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emeril
3y ago
some friends of mine tried to convince me to compete in this though one should only go after these things for fun instead of any real expectation of money i.e., I actually went through some historical modeloff questions years ago and could
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emeril
3y ago
lotus123 is actually pretty good better in most ways than modern excel modern excel is pretty terrible compared with excel after 2003
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emeril
3y ago
LOL @ "downloading a full movie in mere seconds" quite the legitimate use case for such bandwidth! :)
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emeril
3y ago
I came up with a pretty bulletproof solution years ago though it is a bit of a nuclear option... (1) change your phone number to somewhere you don't know anyone that ideally has a single area code (e.g., north dakota with "701&quo
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emeril
3y ago
it's pretty helpful in excel!
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emeril
3y ago
I doubt MS would care and eM likely pays some sort of licensing to MS I'd guess? do iOS and other 3rd party exchange clients have to pay anything to MS?
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emeril
3y ago
yeah, cryptomator is the way to go for dropbox for windows in my experience at least for a FOSS solution (all the others I've tried were comparatively flakey though less memory intensive...)
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emeril
3y ago
I have the same experience - after an initial slightly tough config to get it connected to wifi (understandable given the budget price and older model), it has worked flawlessly - I will always recommend brother printers now Further, I got
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emeril
3y ago
how is this much (if at all) better than hifi earplugs? e.g., https://www.amazon.com/Etymotic-High-Fidelity-Earplugs-Stand...
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emeril
3y ago
I have an old $100/4 line plan (with something like 100gb of mobile data) from total wireless (now total by verizon) which I don't anticipate giving up for a while When I was using an LTE only device (granted a pretty old one with
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emeril
3y ago
hey, I deliberately use that all the time lol
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emeril
3y ago
pro-tip - just try to use an old version of outlook that's still functional like outlook 2010 and just set autoarchive to run pretty often so the ost doesn't get too big and make the thing crawl... much better than nuOutlook thoug
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emeril
3y ago
haha, I remember doing the same thing with various garbage laptops I got years ago at work, it was worth it to just spend like $50 of my own money to not have headaches and finish my work much faster...
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emeril
3y ago
abbyy finereader 8.0(!!!) good luck finding it
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emeril
3y ago
I'm the rare old timer accountant with some programming background I definitely agree with you though my approach to analyzing activity/preparing detailed reports/etc. is to, at a first step, convert all credits to negative n
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emeril
3y ago
I got an apple 2gs with leisure suit larry that neither me nor my much older brother could reliably figure out the answers to the "age verification questions" at start-up
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emeril
3y ago
I'm more concerned re: chemical sunscreens entering the bloodstream I get the impression this hasn't been studied enough and likely won't be anytime soon
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emeril
3y ago
maybe so but they took like a month to call me back about an implementation and I ended up using Certify at my company works okay but the credit card integration is a complete sh*t show
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emeril
3y ago
if you're really concerned about this stuff you can use citibank virtual credit cards (a free feature) to just disable the card if you can't easily/properly cancel the service
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emeril
3y ago
Sounds like target.com I ordered a play kitchen based on reviews and then I found it to be poor quality, I wrote a review which was never published without any reason given As such, I don't really trust positive reviews anymore, especi
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emeril
3y ago
just got a 2023 forester; ux is pretty bad too - esp carplay when I connect my iphone and I want navigation and music, the music is at a reasonable volume but the navigation is deafening and the touchscreen isn't multitouch and is over
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emeril
3y ago
maybe so but a lot of contributors here are pretty loaded and could def drop $250k on something on a whim
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emeril
3y ago
I don't work at Yelp though I'm pretty sure that the reviews which stay on the website for any length of time are those posted by users who actively use the website to search for businesses (i.e., tracked via their cookie) i.e.,
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emeril
3y ago
I'm personally not confident if the signal to noise ratio took a turn for the worse (re: spam and porn posts), the site would be as a profitable/popular anymore What I'm curious about is why didn't (and maybe they did as
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emeril
3y ago
yeah, that's a classic read
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emeril
3y ago
dude, at least for tv/movies, just use ultra.cc (cheapest plan) and kodi can connect to it via https so no need for vpn and you don't even need to to download anything - super easy you can even pay more if you really need plex
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emeril
3y ago
I'm sure he's not, I am one and I have to use excel though I also hate the ribbon but I just use excel 2010 + ubitmenu and will continue to use that version or similar until I can't anymore I had used excel 2003 until I was f
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emeril
3y ago
you can definitely value precision over accuracy - I see it all the time in my place of work as an accountant, the timeliness of my work is scrutinized far more than the accuracy as I'm not often given enough time to do my work and if
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emeril
4y ago
isn't it easier/cheaper to just buy a "smart tv" and never connect it to the internet?
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emeril
4y ago
tbh, I'd think, it would be much easier to just hack into russia and convince them we've launched nukes than to engineer some virus that may or may not work
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