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The team behind Avalonia UI, an open source project for cross-platform GUI applications based on Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), have introduced Avalonia XPF, a closed-source project currently in private preview, aimed at enterprises that need to port WPF applications to other platforms. If you like WPF, but wish it weren't so W
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We find that open source code containing swearwords exhibit significantly better code quality than those not containing swearwords under several statistical tests. F'n right
Just throw a few random bombs in the comments. Think of how much better the code will be!
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I have been earning my living as a programmer since 1980. Until last year I had never used profanity in my source code, despite countless provocations. It always seemed unprofessional.
I've acquired responsibility for a piece of code originally developed by an @#$%!@@ who deliberately coded it such that he was the only person able to maintain it. He retired in a huff and then died a few years ago. Last year we had to make a change to this POS because of some hardware going obsolete. I spent roughly 100 hours going through the code, identifying every location that was affected by the change. I wrote, debugged, and regression-tested the change in just under 4 hours.
One of my comments in the source code was the following:
Software Zen: delete this;
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 See? The code is so much better now. 
TTFN - Kent
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Meet the hidden human workforce behind the boom in artificial intelligence The AI apocalypse will be a job creator!
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So the robots are already taking over.
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The first preview of .NET 8 is coming in a couple of weeks or so said Microsoft's David Ortinau during a livestreamed tech event held in Stockholm. Stuff (tm)
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Kent Sharkey wrote: New? Stuff (tm)
FTFY?
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Microsoft wants to offer basic RGB lighting controls in Windows without the need to install iCue, Razer Synapse, or other apps. I guess they're all done with the icons?
Time to get to the real mission critical work?
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They don't have enough with messing in the OS, they now want to mess with the peripherals too
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Cool though as it can potentially integrate different brand controllers. Now if you have RGB components and you want a specific look you are stuck with getting the same supplier for all peripherals (namely Corsair, as they sell the entire gamut of components).
For my new build I am choosing all non RGB components, which is harder as they are hidden in the marketplaces. I don't have nay intention of installing external controllers, I choose my components for cost/benefits so no single supplier unless by chance, I really don't want to configure the show off lighting and having a dozen components each with its own pattern creating a disco-dance environment around the case is an eyesore.
I'm also managing to save some bucks (not that saving 30 on 1800 bucks is a big deal but it appeases my inner Scrooge).
ADD: anyway, Razer Synapse is still needed for their (awesome) gaming mice. I have a Naga Pro and that thing is a game changer. The swappable side panels are just peachy, and having up to 19 keys on the mouse is terrific for MMOs.
GCS/GE 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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I bought a Corsair mechanical keyboard based on a typing feel-test in Best Buy. The lighting is actually nice. I have some visual issues, so having the keys lit is a good thing.
As a data point of one, I can testify that Corsair's software is designed to appeal to adolescent boys whose parents spend money on game crap rather than pay attention to their kid. If there's a visual effect they failed to use I don't know what it is. You can assign actions to keys. Unfortunately that action takes place every time that key is struck, regardless of context. The only keys I don't use on the keyboard for normal actions are Scroll Lock and Break, neither of which are programmable. You can't program keys with modifiers (Ctrl, Shift, Alt, Windows) held down.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Gary R. Wheeler wrote: You can assign actions to keys. Unfortunately that action takes place every time that key is struck
This is good. Everything that comes after the hardware will be managed by DircetX so if you need specialized commands you have to do it at firmware level. The Corsair software should allow you to choose profiles based on what you want to do, there sould even be a key on the bottom of the keyboard allowing you to switch profiles from the keyboard itself.
I am 34 and I love that kind of keyboards, as many games suck and don't allow a true custom binding of keys becasue some keys are unexplicably unusable. Especially if like me you prefer to use the arrow keys rather than the usual WASD.
Also, "kids" most often don't play on PCs anyways, PC gaming demographic is a bit older these days.
GCS/GE 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 other day I had to fix a multi-line Regular Expression (RegEx). After a few hours of peering at it with a variety of tools, I finally understood the problem. "Some people, when confronted with a problem, think 'I know, I'll use regular expressions.' Now they have two problems."
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Windows Terminal is now the default console for Windows 11 22H2, marking a significant shift in how Windows users run their command line programs. The situation is terminal
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Yep, and it takes significantly more resources than the old cmd.exe or powershell environments.
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obermd wrote: Yep, and it takes significantly more resources than the old cmd.exe or powershell environments.
But users are supposed to have better computers, aren't they? In addition... they don't give a crap
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Microsoft confirmed a new issue on Windows causing apps to crash after the November KB5019980 update. According to the company, it affects outdated Intel GPU drivers, causing apps using DirectX or Direct3D to experience problems. When in doubt, blame the drivers
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Kent Sharkey wrote: When in doubt, blame the drivers windows updates
FTFY
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Russ Cox, a Google software engineer steering the development of the open source Go programming language, has presented a possible plan to implement telemetry in the Go toolchain. Stop
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If I ever thought of using Go for a project, that's the end of that.
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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This compile and link is brought to you by.... 
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Google's underlying framework of their entire operation/software/systems uses "telemetry". They monitor everything and everyone 24/365. Why on earth would GO be any different?
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Artificial intelligence like ChatGPT will change our world and make it far more efficient, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates said. "I am not an animal brain, I am not even some attempt to produce an AI through software running on a computer. I am a Culture Mind. We are close to gods, and on the far side."
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The human species is an inefficient species. We are also a parasitic species. To make this world more efficient, you would have to remove humans. Just saying...
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