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Someone created something. Its value greatly exceeds the perceived "degradation of the environment" of a spelling mistake. Not acknowledging that says more about the pedant than the creator.

If we can all hear the tiny violin, who cares?

Available on Amazon. Usually zero reviews. But there is that screenshot circling around of a 1-star review based on someone attempting to and failing to put out a campfire.

If you rely on these and you end up dying, you can make a personal application for a full refund.

I was not including SDXC or even SHDC cards, only SD. I am trying to find a maximum capacity SD card to use in a Palm T|X, either 1 or 2 GB. Back when SDHC first came out, I often ran into issues with 2 GB SDHC cards not working on older devices. I think being difficult to find is another criteria to qualify as obsolete.

The odd thing about high capacity SD cards in general is that they are generally used as fixed storage. I have a 256 GB card that I put into a 11" laptop when I bought it and I haven't seen it since. I haven't used a CF or SD card like a floppy since storage hit 4 GB.

I agree that I spoke too hastily about optical media. Even modern gaming consoles have optical drives.

Next up is optical discs and early flash memory variants such as Sony Memory Sticks, MMCs, xDs, and SD cards.

When is the last time you used one of these formats?

The media is the message. Criminals don't launder bitcoin at non-profitable nail salons either.

I was staying at a hobby farm and I was on the second floor in the loo when I noticed a shadow from above. It was a peacock looking at me through the skylight. They are evil evil birds.

"The system always works the way a rational human would expect."

We all wish, we all wish.

The RIAA will have to create a takedown notice to takedown their takedown notice, invalidating the former takedown notice?

As soon as you start to vary, accidentally or not, the heights of cells, you're in for a bad time.

Sorting large datasets with varying cell heights will bog down your system. Force uniform cell height and sorting can easily be twenty times quicker.

Windows 10 now being a rolling release is making things even harder. Even if you do learn how to do something, you have no idea how long that method will remain viable or if features will be removed.

I find myself relying more and more on Powershell in Windows and using the Terminal in Mac OS X/OS X/macOS when I have to use these operating systems so I don't feel like a bumbling fool when someone asks for help fixing something. More than once I've had someone wonder out aloud that they thought I knew how to use computers when using the GUI.

I remember feeling angry when I learned about the undocumented MBR switch for FDISK. There I was, beginning to learn to spell words with 6 or more letters, thinking I had to use a hex editor to clean up the MBR.

All that effort with no guidance whatsoever that could have been minimized with one extra line of documentation.

This was awhile back and was particularly nasty. No token, no check-ins, it was an unapologetic man-in-the-middle login prompt.

Terms of service had wording that made mining all data in your Facebook account sound like the intent.

I used to do this all the time over port 53.

My closest coffee shop would allow people to access Wi-Fi only if you gave them full access to your Facebook account. DNS was the only port open to the outside world.