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Pro 11 is still subject to bullshit ads. Prefer 11 Enterprise licenses so that ads can be completely turned off.

MDE plan 2 is no assurance of security. There was an incident where Microsoft, in their infinite wisdom, pushed out definitions that caused the removal of many valid app shortcuts …

You forgot to unfurl the course sails and get out and push.

A certain STOL-modified Piper Cub barely needs a runway longer than a driveway. https://youtu.be/hPakbghLe38

The mindset of that pilot inherently dangerous and complacent. A friend of mine was a casual GA pilot in college. He was constantly practicing failure modes and making contingency …

This year's El Niño storms were as bad as those in the early 90's. Back then, I recall a storm where most fences were blown down and the dining room window pane glass flexed and bo…

Bless her heart. I hope she gets early seating like my mom regardless of the airline's "Y2K" error.

Repeated layoffs: how to tell your other employees that you hate them and want them to leave also. These damn investors and MBB consultants put a bug in managements' ear that costs…

Kinetic energy != momentum. KE = ½ m v^2. Moon 3.8e28 J Tsar Bomba 4e17 J

Perhaps kamikaze drones render large armor obsolete.

The lack of upvoting of and discussion about this article here reminds me of the largely empty donation bins around Silicon Valley during the holidays. These are indictments of a v…

They should rename it "Idiocracy." More untested, evidence-free sociological experimentation on kids with subjective grading geared towards increasing biases against merit and arbi…

IIRC a TED talk concluded SBS was a now mostly discredited pseudo-scientific moral panic of the 80's and 90's. There are certain pathos microtransgressions in Western civilization …

Often whenever someone quotes how many years/decades of experience they have, I then begin to wonder if they have become complacent and/or adverse to learning, improvements, and ch…

s/encountering/& faster, cheaper, and/or better than you or most people/ PS: I would ask: "What kind of biscuits? Do they have low glycemic and high satiety indexes?"

Second this notion. At least in software craftsmanship, experts are best identified working with others. It appears to be an irreducible process that cannot be pantomimed with triv…

It's a mark of people who avoid difficult things, who lack curiosity, and make a habit of evading volunteering and are unable to fathom noblesse oblige.

Will never get another dime and won't be allowed to work anywhere that does background checks. Basically, fucked for life in de facto civil death. They'll have to work something gr…

Serato is digital pretend scratching. Might as well use a DJ controller. Real scratching requires a proper tt and skill like Mix Master Mike. Hell, I have 2 Pioneer DL-5 and a Pion…

Related: An article comparing Si IGBTs and SiC MOSFETs. https://www.arrow.com/en/research-and-events/articles/advant...

Here, let me wikipedia that for you: > MITRE formed in 1958 as a military think tank, spun out from the radar and computer research at the MIT Lincoln Laboratory. Over the years, M…

It had the appetite but not the pretext under the foolish warmongers GWB and Cheney. The US was rehearsing for exactly this with a high tempo of operations including naval air sort…

It's the art of making the juggling with swords seem safe and easy while making a daily commute through a minefield of UB seem routine.

Pedantic language shaming is uncool and other people's experiences are different from your own. Get over it.

An existentially unfulfilled life can be as much of a prison or torture as any physical illness. Treatment resistant depression also can cause great suffering. If I were in the con…