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Microsoft’s object-oriented language for .NET has closed the gap with Java in the Tiobe index of programming language popularity. It's the most popular among the C# developers I know
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Microsoft received Notices of Proposed Adjustment from the Internal Revenue Service for an additional tax payment of $28.9 billion, the company said in an 8-K filing Wednesday. Were they using their own software to do their taxes?
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This will most likely come down to a difference of interpretation of some obscure clause in the US tax code. Just one more reason to scrap our current income tax and go with a flat tax after a per person deduction.
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obermd wrote: go with a flat tax after a per person deduction.
global scale please
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Then how will the poor Intuit/large accountancies gouge everyone? The HORRRRRROORRRRR!
TTFN - Kent
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Tiny text boxes, lingering on screens like ghosts, exorcised after 2 decades. Sometimes it just needs the *right* eyes
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Everyone were saying that it was impossible, until someone came that didn't know it and did it.
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I know that I am sidetracking a little bit, yet it really is the same 'problem':
Many years ago, when I was a teenager curious about radio technology, I read a story about the first builder of a radio that would fit in the dashboard of a car. He was an EE student, but hadn't yet learned about that theory showing that a tuning coil must have a diameter of slightly more than two inches in order to work. Unaware of this, he wound the coils for his radio on a pencil. When he showed the car radio to the more experienced radio builders, they exclaimed: That won't work! But it did work.
The source for that story is long gone; I didn't take historical notes in my teenage years. As I grew up, and earning myself a ham license, I have tried to find any information about this theory demanding tuning coils to have a (quite big) minimum diameter, but with no success. I have learned that car radios were not uncommon around 1930, so the story about the student probably dates back to around 1920, maybe a year or two later.
It would be nice to know who this car radio builder was, but even more I would like to hear about that (wrongful) theory demanding the large coils. What made radio guys think that it was so? Does this "theory" ring a bell with any of you, so that you can give me a hint about where to find information?
(One likely possibility that those who believed in the theory was so ashamed when it turned out to be completely wrong that they threw all information about it into the memory hole  )
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trønderen wrote: (One likely possibility that those who believed in the theory was so ashamed when it turned out to be completely wrong that they threw all information about it into the memory hole  )
Would not surpirse me at all 
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Now can this kid fix the security holes that propagate from Firefox version to Firefox version? I stopped using Firefox when our vulnerability scanner kept reporting the same vulnerabilities in version after version of Firefox.
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42% of people surveyed say they typically don’t spend more than an hour on productive work without interruption Sorry, was I saying something?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: 42% of people surveyed say they typically don’t spend more than an hour on productive work without interruption
1 hour? What a luxury... I can't usually work more than 15 minutes without being interrumpted
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And then there are those of us that appear twice as productive because we remain productive during non-productive Zoom meetings where everyone else is yackety-yacking. 
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By not being distracted by articles about being focused?
Can't believe it hadn't been said already.
I’ve given up trying to be calm. However, I am open to feeling slightly less agitated.
I’m begging you for the benefit of everyone, don’t be STUPID.
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“Being a simulation is a possible consequence (or conclusion)" of the proposed second law of infodynamics, physicist Melvin Vopson says. They couldn't afford a better simulation?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: They couldn't afford a better simulation?
Didn't you get the memo? Mr. Smith told they lost entire crops with the good ones.
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Here comes another religion ... sigh.
The fact that we don't understand how information and the universe work is the real issue here. We keep putting up models as truth, when they are just that models, and not reality.
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Starting this week, Microsoft will no longer provide technical assistance and bug fixes for newly identified issues affecting the stability or usability of systems running the two operating systems. "The curtain descends, everything ends too soon, too soon"
The Windows 11 one isn't going to hurt many (I think), but I wonder how many companies have Server 2012 systems they rely on still? I imagine many are hidden in closets running something business-essential.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: but I wonder how many companies have Server 2012 systems they rely on still?
I can't tell about that, but I can tell, than I know a couple still using PCs with Windows XP for daily business
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Oh goodie, I can stop having to restart my home Server 2012 Data Center every month.
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Microsoft has published guidance on how to download and install Linux. In other news, Hell freezes over and pigs fly south to their winter feeding grounds. They picked a good Year for it
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It's whatever they call it, anti-marketing, negative ad campaigns, whatever. Because after all, who the heck wants to type in sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade to upgrade their OS when Microsoft will do it for you right in the middle of your work day! 
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The AI "godfather" says the tech is learning better than humans — and has the potential to do bad. Good thing that humans are so difficult to manipulate
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