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  • Whoops

    Excel is def the mkt leader for a reason

    I loathe Ms Access but have to admit there is no peer that even comes close.

    Vs code is relatively reliable, cross platform and gets the job done. When there are a lot of people “one way that works for all” is a quality as well.

    That said, I wish open offices were better. Even Apple numbers isn’t a realistic excel alt yet (though it is super decent). And I agree there are plenty of editors that work in many situations.












  • man i dunno. I really like this game. I probably play 2-4 hrs a week, and each visit feels super fresh. For a company known for it’s bugs, Starfield is amazingly bug free (for me). I think. I had one crash on console? And that is after a bunch of quick resumes.

    I am digging exploration, a BUNCH. the biomes have great attention to detail, and I really like NASA punk.

    There is a lot going on, and instead of focusing on what is not there, which is natural, and fair, I find myself enjoying what is there. I do wish that ship and outpost habs had some kind of effect vs cosmetic (it seems like hacking is in the game w/all these computer cores…but where???), but my wishlist is WAY LESS than Skyrim. It would be nice if there was some way to have “location NG”, where after the first visit, the next visit in a different planet / system triggers the next variant, etc.




  • lol - gotta keep the man sharp

    btw - who downvotes ppl (you + me ) praising a guy for battling cancer, because that’s what it is … Cancer strips us of our humanity - doesn’t matter who you are, it reduces you. And the only way to live is to keep a positive attitude, do everything medicine has to beat it into submission and see that next sunrise.

    I have always liked RMS because he praised solutions to problems, hope there is someone else to carry his torch.



  • Leave ‘em behind.

    What should be and why it is, two diff questions…

    A terminal renders a single glyph in a grid. That’s it. This stems from the days from before - when there was no graphics instruction to render anything different, and link speeds could be, on bad days, slower than typing speeds.

    Terminal rendering evolved to include ANSI instruction to manipulate the rendering-color, grid position, etc.

    However, at its core, is this limitation…a glyph in a grid…and this limitation is due to how slow terminals are.

    Terminals originally operated at a serial baud rate where one could nearly type faster than the transmission speed.

    X windows…was designed…to not have these limits.

    Terminal emulation is handy, but … it is limited. By definition retro. If a terminal doesn’t work…move on…and make something that does :)