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RFC 4180 [1] Section 2.6 says: "Fields containing line breaks (CRLF), double quotes, and commas should be enclosed in double-quotes." If the DMS output isn’t quoting fields that co…

I am glad to hear that there was someone who argued for the right course of action in the Amazon Prime organization. I don't know why this is not being fought by other regulators. …

> The bank is not printing money new money, no matter how many times this idea gets repeated by people who are, ironically, pumping crypto coins that were printed out of thin air. …

I hope they at least split Office and Windows into seperate companies. Hopefully, then we may get Microsoft Office on Linux.

The worst part of it is that the "true Internet" is probably still out there, but we can't find it anymore. The search engines have gotten way worse over the years and we no longer…

Even today, Perl is the only scripting language with more than 200K modules and no Global Interpreter Lock.

While you may be able to create amazing experiences in JavaScript, JavaScript still has multiple problems: 1. It is inconsistent [1] 2. It does not have many features that programm…

Is there a Mac app to copy Windows' windowing behavior? I want different virtual desktops to behave like they are different computers with a shared clipboard, i.e., I don't want to…

It is unfortunate that the company that became incredibly successful, at least partly, because of the hackability of Linux and open source software is now actively working to suppr…

Berkshire Hathway is also a conglomerate, but it does perform fairly well.

Another option is duff: https://github.com/elmindreda/duff

Recommend Kings and Generals series on Mongols: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzatw32j-i4

It is also possible to do most of that with Python in Pycharm (except maybe jump behind?). This is why going from Python to Go can feel like going backward. IMO, even compiled lang…

I thought this was well known in the Anglosphere. Anyway, I have heard that this is why the words for cooked version of the meat and the name of the animal is different in English.…

> While manual backup and restore tests were run once a month to ensure our backups were functioning, they were run manually. After digging into why our restores were not coming up…

> Businesses gave mixed results on remote work productivity, with 30% saying it boosted output, and 40% saying it reduced it. I think this is a continuation of the theme of technol…

PyAutoGui is very good. I have been using it for a long time and rewrote some simple ahk automations with it recently. It's strictly not a one-to-one replacement (so I still use au…

> Meanwhile for the newer and more demanding JetStream 2.0 benchmark, Google Chrome continues to win easily over Firefox It is a good outcome that we have for the web: good standar…

I have been using it with Oracle SQLPlus to regain some sanity. I wish Oracle would develop a good CLI and make it available by default. For bonus points, release it to be relocata…