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Ah! But how could you ever have job security without incompetence? Laugh | :laugh:

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Very insightful! Let's keep 'em around!

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The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing.

David, Greg said that incompetence is not overly tolerated. That implies that some incompetence is tolerated, perhaps even neccesary. $Shucks | :-\$

Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.

Quote:
as long as incompetence is not overly tolerated.

And herein lies the issue... Big Grin | :-D

.NET[^]:
We are excited to announce the new MSTest SDK built on top of the MSBuild Project SDK system.

For the testy ones

Maybe because the first SDK did not work so Lekker [^] Laugh | :laugh:

Phillip Tennen[^]:
A few months ago I learned that there were only around 30 GPS satellites serving the entire planet.

"Remember: no matter where you go... there you are."

Because I've never really thought of the details of the signal, and the article enlightened me. (not like I have any interest in replicating)

Phillip Tennen wrote:
A few months ago I learned that there were only around 30 GPS satellites serving the entire planet.

I suspect that is all the GNSS you know of.

Well, truth to be told: When I bought my current mobile in early spring 2016, using it properly for positioning would have been against the law in USA: For another two years, receiving positioning information from Galileo satellites was considered 'communicating with a foreign satellite system', which was not permitted until November 2018. I have not seen similar information for GLONASS, but would be surprised if communicating with Russian satellites were more acceptable than communicating with European ones. Even more so for the BeiDou system from China (which we call Red China).

Any decent smartphone sold in Europe for the last few years can handle both GPS, Galileo, GLONASS and BeiDou. My 2016 vintage S7 only handles the first two of these. At the moment, the two have 14 satellites over my head. I guess doubling the number of GNSS services would roughly double the number of satellites over my head as well. Wikipedia tells me that until Nov. 2018, S7 phones sold in the US had Galileo blocked, and needed a software update when listening to them became legal.

Fact is, if the entire GPS network was bombed, all 30 satellites at the same time, it would take a long time before non-US smartphone users (and users of dedicated GNSS equipment) would notice. With the old US panic for 'communicating with foreign satellite systems', I wonder what would be the result in USA. Would a total breakdown of GPS paralyze a lot of activities, because Usatians are so patriotic that they will not communicate with foreign satellites? Or maybe reject Galileo, GLONASS and BeiDou on NIH grounds?

Or would most Usatian people and systems be as unaffected by a GPS breakdown as European customers? In particular (but I do not expect any reliable answer to this!), has the USAF degraded themselves to install duplicate (triplicate, quadruplicate) NIH GNSS solutions in their various systems, in case GPS is sabotaged?

Religious freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make five.

Ars Technica[^]:
The US Space Force announced Thursday it is partnering with two companies, Rocket Lab and True Anomaly, for a first-of-its-kind mission to demonstrate how the military might counter "on-orbit aggression."

They just have to convince the aliens to line up and only come in waves

{Insert your choice of Space Invaders or Galaga theme music here}

it was either that, or a Kobayashi Maru reference

Moonraker. With the silver verses yellow jumpsuits.

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.

I wish I had remembered that one in time.

Pew pew!

TTFN - Kent

Kent, see the time difference between my post and your original? That's how long it took me to remember it so don't kick yourself.

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.

I'm not saying it's Elephant | [mastadon]

-ing space aliens, but it's Elephant | [mastadon]

-ing space aliens!

-- Wolfenstein 2

Wolfenstein 2 - I'm Not Saying It's Aliens Scene

Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.

I worked on Hawaii, I wonder what region is next. Prolly my house. It's been real y'all. Cool | :cool:

Digital Trends[^]:
The BBC has just shared another video from its archives, this one showing a report about computer addicts from way back in 1983, when computers were just starting to find their way into the workplace and home.

(some of) You are here

You like doing something I don't? Must be addiction.

This is the way. Sigh | :sigh:

TTFN - Kent

Tom's Hardware[^]:
.NET Framework port enables backward compatibility for modern software

Great news for people that have been holding off from upgrading

So he ported software from a 25-year-old obsolete O/S to a 28-year-old obsolete O/S. I admire his tenacity and technical skills, but haven't the slightest urge to emulate them.

Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.

The Register[^]:
It's safe to say Amazon CEO Andy Jassy is pretty jazzed about generative AI's potential to drive profits.

He didn't want to say it would be bigger than the wheel or sliced bread?

Hyperbole is the BEST THING EVER

Let it drive his car before it drives profits. ...something, something, parked emergency vehicle, something, something <tongue-in-cheek> < ouroboros sarcasm >

(interesting. try typing <oroboros sarcasm=""> and not getting the '=""' - what is triggering that?)

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Infoworld[^]:
A recent study shows that the cloud benefits the IT department more than other business areas. That’s not enough to make it a success.

Ssssssshhhocking!

Infoworld[^]:
JetBrains IDE Services centralizes management of JetBrains IDEs, JetBrains AI, remote development environments, and collaborative programming.

An IDE IDE

Uno Platform[^]:
In this article, we’ll explore Uno Platform implementations using a ChatGPT-enabled chat application.

Write once, AI everywhere

Tech Xplore[^]:
Deeply immersive and fully interactive, Holodeck-created environments are infinitely customizable, using nothing but language; the crew has only to ask the computer to generate an environment, and that space appears in the Holodeck.

And now Moriarty is running amok again