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Resources and efficiency.
VM takes more and is less.
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Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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I'll always take a Linux VM (4gb of RAM and minimal disk space, depending on the distro of course) over MS's idea of what Linux should be like.
".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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I think that's a proper response.
I think this is MS's attempt to do their usual "embrace, extend, extinguish" ... Embrace, extend, and extinguish - Wikipedia[^]
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Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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What's WSL?
As in, since I don't know what the heck it means, I most likely don't care either.
Latest Article - A 4-Stack rPI Cluster with WiFi-Ethernet Bridging
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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Windows Semi-Linux.
".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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Windows' attempt to embrace Linux
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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Google’s Area 120 team, the company’s in-house incubator for some of its more experimental projects, today launched Game Builder, a free and easy to use tool for PC and macOS users who want to build their own 3D games without having to know how to code. "I wanna know: what's the name of the game?"
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"Hey, buddies, I've called this meeting because dedicated gamers/developers are a solitary, private lot, and we're not getting enough personal information from them! What can we do about that?"
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Instead, he believes we’ll be listening to custom song equivalents that are automatically designed specifically for each individual, and tailored to their brain, their listening preferences and their particular needs. Software executive makes stupid prediction. News at 11.
Net worth: 2.1 billion USD
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Brings to mind Alan Moore's "different drummers".
Anyway, he's proved that "empty vessels make most sound".
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Most of the "music" we listen to now isn't music...
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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Ah, that's just proof you're old and grumpy
Correct, but old and grumpy.
TTFN - Kent
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Funny. But, even my kids agree with me...
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Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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Though C# 8 is supposed to be released this year and the roadmap for C# 8.x and 9 are beginning to be formed, Microsoft is continuing to approve features for the next release. "It's a small world after all"
Easily the most nightmarish ride at Disney
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Microsoft's June 2019 updates have created a bug in the Event Viewer tool in all supported versions of Windows. ... I'm going back to bed
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I wonder how low the moral is in Redmond right now...
".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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ZDNet fretted: Microsoft has temporary fix "Don't use event viewer."
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Doctor, doctor, it hurts when I do this.
TTFN - Kent
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Tommy Cooper is alive and well and living in CodeProject.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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The Google Security Blog has waded into the controversy about Google’s changes to the Web Request API, painting it as part of the fight Google is engaging in to keep web users safe. It's a well known fact that you need to see advertisements to stay healthy
Personally, I'm a believer in homeopathic advertisements - I get more health benefit by seeing fewer of them
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"Do no evil"
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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This is an example of why I feel it is not healthy for so many browsers to rely on Google's technology.
As a Firefox user, I frequently find Google properties, including those embedded in other pages (Maps for example), failing to work. I strongly suspect that these are deliberately kludged, to help enforce a monoculture.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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That's good; will force more people to block that nonsense at the OS-level.
Combine that with the recent malware they served up, and it is rather obvious that anything served by Google should not be trusted.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Eddy Vluggen wrote: Combine that with the recent malware they served up That wasn't malware!
by google's definition, "malware" is anything that prevents them milking every last penny out of everyone.
It's things like ad-blockers that are malware!
Get with the program!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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