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Quote: we aspire to deliver
Aspirations are easy. Delivery is the hard part. 
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A generation that grew up with Google is forcing professors to rethink their lesson plans Little Johnny can't file?
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Quote: They were all getting the same error message...
Am I the only one surprised to see that the cause wasn't simply that they'd all Googled the assignment, copied the code from the first result without even trying to understand it, and then found that it didn't work? 
"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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EU consumers spend more than $2.8 billion annually on standalone chargers. EU: The Standard Standard for Standardizing Standards
Or Standardising, even.
They don't want to tell you where to stick it, but they want to tell you what to stick.
(and insert the xkcd on standards here)
Updated blurb: One cable to rule them all, one cable to find them, one cable to bring them all, and in the darkness charge them
modified 23-Sep-21 15:24pm.
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I got banned on this site once for describing my feelings about the EU and others.
Hope they have fun standardizing standards.
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.. until the next Standard is released.
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It will be just as "successful" as the US requirement for Micro USB charging port was a few years ago.
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Don't most phones use either USB C or Micro-USB nowadays? But was that due to the market deciding it was the sensible option or due to US government dictat?
I don't know about the US government but the problem with the EU is that it will define USB C as the one true connector and then never take into account that technology and markets move on, leaving the legislation months, years behind what the market has standardised on anyway.
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markrlondon wrote: the problem with the EU is that it will define USB C as the one true connector and then never take into account that technology and markets move on, leaving the legislation months, years behind what the market has standardised on anyway.
So sad, but so true... 
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markrlondon wrote: Don't most phones use either USB C or Micro-USB nowadays?
Don't about half of them use Lightning?
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The best half - the one that can get milked repeatedly and like it.
GCS d--(d-) s-/++ a C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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The 2021 Accelerate State of DevOps report from Google Cloud’s DORA group provides insight into the best practices of elite development teams. 50% Dev, 50% Ops, 50% searching
And 100% mathematics!
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Quote: DORA categorizes elite performers as organizations that have a high deployment frequency, with multiple deployments per day and a lead time for making changes of less than one hour.
Seriously? Are they f'in joking? Maybe their [sic] talking about deploying typo fixes.
Quote: Elite performers are also categorized as having a very low change failure rate (less than 15%).
15% is not "very low" in my opinion. I don't want to know the converse, what they think a "very high" salary is.
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Elite performers are also categorized as having a very low change failure rate (less than 15%). Seems really high to me as well, regardless of what "change failure" means.
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Though Microsoft has tried a variety of patching schemes over the past two decades, update problems continue with no end in sight. Maybe the patch system needs a patch?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Maybe the patch system needs a patch?
If it only needed a patch...
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Quote: So what can we do? Reach out to all of our vendors and ask them to do better. They need to ensure that key devices are auto updating and self correcting. They need to do a better job in understanding that merely installing updates won’t work if they cause headaches and side effects that block key issues like printing.
That's the suggestion? 
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Maybe the patch system needs a patch?
Haven't you noticed how the updater for any Microsoft product always needs to be updated first?
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Computer engineers from Northwestern University introduce a new platform that enables makers, hobbyists and novice programmers to build their own battery-free electronic devices that run with intermittent, harvested energy. * Batteries not included
(on purpose)
Although I am curious about: "power-failure-resistant version of Python"
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Actually interesting but... another tiny step towards matrix? 
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Tech workers are set on long-term remote working, a new survey of industry employees suggest. But employers are concerned about what it means for team work. The good news: no commute. The bad news: Zoom calls
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Kent Sharkey wrote: The good news: no commute. The bad news: Zoom calls
Do not complain... it could be Teams 
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Kent Sharkey wrote: But employers are concerned about what it means for team work.
It probably means an improvement in productivity overall.
But then I'd say that, wouldn't I, looking at things from somewhere on the spectrum.
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What do tech leaders do when they leave the scene? They focus on some of the more basic things in life. "Toilets, toilets, toilets"
How the mighty have flushed
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Q: So what's changed?
(A: Before, he sold the contents. Now, he sells the packaging.)
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
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