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Lockdown mode and MS Office Web - icons missing
  • Yes! This bugs the hell out of me. Chrome works perfectly, but I would prefer safari.

    Also - if you turn the office webpage into an app in safari and Chrome, only Chrome works.

    I’d love to know how to fix it.

  • How to solve this boot error message?
  • I second the advice to switch to a different/previous/known good kernel. That has been the cause a most boot problems for me. I just had it happen on a VM a couple of weeks ago, so I switched to the old kernel, then removed the new kernel. I’ll wait for another kernel before upgrading.

    It’s probably worth scanning your disk just in case as well.

  • New Zealand swings to the right in post-Ardern era
  • One other (slightly funny) aspect, for some of us older people. The leader of the Act party - David Seymour - is a dead ringer for Arnold Rimmer from Red Dwarf. As Lister would say - they are both complete knobheads.

  • New Zealand swings to the right in post-Ardern era
  • Act is waaaaaay to the right of any other party in NZ.

    NZ First have partnered with Labour (left) and with National (right) over the years. Their strength is mainly around the leader (Winston Peters) who is a real firebrand and somehow they pull 5-7% or so every year (although they disappeared below the threshold in the 2020 election). IIRC their support is more in the older generation.

    I would say their economics are centrist, but they tend to be conservative on other issues.

    In the 2017 govt when they partnered with Labour (left), Winston became deputy prime minister and foreign minister and the rumours were that he was pretty effective and hardworking in the foreign minister position.

  • New Zealand swings to the right in post-Ardern era
  • This is not true. I think a more accurate term would be we swung for change. Green vote held up, it was mainly labour that dived. Having said that, the extreme right, Act, did do well with about 9%. And it’s also worth noting that both national (right) and labour (left) would be considered quite middle of the road elsewhere.

  • I accidentally removed the WHERE clause from my SQL query in a personal tool. Every row is now the same. I overwrote 206,000+ rows. I have no backup, I am stupid.
  • I learned the hard way about the beauty of backups and the 3, 2, 1 rule. And snapshots are the GOAT.

    Even large and (supposedly) sophisticated teams can make this mistake, so dont feel bad. It’s all part of learning and growth. You have learned the lesson in a very real and visceral way - it will stick with you forever.

    Example - a very large customer running our product across multiple servers, talking back to a large central (and shared) DB server. DB server shat itself. They called us up to see if we had any logs that could be used to reconstruct our part of their database server, because it turned out they had no backups. Had to say no.

  • People who have been through tough timew, how did you keep moving?
  • Damn… I feel for you. It sounds like you are in a tough spot. There’s lots of good advice on this page, and the one thing I will add is to protect and keep working on your relationship. Money is the core component of many (or was it most?) relationship problems.

    You can get through it, but (IMHO) you need your wife right there with you (or at least, I did). We were doing ok until I tried to start a business and dropped my 9-5 job. Revenue was slim, and then at one point I earned nothing for 6 months. We were on the bones of our arse - living off a meagre kindergarten teacher’s wage paying rent and food. Without my wife, we would have drowned. She did amazing things in budgeting down to the last penny, no luxuries, riding everywhere, spending time together. It was hard and there was no end in sight for a long time. We were very lucky and things turned around. But I would have not managed it without her (and her incredible budgets).

    It sound like you have been deep in it for longer than we were, and I wish you all the best in working your way out.

  • Lockdown mode and MS Office Web - icons missing
  • When I look closer at the source, I can see they are using data-icon-name for the image, so it’s likely using fluent-ui, and loading these icon resources from a font.

    I can see a whole lot of fonts loading, although they do show some warnings:

    The resource https://res-h3.public.cdn.office.net/assets/mail/fonts/v1/fonts/segoeui-semilight.woff was preloaded using link preload but not used within a few seconds from the window's load event. Please make sure it wasn't preloaded for nothing.

    This is repeated for a number of versions of that font. I cannot see any font resources actually failing to load.

  • Lockdown mode and MS Office Web - icons missing

    I’ve got Lockdown enabled on my mac. Most things are fine. But MS Office for the web is not.

    For most web pages, you can select whether lockdown applies. I have done this for Office: !

    When looking at office in the browser, a red message appears in the top right “Lockdown Off”. But when the office web page shows, all the icons are blank:

    !

    I looked at the web page source - and can see that some material is being loaded from here:

    res-h3.public.cdn.office.net

    I have also set this to be excluded from lockdown. But that didn’t help.

    Has anyone got MS Office for the web working under Lockdown Mode? Thx

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    The Top Programming Languages 2023
  • The lists are quite similar with a slight reordering in the top 7 or 8. I guess both lists are a representative sample of developers… But there is one interesting difference:

    IEEE: Python, Java, C++, C, JS, SQL, Go TIOBE: Python, C, C++, Java, C#, JS, VB (!), SQL

    In IEEE, VB is way way down the list. Do IEEE members use VB less?

    I’m always amazed that C still scores so high, but I’ve been told there is a lot of embedded work still going on.

  • The Top Programming Languages 2023
  • Keep in mind that this is for « typical IEEE members », which I am pretty sure is not a great representative sample of programmers in general.

    How many of you programmers out there are IEEE members?

  • Stability just dived

    Dunno what is triggering it, but in the last 2 days I’m getting a log of crashes when touching on a post. It was far less frequent before that.

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    Privacy for Bean

    Can you please clarify the privacy position of the app? As usual, TestFlight says you can get everything. What information are you scraping?

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