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I switched to Freesimplegui as a replacement.

Or "fount" from older, non-American English.

Ability to handle email coming soon.

This is excellent clarity of thought.

It seems possible to me at least, that social media can distort or negate any parentally installed firmware, despite parents best intentions and efforts.

First thing I did after getting the csv export was throw together a python script to save all the URLs as PDFs based on the title. Not horribly robust, but a csv list of failed URL…

So is trolling: one of the meanings is: fishing by trailing a baited line along behind a boat

There's an AutoHotkey script for that!

But Pa won't.

https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/unix-power-tools/059600... I used this a great deal, when I first started out on serious UNIX tasks (1996+)

And so it goes on: Egyptian temples defaced by early Christians, Palmyra temples destroyed by Isis...

I like to say they should remove the block from under the accelerator pedal.

I have the opposite problem: colleagues who don't want to learn how to do anything new.

With the 'no drone left behind' policy, there will be drones to fetch injured drones.

TED Talk https://youtu.be/-Lg7G8TMe_A

Somewhere around 2005, most of my job as an Oracle DBA/developer for a pension company seemed to consist of writing small scripts to automate some process. Somewhat like little Uni…

”The Fine Article” that this discussion is about :-)

Unix Power Tools was a great help when I was learning shell scripting: https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/unix-power-tools/059600...

digital tech is a small fraction of your emissions - reminds one of David MacKay's book: Sustainable Energy – without the hot air. In particular as Professor MacKay puts it: "Obses…

I've been using The Vim Outliner (TVO) for years now, haven't found anything else that works as well for my daily workflow. https://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=517

Those two groups are not mutually exclusive :-)

I've heard this concept called the cardboard colleague - you explain the problem to a cardboard cutout representing a colleague instead of an actual person. Of course it remains a …

Time-domain reflectometry

”I can leave anytime I want!” :-)

This is a good point - the cable is probably 20+ years old and has been used for weed eaters and lawn mowers. It's been regularly uncoiled and re-coiled, not always correctly. The …