Commander, but my old floppy box hold a number of others. The Brief editor, responsible for me holding onto DOS until I learned about Notepad++, which is great, but has grown to a complexity approaching gcc and MS Word ...
I was making Windows clones of a few old DOS utilities, and wanted to check what I had forgotten - not the least, in the area of simplicity! I was hoping to run "the real thing" for a direct comparison, but MS-DOS failed me. Will FreeDOS do - and will it be able to run all my old DOS apps? (I do have a floppy disk reader for the USB port!)
It would of course be fascinating to see the performance of DOS apps running directly on today's metal, but I consider this a bonus feature, not the main thing.
Why not VirtualBox? I have had too many bad experiences with virtualization ... I could use VirtualBox, but prefer bare metal. Replacing my Windows boot disk with a DOS one is straightforward.
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VS Code seems to be hitting, for me, the same sweet spot as Brief used to back in the day.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Nothing in the direction of "simplicity" points towards VSCode.
I tried to work, with VSCode for a period, to see what those workmates of mine, who really detested anything non-Linux, were working with - their way to 'prove' that they were not Linux affectionados, since they did not not demand command line vi for 7bit ASCII as their sole editing tool. It took me only a couple of weeks to strike the 'Code' part off and go back to a decent environment.
If you want that complexity, you might as well accept the support to manage it. VSCode provides a full complement of mechanisms that you can use to prove your competence as a super-developer, proven by your perfect mastery of your tools. Of which VSCode is an essential one.
I never saw any good reason for MS to push VSCode other than to attract Linux coders that have grown up with vi as The Editing Tool. Well, let me add those who grew up with emacs as The Operating System. But let's admit it: While emacs is a fairly decent OS (as long as CLI is Your Thing), it lacks a decent editor. Maybe VSCode can fill that void.
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A good mobile app should be accessible to everyone, including people with disabilities. Because nothing happens until the government says so
"Unlike car manufacturers that put a premium on including safety features upfront (or face the heavy hand of regulators), software makers have typically emphasized speed to market as a way to stay competitive." I'm not sure he's discussing the same car manufacturers I've been hearing about.
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Windows included a lot of tools for the disabled; including high-contrast colorschemes that most companies ignored.
It was easy enough to use predefined colors. Many applications didn't.
In a similar way, blind people could buy traintickets without problems until they decided to upgrade all to a touch screen. I dislike modern IT.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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In addition to a Windows 11 look with rounded corners and a dark-theme option, the new Notepad includes several standard RichEdit editing enhancements The rounded corners are the important bit
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With all those features is it really Notepad anymore?
Kinda like the Ship of Theseus.
I’ve given up trying to be calm. However, I am open to feeling slightly less agitated.
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Competing with Notepad++?
Maybe they should call it Notepad#?
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trønderen wrote: Notepad#
Notepad+-
(AKA Notepad more-or-less)
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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