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Why is 11A Europe's most hated airline seat?(flightradar24.com)
4 points by TowerTall 1y ago|3 comments
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by TowerTall 1y ago
I remember when we migrated from Visual Source Safe to TFS at my place of work. I was in charge of the migration and we hit errors and opened a ticket with Microsoft Premier Support. The ticket ended up being assigned to one of creators of
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by TowerTall 1y ago
There is a lot more to it than that. Check out "The largest Git repo on the planet" by Brian Harry who was in charge of the git migration and Azure DevOps (Microsoft's pendant to GitHub) https://devblogs.microsoft.
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by TowerTall 1y ago
< In MS-DOS, you can type a command like "cd.." to move up a level, and it will work fine. In Linux, it will not; you need to type "cd ..". The different is the space in between. That little detail is what I find most
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by TowerTall 1y ago
They are not going to save any money. That wast amount of money goes to Microsoft 365 and everybody still needs a CAL license for that regardless of which client they have installed.
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I accidentally hacked a hotel switchboard(myit.substack.com)
4 points by TowerTall 1y ago|0 comments
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by TowerTall 1y ago
i couldn't help noticing that none of the autocomplete suggestions in his terminal or VS Code were relevant or correct. It looked really annoying. Is that the usual quality Copilot delivers?
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by TowerTall 1y ago
Isn't the WinRAR approach more that you pay to avoid having to press "OK" to a dialog everytime the application starts?
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by TowerTall 1y ago
Why do they need to change their software that much that often?
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by TowerTall 1y ago
How?
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by TowerTall 1y ago
yes, super news. Didn't expect this as they previously was pretty firm on that they would never do this.
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by TowerTall 1y ago
Not slow, but not as fast as expected. I had expected something similar to the concordes ~mach 2 (~2160 km/h) or faster
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by TowerTall 1y ago
It was called "Continuum" and was introduced with Windows 10 Mobile. Worked pretty smoothly but it couldn't run win32 application only the new modern UWP apps. Introduced 6 Oct 2015 alongside the Nokia Lumia 950/950 XL.
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by TowerTall 1y ago
i would say depends. If you use it for writing the code, I will say yes. If you instead use it to discus how to aproach the problem I would say "no/not sure". One of the best ways to become a good developer is to learn from
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by TowerTall 1y ago
Do you personally enjoy reading text generated by AI?
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by TowerTall 1y ago
Two days into my first job at a large global organisation, I got send the internal budget for the entire company. Turned out the the CEO's email address was "tfa@our.domain" and mine was "tf@our.domain". ups.
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by TowerTall 1y ago
If it is a single function or a class I most of the time prefere copy/paste from the chat. If multiple files needs to be updated then there is a lot of convinience with using a AI IDE. For writting code the old fashion way. You type th
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by TowerTall 1y ago
No, if you exclude a folder its children will also be excluded. You could Exclude everything else in ~/Library but that means that you have to maintain a long list of exclusions; any new folder you or macOS adds later will start gettin
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by TowerTall 1y ago
It also means that by default you will no longer be able to RDP from one Windows PC to another on your LAN or mount it as a network drive, as neither of these functions works with a passwordless Microsoft account. Even Microsoft's new
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by TowerTall 1y ago
The first version of Windows that started to encrypt the drive by default using Bitlocker was Windows RT 8 for ARM (Release 2012). The first x86/x64 version that did same was windows 8.1 (Release 2013)
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by TowerTall 1y ago
How is a recovery key different from a a password or pin? They are both just a string you need to enter during the recovery process and if you have lost that string you cannot unlock the drive
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by TowerTall 1y ago
Backing up the Bitlocker encryption key to OneDrive* has been the default since bitlocker was introduced in Windows Vista in 2007. The dialog has for this has always offered the option to back it up to a USB drive and the dialogs function i
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by TowerTall 1y ago
Should be: If you ever loose your decryption key to your encryptet data, regardless of OS, you have no way to recover any of your encryptet data. When installing windows and configure bitlocker you do get presented with the option to create
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by TowerTall 1y ago
Yes, the are making consumers more and more annoyed. The are not making enterprises annoyed. All the bloat and ads that we hear about again and again is not present in their enterprise offering.
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by TowerTall 1y ago
Could have used this 25 years ago when I was working in a large room with ~100 other people. Every friday an mp3 was distributed and then at the same time we all started playing it signaling that the workday has ended and the friday bar was
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by TowerTall 1y ago
from their FAQ on the buttom of the fronpage: Screen Studio can collect basic usage data to help us improve the app, but you can opt out of it during the first launch. You can also opt out at any time in the app settings.
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by TowerTall 1y ago
The majority of my (small) group of japanese friends are using yahoo as search enigne
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by TowerTall 2y ago
Can't this be mitigated by putting everything behind a login?
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by TowerTall 2y ago
That's actually pretty good advice. He doesn't understand his own system enough to guide the AI.
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TypeScript is being ported to Go – interview with Anders Hejlsberg(youtube.com)
27 points by TowerTall 2y ago|2 comments

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