Michael Burgwin

Programmer, Pretend web developer, blogger, and IT tech rolled into one sub-par and self-deprecating package! Also somehow an MS MVP for 2012.

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@GOGcom Star Trek: Buffet Manager

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@LinusTech But those are Start Buttons, not Start Menus.

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@vlucas @static_tensions @Grady_Booch "Tesla was re-thinking cars from scratch." I didn't know electrifying a Lotus Chassis was "re-thinking cars from scratch". Pretty incredible also that they somehow ended up with cars that blend in pretty well with the design of most vehicles already on the road.

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@brentalfloss RIP Memory cracker, we hardly knew ye

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@PeterSweden7 Draft emergency proposals regarding EVs during an energy crisis being only for necessary journeys (Work, shopping, doctor, religious events, court appointments). Hardly a "ban"; Many countries have similar legislation for gas shortages and ICE vehicles.

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@KimDotcom Intentional lighting blackouts, even with infrastructure otherwise, is a standard tactic used to make air raids less accurate. This is why as territory is won back, those areas go dark at night. Russian occupiers aren't concerned because Ukraine is not going to bomb themselves.

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@steeltrack52 @Scheerschmidt1 @MattWallace888 SpaceX and Tesla would have both failed without government intervention; a 1.6 Billion dollar government contract in the first case and a 300 million dollar Department of Energy Loan in the latter.

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@oesorg @MosquitoCapital Paypal was created by Confinity over a year before that company Merged with Elon's company, X dot com. He was not involved in it's "invention".

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@djvlad As an adult, drinking water is a form of depression. If you don't believe me, ask yourself this: Think about the 100 greatest moments of your life. Do any of those moments include drinking water? Probably not. And this comes from a lifetime drinker of water.

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@SpawnWaveMedia Hall-effect joysticks drift because of changes in the magnetic field of the magnets used. They last longer but they aren't impervious, and the "drift" can become very erratic depending on how the magnetic materials change.

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@lefticus @danbjson Both the GNU C Compiler and the CLang C Compiler are self-hosting compilers. I don't see how that is possible if they are written in C. Perusing the current source code for both and I can't find any C++ elements. C code that compiles in a C++ compiler is still C.

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@MartinNobel_ @NdekweE My Windows XP machines are connected to the Internet. Still waiting for the Internet boogeymen I was promised

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@themiwi @shanselman it also only checks for lowercase extensions, but file extensions can have mixed caps and JpG or JPG is still a jpeg file.

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@ShawnWildermuth If that is so, then why emphasize that the product is old with a screenshot from decades ago?

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@KimMaida Interrupt 13h

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Me: Right-Click -> Open With-> VLC
Existing VLC Window: Oh, guess you don't want this massive playlist you didn't save, I'll just go ahead and throw that out and open that one single file for you

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@ModernVintageG Next he will sue Twitter to call himself a founder

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@a_arknu @robotdad The "new context menu API" is IExplorerCommand, it was not a "context menu API" In Windows 7; It was designed to allow for a shared command structure between toolbars/ribbon commands and menu items for Shell extensions. 'The documentation' also constantly references IContextMenu.

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C#'s "Top level statements" feature was going to be called "Punch Card format", but Microsoft was worried that 20-year-old developers would think it was a new trading card game.