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This could be useful for reclaiming space when your disk is almost full, but $9.99 a month for a tool the average person isn't going to need very often seems a bit much.

The photos of stores and the paucity of merchandise available say a lot.

I don't need Pandoc often, but when I do there's nothing like it.

My mother smoked from age 12 until she was diagnosed with lung cancer at age 45. But the lung cancer was the result of metastasis from an advanced uterine cancer. A friend's mother…

When my wife died, I chose to have her immediately cremated. She was raised Catholic but wasn't religious and a viewing/funeral wouldn't have been appropriate. Her ashes are in an …

I keep a handwritten journal and write in script. My penmanship isn't great, but it's good enough. For exams in my intro programming classes, I allow students to bring a handwritte…

I'm an endurance cyclist, and I take 5g on ride days (4/week). I started based on this study ( https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15502783.2023.2... ). In short, it does …

I never had an LLM tell me my question was already answered and imply I was stupid for not finding it. SO dug its own grave and jumped in.

Social media isn't "social" anymore. It's algorithmically designed to keep you scrolling. Burnout is inevitable.

As the article points out, CPR really is oversold. I was a volunteer firefighter and did CPR multiple times, none of those people survived. I watched (and listened) as firefighters…

The LinkedIn post pop-up has an AI button at the bottom. It's no wonder people are using it.

I was around when blogging started and I've seen a lot of blogs come and go. The web was a much different place then and it was easier to attract and hold an audience than it is no…

I was able to fly business class in 747s to Japan back in the 90s (it was coach to Europe, though). That meant the upper deck and amenities like a sandwich and snack cart that you …

Back in my running days in the 80s, the people who did the timing and race results had a van with a PDP-11 in it that I assume ran off a generator. I wish I had asked them more abo…

I am shocked, shocked I say, that the head of a ransomware as a service group is based in Russia.

Homebrew has been a gamechanger for me, thanks for all your efforts!

The university I work at is heavily dependent on Google and its products, so I use Vivaldi for work. Otherwise, it's Firefox. I've been using it since the beginning and see no reas…

I've worked on skunkworks projects. It's all fine and dandy until it becomes a product and the main company takes over.

I am currently in that situation, and I can tell you it's a battle to keep the darkness away when you suddenly find yourself alone. I'm managing, with help, but not everyone can.

Isn't this been what some (so far) unnamed Trump administration people have been doing?

It's interesting to see things from a senior manager's viewpoint, especially in comparison to what I experienced as a mid-level manager. But it's funny to see that they also end up…

I was going to say the exact same thing. The only thing you might be able to count on is GMail, and I'm not sure even it won't go away someday.

I certainly teach that. When we work problems involving money, I always recommend students use integers for cents and only convert to dollars and cents when they have to print them…

My wife had the Costco membership and had a tendency to buy in quantities that were a bit much for the two of us. Our freezer was always packed. Now that she's passed, I went and g…

Unsurprisingly, it died out "mostly due to the high cost of replacing vehicles". Was it the inspiration for demolition derbies?