smallerdemon

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by smallerdemon 2y ago
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.
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by smallerdemon 3y ago
"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 than ever the Germans were." Well... this aged like
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by smallerdemon 3y ago
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 ain't doin' -anything- for the
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by smallerdemon 3y ago
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 computing. OTOH, 57 pages in before we start telling us how to u
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by smallerdemon 3y ago
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 thorough fin
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by smallerdemon 3y ago
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 weirdos running startups get it in THEIR
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by smallerdemon 3y ago
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 creating your own catalo
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by smallerdemon 3y ago
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.
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by smallerdemon 3y ago
Is this the one that was speculated on as being a hoax / joke?
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by smallerdemon 3y ago
Same.
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by smallerdemon 3y ago
This is my head canon for how birthing of babies happened in The Matrix.
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by smallerdemon 3y ago
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 dentist for FIVE years because my previous dentist was amazin
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by smallerdemon 3y ago
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 falsified documentation like we ended up with on Alzheimer
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by smallerdemon 3y ago
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 because it works more often than not when someone i
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by smallerdemon 3y ago
Reminds me of Merlin Mann's "perfect apostrophe": http://www.43folders.com/2006/06/11/perfect-apostrophe
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by smallerdemon 3y ago
I make my living within this 20% of non-functionality.
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by smallerdemon 3y ago
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 wants to make microwave popcorn when the regular way is just as
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by smallerdemon 3y ago
And crazy sour ales. I would welcome the return of some imperial stout and porter efforts from these guys.
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by smallerdemon 3y ago
Well this isn't like the plot of TWO movies made about having body parts repossessed or anything.
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by smallerdemon 3y ago
HOLY SHIT! THERE HE IS!
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by smallerdemon 3y ago
Entire Article: "Can alligators X? Yes. Yes they can." TREE GATORS! TERROR OF THE FLORIDA SKIES!
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by smallerdemon 4y ago
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.
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by smallerdemon 4y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7dl42TsP84 Tokyo to Osaka by local train only. 11 hours.
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by smallerdemon 4y ago
Another TeamView, LogMeIn former user eh? :)
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by smallerdemon 4y ago
Ultimately I just gave up on trying these out since they always end up adding conditions that make them impossible to use for free (looking at you especially TeamView). That said, I'm still relying on a a free product from a commercial
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by smallerdemon 4y ago
I recently read this article while searching for how these towers are used in 2022. It's truly a work of engineering genius for the era. There are still many of these towers around the place where I live if you drive up and down the in
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by smallerdemon 4y ago
Having worked in IT supporing doctors, nurses, scientists, and academics for the last 23 years, in all honesty, it doesn't matter what they would have chosen it would have resulting in a percentage of them complaining. Doctors like cha
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by smallerdemon 4y ago
When Google first appeared on the tech scene, a lot of us were excited to have a great tool for search that actually kicked back relevant things you needed. And they toyed with great experiments, most of which are all dead except for the mo
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by smallerdemon 4y ago
I love this.
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by smallerdemon 4y ago
Perhaps Frakenstein wasn't so much about science gone awry as wealth gone awry. Rich guy creates thing he thinks he wants and will make him famous, is horrified when it turns out exactly like he wanted. This is rich people hoarding wea

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