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I'm on Windows 11, and when I click the "Task View" button which is usually right next to the windows button on the task bar, I get a layout of all my open windows on my current desktop. But there is a ribbon across the bottom of the screen that shows "Desktop 1" and "Desktop 2" and another with "Add Desktop".

I can have a dozen windows spread out all across my 3 monitors on desktop 1 and a different windows placed on Desktop 2. when I switch to desktop 2, it switches the whole view to the other windows.

And now, as I write this and test it out, I realize that you must be talking about the icons on the desktop rather than the open programs? That would make sense, because those icons do stay the same no matter which desktop.

I guess I just never thought about that because I almost never use desktop icons anymore. I just hit the windows key on the keyboard and start typing to find what I want. I actually rarely even see my actual desktop, because that would require me to close everything or minimize everything to see the icons and that is just an extra step.

I've been down this road quite a bit on Amazon, eBay, and AliExpress/Alibaba. Are there any good options for relays that work for 100-200amps? I've found 30 amp relays of the type that are built into PCBs and I have tried a few 100 amp contractors that can be triggered with a separate line but I'm not sure I trust them. Most tend to top out at 65a rating and I get the feeling the 100a ones are just the same but with a more belligerent seller willing to advertise a false rating. What serious options are available for switching larger loads remotely.

for 60 circuits, you would need 4 units at 16 circuits each. which would be around $700 at current Amazon prices.

windows 11 does have the option of discrete desktops. not sure if that is what you are referring to.

I believe a lot of that can be tied back to the default switching from myisam to innodb. crashes frequently resulted in corrupt tables with myisam. innodb is very good at recovering.

I can't think of any reason why the lifetime would be any different for a refurb. of course, you need to start from when the drive was originally used. of course, there is probably also some additional wear and tear just due to the removal, handling, and additional shipping of the drives.

it's been a while since I did the full pci compliance rigamarole, but I don't recall it being that difficult. you basically just answer a bunch of questions correctly about how you are transmitting and storing the data using sufficient encryption and then they run some automated pen tests on your site and then you are done.

Sounds like you are making the case that "both sides are aligned in some rare cases". not that "they are the same".

Wouldn't it make a lot more sense to kill the person before they blow the whistle?

most electronics don't need pure sine waves as they are converting the ac to DC anyway. but perhaps a square wave could throw off some PSUs.

What? Enron DID kill Arthur Anderson. They completely collapsed in mid 2002, right after Enron. They were also big players in the WorldCom collapse, so that contributed as well.

This doesn't seem correct. It was just in the news that Meta had to remove one of their apps from the Chinese market at the request of the Chinese gov.

Both can be useful. GDP numbers can give you an idea of how difficult or easy it would be to raise the necessary tax revenue if push comes to shove.

looks like in the US, Mercedes sprinter vans start at $50k and e-sprinters at $72k.

Seems like a pretty large market of people who want to watch something in bed while their partner sleeps or watches something else. but it would need to be a lot cheaper for just that use.

Can't you just use a physical keyboard?

I'm sure someone named some "law" after themselves for this. But it is true that the fastest way to get an answer to a question online is not to ask a question; post the wrong answer.

His base salary was $1. But his total compensation was around $23 million which includes his fringe benefits like personal security, private jet, health insurance, etc.

Completely banning all foreign speculators would likely crash the housing market there.

This idea, I think, is a huge hole that most organizations have. Which is that salary is too tied to hierarchical structure. If you have someone that is amazing at doing something valuable, they should be able to keep getting raises without necessarily getting promoted out of the role. We have this in some measure with jobs that are easily commission-able, but it's not common for tech roles or HR or whatever.

there are plenty of options for 2 factor apps that don't require login. in fact, even Google's authenticator app does not require you to login. you can use it locally and store the codes locally.

I would be interested to see the math on replacing a cheap unit every 10 years versus an expensive unit that lasts 30. A few years ago, we replaced our 30 year old Carrier system with a new heat pump system that was relatively inexpensive. But here's the thing, the old system was not nearly as efficient from the beginning and it was much less efficient 30 years later. I'm not sure how much room for improvement there is with the new heat pump systems in regards to efficiency, but if the advances are significant every 10 years or so, it may net out to a positive.

Not just "warning signs". She was texting the kid "don't do it" while he was on his way to shoot up the school. she knew it was about to happen and didn't notify the school or police.

I'm pretty sure saw stop will send you a new cartridge in the case of any false triggers. you just need to send them the old cartridge so they can analyze it and try to avoid similar false trips.

interesting, I just thought they were cumulative. I didn't realize there is an increased risk if they are closer together.

Then this would be one of those cases where working around a problem (the lack of negative numbers) actually resulted in a superior product. You don't want negative numbers because that would require the description of a category to change based on whether it is positive or negative. You wouldn't want to be changing "Assets" to "Liabilities" every time the number goes below zero.

You don't need negatives in accounting, because anything that is affecting a number differently than the rest (reducing rather than increasing), needs to be accounted for separately. Imagine showing negative revenue. That would be mostly useless. You want to see how much revenue you had, and in a separate entry, how many expenses. Imagine how misleading it could be to show $0 in expenses last month, when in reality, you had $100 in expenses, but you subtracted $100 out because you returned some big purchase from last month and got a refund.

you stand out by finding ever more extreme beliefs and figuring out ways to present and explain said extreme beliefs in more palatable ways. you also must find ever more extreme examples of what "the enemy" is saying and doing to justify your extremity (whether said examples are totally out of context or totally made up is not important).

I recently saw a video that had been making rounds on truth social about how it's totally normal and acceptable that only men should vote. since the man is simply "representing" the family. just like we have representatives in a republic. thinking that everyone should vote is just a liberal, commie, Marxist idea.

Also frustrating is that the advice given by McKinsey, in general, seems to be rather mundane and obvious. But it is completely amoral and sometimes cruel, so executives need someone else to come in and suggest it so they can push the bad PR as well as the guilt off to the consultancy who is long gone by the time the blowback starts.

The CDC never had any official position that masks don't work. In March of 2020, the CDC official position was that people not working in healthcare or caring for the at-risk do not need to wear masks. in the same announcement they said

"Facemasks may be in short supply and they should be saved for caregivers"

in other words, masks work, but we need to save them for where they will do the most good.

however, the Trump admin's messaging was an unholy pile of hot burning garbage, so one could be forgiven for thinking the official recommendations were that masks don't work.

that's how most of rural America still gets rid of trash.