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I'd love to know the reasoning behind the court's decision on that one. It's makes no sense to me.
Along the same lines as the "reasoning" behind Aileen Cannon's assignment of, then hamstringing, the "Special Master" tRump solicited to review delay the DoJ's prosecution regarding the classified documents tRump illegally stashed as trophies in a drawer at Mar-a-Lago.
Report the "crime" immediately, go to the hospital, they will administer medication that will prevent pregnancy.
Or not, if this is a Catholic hospital. Or a Baptist hospital. Or the administrator, or ER head is a fundamentalist whackjob and refuses (or simply omits) administering such medication. Or...
Or, you are in Tejas. Or Indiana, Or Ohio. Or.........
Uhhh....Well the original sentence did suffer from ambiguous references, but with sufficient parsing, I think the direct object of the sentence was the article's author, Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols, not Mark Russinovich (who is the "Microsoft programmer" badflorist was referring to).
The only plausible reason is that they want to persecute trans people.
I would suggest another possible reason: fear. They're afraid of their own sexuality, and are not secure enough in it to be able to tolerate a different approach to it. Thank you, Puritans!
It may also be that they fear that they, themselves are queer or even trans to some degree or another. the acceptance of that, they fear, might just cause their heads to explode.
Not to mention that thanks to Trump's election lies, the chance of republican legislators voting for any change to elections like ranked choice or open primaries is zero
Well, not quite 0. Alaska (no bastion of progressive, liberal thought there...) recently installed ranked choice voting. Sarah Palin lost a vain (in both senses of the word) attempt to become a Congresscritter because of it.
And naturally, railed against the "insane, confusing and unconstitutional (!) voting system that stole the election" from her.
[...] very few politicians in modern secular states - i.e. France, Germany, etc. feel the need to put the word "god" or "christ" every two others [...]
Interesting you should mention Germany, where "Grüß Gott" (figuratively," May god bless you"; in daily use meaning "good day") is the default greeting in the southern part.
"Grüß Gottt" can also be translated as the imperative "greet God", which is the source of a joke my German friend (from Northern Germany) told me while trying to teach me German: A southern German greets you with "Grüß Gott", to which the Northern German replies "Wenn du Ihn sehest" ("When you see Him").
Gee! 4 downvotes (at the time of this posting)!
Is it that you downvoters think that the USA is not " rapidly moving from being a modern secular state to becoming a fundamentalist Christian theocracy", or is that you're upset that the rest of us have noticed, and called you on it?
[...] the right bang on about cancel culture (to pick one example) as an attack on the left when there is just as much evidence or counterclaim of such a charge against themselves
It's called "projection"; it is an ego-centric defense mechanism peculiar to those who can't face the fact that they themselves practice that very trait they accuse others of..
The founder later tweeted: "Maybe they don't want girls to learn to code because that's a way to be economically secure …"
This.
It is an unspoken credo (to the "outside world", at least) of the "conservative movement" that an ignorant populace is easier to control. And the hayseeds fer sher don't want uppity young women and <gasp /> girls getting that radical idea that they are smart and can control those computer things, no sirree!
There's a nasty, but appropriate, pun that goes along with "conservative movement", but I'll let that go for now...
Afraid I don't share amanfrommars1's enthusiasm for your post (although I won't downvote it).
My experience with "someone with 30 years experience of C++" is that such people generally want to keep up with how the language evolves, and are interested in staying current. Dinosaurs become extinct in software development for much the same reasons as they did in the Jurassic era...because the don't/won't/can't adapt. Sure, there are those who simply want to collect a paycheck and can't be arsed to learn anything new. I have (and continue to) work with some of them. In my experience, they are a rather small minority of the practitioners I work with. YMMV, of course; and if it does, I'm sorry for you.
BTW, I happen to be a "someone with 30 years experience of C++". And there are features of C++23 I can't wait to get my keyboard on.
Mark Russinovich (acquired by MS by buying out his company)Bjarne Stroustrop has more programming credential in his little toe than most programmers acquire in a lifetime.Even his wikipedia biography doesn't do him justice:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Russinovichhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bjarne_Stroustrup:2035+ years later,his Winternals utilities arethe language he created is still in use.
There. Won't say FTFY, but submitted without snark.
OK, maybe a little snark...
Start (re-)writing Windows, Word, Azure, et al top to bottom in Rust (or Go, or Erlang, or your next-week's favorite shiny language du jour), and get back to me and the rest of us when you finish, and then we'll talk.
Additional edit:
The Register asked Microsoft whether Russinovich's recommendation is being adopted company-wide. Redmond declined to comment.
Things that make you go "Hmmmm...".
I recently took a hard drive to a recycler in the area. they had a very nice little machine that was actually a hard disk shredder. And that exactly what it did. Noisy...but effective. And the folks let me see the results -- ain't nobody going to be able to extract anything from that machine's output.
Microsoft needs to just buy it, improve the performance, and then make it the official file manager for the OS.
If Micros~1 were to buy it, what in the name of $DIETY makes you think they will improve the performance? Or improve anything? Most likely, they will simple regulate it to Storage B, and you will never see it again.
Panos Panay, Microsoft’s executive vice president and chief product officer for Windows + Devices, has billed the update [...] as offering “many subtle, but important changes that come together to help you be your most productive and your most creative.”
Run and hide.
Run.
And.
Hide.
US locos are not all 2 stroke. The ones from GE (now Wabtec) are 4-stroke, while the ones from EMD (now ProgressRail) are primarily 2-stroke (except for the F125, which uses a 4-stroke small(er)-bore, higher RPM engine from Caterpillar).
The "buzz" you are referring to is probably turbo whine...I'm not sure what other kind of "buzz" can be derived from an engine turning at somewhere around 900 RPM.
And a cab ride? Yes...epic!
At least one of The Register's own vultures was hit by this issue and locked out of email and all other Google services.
Really? An El Reg hack1 using Gmail?!? Shame!
I'd have figured a top-notch techie outfit like yourselves would have gone fill-metal Hillary by now and put up your own email server under the theregister.com (or perhaps theregister.co.uk) domain.
1 In the newspaper sense...
Well, there have indeed been some documented (and prosecuted) instances of fraud in the last election.. Can't help but notice, though, that all instances found, and prosecuted, thus far have been committed by Republicans.
Psychologists have a word for this. It's called "projecting".
Methinks you miss the point. The fact that the kernel has, as you say, been painstakingly scrubbed of memory safety issues, is indeed the result of necessary "hard work". That hard work included (and continues to include) extreme care, planning, and discipline to prevent propagating those same errors in future work. Now comes the next panacea-du-jour, "memory-safe" languages (air-quotes intentional), because the next generation of "coders" can't be arsed to develop the discipline, do the planning, and execute the extreme care because, well the "compiler will do all that for me". Except it won't in all cases. So the ongoing development will be dumbed-down with the "practitioners" counting on an imperfect tool to be perfect. We all know how that will end....1
Perhaps "insult" was too strong a term. But the impending deterioration of developer skills deserves some form of epithet to properly label it. My suggestion: s/insult/pathetic/
1cf. garbage collection as the panacea for object and heap management; and of course, the Tesla "autopilot".
he Age-Appropriate Design Code (AADC) Act forbids online service providers that offer service to children from using the personal information of children in a way that's detrimental, from gathering, selling, or storing a child's geo-location, from profiling by default, and from soliciting children to provide their information. It also requires privacy policies and related terms be accessible and enforced.
Well! As a grown-ass man, I want protection from all that stuff, too! Perhaps I need to have an online persona as a California-residing child, so I, too, can be spared from all that shit.
Of course, I'll need to maintain an "adult" persona also, so I can have access to El Reg, and pr0n...
When the average temperature for July/August is 35 degrees, with regular variances +/- 5 degrees, not being able to cope with twice the regular variance isquite poorright in line with standard American business practice.
There, FTFY.
After all, gotta keep those coke-snorting yuppies on Wall St. contented...
If I watch <insert programme name here> and you watch it, and my mum watches it, and your neighbor's mum watches it, etc, etc . . .We ALL SEE THE SAME AD.
Well, not necessarily. I have noted many instances where my streaming service will feed different adverts into he middle of the same program being watched at the same time on different TVs in the house. Probably has something to do with the stream, but it has happened with Live TV being streamed as well.
YMMV, of course, depending on the streaming service and source being streamed.
And don't even get me started on auto-play video ads, [...]
Actually, I'd like to. My company requires Chrome or Edge and will not tolerate Firefox (for reasons they refuse to state publicly). I have the Disable HTML5 Autoplay add-on for Chrome active. This is an older add on (version 0.6.2), which is no longer supported and has started to misbehave in that videos (e.g. from reputable news websites) will hang during loading. If you, Throatwarbler, or anyone else has an acceptable substitute for this apparently outdated add-on, I'd appreciate a pointer.
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