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One of the early episodes of ST: The Next Generation explicitly stated this - humanity simply isn't interesting until we can get to the stars on our own.
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Maybe they should start with the question, why don't we visit other stars? 
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Because we can't even supply school lunches to poor children?
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Customers are trusting Microsoft’s modern alternative to an ancient relic Because you can't have video meetings in Outlook?
Either that, or it's counting people searching in Teams to find that message that was "right here yesterday!"
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Wow, that's like a survey showing broccoli is more popular than brussels sprouts.
I’ve given up trying to be calm. However, I am open to feeling slightly less agitated.
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you sir are being polite.
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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Quote: The Microsoft chief noted the number of users who were using “four or more” features within Teams had increased over 20% year on year.
1) The application launch Icon. 
2) Reading messages sent by other people.
3) Sending messages to other people.
4) The application close icon.
...and for the big brains...
5) The minimize icon.
6) The maximize icon.
7) The restore down icon.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
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And yet from the post below: Disconnectivity among teams despite the rise of communication tools
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Microsoft Teams BLOWS. Elephanting blows.
What retarded organization could come up with teams boggles my mind. Now bear with me for a bit. I support products that have been around for longer than most of Microsoft management, those bastards called product managers and the developers. Communication with past customers is priceless.
Why the elephant would you silo it in some backend server and delete it from my local client?
I swear there is a special place in hell for people who made these decisions. It's called support.
Update: if I was using any other chat client, I could log my messages to a local file.... Seriously, is there anyone in IT at the corporate level with a clue? Anyone?
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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Yes, yes, I know all about data retention policies, etc. I forget the case, but many years ago two companies got into it, and the discovery process went on and on, revealing things that had no bearing on the legal argument.
So, then the lawyers got involved with IT, and now we have this cesspool.
Same thing applies to email as well. BUT, techie types being mostly intelligent, simply started downloading the mail they wanted to save to a local container file. In one fell swoop, we still save the email, but we reduce our productivity.
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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charlieg wrote: Same thing applies to email as well. BUT, techie types being mostly intelligent, simply started downloading the mail they wanted to save to a local container file. In one fell swoop, we still save the email, but we reduce our productivity.
Same thing happened at my old job. Between people exporting their PSTs to thunderbird, people using acrobat to dump them to PDFs, people saving off messages as individual files, people copy/pasting to Word or OneNote, and people just burning their PSTs to DVDs and stashing them just in case; I suspect that at least in the short term they've probably made discovery more expensive not less. Longer term, well I'd say turnover would solve the issue but they've been in bunkermode for about a decade and have hired very few new people.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
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And another thing - don't repost spam that won't let you reply to them.
This article is beneath CP. At least throw in some sarcasm or something.
The article is garbage.
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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Despite the wealth of communication tools, there is still a fundamental disconnect between teams that is ultimately jeopardizing their productivity and causing workplace failures. "What we've got here is failure to communicate"
May be related to the next item I'm about to post
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Please, no more apps that try to address this problem. Please.
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Cybersecurity researchers detail some of the security flaws that are most associated with attacks in recent times. One is years old. What? You have to do something to fix these?
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What? Is there a fix?
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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C#11 added the file scoped types feature: a new file modifier that can be applied to any type definition to restrict its usage to the current file. For your filing cabinet of ideas
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About time. I've wanted file scoped classes and variables for a while now. They were a feature in CLU back in the early 80s and I found them very useful to ensure loose coupling of source files. In CLU this was the default.
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PolySharp provides generated, source-only polyfills for C# language features, to easily use all runtime-agnostic features downlevel. Shims solve everything
I'm just a caveman, so I'm not entirely sure I understand, but it does look possibly useful?
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What do Nullability attributes have to do with filling polygons? 
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🚀 Use the power of your browser's address bar to quickly get to your favorite blade in Azure, Microsoft 365, Azure AD, Intune... Because nothing says, "ease of use" like "we're adding a search bar"
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"Elon Musk arrived at Twitter’s San Francisco headquarters Wednesday carrying an actual kitchen sink"
disclaimer: I don't own a Tesla, I don't use Meta, I hate Twitter, Line, Insta-whatever. I deplore the great dumbing down of interpersonal dialogue and literacy so-called social-media enable.
I consider these hyper-shenanigans best described by Shakespeare's "a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing."
Unthawed mastodon waits in the wings ? [^]
This Bloomberg article was redeemed, for me, by this:
Quote: One of the best examinations of the social dynamics of Twitter is an early 2020 blogpost by Venkatesh Rao entitled “The Internet of Beefs.” In the deadpan tone of an anthropologist, Rao describes a sort of feudal society where all interactions are reduced to either displays of solidarity or fights. “Anything that is not an expression of pure, unqualified support for whatever they are doing or saying is received as a mark of disrespect, and a provocation to conflict,” he says of Twitter’s unwritten social code (and, in his argument, that of pretty much the entire public internet).
The biggest stars on the platform—e.g., Musk himself—are those who have mastered the art of picking and indefinitely prolonging fights about, well, whatever. The beefing isn’t some unfortunate effect of online life, Rao argues. Increasingly, it’s the point.
Musk’s Twitter takeover, and the impending removal of the various policing measures the old management put in place, will likely let a thousand beefs bloom. That might be good for the site, as more users sign on for the spectacle. It might also be exhausting for some users, who want to steer clear of toxicity and misinformation. Those people may already be considering the switch to Mastadon.
But if Rao is right, migrating to a different online social platform won’t shelter us from those dynamics. Some things might just be inherent to a medium where conversation is a spectator sport.
«The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled» Plutarch
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Our 'code-as-wiki' approach falls far short of the standard set by Donald Knuth, but we hope he might see it as a step in the right direction. "You can always count on a murderer for fancy prose style"
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