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I don't understand, all my data sits on Google too but I never use Chrome for anything? What issues are you having?

If you're finding Gemini "clean and straightforward" give it awhile. I felt the same thing too when I switched until I realized that it just hadn't formed a model for my communications yet. After awhile it became just as flowery as ChatGPT did. I had to tone both down with saved preferences.

The stewardship and economics of the language can also be the issue. I started coding in the 80's and so web development for me evolved at the inception of the field. I will go to my grave insisting that Coldfusion was a better platform than PHP, but it was always commercial with a financial barrier to entry. PHP being free led to a glut of PHP developers, low-cost hosting, and an enormous ecosystem that ultimately redirected the course of the early web.

"But I will happily upgrade with the discount to the revised version of time 2."

Has an updated version been mentioned anywhere?

So much of housing in my area is high density now taking the form of row housing with multiple levels. Other homes have laundry in the basement, bedrooms on a second level. Sadly Isaac isn't going to be as useful if you have stairs.

No worries, it's going to be fascinating to hear what the investigation uncovers. Did the sensor data stream send back anything useful in the milliseconds before those sensors ceased to exist? I would assume there were no warning signs or they would have done a stand down on the test itself. So many questions!

What you're seeing is not a 'side' of the rocket sliding down, it's the rocket itself. The other part on the right is the erector stand it was mounted to. Looks like the bottom of the rocket blows out first and begins to collapse. The rocket begins to slide vertically before it all becomes one large fireball. The erector stand didn't survive the explosion either in the end.

Heidi has been my go-to SQL tool for longer than I can remember. Has been great to watch it evolve and have communicated wish list items to the developer several times with great responsiveness.

I always love this video, and I have been a lifetime dedicated fan of James Burke, but few seem to note that the whole segment didn't have to be timed as there is a cut shortly before the launch. If I recall either James or one of the producers talked about it once. They knew they had to start the last bit 13 seconds before launch and had practiced it repeatedly. At 13 seconds to countdown James nailed it. I'm sure even after practicing it I would have stumbled over a word in the clutch moment!

USER: What do you think about the idea that you're talking to someone 100 years in the future?

TALKIE-1930: I think it is an interesting speculation. In a hundred years, time will have wrought great changes both in the old world and in the new, and it will be curious to reflect back upon them from the far distance. At present, we are but spectators of the passing show, and, in little more than a quarter of a century, the greater part of the actors will have disappeared from the scene. But, in 1950, the busy bustlers of 1846 will be tranquil spectators of other bustle, and the young will wonder at the excitement of the old. Among the novelties, probably, will be the railway system of 1846. In 1950, people will travel at sixty miles an hour, and think it no great speed. They will laugh at our lumbering diligences, and our walling coaches, and smile at the dust raised by our rapid teams of four. They may even doubt, whether we were altogether serious, when we talked of ten hours, as a possible duration of a journey from London to York. They will have improved upon us, in many things, and laughed at us, in more. Let them enjoy their superiority of wisdom, and welcome. In 1950, I shall be at rest.

I used to write a lot of native Windows corporate software in the 90's and 2000's and my standard login window was a floating draggable oval. Nothing else was oddly shaped but I did get a lot of comments on the oval login windows. It was a bit about being unique, marking my "style", and just because I could. I will add though in the 90's it did make me nuts when entire applications were wildly shaped and you had to figure out how to use them.

Editing this to add: I really miss that level of coding and working with Win32. I get that the world has moved on and HTML or some runtime flavour of it has taken over but I too lament the los of true control I once had. I hate that my stack can be broken because some runtime was updated out of my control or the crazy load times of simple projects. I know many today would say it was messy and problematic (and it could be) but it's definitely a lost art form.

If you're pulling 2TB of data you should be ordering it on a drive from them and saving yourself the hassle.

I was hired in the early 90's by a collection of franchises for a home care company. The privately owned head office self-developed and distributed required monthly updates to the only software franchises were permitted to run their business. The monthly updates (floppies) reset the license for another month at each location. After years of problems, poor support, and in a couple cases offices getting shut down because head office just "didn't like them anymore", they banded together to sue the owners (one of which developed the software). I did IT work for a couple of the offices and was already familiar with maintaining the software / systems. They hired me to bypass the licensing code which was a lot of fun to figure out. In the end I wrote a DOS based license generator each office had that could update their software by just getting a code over the phone for the upcoming month (or any date for 365 days). A few years later once the lawsuit settled and the company broke apart we issued a patch for the software to remove the license check completely. I should fire up DOSBox sometime so I can play with that old software again.

Let it be a choice, with the mandate that if you opt out and later contract it there will be no state funded assistance down the road. Your choice shouldn't be a burden on the system.

I loved Dilbert and I really believe that you often have to separate art from artist if you want to enjoy many things. He put a very unique perspective on corporate and tech environments that made me laugh. Sad to see a human pass but also sadder that later he expressed some disappointing opinions that diminished his contributions.