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1) Social media driven by algorithms, destroying the fabric of society. 2) Being the product, not the customer. 3) Endless, gratuitous, unstoppable changes to the tools we use. 4) …

For me Google "verbatim" is the best way to get focussed results although it's too bad it doesn't allow date ranges. Bing search with appropriate use of guotes, + and - operators a…

Vaccine trials have shown that approved vaccines reduce moderate to severe illness and death. There is no trial-based evidence that they prevent people from catching the virus and …

Google and YouTube video search are terrible. I find the result poorly matches the query I typed, the results are hard to browse, and of course favor videos on YouTube ignoring bet…

Brings back great memories. Based on the article in Byte Magazine 1977 (1) I got Spacewar running (in assembly language) on my kit-built Processor Technolory Sol 8088 microcomputer…

The biggest difference between Macbook trackpads vs the best for Windows is the super low hysteresis of pointer motion vs finger motion. I recently bought and returned a Microsoft …

I'd like to switch to Edge but there is apparently no way to have it default to opening links in a new tab: https://www.tenforums.com/browsers-email/67169-can-i-make-op... I know a…

Do these problems also apply to USB C?

I've been wanting to switch to Windows from Mac for years. The thing that holds me back is the quality of the Mac touchpad vs any Windows laptop, and I recently ordered a Surface B…

I've been wanting to switch to Windows from Mac for years. The thing that holds me back is the quality of the Mac touchpad vs any Windows laptop, and I recently ordered a Surface B…

Another good reason to wear a face mask other than protecting yourself from Covid-19...

I usually search videos with Bing using the !bv redirect from DuckDuckGo. Google's video search is shockingly bad, considering they own YouTube. Not only are Bing's results more on…

The cost to collect the huge amounts of needed to train meaningful models is surely not growing at this rate.

Becoming a powerful politician...

Many Arduino compatible boards support hardware debugging. For example the Adafruit Feather series have connectors for a J-Link debugger. The Arduino Nano 33 BLE and Sense have pad…

I bought a 13 inch Macbook Pro in 2017 and within six months of normal use the spacebar and other other key were intermittent. I was fortunately able to get it fixed under warranty…

Paying attention to how users work and and what they need can also be extremely profitable. The entire idea for Microsoft Office came from our discovering how often they were strug…

I worked on the design of the first several versions of Excel. For Excel 3.0 we were intensely interested in user behavior. We often compared alternative prototypes of proposed fea…

I became so annoyed with LinkedIn I added every filter I could think of to block all email that even mentions LinkedIn. I don't care if I miss opportunities. I like the freedom fro…

A more recent similar expedition was the Falkland war of 1982 where the British, at high cost, sent a force to retake the Falklands when they were siezed by Argentina: https://en.w…