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Yes. "We all" add it. Every time. /s

Many years ago, I standardized on Journal in Microsoft Outlook. Well guess what. Microsoft created Notes and Journal bceame a "legacy app." It was not possible to migrate. The depr…

This is so much better than reading the news. Favorited—I'll be coming back to absorb more, as my aging semi-fluency in engineering physics and SQL doesn't help much with the notat…

When I click the link for this story, Edge (stop laughing. Please.) pops up "uBlock Origin works on Microsoft Edge." (It's already there, Edge, but thank you). Edge is based on Chr…

Showed this to my 16 year old and she said, "oh, yeah, I've got that bookmarked." "You should also try Mondrian and Me." I did, and it's as you would expect: https://mondrianandme.…

Funny thing, I didn't any trouble finding gasoline on January 19, 1981.

"A generation from now, this solar heater can either be a curiosity, a museum piece, an example of a road not taken, or it can be a small part of one of the greatest and most excit…

A worry about the incoming American president has nothing to do directly with the proliferation of sports gambling nor the harms it brings, but the sudden absence of formerly avail…

The OG cloud email service, AOL, still revive it for testing now and then, from 1993. Yahoo! account established July 17, 1996. I know the exact date because I remember a hyperlink…

I tried a variety of configurations. The E-series was one of them, as it's advertised as "Great for relational database servers, medium to large caches, and in-memory analytics." P…

I may have the "Ebsv5" series code incorrect. I'd look it up, but I don't have access to the subscription any longer. What I chose ultimately was definitely "nVME attached" and def…

At my job at a telco, I had a 13 billion record file to scan and index for duplicates and bad addresses. Consultants brought in to move our apps (some of which were Excel macros, o…

Reads like the materials coming out of AT&T, a very different company but with the same need to obfuscate massive cuts from investment community.

Or better yet, a registry flag to enable browser choice.

The archetypal "good enough" solution: Instead of preventing collisions, tolerating and managing them. I think of Ethernet often when assessing how close to perfection I need to ge…

Handwriting simulator, yes. Calligraphy? Not quite. I'll still be paying someone to address my daughter's wedding invitations, I expect. Unless she elopes, that is (one can hope).

What about owning a domain and using a unique address for each commercial entity? FOr example, amazon@mydomain.us, nytimes@mydomain.us, citibank@mydomain.us, etc. I have done this …

This presentation is so clear I'm going to show it to my high-schooler so that she can (1) understand why Dad works on Saturday (I confess to some "heroics"), and (2) concepts she …

You are 63% of my age (there's a coincidence there, do the math). A point I haven't yet seen in the comments: how much the advancement of civilization owes to 20-30 somethings. Tak…

COVID allowed my company to put everyone on the same level. It was wonderful while it lasted. Unfortunately, the drive to "collaboration" has sprung up again in our senior ranks, w…

I value the occasional to the office, on my schedule (take vacation from vacation and stop in the office for an afternoon), to meet the people I work with regularly. Beyond the occ…

Yes, I stopped when I switched from a OnePlus 3T to Pixel 5. My provider (and employer) kicked the 3T off the wireless network because it was not "4G compatible", though it very mu…

I found a bug in mySQL and after the mySQL team fixed it, I included a summary of it in my annual employee review. Bug fixing widely-used software is not part of my role, but the c…

Agree. In my case, I went from Excel stare'n'compare to MS Access and finally mySQL for several years. mySQL worked great for my lil piece of company business involving a few milli…