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It was used to its own reef-lection?
(The self recognition test has always been problematic as it is biased to animals that a sight-centric. Animals that rely on scent or aural clues cannot easily be fooled by a mirror)
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The latest test flight by Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic successfully rocketed to the edge of space and back. To infinity ... Wait. To the edge of space ... and back!
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I have a feeling you've ended up with the wrong headline here.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Google’s open-source Chromium code base is steadily gaining ground of late. After Microsoft opted to use it for Edge last week, privacy-focused browser Brave announced that it has switched to Chromium with its latest release, v.0.57. All aboard the Chromium bandwagon.
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Will they all start opening 47 background instances when you start them?
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Microsoft has had success in the enterprise space with its Microsoft 365 subscription, which bundles Office 365, Windows 10, and remote management with Enterprise Mobility + Security. Its home-oriented Office 365 subscriptions have also been growing steadily, with 32.5 million subscriptions as of the company's most recent financial reports. And now Microsoft is planning to bring these things together with a Microsoft 365 subscription aimed at non-corporate users Let's play a game called, "what does it come bundled with?" Fair warning: The result of this game will influence my buy.
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Back in 2015, Microsoft said it would build OpenSSH, a set of utilities that allow clients and servers to connect securely, into Windows, while also making contributions to its development. I guess it's just the OpenSSH in you that brings out the man in me.
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Tumblr is back in the App Store. Apple pulled the app from iTunes in November, and it was reportedly due to the presence child exploitation photos on the platform. As if millions of apps cried out to be downloaded and were met with silence.
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Today, Google shared information about some of the AI work it's doing in Asia, but in a blog post about the work, it also made a pretty clear statement about how its facial recognition technology will and won't be used for the time being. Somewhere, someone already has my facial profile. I hope they think I'm pretty.
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Journalists working as factcheckers for Facebook have pushed to end a controversial media partnership with the social network, saying the company has ignored their concerns and failed to use their expertise to combat misinformation. Facebook: "Long live Fake News!"
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A perpetrator was able to fool the charitable organization Save the Children into misdirecting close to $1million. You wouldn't steal a car, you wouldn't steal a handbag, you run business email compromise (BEC) scam that would take nearly $1 million from starving children.
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Executives hardest hit.
(Seriously, the CEO makes almost half that, so who is robbing who?)
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Robinhood is undercutting the big banks by forgoing brick-and-mortar branches with its new zero-fee checking and savings account features. I'm going to try to get my money from the bank and they're going to tell me it's in Joe's house, and in the Kennedy house.
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Apparently, after regulators pointed out serious problems with their plan, Robinhood changed their minds.
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Our goal with this new experience is to provide rapid access to the most common ways that developers get to their code: whether it’s cloning from an online repository or opening an existing project. It's not just a bunch of new icons!
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Now, they need to add a huge icon reading "Turn Off This Sh*t"
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Since most of these people at Microsoft have nothing to do than collect the paycheck ... ya way to go with touching and retouching stuff that other people build and was working... it must be a rosey job being a Program Manager at MSFT...
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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An anthropomorphic invocation of Visual Studio wrote: rapid access to the most common ways that developers get to their code: whether it’s cloning from an online repository or opening an existing project So two buttons, then.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Double clicking on MyCurrentProject.sln has always done the job for me.
Can't they spend their time sorting out the crappy text search in SSMS instead?
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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Well, yeah, obviously Redgate devs can find time for useful things ...
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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Exactly.
The Way of the Future is to use nothing but third-party products in windows.
It used to be that you'd use third-party programs because of personal preferences, but now it's out of necessity.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Colors in the Console, new features in NotePad, upgraded Sticky Notes: now this !
Oooh ... shiny. If there is an adult left on the Redmond campus, please report to the Skype team with a defibrillator and major anti-psychotic meds.
«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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Spammers have sent a wave of threats to businesses, schools, and other locations, demanding bitcoin in exchange for not detonating a supposed bomb. And I thought the 'Microsoft Tech Support' scammers were awful people
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