jimbob45

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by jimbob45 10mo ago
I can’t upgrade to Windows 11. I simply can’t justify a major purchase (now a major major purchase) for a new machine for a downgraded OS. My wife would never allow it and I would hate myself for asking. If Microsoft doesn’t relent, I’ll ha
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by jimbob45 10mo ago
I agree that it’s not quite grandma-safe but I’d like to know which distros you’re using that can’t even last a year.
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by jimbob45 10mo ago
More places are adopting bi-directional doors and foot handles now.
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by jimbob45 10mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_typefaces_included_wit... Best as I can tell, Windows 3.1 only really shipped with TNR and Courier. Weird that I don’t see Helvetica anywhere on that list.
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by jimbob45 10mo ago
What about strings + flags?
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by jimbob45 10mo ago
Data centers seem poised to make renewable energy sources more profitable than they have ever been. Nuclear plants are springing up everywhere and old plants are being un-decommissioned. Isn’t there a strong case to be made that AI has help
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by jimbob45 10mo ago
Out of curiosity, why are you quitting teaching? If you’re a high school teacher, I have to assume that it’s not the money.
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by jimbob45 10mo ago
Why is this evil? Most countries draw the line at aiding and abetting foreign harm to your own country, no matter how justified. I would expect no different if it happened in America or Europe.
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by jimbob45 10mo ago
Anecdotal but the new default Office font Aptos seems much better than both TNR and Calibri.
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by jimbob45 10mo ago
Hybrid vs in-person is a meaningless debate. Once you’re hybrid, you’ve restricted your candidate pool to an hour’s drive radius around the office. The damage has been done at that point.
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by jimbob45 10mo ago
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/microsofts-revenue-by-produ... Helpful chart to draw conclusions
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by jimbob45 11mo ago
Played this a few months back. In terms of value, it felt right up there with the Orange Box. The one glaring problem the game has is double-tapping movement keys to dodge. Kills your fingers and you can’t ignore it because dodging seems to
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by jimbob45 11mo ago
To be fair, they may have just wrecked the CS lootbox economy permanently.
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by jimbob45 11mo ago
Java’s cardinal sin was not owning the OS like Microsoft’s C# to force end-users to update the framework. Oracle really didn’t understand what they were sitting on with their Ubuntu competitor Solaris.
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by jimbob45 11mo ago
Why does this work while nitter doesn’t?
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by jimbob45 11mo ago
In previous years, I could have excused such shoddy journalism. In the age of LLMs that can do the work for you, it’s inexcusable that the author didn’t pick 3-5 sample strong economies from the past to judge today by.
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by jimbob45 11mo ago
Yeah, I undersold it. Cheating on your wife is one thing. Worse if she has cancer. Worse if you deny it. Worse if you try to fake the DNA test and pretend the baby isn’t yours. Worse if you used campaign funds to cover it up. His career is
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by jimbob45 11mo ago
For anyone out of the loop, Edwards was caught in an infidelity scandal and his candidacy collapsed. OP didn’t do such a bad job with IT that the campaign failed lol
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by jimbob45 11mo ago
Had a professor use this but it was student-led. We had to run it through ourselves and change our stuff enough to get a high enough mark to pass TurnItIn. Avoided the false allegations problems at least.
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by jimbob45 11mo ago
Isn't this more or less what the Microsoft Long-Term Support (LTS) versus Short-Term Support (STS) is meant to do? LTS only receives critical updates but eschews all experimental/beta features. STS gets everything for the people t
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by jimbob45 11mo ago
Whitewashing motorcycles as e-bikes scares me more than anything else for the next generation.
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by jimbob45 11mo ago
I feel like there are a lot of iPhone features being slept on. Pairing Shortcuts and Apple Intelligence lets a grandma do some powerful work that she could never have done five years ago.
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by jimbob45 11mo ago
Off topic but what is the name supposed to reference with Rider? I get that it’s a play on “writer” but what does riding have to do with anything?
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by jimbob45 11mo ago
Well, the sponsors of the 1619 Project really don’t have a leg to stand on when it comes to ethics.
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by jimbob45 1y ago
The real trick to being a Steve Jobs is to have your own MS/RIM/Nokia/Motorola rivals that wait politely for you to innovate everything before they even try to come up with concept material.
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by jimbob45 1y ago
It’s Europe. They couldn’t even drop Russian oil imports despite them being an existential threat. They’re doing this because anti-US moves are trendy right now and that’s it.
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by jimbob45 1y ago
You’ve got to pick one as a lingua franca. English is already popular but Spanish, French, or Esperanto would all work just fine.
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by jimbob45 1y ago
Erm…accounting is STEM via the M by many modern definitions.
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by jimbob45 1y ago
No, just the promises of going pro. The conversion rate for high school athletes to the NFL or NBA is less than a hundredth of a percent combined. There are kids skipping classes and destroying their bodies thinking they’re going to go pro
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by jimbob45 1y ago
Any ranked matchmaking game is designed to addict you by the prospect of being ranked as elite. They have a number of insidious methods to keep your ranking low, some are even patented by the game companies themselves! For example, if someo

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