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That’s interesting - those are all sweet. Most peanut butters (except natural) are slightly sweetened, but are often used as the savory counterpart to jams, jellies, and/or honey. I’ve (an American) only ever had Nutella on whitebread or added into a dessert.

What part of Powershell is broken? Are you referring to module compatibility or other issues?

For my shop, the AD module was an obstacle until v7. Many Azure-related modules still seem to be 5.1 only.

Guitar tab sites always had the same problem with bad transcriptions. Fortunately, there’s a whole generation of musicians that do fairly accurate “how to play” series on YouTube.

I think context is important. If you are talking about guitar based music, then E is a pretty safe bet as home. But what if a group doesn’t use standard tuning? The first two examples that come to mind are Alice In Chains and Tool. They use E flat tuning and drop-d tuning, respectively (mostly). When I listen to them, Eb and D are home.

> It also gives you a common vocabulary and framework for talking about musical and instrument techniques and common patterns in music.

This right here. Even if you want to play rock music it can help. Guitarists and bassists have tablature, which makes working with each other easy. But tab is foreign to other musicians.

I’ve a background in music theory, so there’s been dozens of times I’ve had to act as translator between guitarist and another musician, explaining that “3rd fret barred shape, to this one” is a GM7 to CM progression. Not because it was impossible to figure out, but having a common language made it that much faster to get to work.

The argument against texting, for me at least, is that it’s more intrusive (constant interruptions for unimportant things) and interactions end up being less and less meaningful.

Don’t forget the trapezoid rule. On one hand, it discouraged the insufferable Devils play style. But it also stymied the usefulness of a puck-handling goalie.

Tapes were fun. I grew up playing in bands. Demos were all recorded to cassette and shared among band members for reference or maybe passed on to clubs. I was right at the tail end of this, when CD burners became cheap and then we were expected to deliver demos as a cd.

> That never worked with tape.

80’s thrash metal and tapes go together really well. The cutting, trebly sound of tapes really works with the staccato, percussive sounds of bands like Slayer, Megadeth, Metallica, etc.

There’s been a resurgence of bands putting out limited runs on cassette. I think a lot of this is nostalgia (often from people too young for much exposure to tape). Cassette sound quality is definitely inferior, but that can be adopted as part of the overall sound.

This is a major unresolved issue. Not only is Exchange, the service, a vector for attack, but AD-related permissions granted to the Exchange computer account and admins can leave your entire directory vulnerable.

It has also become almost prohibitively expensive to raise children (in the US).

> A show that I listen to skipped a week during the early stages of the pandemic. I was concerned that one of the hosts was ill / possibly dying. It was some planned thing, like a vacation or something. A little notice would have been nice.

I’d imagine it can be a real grind, endlessly producing a podcast week after week. If it’s anything more than walking up to a mic and talking stream of consciousness, the prep work must take hours.

Most podcasters have other jobs. On one hand, I’m surprised that we don’t see people taking a seasonal approach, to give themselves a break, recharge, and maybe put in work writing and researching in the down time. On the other, it seems so many are afraid to walk away, even temporarily, for fear of losing an audience.

Reactionaries largely rejected from their primary field of expertise, now blatantly peddling pseudo-intellectual takes on subjects way beyond their wheelhouses.

It’s pretty bad, but it’s probably the best of the available tools at the time. Serious competitors like Groupwise and Lotus were kind of nightmares. Open source alternatives offered great individual components, but not the integrated solution you got with Exchange/Outlook/Sharepoint.

Sometimes being the least worst option is all it takes.

Even if you move to O365/Exchange Online, you’ll likely always have some Exchange footprint. The only way to get around this is to migrate your AD to Azure.

> The government can not and should not lift people out of poverty if those people refuse to work to better themselves

Who do you think wakes up and thinks, "I love poverty. This life is so easy"?

> There's also a ton of people who will delight in cherry-picking your story, as justification for not expanding the social safety net. "throwaway-0987 did it, and you can too! You just need to stop being so lazy"

> we as a society should do more to help people who are caught in a poverty trap, especially because of poor decisions made when they were teenagers. Just because someone ran a 4-minute-mile doesn't mean it's reasonable to expect everyone to do so.

Yes. Thank you. Lots of people start out poor and make it out. I did. Many friends did. But just as many did not. And it had _zero_ to do with "hard work". Almost all of it had to with the lack of a robust safety need and the need to (endlessly) prioritize survival.

> Nikes and playing on iphones.

This is the kind of statement you hear from conservatives that blame poor people for their poverty.

There’s a number of reasons. Because when you churn through a dozen pairs of cheap no-name shoes, it ends up being more than just buying a better set of shoes. Maybe a relative gave you some Christmas money. Or maybe you got overtime for working an extra 20 hours.

Being poor, you are constantly judged on your appearance, and it has a huge effect on how you are treated by retailers, government (police, social services, etc), teachers/school admins, and friends.

When you’re poor, everything you own is half broken, purchased used, worn thin. You most likely live in an area that has a high crime rate, is loud, has a long commute to your job, is dirty. You have access to terrible, low quality food. You skip doctors appointments (can’t afford the time off or co-pays) and dental work. (American) society constantly blames you for your situation.

Whatever the reason, poverty is a daily assault on your human dignity. It’s incredibly difficult to escape. Sometimes, you have to say, “Screw it” and buy your kid the expensive shoes. That money won’t get you out of poverty, but it may make you and your child happy for a bit.

I gave up on VSCode + vim bindings after several failed update cycles. VSCode would update, then VSCodeVim would get laggy or break altogether.

I tried Space/Doom Emacs, and they were ok, but you end up living in this weird space where you have to learn both sets of bindings.

I migrated to Neovim + CoC and have no regrets. CoC and Vim was problematic, but it works amazingly well in Neovim.

> Those two items are probably 80% of the reason anyone I know goes to a doctor.

This role seems to be increasingly filled by Physicians Assistants and Nurse Practitioners.

The biggest hurdle became finding a good quality VHS player. My dad had one that worked flawlessly for about 20 years. I gave up on VHS because everything brand off the shelf kept destroying tapes, within months of purchase.

I think it was the combination of cheap technology (at least the blank tapes), and a low tech threshold. No reliance on software - you could just chain together VCRs and splice together a film.

> Something that has struck out to me for many years now is the rather striking lack of reporting on the incredibly strong correlation between parental (both maternal/paternal) age at time of conception and ASM.

I thought this was common knowledge? I’ve certainly read this frequently and it’s something that is brought up (anecdotally) by OB/GYNs as women enter their 30’s. My wife and several family members ruefully will tell stories about how their doc let them know that they’ll be considered of “advanced maternal age” when they hit 35. They were then reminded of the increased risk of birth defects, autism, and complications.

The difference is that the community observed your opinion and decided it provided no value. That could be a pro or con, based on many factors.

> Simply asserting that they are wrong will not change things

No one is “simply asserting”. They’ve dragged this to court and had ~60 cases thrown out for a lack of evidence. They’ve made the choice to ignore this and acted out, violently, at the prompting of their favorite social-media driven personalities.

Whole social clubs may have been on the decline for decades, there’s been a pretty big growth in group fitness. CrossFit has been huge for over a decade and BJJ had really begun to explode, prior to Covid. I hit my two-year mark in jiu jitsu, right before the pandemic. While I still maintain contact with a few members, I really miss the camaraderie. I have no interest in returning to my office for work, but the moment it’s safe for me and my family, I’ll be restarting BJJ. And possibly reforming dormant bands I’ve played in.

This is the opposite of my purchasing pattern. I’ll get sticks, strings, picks, and some hardware online. I’d never consider buying a cymbal or guitar without having in my hands first and spending some time playing it.

Do you have real examples of this? Any time I see someone complaining of political blow-back, it’s because they chose to air their thoughts on social media or donate to specific causes publicly.

The one person I know that felt put in this position, due to his lifestyle business, felt pressured by competitors to aim his thoughts, not by his customers. He only faced pushback when his thoughts, that his customers hadn’t asked for, came off as selfish and tone deaf. He shot himself in the foot.

I feel like this is genuine take. I don’t know your age or anything other that what you wrote, so I’ll relate my experience.

I saw many of these same initiatives beginning as I was moving through high school and college. Being young and generally feeling like I treated people fairly, I assumed that most of the world treated others the same. Sexism seemed antiquated.

Fast forward a couple of decades and the women in my life still get second-guessed, mansplained, faced lowered expectations, and/or past over for promotions.

Some of it is blatant sexism. Some of it is sexism-light, where not being part of the boys’ club leaves them excluded from the power-clique. They still have a markedly different professional experience than I do, because they are women.

Is there a better way to handle this than what you described? Maybe. But I don’t think the need for such support mechanisms has expired yet.

Sounds like consumers exercising the power of their spending.