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What you've said is pretty much what I always say about Notes, it was much more than Outlook and when Outlook took over I often wondered what folks did for all the things that Note…

Before Outlook there were many, many options, which is kind of the point. You might be intrigued by something like All-In-1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ALL-IN-1 My own first emai…

That reminds me of the latter stages of Sun Microsystems, where it seemed like multiple teams were developing competing solutions for system management and patching. Seems a wastef…

So much this, I don't understand why cloud providers don't offer an easy way to view this sort of thing as really it should all be in the logging anyway.

Rick Beato musing on a Billy Corgan comment on how AI is going to replace musicians. Will we be just be left with a front person to present the music, whose vocals are auto tuned?

I sometimes have 3 - 1 at the normal time, interrupted by needing a pee (Age/male/kidney disease), then a second interrupted by the elder of my two dogs needing a pee and a third s…

Interesting in particular in the conclusion talking about jobs and automation, a familiar concern now as then.

Oh yeah, the Swiss French way is a lot less confusing.

Apart from the US, where else has middle schools? Here in Scotland there is (Optionally) nursery, primary school (5-12) and then secondary school (12-16/18), no middle.

Recommended https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1824.The_Men_Who_Stare_a...

Very much so, the build quality is amazing. I sold my late dad's 1983/4 DX7 MK1 in 2014 to someone who is now a pal - it was gigged for something like 20 year, more than once a wee…

Oh yes, so much agree - almost completely pointless to search for something in a chat and only see the one line that contains the search terms, none of the context chat around it -…

Reminds of all those times we are told that 'customers demanded X', as if we all stood outside supermarkets with placards saying, "We demand huge strawberries that don't taste of a…

Biggest stand out in this article is the stats about declining free time for play - as has been said quite a few times on HN, humans need to be bored and to play in order to be cre…

I got asked a similar question from a devops/sysadmin point of view in an interview - If you enter 'ssh somehostnamethatisupandyoucansshto' what happens? I like this sort of questi…

After my initial computing forays with BigTrak, a ZX Spectrum and some time on a BBC Micro and Apple Mac, my first multi user computer use was on the VAX Cluster at uni. I hated UN…

"during the early eighties every school child in the United Kingdom was exposed to it, spawning a whole generation of bedroom programmers." Erm no. When I was at secondary school, …

Correction, England (Outside London) and Wales has gone mad.

My partner is into knitting and what has struck me about it is the highly variable semantics and syntax of knitting patterns. Seems to be few standards as to how to describe how so…

Agree. One series I've enjoyed, "You're the Worst", is not even legally available in the UK in any medium as far as I can find other than S1 and S2 - Both shown on one UK TV channe…

I'd never done anything much with pam before but found it relatively easy to get PrivacyIDEA working on CentOS, it's even easier if you're using Ubuntu. https://www.privacyidea.org…

Q - how do you multiply something like 25x63 example in your head? Personally, I'd break that down also, by doing - 5 x 63 = 315 x 5 = 1575 reminds me a little of the Feynman story…