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When was the last time you used Bard?

So far, every time I use bard it gives me an incorrect answer. But I am happy with how fast it returns it, at least. I haven't had that problem with Bing chat (at least in the past few months), which has pretty much changed the way I search.

That being said, I hope Bard improves drastically. It would be nice to have more competition from them in this space.

I attended a seminar on the office binary file formats about 10 years ago at MS. The reason it was done was for performance reasons, including the wonky layout that made it quicker to save and read the file from slow media like floppy discs.

If you find password protected zips in the release the password is probably either "Intel123" or "intel123". This was not set by me or my source, this is how it was aquired from Intel.

Can't say I'm surprised, people are lazy.

Another large tech company I used to work for commonly used an only-slightly more complex password. But it was never changed, so people who had left the team still could have access to things if they knew the password. It was an entry point into the system more than the company's Red team.

The git dev responsible for the choice has said it had nothing to do with master/slave:

"master" as in e.g. "master recording". Perhaps you could say the original, but viewed from the production process perspective.

A clueless Central European youngster whose command of English was mostly illusory came up with the term, which is why it isn't very obvious...

https://twitter.com/xpasky/status/1272280760280637441?s=20

I always thought it meant "master copy"...

Microsoft has plans on moving some of its Azure services to run on ARM, among other things for Windows Server on ARM.[0]

"We feel ARM servers represent a real opportunity and some Microsoft cloud services already have future deployment plans on ARM servers," he wrote ahead of the conference.

"We have been running evaluations side by side with our production workloads and what we see is quite compelling.

"The high Instruction Per Cycle (IPC) counts, high core and thread counts, the connectivity options and the integration that we see across the ARM ecosystem are very exciting and continues to improve."

[0] http://www.techrepublic.com/article/windows-server-on-arm-mi...

From what I can tell, it's written in Electron. I assume they did this so that they could share the code base between desktop (win/mac), ios/android/winphone, and web -- keeping the features sets the same on all platforms. VS Code is the same way and that works beautifully on Mac. I expect that same for this.

Disclaimer: I work for Microsoft (Azure) but have no relation to Office or Microsoft Teams.