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I'm a former professional librarian. Left the field in 1985, but have never heard of anyone anywhere paying for use of the dewey decimal system. OCLC services is a different issue.…

I was completely unable to get it to "scroll": iPhone, MacBook running Firefox or Chromium, trackpad, arrow keys, the handle thingy on the right edge of the browser... nix nada not…

US: Washington

Wait...I was a tech writer for 20+ years at a major software developer. To me, a tech writer is someone who documents apps or APIs. If true, I don't see what this article has to do…

Sorry...TFA? What's that?

I spend week-long visits at a remote cabin in the Central Cascades. During the winter I have to get outside and get some significant exercise every day. Outside. Exercise. Every da…

Egypt to the Black Sea is UPSTREAM via the Dardenelles and the Bosporus. That's step one in the original route. It seems that a test run in the DOWNSTREAM direction will be less th…

Ditto. The Economist covers topics in depth that I don't see covered at all elsewhere. I also subscribe to 'The New Yorker'. I disagree vehemently with their politics but respect t…

I'm halfway there...not an engineer and my academic background is social sciences; but with a technical background occupationally. I'm here because it is an exceptionally diverse n…