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I stand by my metaphor. It’s a command-line interface, a picture of text is only reducing its accessibility. To complain about the visually impaired not doing enough to make the co…

The author of edbrowse is visually impaired, and so is the target audience. This is like saying braille books could use more illustrations. Please read the very first hyperlink to …

Hard disagree. Please everyone name it what it is, and don’t try to be coy or clever. Call it the metrics database, the example.com web service, the marketing tool, the data acquis…

https://investor.vanguard.com/investor-resources-education/a... I’m very certain that even in the crazy case you have outlined, SIPC insurance would cover up to a half million. Som…

All of the content is provided by the community, if not directly submitted, ripped from message boards, Usenet, and other websites. Please don’t think that UG is paying anybody to …

I don't chose to be spied on by any government! But if I could chose only one, it would be an opposing country like China or Russia. American businesses are forced to share our pri…

Agreed, I would rather a foreign agency with no power or authority over me to have my personal data than a government that has the authority to wrongfully tax, investigate, jail, p…

This will certainly be used by corporations to whitewash their bad histories. IBM’s relationship with the Nazi Holocaust was difficult to find last week. the Wikipedia article, the…

Which of you are doctors? Why do you talk like this if you are not?

You are correct about the mortgage payments, I had a 1-2 cent error every few months, after a days struggle, I simply added a “Penny” column to add or subtract as necessary so that…

It is easier to locate keys when given hints like an empty space on the board, it’s much easier to find “f4” next to a gap rather than counting four keys from the left

I’d also like to add that IBM had no issues doing business with the Nazi party. They did it for the money, and stopped doing it for the money. They advertised on X for the money, a…

This is IBM letting us know that they are still breathing, they got more brand awareness from this article than a years worth of spend with X, big brain move from big brain execs

I would have disagreed about supporting 80286 PC-DOS and Apple ][ computers all the way to the year 2000 but supporting 2+Ghz 64-bit x86’s in 2023 isn’t really asking a lot.. and a…

Some kinds of mushrooms take up lead And other toxic materials. I only found this out because edible mushrooms grew in my yard, but they are warned in literature that they may cont…

One of the first things I saw Linux do was utilize two mouses with two separate mouse pointers (serial and ps2 at the time), I was a young teenager and it blew my mind and I was in…

You should especially consider the role of a historian or the person who wishes to set out to correct facts and figures that are in error in Wikipedia, this is precisely what they …

> We'd still be locked out of the account if I didn't have a friend's husband working at Google with access to their internal support. Working exactly as designed, requiring you to…

it would be like saying, “I’ll show those email scammers, by reading and replying to every spam email, surely they will be overburdened”, when you’re fighting automatic programs wi…

I don’t drink, I guess I score pretty poorly on your relationship scale. If you need to have a drink to get through the workday and get along with I’d rather work with anyone else.…

I received an email that my credit limit would be reduced on an Apple Card unless I called customer support. I haven’t seen that since 2008, I called, and said to the support perso…

Why is nobody mentioning using a tenths decimal, like 1.1 days ago, 1.9 years ago, 2.5 weeks ago. That’s how I like to implement it!

Also that git timestamps are localized to each individual developer and are not validated, it can make global development more difficult. https://alesnosek.com/blog/2017/01/02/git-…