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Swisstone··on Windows 12 May Require a Subscription
Speculative articles such as this one make no sense, Windows Subscription Activation is not something new... https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/deployment/windows...
Swisstone··on Excel Functions Translator lets you translate functions to/from other languages
A useful add-in to Excel if you are dealing with non-english Excel users. Can install from Excel directly in Insert -> Get Add-Ins
Swisstone··on Windows NT on 600MHz machine opens apps instantly. What happened?
Because nowadays notepad is unfortunately a "Packaged Application" (UWP), and starting a Packaged Application involves a ton of system components (IIRC relies on an Activation Manager to make RPC and DCOM calls, create an AppContainer and various tokens, to, maybe, if you are lucky, spawn a process). There are more details about this in Windows Internals 7th, Part 2.
Swisstone··on Programs that were launched with impossible command line options
The fact the start menu lives in its own process is an implementation detail, no official documentation says the start menu is part of explorer.exe, so no one should expect start menu to be part of explorer.exe. Third party utilities should never kill random processes to begin with... that's a non-sense.
Swisstone··on What Does the Event Loop Sound Like?
PSA: Public Service Annoucement https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_service_announcement
Swisstone··on Ask HN: Do you still use reddit.com?
Yes, my favs:

r/askscience/

r/coolguides/

/r/DidntKnowIWantedThat/

r/EngineeringPorn/

r/Infographics/

r/interestingasfuck/

r/LifeProTips/

r/BeAmazed/

r/todayilearned/

r/Showerthoughts/

r/oddlysatisfying/

Swisstone··on How to do remote-pair-programming?
yes, but not on a regular basis
Swisstone··on How to do remote-pair-programming?
Use Visual Studio Code and Live Share: https://code.visualstudio.com/blogs/2017/11/15/live-share
Swisstone··on Ask HN: Best current mailing list manager?
Is that what you are looking for ? https://www.sympa.org/