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by smm11 4y ago
Yeah, 5 or 6 times. Happy to be, right now, a one-person IT department at a "small" company. My way is the way.
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by smm11 4y ago
Apparently warning against this is a big no-no!
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by smm11 4y ago
ZIP drive was the bomb. I don't recall what it was, but there was a Gateway or something (maybe) with a built-in ZIP drive. The future, man.
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by smm11 4y ago
Don't remove the mattress tag.
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by smm11 4y ago
I recall some time back the "photo of the year" with some esteemed organization looked like something you'd take at random. Just a few people doing various things. A snapshot, the sort you'd take back during the film era
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by smm11 4y ago
I'm betting 99 percent of devices using this chip will be used 99 percent of the time for internet access, meaning the bottleneck is now bandwidth.
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by smm11 4y ago
My personal experience is that plant-based diets cause aging at a far greater rate than diets including meat.
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by smm11 4y ago
What was Microsoft thinking with this? They realized, or should have realized BOB was a bad idea, we weren't that dumb. But then Clippy? So that when hardware was 10,000 times better, and software that much more refined, there would be
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by smm11 4y ago
I thought Free Market was the thing?
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by smm11 4y ago
Lots of hammers, when few actually need one.
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by smm11 4y ago
SAP is bizarre. It's like the Objects Anywhere obsession in the late-80s carried on, and here you go. The rest of the world went one way, and SAP another, and believers are obsessed with it. Despite every other thing they do going an e
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by smm11 4y ago
There's 9. I'm "blood brothers" with some kid who was five when I was, and his name escaped me decades ago. Nobody is to ever know this, so I guess I just broke that oath.
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by smm11 4y ago
Deliverance taught me that you can't outrun someone who has never left an area.
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by smm11 4y ago
Polymer thick film FLEXIBLE circuits.
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by smm11 4y ago
This is brilliant. But ridiculous. Abandon the dumb apps and sites, and get out there. Get involved in stuff, activities, events, clubs, games, whatever. It's not rocket science, we've just become dumb staring at screens.
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by smm11 4y ago
A cycling peloton is just humans imitating birds. If Peloton, the company, did not want to lose lawsuits it should have used a word that wasn't already in use in the same neighborhood. They could have called the company Wopat or someth
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by smm11 4y ago
Only in the US would there be a system where you have to pay money to pay taxes.
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by smm11 4y ago
I got one or two spammer calls a week on TMobile over the course of maybe 8 years. Six months on Verizon and I get more spam calls a week than those 8 years.
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by smm11 4y ago
And they built up with their bare hands what we still can't do today.
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by smm11 4y ago
For a brief moment NeXT was trying to spread Openstep far and wide. What a future everyone could have had, rather than those locked into the Mac ecosystem. Which is most in this country, actually, so same thing I guess.
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by smm11 4y ago
We couldn't even stay in our own houses a week or two early in Covid days. There's absolutely zero chance more than four or five people can be on a rocket ship long enough to get somewhere and do something. Numerous TV shows have
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by smm11 4y ago
I was just considering using an old iPhone instead of an S21. Decision made.
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by smm11 4y ago
States where marijuana is legal have lower incidence of opioid use.
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by smm11 4y ago
I used a Thinkpad 765d with Rhapsody (early developmental 'OS X' system from Apple that was not commercially available) from 2001-2006, then QNX on the same machine until 2012. My data was on a PCMCIA card. At work I was using a M
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by smm11 4y ago
The biz I'm at is on VOIP. We've still got a hot landline for the security system, and I've got a wicked Pentium II machine, Hayes modem, and dial-up account at the ready. NOT that I can push the ERP system to everyone, if, b
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by smm11 4y ago
I tried a df -h and had to click through a dozen or so "ok" prompts for directories and mounted drives.
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by smm11 4y ago
College girlfriend of mine was way into LSD and magic mushrooms. Twenty-plus years on I ran into her, and to describe her as paranoid does not even begin to touch it. I mentioned something I remembered, and suddenly I was The Man, who was I
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by smm11 4y ago
Daemon, by Daniel Suarez. Not to ruin it, but computers summon all smart cars at once for a task.
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by smm11 4y ago
Sound cards were a thing because DOS/Windows was a thing. In the Mac/Amiga/non-DOS world sound was good enough very early. As soon as we said "we need sound," it was there, as long as you weren't on DOS. The Am
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by smm11 4y ago
As soon as I hear "light years" things start sounding a lot like religion.

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