wistlo

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by wistlo 4mo ago
Yes. "We all" add it. Every time. /s
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by wistlo 1y ago
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 deprecation of the .PST file in Exchange Server left
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by wistlo 1y ago
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 notation I last saw in the 1980s.
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by wistlo 2y ago
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 Chromium, so would that mean this breakage will
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by wistlo 2y ago
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.com/ More fun
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The Elephantine Memories of Food-Caching Birds(newyorker.com)
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by wistlo 2y ago
Funny thing, I didn't any trouble finding gasoline on January 19, 1981.
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by wistlo 2y ago
"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 exciting adventures ever undertaken by the American people,”
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by wistlo 2y ago
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 available data that might-just-might contradict the narrative o
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by wistlo 3y ago
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 blue headline across the top of the gray Yahoo! home page,
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by wistlo 3y ago
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." Premium and Premium V2, tried those at large
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by wistlo 3y ago
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 definitely pricey. The "hy
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by wistlo 3y ago
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, others SAS scripts running on old desktop) to Azure. The Azu
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by wistlo 3y ago
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.
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by wistlo 3y ago
Or better yet, a registry flag to enable browser choice.
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by wistlo 3y ago
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 get in my work.
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by wistlo 4y ago
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).
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by wistlo 4y ago
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 for years, but now gmail recipients are rejecting my email
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by wistlo 4y ago
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 can keep in mind on upcoming projects at scho
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by wistlo 4y ago
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. Take The Beatles, Alexander Hamiliton, even Anthony
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by wistlo 4y ago
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, who I think felt uncomfortable not being able to la
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by wistlo 4y ago
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 occasional stop-through if I'm in the area, I don't d
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by wistlo 4y ago
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 much is. The Pixel 5 was discounted for purchase, s
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by wistlo 4y ago
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 company recognized it as an accomplishment.
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by wistlo 4y ago
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 million records. But then I volunteered to do some an
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by wistlo 4y ago
For the benefit of Mr. Kite, of course.
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by wistlo 4y ago
Database analyst for a large communication company here. I have similar doubts about AWS for certain kinds of intensive business analysis. Not API based transactions, but back-office analysis where complex multi-join queries are run in seq
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by wistlo 4y ago
So many long-forgotten companies advertising! So many modems! I know someone who was a grad student at that time, and how excited he was to get a 2400 baud modem and his own VT-100 for work on the VAX. That grad student was me, though today
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by wistlo 4y ago
I would argue for 1870-1970. Flush toilets, motors and light bulbs, communication networks ( phones in houses, radio ) did not exist before 1870, but were rapidly being deployed in the decade or two before the Queen's birth in 1922..
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by wistlo 4y ago
Full disclosure: Work has been Windows centric, but I recently moved to a new group with some Mac users. I'll have that choice, next time I swap hardware, but probably will stay with Windows because * Would miss too many amazingly us

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