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Spain and Portugal had a massive power outage this spring, no?

In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex by Nathaniel Philbrick. Story of the survivors of a sunken whale ship after a sperm whale attack. A source of inspiratio…

Dealing with this at work right now. Digging through thousands of lines of Bash. This script wasn’t written a long time ago, so no clue why they went with Bash. The script works bu…

I have a 2019 Impreza with the Eyesight tech and I have only had it engage the AEB a couple of times since purchasing it in Feb 2019. Maybe something is out of whack with your came…

Netflix has some NFL games on Christmas Day. Wonder how those will go for them. I remember when ESPN started streaming years back, it was awful. Now I almost never have problems wi…

Interesting documentary I watched a while back about the Obit writers at the NY Times https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obit_(film)

My go to game on our local BBS was Legend of the Red Dragon.

RIP ICQ. I met met quite a few long distance chat friends on there. Never met anyone in person from there, though. In my area, we had the Cleveland Freenet with an IRC server. Met …

Where I am (Ohio, USA), drug stores like CVS/Wallgreens sell beer, wine. Hard liquor over a certain alcohol percent is only available at a state liquor agency.

When will airlines charge an upgrade fee to book a flight on an Airbus plane?

Football players typically don’t wear cups. https://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/09/sports/football/helmet-ch...

So far the only other one I have used is Google Bard.

Cue Star Trek IV hospital scene with Bones.

My wife, former librarian, introduced me to the rule of 50 of Nancy Pearl (famous librarian from Seattle Public Library). Essentially, if you aren’t feeling a book after 50 pages, …

I think “free” in the sense that it was the same price whether you picked it up or had the place deliver. You only had to tip the driver. This was for delivery only places like Dom…

The biggest advantage I found when learning on DOS and Windows in the 1990s was the overall lack of distractions. No smart phone, YouTube, Reddit/HackerNews let me fully concentrat…

The office with a door thing was how Microsoft was back in the day, if I remember correct. From the stories I heard, some of the offices were ridiculously small/narrow but they sti…

The general collection of The Cleveland Museum of Art ( https://www.clevelandart.org/ ) is still free. If you are in the University Circle area of Cleveland, definitely recommend.

I agree on the notifications thing. A few friends and I are doing some side consulting and decided to use a Google Space within our public Gmail accounts. It has worked great and I…

Other mail systems should hopefully be configured for retry up to a few days. So I wouldn't think the mails should bounce unless someone used a really short retry period. "Retries …

I received a M1 Mac for my most recent job a few years back after years of Windows at work. The window management drove me nuts on MacOS until I found rectangle. I don’t know how s…

I have been wondering the same. Depending on the job posting and how the company looks online, I have selectively left off lots of experience and simply said "10+ years of experien…

USA based, I am right around 20 years into my career in IT Ops. A little over two weeks of submissions, 20 sent and 4 rejections so far.

I feel weird without it and I always carry my ID in the US, even when just going for a walk around the neighborhood. Not hard for me since it’s in my wallet and I use one of those …