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My spouse has a background in engineering and health sciences and is an Excel fan. I do IT support, and I kind of hate Excel, but I kind of love Apple's Numbers app.

"These effortless pleasures, these ready-made distractions that are the same for every one over the face of the whole Western world, are surely a worse menace to our civilization t…

If there's one thing we've learned in the past year is that curly haired men named Sam in the tech industry claiming that they are doing it "for the good of all humanity" probably …

57 pages in before we get a single screenshot. In a lot of ways, I miss this kind of weird ass writing about introducing people to computers with so little previous context to comp…

Let's see... what does Stanford reward? checks notes Oh. Oh my. https://www.npr.org/2023/07/19/1188828810/stanford-universit... Well, I'm sure that resignation came about after a t…

I also hate it. My hatred stems from the fact that it's very much a tech bro ideology. They get it into their head that THEIR system is 'the one'. It's the same way that tech bro w…

Honestly, if you want to do this, just study and use the Library of Congress cataloging system: https://catalog.loc.gov/vwebv/ui/en_US/htdocs/help/numbers.h... The energy in creati…

Yeah. All systems like this have to account for ad-hoc additions. Otherwise you will often jam a few squares into some circles just to accommodate your categorization system.

Is this the one that was speculated on as being a hoax / joke?

Same.

This is my head canon for how birthing of babies happened in The Matrix.

Yeah, if you find an honest dentist in 2023 in the United States, never, ever go to anyone else. Thank GOD I found one recently. After a cross country move I put off going to the d…

Fingers crossed that it can actually be replicated in future studies and research. We definitely don't want another nearly 20 years of false path ass busting research based on fals…

As dumb as it always comes across, telling people to reboot their systems after nearly 25 years in IT support is something we're still doing to this day. And we're still doing it b…

Reminds me of Merlin Mann's "perfect apostrophe": http://www.43folders.com/2006/06/11/perfect-apostrophe

I make my living within this 20% of non-functionality.

Truly, microwave popcorn is atrocious for all sorts of reasons. As top vote getting comment points out, regular popcorn is SO easy and SO much better. I have no idea why anyone wan…

And crazy sour ales. I would welcome the return of some imperial stout and porter efforts from these guys.

Well this isn't like the plot of TWO movies made about having body parts repossessed or anything.

HOLY SHIT! THERE HE IS!

Entire Article: "Can alligators X? Yes. Yes they can." TREE GATORS! TERROR OF THE FLORIDA SKIES!

Interesting to a certain point and then it kind of gets really repetitive and boring. It's a five page fan fic in a 30 chapter bag.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7dl42TsP84 Tokyo to Osaka by local train only. 11 hours.

Another TeamView, LogMeIn former user eh? :)