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  I don't know how to say this gently. Excel is, without any doubt, both the single best and worst program I've ever had the (dis)pleasure of dealing with. Most of the bad parts are people forcing me to shoehorn it into an application development framework with a shoddy database.

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  Software patent that was blocking me expired ​:HyperNeko:​ I no longer care about the goal anyway ​:haggard:​

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  The humble license key. An artifact of a bygone era of computers not permanently connected to a network.

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  We live on a giant rock, doubling in space.

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  Remember when we said "dank memes"? Whatever happened to that?

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  ​:nyanners:​ got 'em

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  I have been informed of the existence of the word nychthemeron, which apparently is a somewhat accepted term in English.

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  Teams notification sound dot wav

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  I guess my previous Matrix host just gave up, it's been down for two weeks now.

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  There is something simultaneously surprisingly cute and oddly distressing about someone you consider superior to yourself asking for your help.

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  "Burnout chicken" is when you put in more hours without explicit request from your employer until either side gets too scared of you burning out and pulling back.

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  The end of days may be coming, yet I will still be found implementing cryptographic algorithms from spec and being grumpy about the authors' lack of attention to detail.

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  Maybe I should add "sitting with a MacBook in Starbucks" to my todo list but I don't actually drink coffee and the whole thing seems like a bad idea aynway

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  Spend eight hours researching something, reading papers, in the weeds. The state of the art is completely obvious to anyone, you continue shaking your head that people make mistakes academia has told them to stop making 12 years ago. Spend five hours hacking up solution that you think is brilliant because you didn't do your research. Broadcast it by blog post immediately, everyone must know of your new idea.

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  Angriest poster vs. most patient follower

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  You see the interface. A sense of relief washes over you. It looks like it was made in the late 1990s or early 2000s, bombards you with information and isn't afraid to throw around jargon. It just works. But you will be investing two years into mastering this software.

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  When you reach out to sales and they say they'll get back to you but then ghost you.

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  Always drop vulnerabilities on Friday afternoons. Workers love doing overtime.

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  It's 2026 and I still don't have a device that can connect over USB-C, somehow.

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  When you look up a mathematical term on Wikipedia and you come out with more questions than answers.

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  LTT (lukewarm tech tips)

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  You wouldn't apply for a license to deploy a VPN

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  B News when C News comes along

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  Make your bets, what's happening first?

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  It appears that Windows NT's superiority has caused some controversy

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  You wouldn't disassemble an HSM and publish a video about it.

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  I wonder how much reputational damage it would do to an HSM vendor if the firmware source code leaked

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  Thank you for scheduling your YouTube premiere in two days. I will forget.

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  You're in your "projects" folder.$ mkdir You are now agonizing. What should it be called? Do you even want the responsibility of having to start?

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  IPv6 is so old that its use would normally constitute retrocomputing.