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Kent Sharkey wrote: But I thought they never needed repairing? And what about customizing / upgrading hardware?
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Can you do that with a MacBook? I thought they were solid pieces of shiny glory, given from on high. The only upgrades possible are stickers for the local hipster band/bar.
TTFN - Kent
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"Who is worthy to open the book, and to loose the seals thereof?"
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A research team in France is exploring ways to change that by giving our smartphones the ability to interact with us more Right. That's definitely what it's for.
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How do you capture the energy of volunteers and supporters and turn it into action? Gamification for the win!
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Kent thinking: hmm, haven't linked enough articles from lunatics recently...
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Imagine that you’re living in some dystopian future, and you have been accused of being an advanced AI, which is outlawed in this society. The penalty is death, and in order to convince the judge who will decide your fate, you can utter just one word, any word you like from the dictionary, to prove that you’re flesh and blood. What word do you choose? Because the AI will never figure out my juvenile sense of humour
Well, other than me being an AI, of course (Chris did write me after all, so it's his fault)
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MSVC has been shipping implementations of std::optional, std::any, and std::variant since the Visual Studio 2017 release, but we haven’t provided any guidelines on how and when these vocabulary types should be used. For when you absolutely, positively have no clue what the data is
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Video streaming service Netflix is the world's most data-hungry application, consuming 15% of global net traffic, according to research from bandwidth management company Sandvine. Sorry, that was me - I was trying to catch up on Daredevil before the new season
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And the other 84% is for adult entertainment.
And the 1% is for the serious work, because we know how to optimize our network stuff.
I'd rather be phishing!
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There's something wrong with your figures; what percentage do the cat videos take?
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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its Netflix, not youtube?
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It’s possible they could be vastly more efficient, but for that to happen, we need to better understand the thermodynamics of computing I'm not sure - I think it has something to do with that cable into the wall
Or maybe the box attached to the monitor? These things are so complicated.
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Precise estimates vary, but currently about 5 percent of all energy consumption in the U.S. goes just to running computers
Wow!
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Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny
Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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Microsoft’s chief product designer, Panos Panay, has been dreaming of a pocketable Surface for years. "Then I'll get on my knees and pray we don't get fooled again"
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Kent Sharkey wrote: "Then I'll get on my knees and pray we don't get fooled again" I can think of an alternative to 'fooled,' that is also six letters long, that may apply here.
«Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?» T. S. Elliot
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And it's far more accurate.
TTFN - Kent
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Microsoft has updated its distributed high-scale applications platform Orleans, claiming a 30 per cent increase in performance. "We're still having fun and you're still the one"
Sorry, kind of got to that blurb through a few degrees of separation.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: its distributed high-scale applications platform Orleans
Never heard of it.
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Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny
Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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Leap allows anyone to sign up, giving them one minute of time on a cloud-connected 2000Q each month. Oh good. Now I can host my blog on it.
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In May, we announced .NET Core 3.0, the next major version of .NET Core that adds support for building desktop applications using WinForms, WPF, and Entity Framework 6. We also announced some exciting updates to .NET Framework which enable you to use the new modern controls from UWP in existing WinForms and WPF applications. Are they still supporting it?
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Depends on how fast your internet connection is, any slower than 20 Mbps and you risk hitting the EOL by the time you've finished downloading it.
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how are they planning on maintaining the cross-platform nature of core while supporting WPF?
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010 ----- You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010 ----- When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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And WinForms
Although they say those parts aren't cross-platform, but "via Desktop packs[^]". So, I guess there's a chance for a semi-compatible Linux/Mac desktop in the future?
TTFN - Kent
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Because .net core is a layer in a stack not a single monolithic entity. .net core being able run WPF, is independent of WPF being able to run on other OSes.
Prior situation
[Your App]
[WPF Framework]
[.net Framework]
new situation
[Your App]
[WPF Framework]
[.net Framework] or [.net Core Framework]
what's changed is that .net core 3 has all the language features needed to run a WPF or WinForms application. WPF/Winforms are still windows only because they make large numbers of native win32 API calls. Theoretically, someone could (and almost certainly will) package .net core and WINE to make a single install capable of running WPF on Fruit/Penguin boxes; otoh someone could (and almost certainly) has done the same but using the .net framework instead of .net core.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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