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for me, Comskip is the killer feature I would be very sad to give up.

With Channels do you have to manually FF through ads?

When OneDrive works it is nice. Problem is that when it doesn't work, you can be in for a hell of a ride trying to get it working.

I just finished spending more hours than I want to count trying to clean my dad's PC of all licensing and account connections to his former employer's use of Office and OneDrive and onto his personal account and license. In hindsight I wish I had just nuked and paved it, or bought him an iPad with keyboard and mouse.

I'm still rocking my 13 year old SageTV installation. Even the hardware clients are still working well. So grateful they were allowed to open source the software after Google acquired it.

Every day I also get at least a dozen very obvious phishing emails that end up in my primary Hotmail inbox. The algorithm just doesn't seem very good.

It does seem a bit at odds with my experience monitoring VHF 16 while sailing. When someone is in distress or there is a report of an unmanned kayak (extremely common!), the Coast Guard will almost always put out a call for any mariners in the vicinity to check it out, report back, and provide aid.

The tethered dead man's cutoff is a norm on small outboards. I seem to recall it is even a legal requirement to use it in some jurisdictions (including clipping it to the skipper's body). But on anything out in the ocean like this with a larger outboard with a separate steering station it is not something that is normal at all. There are products that achieve the same outcome including wearable beacons that will shut the motor off if you get separated, but they are not common and a little expensive.

Thanks, this is new since my kids were under 13.

I understand why parents let their children lie in order to avoid social exclusion. Kids can be very cliquey and being excluded hurts.

I counseled my children that it is immoral to misrepresent yourself to someone in order to get them to give you something they otherwise would not (or are prohibited by law from doing so). I still remember my (now 24 year old) daughter gleefully signing up for Facebook on the morning of her 13th birthday.

Matt Cutts made it seem like they were serious about it. On reflection, his departure seems like a turning point, albeit perhaps coincidental.

Curious about the use of the word messenger. Do you mean Facebook's Messenger? Isn't that only for age 13 and over?

A project I did to make CO2 monitors with a Sensiron SCD41 sensor and Adafruit MagTag e-ink module:

https://www.printables.com/model/121265-salud-co2-monitor

I had the same thing happen out of the azure data center in Des Moines Iowa. I ended up having to geolocate the IP address in combination with a few funky / missing request headers to fingerprint this miscreant. They were rotating through hundreds of IP addresses.

It was a really dumb spider. It wasted a huge amount of its efforts requesting pages that are no longer valid on my site. It must have had an archived set of URLs it was using as a source rather than spidering the site as it is today.

I like the places that just shut the whole company down for specific weeks each year. 2 weeks at the end of the year, 2 weeks in August, etc. You also get the benefit of coming back to a reasonable inbox. It is not really practical for all of Microsoft to do that though, especially for customer-facing roles.

With reorgs I once had five different managers in a single year while I worked at Microsoft, and a few of them were not so great. One was even very publicly fired (publicly as in being the subject of a WSJ and other main stream media articles). Worst year of my professional life. So much can change so quickly with a change of manager.

They don't call it by name, but the prominent and frequent use of the Bigby's Hand spell seems like a vulnerability. My understanding is that WOTC defends their IP rights to the spells with specific characters' names attached (Tenser's, Bigby's, etc.)

In Seattle we have Democracy Vouchers funded by the city that every voter is sent in the mail and can be used to make campaign contributions.

This led one candidate to hire people to solicit/collect these democracy vouchers. He raised over 350k from democracy vouchers.

When the election came around, far fewer people voted for him than contributed democracy vouchers.

And the program administrative and overhead costs are quite high, approaching the level of total funds distributed to candidates.

Just pointing out that handing out money isn't free (although it is one of the true core competencies of the US federal government), and can have unintended unproductive side effects.

I am curious about the use of the word "adjacent"

Do you think people writing game software are not software engineers?

I've been riding the Washington State ferries for over 50 years, so I wasn't tricked into cutting. Tourists and recent transplants would easily fall into this trap though. The Bainbridge line is particularly problematic as the cutting mostly happens at the last intersection, which is also heavily used by local traffic. There are signs, but some of them are a little confusing. For example, the requirement to ignore the HOV lane markings when getting into the line that forms on the road approaching the terminal.

Commenting from the Bainbridge ferry line here. Google Maps saw that traffic was backed up and "helpfully" offered me an alternate route that would only end with me cutting into a line ahead of the 50 cars patiently waiting.

Most telling is the person in the article with some experience working in the recycling industry who was ignorant of the fact that her curbside recycling program does not accept the blue and white Amazon mailers, nor did she know that the paper shipping label must be removed (often an impossible task without solvents or a lot of time and patience) prior to drop off at the supermarket collection bin.

Consulting is also great on the job training in how the real world of commerce and business operate, with the bonus that after a year or two you probably have personal knowledge of how a handful of major corporations operate, including which corporate cultures are healthy/positive and which are not. The types of lessons you never learn in a classroom.

They are extremely high status among friends and family who do not work in tech or IT, or among recent graduate peers who are struggling to get a white collar career going and stuck in service jobs or other jobs that will never break 100k/yr. For a lot of those folks, just hearing about the types of lunch and travel expenses enjoyed by consultants can imbue the job with high status.

I have 4 of these Knipex adjustable pliers. I do like them but find that getting them set just right for the task at hand is a bit fiddly. Seems like I am always setting it one setting too loose or too tight.

The Knipex product that I love is their automatic wire stripper.

It is possible that the tickets were bought by someone else for the group without individually assigned names.

I find it surprising that this is something that has to be imagined. I run into real world examples of this all the time. It isn't the norm, but it sure isn't something that requires imagination to see all around us.

I have used wail2ban and just started using ipban

Andrew Dent and Elena Donio were consultants on the internal MSFT SAP implementation. They took what they learned about building friendly procurement and expense reporting SAP front end apps to Concur.

the funny thing about Concur is its origin was the internal expense reporting front end that Microsoft had built on top of their own SAP implementation.

Our high deductible insurance with Kaiser is about 12k/yr for a family of 3: two parents in their 50s and a teen. Then I max out an HSA (untaxed health savings account to actually pay for things) with about 7k, which generally gets drawn down to zero at some point over any 3 yr period. So I call it about 20k/yr all up.

does WhatsApp still require you to hand over all your contacts to them when you sign up?

None of my contacts gave consent for me to share their private information.

I was hoping this would have some relationship to Dick Pick's Pick operating system.