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Interesting to see SQL Server not listed here, am curious whether it didn't have enough signal, or suffered from being a two-word product, with "SQL" being far too generic on its own.

Good insights -- people now have to have their party look good for their social feeds: insta, tiktok, whatever. I'm forever thankful that I never had to even think about that, and even if people were taking pictures, nobody gave a damn about the background.

I wonder how the levels of engagement compare between an extremely online GenX person, an average GenZ person, and an extremely online Gen Z person would look like.

I couldn't help to look and see if the company behind commercials that are burned into my brain from 40 years ago are still a thing, and lo, Hooked on Phonics is still going strong!

This page[1] walks through the basics of phonemic awareness that children need to learn via exposure & repetition in order to learn to apply that aural learning to reading.

It makes me wonder if a program like this, aimed at English-speaking children, might help those adults learning to speak & read English if they could put up with being addressed as if they were a child.

[1] https://www.hookedonphonics.com/reading/phonemic-awareness/

The Prusa XL[1] can be configured for 5 toolheads for fast, automatic switching ala factory robots.

[1] https://www.prusa3d.com/en/product/original-prusa-xl-assembl...

It's funny -- before social media, I was more likely able to go find someone to chat with on IRC, a Usenet group, or some purpose-built forum. I knew where my friends were (ICQ, then AIM, then Skype, then GChat), and it worked.

Now, it's all fragmented into 1000 Discord servers, and who has the time to dig through it all?

It's there -- go to the jobs tab, answer the first time questions if they come up, and when you get the job list, click All Filters, and scroll the filter list down (admittedly, pretty far down); there's an "In your network" toggle.

Primarily because LinkedIn has to bother with complying with their privacy policies and other T&Cs, and your site has none of that.

Why should I take all of my data and give it to you, a rando on the internet? Is it being stored? Will it be shared? Sold? Maybe, as there's nothing that says you won't.

Looks neat, but strong pass because of the above.

There are definitely webcams that work with Windows Hello, and those that don't.

I'd love to have some form of solar work out cost-wise for me here in Seattle -- there just aren't enough sunny days throughout the year to make solar financially make sense, even over a 20-year period. At least from what the solar calculators I've found on the web would have me believe.

Too far from the beach.

End users rarely pay for the program. Someone in their management chain OKs the purchase, or there's a larger purchase with a cross-charge to the department for the license cost. the problem comes when software needs to meet every whim of the decision maker, when really the users only will ever use 20% at best.

Sure, but if an endowment is paying for, say, the football coaching staff, then that leaves that much more money free in the general fund to pay for other things.

If the endowment is paying for something that otherwise wouldn't be paid for generally, that's a different story.

The only thing worse than no internet is one bar of signal.

When I was in the 8th grade (back in the 1900s), I took a typing elective class, because I figured if I was going to be in front of a keyboard typing for a living as a programmer, I should learn to do it right.

That was a rare very good decision for kid me back then, and it's paid off ever since.

[citation needed]

AI models being "sold" into apps is the new version of Google paying to be the default search in web browsers.

Main difference now is that the worst version is the only one being sold.

Is it dumb? Yes. Can you still use Notepad as Notepad? Also yes.

We'll all survive.

We ran out of acronyms some time in the late 2000s I think; ever since then, name collisions everywhere.

Open standard or not, how is it a standard at all? I spent a while trying to find what the current version number of the spec is, and I could not find one. Theer were SDKs, and the SDKs have versions, but the protocol itself seems to be on v0.0.0.

Makes me wonder if the pattern will continue to follow, and we start to find certain agents—maybe due to config, maybe due to the training codebase and the codebase they're pointed at—that will become the single one out of the group we can rely on.

Give instructions, get good code back. That's the dream, though I think the pieces that need to fall into place for particular cases will prevent reaching that top quality bar in the general case.

/s, presumably

100% why I bothered to stick w/ OneMedical after the Amazon acquisition. I tried to get a "New Dr/New Patient" appointment with any local doctor I could find that took my insurance, and the closest I could get was 3 weeks away.

I'm not worried about medical folks having "time to clean" any time soon.

When it comes to test results, does HIPAA prevent anonymization, such that all would be provided is test input & eventual result?

Every few years I turn on that HDR toggle for my desktop PC, and it never lasts longer than a day or two.

Top tip: If you have HDR turned on for your display in Windows (at least, MacOS not tested) and then share your screen in Teams, your display will look weirdly dimmed for everyone not using HDR on their display—which is everyone.

My father, for one. He was entirely happy with radio in the car and CDs at home.

Put another, I think more accurate way: hindsight is always 20/20.

Very often, the thing that seemed impossible that suddenly wasn't anymore looks "obvious" when looking back at the completed solution.

Where do you live where vehicular manslaughter is not being prosecuted?

> would be classified as a criminal if they did what they're doing today... 20+ yrs ago

American that was alive and adulting in the 90s checking in: no, they wouldn't have. Even after 2001.

Then you decide if the positives outweigh the negatives and unfollow them or not.

This particular situation is why the only thing I miss from Twitter at this point is the ability to mute an account's reposts rather than the full account.