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Access begins rollout of Big Forms for Modern Monitors feature

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www.theregister.com 1mo ago

AWS rolls the dice for faster, more efficient networking

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weblogs.asp.net 2mo ago

About Technical Debates (2010)

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Veteran network architect proposes IPv8 – to improve IPv4, not leapfrog v6

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San Francisco coyote swims to Alcatraz for first time

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The 727 That Vanished (2010)

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Welcome to the 'next big thing' for super shoes and marathon running

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The web infrastructure revolt over Google's AI Overviews

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The next era of social media is coming. And it's messy so far

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Red Hat confirms security incident after hackers breach Gitlab instance

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The Quantitative Comparison Between the Neuronal Network and the Cosmic Web

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Claude Engineer

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Microsoft to give Vista kernel access to security firms (2006)

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Security Software Makers Upset over Windows Vista [2006]

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This is not a Ferrari

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i have a parent repo that has git submodules for each area of my app (backend, frontend, docs, etc).

i have all the benefits of having multiple repos eg different c/i pipelines, but the agent sees it as a monorepo and so can I if i open the parent repo in my ide.

And it will, but be patient. I took linux 25 years to conquer the world.

One day an open source model reaches "good enough" level. Maybe around the level the current frontier has and most people will use that

By changing two settings in Windows, you can fix the worst of it.

Using a local group policy, you can change when "Preview builds and Feature updates" and "Quality Updates" become available in Windows Update.

By delaying those with 30 or 60 days, you will never have preview updates applied to your system, and feature and quality updates will have at least 1 or 2 months' worth of fixes before you get them.

start > run > gpedit.msc > Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > Windows Components > Windows Update > Manage updates offered from Windows Update >

1) Enable "Select when preview builds and feature updates are received". Set days to 60

2) Enable "Select when quality updates are received". Set days to 30 (max value)

i don't get. yes, if you just prompt it "make me an app" you learn nothing but you probably also end up with an app that is crap as best.

I you instead "promote" yourself to architect or lead dev and you steer the ai as it it a team of junior dev you must manage you can learn a lot. not only will you have deep architecture discussion with ai where you, together, explore various approaches and ways to do things.

an if you do spec driven ai development where you write the specs you will end up with an app that resemble the way you prefer apps to be written.

Just because ai can cook something up in no time doesn't exclude you from being involved.

As a Windows user who had several MS Surface tablets I fully agree that the form factor would make it a very suitable on-the-go device.

I like that it default to view or more precisely a WYSIWYG experience. I wish vs code did the same. I am just no sure that notepad is the right tool for this. It serves as such a important tool to stripping formatting and working with plain text. We are not far away from loosing 30 years of that trust. One little bug away. They should have used wordpad for this.

I'm still kind of surprised it took him that long to learn that software quality had fallen off that far

Isn't that to some extent (or perhaps exactly) what is going on today? All employees at MS are using the polished Enterprise edition without all the cruft and without many of the annoyances. I bet most of them have never tried to use, eg, the home edition. Few of them has probably ever tried to pick a new PC from a retail store full of trialware and "optimizations" made by the retail store.

The point is that most MS employees don't get to see the edition of Windows that we, normal consumers, do.