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SmartmanApps

@SmartmanApps@dotnet.social

#dotNet #dotNetMaui with #cSharp UI
Maths/Computer Science teacher/tutor
Facts aren't "arbitrary"
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drahardja, to random
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The Y2K bug is a great illustration that a well-handled potential disaster looks like “nothing happened” in retrospect. The fact that Y2K seemed to be a non-event is a testament to how seriously people took this emergency, and how everyone buckled down and averted a worldwide infrastructure disaster.

I started working at Honeywell Aerospace (AlliedSignal back then) in 1998, and by that time people were already working on Y2K issues. We were in the GPS navigation business, and there were real issues that would have caused aircraft navigation to go awry unless they were fixed.

People buckled down, found the bugs, ran simulations, got FAA sign-offs, and deployed the fixes to all affected aircraft well before Y2K. Thanks to the effort, “nothing happened”. But I assure you (bad) things would have happened if we did nothing. https://infosec.exchange/@tychotithonus/111670219441506220

SmartmanApps,
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@danielbowen @ajsadauskas @drahardja
Yep, I worked that weekend and saw several systems break. Fortunately nothing we couldn't work around. We were actually quite lucky, as management decided that instead of doing the relatively cheap upgrade of our mainframe dumb-terminal system, we would instead write a whole new server-based PC system - the week before Y2K we still hadn't had a successful overnight batch run yet! Made it by the skin of our teeth.

obeto, to random
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OMG!!!

For years, the antivirus software company #avast harvested information from users’ web browsers without their consent.

And SOLD that data!

Though I have never used any of their products, I pray that this company is sued into oblivion.

What an abhorrent deception! https://www.theverge.com/2024/2/22/24080135/avast-security-privacy-software-ftc-fine-data-harvesting

SmartmanApps,
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@obeto @rodhilton

tychotithonus, to random

Tell me you've never helped seniors with tech, without telling me you've never helped seniors with tech.

And I don't just mean the person answering this question. I also mean whoever decided to remove this option.

SmartmanApps,
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@yakkoj @tychotithonus
Agreed. I just "updated" to Windows 11 (I didn't want to) and one of the (many) things I hate about it is the disappearing scroll-bar arrow! So, Microsoft, to make the invisible arrow appear, you have to hover over it, so you have to find the right spot to hover over something that you can't see... unless you find the right spot when the arrow is invisible. Didn't think that through did you...

atoponce, to ChatGPT
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Why large language models are not intelligent, exhibit #64338.

#ChatGPT

SmartmanApps,
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@atoponce

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maria, to random
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Mass media almost never points out, "This person is a known liar"

and yet it's the most important thing we need to know

SmartmanApps,
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@maria
I saw a post a while ago which went along the lines of "if one person says it's raining, and another says it's not, it's not a journalist's job to report both sides - it's their job to look out the window and see if it's raining".

futurebird, to random
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"You'd expect this from Joe Scarborough he's a far left opinion commentator."

-Fox Anchor

Joe Scarborough served as a Republican in the FL house. And ... as a member of the far left I'm deeply insulted. As I think Joe would be too. We are in crazy town.

"far left"

SmartmanApps,
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@futurebird
Is "far left" the new "Socialist"? 😂

RickiTarr, to random
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Seriously heard someone saying they don't listen to many black artists, because they aren't really into rap. Bitch please, feel free to share songs from Black artists from any genre. Here is one of my favorites, if you like this song please check out her other work:

https://youtu.be/KovrJ8HXI1Q?si=HOYIG7YMuAUTsJz6

SmartmanApps,
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@RickiTarr
Gotta get some Aussie representation in there :-)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9edIBvlrlg

lednabwm, to random

Don't forget....

SmartmanApps,
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@lednabwm
Same people... well, dinosaurs.

SmartmanApps, to dotnet
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#dotnet #dotnetmaui peeps, I'm on #bluesky as well now, and let me tell you, you're not missing out on much. There's not really many .NET peeps there (we have a much more thriving community here) but I figured I'll post there sometimes because...
I still have a presence on #twitter too, and that's so as to try and keep funnelling people to here. 🙂 I figure I can use Bluesky for the same thing. In marketing they talk about having a sales funnel. Well I have a #FediverseFunnel #mastodon #fediverse

SmartmanApps, to mastodon
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Another BMI (Big #Mastodon Influx) kicking off. What did the manbaby say/do this time?
#ElonMusk #Twitter

SmartmanApps, to mathematics
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Thread index https://dotnet.social/@SmartmanApps/110897908266416158

Before I say what it is, I am NOT posting this as clickbait (which is how it's often used)! 😂 I'm posting this as a Maths teacher who knows this topic inside-out and wants to help people to understand it better. There are MANY mistakes that people make and get the wrong answer, and I'm going to cover them in bite-size chunks each week for a few weeks

So 8÷2(1+3)=? What is the answer (bonus: and WHY is it the answer)?

SmartmanApps, to fediverse
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Sneak peek of a graphic I made for a talk I'm giving next week about the #Fediverse - choose your po... I mean UI for today's Fedi-mission 🙂

F.A.B. - Fediverse Adventure Begin...

#Mastodon #Lemmy #Pixelfed

poppastring, to random
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A post from the archive 📫:
Collecting dumps anywhere with dotnet-monitor

https://www.poppastring.com/blog/collecting-dumps-anywhere-with-dotnetmonitor

SmartmanApps,
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@poppastring
You forgot the hashtag Mark.

@bot boost this

claresudbery, to random
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Imposter syndrome is something we often talk about, but what do we DO about it? I think our industry has a major problem in the way we make each other feel about our skills and experience. As a teacher, trainer and technical coach, I spend a lot of time trying to help people get over their insecurities and get them to a place where they can not only learn effectively, but enjoy learning (rather than feeling insecure about what they don't know). >>>

SmartmanApps,
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@claresudbery @codinghorror
Someone posted a link to this on programming.dev (I saw it there first). As a teacher (and dev frustrated with poor documentation), here's my further info on how to effectively teach... https://programming.dev/comment/7378514

shoq, to random
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There is just no question in my mind that the culture of the fediverse (by any name) is a better model for civil discussion. But oddly, even many of its biggest champions have largely returned to Twitter, or pivoted to Threads, which may be a step up from Nazis, but that’s a pretty fucking law bar.

SmartmanApps,
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@shoq
I noticed that and I'm thinking some of them aren't checking where the engagement is coming from. I recently, in a rare moment, engaged in some conversation there (I was all up to date with here, so, oh well, let's see what's happenning there), and one time I got back on I had 8 notifications, but I checked the profiles and 7 of them were likes from porn bots (and only 1 of those 7 was "this profile is hidden due to suspicious activity").

SmartmanApps, to dotnet
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WARNING: Latest Visual Studio update causes older Android emulator deployments to fail "Emulator is not ready to be used"

https://programming.dev/post/7754605

#dotNetMAUI #dotNet #VisualStudio #AndroidDev

SmartmanApps,
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@jonathanpeppers
I can confirm that 17.9 fixes this emulator issue 🙂

khalidabuhakmeh, to random
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On one hand, I’m very dubious of AI-generated recipes as they could generate some dangerous recipes, on the other hand, TikTok hacks and YouTube short have been lying to an entire generation of cooks about what is possible.

Basically, don’t trust any recipe online without thinking through it critically.

https://youtu.be/BU3bTBWnvT4 Ann Reardon has been doing a great job on her YouTube channel.

SmartmanApps,
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@khalidabuhakmeh
"YouTube short have been lying to an entire generation of cooks about what is possible"
Reminds me of a Youtuber who had a video "How to make English tea" in which she used a teabag and put it in the microwave 🤣🤣🤣

poppastring, to superbowl
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The year of our Lord 2024 and we cannot sync audio with video.

SmartmanApps,
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@poppastring
A while back now, but reminds me of when the Olympic ceremony had those hundreds of co-ordinated drones in the sky... and yet the performances were still mimed.

web_goddess, to random

Why did no one tell me that Sydney Sweeney “Anyone But You” romcom is a riff on Much Ado About Nothing?! It’s charming af. You had me at Bryan Brown as Leonato. 😍 (But any Sydneysider will laugh at some of the geographic liberties taken…)

SmartmanApps,
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@web_goddess
I like playing "Spot the Sydney landmark" when watching "The Matrix", were the streets have been given American names, the cars are parked on the right-hand side of the road, but you can see Australia Square, the Harbour Bridge, the Martin Place fountain, etc.

poppastring, to random
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Dear Creator/Blogger/vlogger/Reviewer/developer/etc.,

Please keep sharing your content, even if someone creates something similar, your point of view and voice remains valuable!

Some folks will love your content. 🤗
Some folks will hate your content. 😡
Most will completely ignore your content. 😵

Either way just keep sharing!

SmartmanApps,
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@poppastring
It'd be great if you could get someone, anyone who is responsible for your Maths programming to read https://dotnet.social/@SmartmanApps/110897908266416158 - in particular when I covered the topic of e-calcs https://dotnet.social/@SmartmanApps/111164851485070719 where I covered the DIFFERENT ways that the different MS products do it wrong. The Windows "standard" calc says that 2+3x4=20, in "Scientific" mode it says that's 14 but also says 8/2(1+3)=8/(1+3), etc.
signed,
Maths teacher/tutor tired of hearing "but my calculator says you're wrong"

josh, to random

where's your head at?

SmartmanApps,
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@josh
Fun fact: That song uses a sample from a 1979 Gary Numan album track, M.E. Apparently it also uses a sample from the 1980 single This Wreckage, but I've never been able to identify exactly where it is (and I know I'm not alone in that), but the whole song is based around the M.E. sample, so that's unmissable. 🙂
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VzV_EnPPnLM

developerjustin, to Blog
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Woah, just now learning about Tusks from @bardi

I’ve been posting about wanting blogging to feel more like posting on here forever and…I think this gets me there. Why bother hosting a #blog and all of that hassle when your #Mastodon account could literally be a blog?

It’s amazing what a well-maintained API enables in for client apps like this. When the UI is in play, Mastodon effectively becomes infrastructure

🧐

#indieWeb

From: @jonathanreed
https://techhub.social/@jonathanreed/112462234679954283

SmartmanApps,
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@developerjustin @bardi @jonathanreed
Yeah, that's basically what I did with https://dotnet.social/@SmartmanApps/110897908266416158 - each week I covered a sub-topic with a 6-7 post mini-thread, and now I can fine-tune link to specific parts/posts when needed. i.e. the whole push for this is summed up by when I talked about e-calculators (the bane of Maths teachers/tutors) at https://dotnet.social/@SmartmanApps/111164851485070719 having covered all the relevant mathematical theory by that point (which I can also link to specific posts as needed).

poppastring, to VisualStudio
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Windows application development is now an installation option for Visual Studio. This of course include #Arm64 #visualstudio :visualstudio:

SmartmanApps,
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@poppastring
And speaking of I created a for it a couple of months ago at https://programming.dev/c/windows_dev

oskardudycz, to random
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Prepare 🍿 for the next epic idea from the .NET Team!
https://github.com/dotnet/aspnetcore/issues/53219

SmartmanApps,
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@khalidabuhakmeh @oskardudycz
Well, they killed off the Xamarin forum - still don't know why - but I've started a new MAUI (and Xamarin) Lemmy Community at https://programming.dev/c/dotnetmaui to try and revive the community we used to have when we had the Xamarin forum.

poppastring, to random
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I was terrible at chemistry coming out of school.
But I just randomly saw a YouTube video of someone doing molar calculations and decided to see if it made more sense now.

It is totally intuitive! I sadly remember when I first started that course that it felt like it would never make sense.

SmartmanApps,
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@poppastring
As a Maths teacher/tutor, I see a lot of students who THINK they are bad at Maths, but what I invariably find is their arithmetic skills are actually poor (the standard is to be able to answer an up to 12 times table question in 2 seconds, and we're talking not even close for these students), which is like trying to build a house on faulty foundations. Invariably once I start getting them up to speed with it they start feeling CONFIDENT with Maths now, and don't hate it anymore!

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