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Don't tell a meetooer that you look upon her as an "object"!
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The one weakness of OOP is that the objects do not behave independently, as they do in real life. A "new Object()" really should start a new thread running asynchronously with the caller. You can of course simulate that, but traditional OOP doesn't invite to it.
With the APL "workspace" concepts, you are like in a playpen: You can throw in a function now, a data structure then (since this is APL, "data structure" is an array, from 0 to n dimensions). And you can take out a function without affecting the others (except that they won't find the removed function when they need it). If you could start a function to run asynchronously, your idea of independent objects cooperating in a world-like playpen would have been much closer to reality. At least classical APL doesn't have that option.
I never programmed Smalltalk, but I have heard claimed that they provide both a workspace and objects executing asynchronously. But then again, I haven't heard anything about Smalltalk for umpteen years, so I consider it a dead language, even more so than APL.
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Could a blurry, 128×128 version of a 1980 arcade game change the future of game dev? And then they came for the ghosts, but I did nothing as the power pellet wasn't close
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Quote: Hello David, do you want to play?
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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The yes/no summary uses natural-language modeling and comes with a carousel of sources. 'Should I do this search in Google instead?'
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Kent Sharkey wrote: The yes/no summary uses natural-language modeling and comes with a carousel of sources. really?
if (pseudo_random_number % 2 == 0)
say.yes();
else
say.no(); or...
answer = shake_the_eigth_ball();
done
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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You too could be a highly paid Bing programmer!
TTFN - Kent
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I don't think so... I am just too sofisticated for a job over there
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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Google software engineers are looking into ways of eliminating memory management-related bugs from Chrome. Maybe try to use less then?
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these are the bug that they should have fixed in the first place lol
Caveat Emptor.
"Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
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We are excited to announce the open-sourcing of Microsoft GW-BASIC on GitHub!
Yes, seriously 😀 Biggest news all week
Clock started to see how fast it gets ported to .NET Core...
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now we know what the developers at msft are doing with their paid time at home or office...
Caveat Emptor.
"Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
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Giving us yet another reason to scrub our hands for at least 20 seconds minutes.
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Sadly, this becomes less and less of a News for each subsequent update. The news would be an update which does not mess everything up. I disabled automatic updates, and only install them several weeks after they have been released.
"Five fruits and vegetables a day? What a joke!
Personally, after the third watermelon, I'm full."
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What did you use to disable them?
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Several things: first disabling the wuauserv service, of course; but this needs to be checked regularly as it tends to re-enable itself. You can setup an automatic task on logon, for example, launching the following command: net stop wuauserv
Second, I created a new value in the registry HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate\AU: a DWORD value "AUOptions" set to 2. This code for notifications for downloading as well installing. But this does not seem sufficient, as a few friends told me that it had not worked for them (meaning: they observed a spurious reboot of their computers after an update of which they did not have been notified).
On my former laptop, I also deleted anything from a folder in Program Files, whose name I can't remember unfortunately. It contained a program that was automatically launched and reverted any modified settings regarding the update policy. Then I did set authorizations on this folder to prevent anything from accessing it. But this is an old trick, it was in 2018 iirc, and on my new system it does not seem to have been reinstalled. (I think I talked about that on the Lounge back then, but I'm not 100% sure I did).
If you have a professional version (or entreprise), you can also play with the group policy: gpedit.msc, go to Computer Configuration -> Administrative Templates -> Windows Components -> Windows Update, and select "Configure Automatic Updates". But this isn't possible with home editions, unfortunately.
Last, on each update that I install, I take the time to inspect every new service/automatic program launch on next boot, and disable anything that could prevent me from having a precise control on update policy. But this needs to know your computer quite well, to be able to spot what has been added. For that I thoroughly inspect the registry and the tasks planifier.
"Five fruits and vegetables a day? What a joke!
Personally, after the third watermelon, I'm full."
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You need to understand that this is MS's core development team.[^]
And for anyone who's seen them, they are without a doubt "Agile".
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Sonatype measured coding activity by country based on downloads from an open source library. A little hacking cough limits hacking?
Or maybe it's just open source developers aren't used to working from home? /s
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For the past two years though there has been MAUI as a KDE hosted project serving as a free and open-source UI framework. They use the name MAUI as an acronym for Multi-Adaptable User Interfaces. Because there can only be one MAUI?
Although both being UI frameworks is a little confusing, but it's just a codename for Microsoft. Odds are they'll ship it as 'Windows Active User Interface Foundation Platform Framework, Developer Edition' or something
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A team of researchers at UCLA has set a new record for preparing and measuring the quantum bits, or qubits, inside of a quantum computer without error. Best bits. Beautiful bits. Everyone is saying so.
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The majority of staff planning their exit also take sensitive information with them, research suggests. More proof companies would be better off without employees.
Or something like that. Maybe just keep them chained to the desk?
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The vulnerability, called Bluetooth Impersonation AttackS (BIAS), allows an intrusion by an attacker posing as a previously trusted Bluetooth device. Every time you trust a Bluetooth device, you're trusting all the Blueteeth?
If I understand it - the hackers need to get the encrypted value off of the trusted item, then have a device broadcasting that value. All to listen to your laptop's music? (Yeah, there are other Bluetooth devices than headphones. But Yeesh, this news alert)
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