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One group of scientists thinks that we may already have detected technosignatures from a technological civilization’s Dyson Spheres, but the detection is hidden in our vast troves of astronomical data. Will they settle for a Ringworld?
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In other words, take the existing component and run it before making any changes to it at all. Does it work? Do not try to change the code. Only realize, there is no code.
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We are very excited to announce C++ support for AI-Powered Rename Suggestions from GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio 2022. How about renaming 'i' to: 'NumberThatIncreasesEveryTimeThroughTheLoop'?
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Outlook for Windows and the web now show the full sender addresses for any email messages that are put into the Junk folder. Still unwinning the unwinnable war
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We are launching our newest flagship model and making more capabilities available for free in ChatGPT. This one goes to 'o'
It was either that, or a quote from Office Space (that I'm sure you can guess, but that isn't kid sister safe enough IMO)
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Microsoft has improved the C# Dev Kit for Visual Studio Code (VS Code) with support, Aspire integration and easy SDK acquisition – but developers are complaining of “terrible quality”. But what do they know of C#
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The question is... are those "improvements" in the way they are described in the dictionary or in the way they are described in the windows marketing handbook?
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Adding features is faster and easier in good code than bad code. "Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!"
Beat that strawman!
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Article wrote: Adding features is faster and easier in good code than bad code.
No fvck Sherlock...
On the other hand... how fast will the good code be transformed into bad code by the additions?
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Now, Microsoft Word will use the ‘merge formatting’ option by default. They do listen to feedback (it just takes decades some times)
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Kent Sharkey wrote: They do listen to feedback (it just takes decades some times)
I bet the usual way is something that have annoyed a lot some manager lately...  
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Unbundling Teams from Office has apparently failed to impress EU regulators. There's a lot they should face for Teams, but I'm not convinced antitrust is one of them
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Yep. It's titan vs. titan in the EU. The complaint was brought by Slack, which is owned by Salesforce.
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I can't say I'm crazy about this new, "compete via government" strategy companies have been using more often lately. 
TTFN - Kent
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Hey... at least they are making governments useful for something 
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Since ChatGPT dropped in the fall of 2022, everyone and their donkey has tried their hand at prompt engineering—finding a clever way to phrase their query to a large language model (LLM) or AI art or video generator to get the best results (or sidestep protections). Just let the computer do it
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Quote: AI prompt engineering is dead
What a speed... it looks like a google product.
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Developers are still spending too much time on troubleshooting application performance issues, rendering them incapable of spending enough time on innovation and other productive work, new research has claimed. Nothing up this sleeve, nothing up that sleeve...
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Quote: too much time on troubleshooting application performance issues
The faster the hardware, the biggest and most numerous the crap in the apps that make that hardware go to the limit anyways.
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The co-author of SQL, the standardized query language for relational databases, has come out in support of the NoSQL database movement that seeks to escape the tabular confines of the RDBMS. SELECT * FROM table not enough?
You mean, sometimes all data isn't tabular? :boggle:
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Kent Sharkey wrote: You mean, sometimes all data isn't tabular? :boggle:
Of course... we have excel too.
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NoSQL databases and their query languages could help perform the tasks relational systems were never designed for. Surprise! There are tasks relational systems were never designed for! And for those there are other tools!
Well, that doesn't affect the tasks that relational systems were designed for. SQL is still a as good a choice for those as ever!
(Side tracking a bit: Why don't we have a selection of relational languages with different properties? SQL is far from perfect! For general programming we have scores of languages of quite varying character. We should have alternatives to SQL as well!)
Religious freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make five.
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I feel like every time there's a new NoSQL product both Microsoft and Oracle incorporate it into their RDBMS offerings.
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The app is developed by a small group of Microsoft engineers based in Asia, and it’s now getting a big update with an improved “Files Cleanup,” which lets you free up space more easily. I'm sure it will delete files as reliably as Windows Update fixes things
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