If you're afraid of spreadsheets in the financial industry, you should probably just keep your eyes closed. The entire industry is built on them to a very large degree. I've been in IT for almost 30 years, and over most of that, I've seen Excel spreadsheets used throughout the various accounting departments of companies ranging from small operations of a couple of dozen people up to multinationals with tens of thousands of employees, with some banks in there. Some of those spreadsheets are enormous and are doing complex calculations across sometimes a couple dozen worksheets, where changing one number can take several seconds to recalculate everything even on a reasonably modern computer.

I'm on a Mac you insensitive clod!

I suspect Steve Jobs refusing to let Flash on iPhones and iPad was a bigger stumbling block for most people than all the security concerns (although he too cited abysmal security). The loss of a huge chunk of the mobile market made Flash untenable.

Steve Jobs' thoughts on Flash:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

This is just the modern equivalent of those shitty "funny" emails that were forwarded around by at least one person in every office in the 90s. It's just become easier, more accessible and the tools more powerful.

You mean: Ukraine was defending itself in the Donbas after Russia supplied weapons and manpower to the separatist militias and agitated the situation? Asking for Russian peacekeepers to help was just part of the little man in the Kremlin's disinformation and subterfuge campaign.

Ukraine wasn't threatening their neighbours. Ukraine hadn't invaded or attacked their neighbours. Ukraine hasn't fought a 10 year war with one of its neighbours. Ukraine hasn't fired the equivalent of Scud missiles at an innocent third country like Iraq did with Israel. Ukraine hasn't used WMD against ethnic groups of its own population. Unlike Iraq, Ukraine wasn't developing WMD and in fact, voluntarily gave them up. Ukraine was on a peaceful path towards EU membership. The US lead invasion of Iraq was in a response to all of this and stop them threatening and attacking everybody, and then left, which is the opposite of Putin's aim which is genocide and the extinguishing of a separate culture and sovereign nation. You simply can't compare the two.

Yet the pain points that Linus raised over four years ago still exist today.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Youâ(TM)ve just reminded me of a wonderful holiday I had to Peru nearly 20 years ago, thanks. Coffee at breakfast though seemed to be a constant trade-off between flavour and temperature: if you wanted it hot, it was going to taste watered down and shit like N. American coffee; wanted it to taste good, then it was going to be cold!

I like espresso, and as somebody who is caffeine free, I can put five or more shots in a mug with no consequences and enjoy a large coffee that tastes good!

Proved you have the means to readily verify the correctness of what AI suggests, it's fine to use it, and can be quicker. The trouble happens when lazy people forget the need to verify what AI tells you. Then AI turns into a magic genie with a twisted sense of humour.

I got this the other day trying to find out if Microsoft has maintained c/c++ ABI compatibility in Visual Studio 2026 with previous versions. The AI summary literally took the VS 2022 page on the topic and replaced 2022 with 2026, and then linked to the 2022 page. There was no page on the topic for VS 2026 on Microsoft's website.

The old Mag Safe and Mag Safe 2 power adapters that came with MacBook Pros did not have a detachable cable. Of course, it was always the cable that broke and that required replacing the whole lot. When Apple switched the MBPs to USB-C, they also switched the power supplies to detachable cables too.

Their cadence has been pretty predictable for a while now, ever since they switch to Arm. Some people might indeed hold out for a touch screen; some just might not give a shit.

Youâ(TM)re forgetting the Touch Bar. You canâ(TM)t accuse Apple of not trying to innovate, but it is a disaster. I canâ(TM)t type on my MBP without constantly triggering it. Thank goodness I use an external keyboard 90% of the time.

And given that most of my usage is with it on a stand as a secondary screen, Iâ(TM)d never find the use for it being a touch screen.

No malice and no impatience, even if the passenger didn't plan properly and is running late.

These are old now, but interesting reading. I bet things haven't improved in the US, especially with the administrative overheads.

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/...
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/a...