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I think just making any significant change to one's diet can, in the short term anyway, have noticable positive effects, especially depending on what the previous diet looked like.…

Maybe I'm missing something in the description of the exploit, but don't sites that use email address during account creation typically send some sort of link/code to the provided …

Does higher measured brain activity for one task relative to another performed by the same individual conclusively mean that task is "better", or maybe just that individual is more…

Not discounting your experience, but we have clients in all three, and our own experience is that Azure support and service is _significantly_ better than AWS and GCP, to the degre…

Interesting to see that many of the predictions weren't far off. But one recurring prediction that was notably wrong was of Microsoft's declining prospects. It would have been diff…

> simple text files called Tracking Protection Lists (TPLs) to allow or block third-party requests from specific domains Sounds like a hosts file, and the same end result could be …

I'm sure that strategy of "simply not paying" works great, right up until the day it doesn't and you find yourself facing huge fines and prison.

I recall ditching a relatively high-end router a year or two ago after a firmware update required me to accept that in order to use most of the advanced features supported by the r…

Two things to look for when selecting olive oil at the supermarket - a dark glass bottle, and a harvest date printed on the label. Granted, this doesn't guarantee you're getting a …

Even though I've given in to using the "automated schema updates", or migrations, approach (Technique 1 in the article), I'm still uncomfortable with the idea of the application ti…

Yes, I was surprised to see a delivery estimate of 8 days on the Prime order I placed last night. I'm not in an area directly affected by Florence, but I assumed the longer than us…

I feel like this might go a little too far in formalizing the two-party system in a way that would have undesriable consequences. A better approach to drawing Congressional distric…

I was visiting Baltimore's Inner Harbor recently with my wife and our two kids. With a couple of hours available, we thought we'd checkout the aquarium. Then we learned our 4 ticke…

> which is the reason for .NET core existing, I suppose. True, .Net Core exists because Microsoft eventually realized its mistake of tieing its programming framework too closely to…

Agreed. Java was first, so that's primarily why it is where it is today in terms of market share. But C#, and its functional cousin F#, are now leading the way in the evolution of …

Most teams should not waste their time searching for a “great” developer (whatever that is, exactly). Instead they would be better off just hiring the first candidate that comes al…

Isn't the "value" of a currency in it's relative stability over time? That is, the confidence by those who use it that it will be exchangeable for roughly the same amount of goods …

No real mention here of what will differentiate this from existing "tech education platforms".

I'm in an AWS dev ops training class as I write this. We're still experiencing a lot of timeouts related to IAM.

There are a lot of reasons to run, but if general fitness is the goal, I've found that sprinting, and in particular uphill sprinting, is the most effective and time-efficient.

Since the article does refer to these as desktop CPUs, I'm curious what kind of desktop workloads people are running that could benefit from / justify them?

I think you mean qualifiers.

This makes sense. The financial future of Microsoft is dependent upon the continued success of Office 365, Azure, and Xbox. Everything else, probably including Windows OS itself, s…