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Yes, it was Toy Story 2.

https://screenrant.com/toy-story-2-movie-deleted-accident-re...

My expectation is that hot desks will become the norm, as companies will (in time) decrease their office space in line with the % of the workforce who are actually in the office on an "average" day.

Calls are working for us, but not text chat.

Isn't it designed to be _just_ good enough to stop people using (and paying for) Slack instead?

I saw that there was an update to the Android version of the app today which addresses this exact issue. Fantastic! Sharing now working for me and my wife. Thank you.

Same error message for me, also on a Pixel 5. Otherwise a great app though!

It's facilitated by "at will" employment contracts. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/At-will_employment

Old habits... :/

or WinAmp?

Totally agree with this post!

I fondly remember a summer job in the IT department of a gas exploration company where we were unboxing and setting up a load of SPARCstation 10 machines, each with three(!) monitors. Monitors so huge and splendid that they came with a credit-card sized remote control (which when not in use was stored in a slot in the monitor casing) and a warning not to damage the screen on your belt buckle when lifting it. So cool.

We also did a series of RAM upgrades to some long-forgotten Silicon Graphics machines. Whatever they were, the cases were large and purple, everything inside looked like it was designed to survive a nuclear attack. When powered back on the machine played some wonderful indulgent sound deep from inside. So cool.

When all that was done it was time to get back to the PC users to complete their upgrades from 4MB to 8MB of RAM. Less cool, but at least the users were happy at the end of it.

> I can probably think of some more of people are interested

Yes please!

This may be why an 18-year old me chose to do a degree in Cybernetics and Control Engineering! Excited by the first word, I didn't dwell too much on the last two.

Sure, there was some fun robotics, electronics and math, but also some truly baffling control theory. Thankfully there was also a small amount of Computer Science, which sent me down the programming path that I remain on today...

I can really recommend Sweating Bullets: Notes about Inventing PowerPoint[1]. Written by Robert Gaskins, inventor of PowerPoint, I found it enjoyable and interesting to learn the history and design decisions behind a product most take for granted, and some object to the overuse of.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Sweating-Bullets-Notes-Inventing-Powe...

Because neither a phone or watch alarm can wake me gently with light[1].

[1] https://www.lumie.com/products/bodyclock-starter-30-refurbis...

In addition to the basics (decent workstation setup, monitor(s) at proper height, good quality chair), I make sure I'm using a good ergonomic keyboard[1] and a mouse that's suited to my hand size[2]. I'm left-handed, but can use a mouse with either my left of right hand, so every few months I switch my setup over, to even out mouse hand usage.

I also moisturize[3], although not as much as I probably should.

[1] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/surface-ergonomic-keyboard...

[2] https://www.microsoft.com/accessories/en-us/products/mice/co...

[3] https://www.amazon.com/Nivea-Plus-Care-Cream-100ml/dp/B000SQ...

The original version of the C# compiler was written in C and C++, but today's version is indeed itself written in C#!

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/27513234/in-which-langua...

> We don't save the earth for the earth. We save it for ourselves.

I was hoping that we were trying to save it (from us!) because this is simply the right thing to do.

On a Sunday evening, you find yourself looking forward to getting into the office on Monday morning.

That's a good question - and I'm not sure.

I created my app when I had a Nest thermostat and was working from home. The thermostat would assume that no-one was at home during the day - and so turn off the heating - as I didn't walk past it often enough, so the original purpose of the app was just to detect when I was actively using my PC, and ping the thermostat not to go into "Away" mode.

It was then really rewarding to add more features and make the app available for others to use. I got some lovely feedback and sensible feature requests via email, and one user generously did a French translation of the UI. I even got a small number of $€£s in Paypal donations!

However. I no longer have a Nest thermostat (moved to Australia, where they're not available), no longer work from home, and now have a young son. So I have to admit that prioritising the time & finding the motivation to rework the app to work against a different set of APIs (if even possible) may be hard to come by.

So my Nest app[1] that has 1800+ registered users will stop working in August. :'(

[1] https://richev.me/nest

I create short-lived checklists all the time. For an up-coming food shopping outing, or a to-do list for the weekend.

My favourite ones are for vacations... My wife and I will be taking our son (who will be 5 months old at the time) on his first trip that will require long haul flights (Australia - Vietnam - UK) so I'm currently working on a checklist for what to have in our hand luggage, and a separate one for the hold luggage. For me, it's part of the looking-forward aspect to such a trip, plus there are lots of things that we really don't want to forget, or run out of.

And anyone who's scuba dived will be familiar with the three item checklist that forms part of the pre-dive "buddy check".

* B A R (buoyancy, air, releases) in the UK

* A B C (air, buoyancy, clips) in the US and probably elsewhere

A potential life saver!

Don't feed the troll :-/

I got trapped in Wikipedia, reading about the fascinating life & times of Howard Hughes, after seeing him mentioned here https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-sh/deep_sea_mining

Learn how to bake a really good cake. Work colleagues and your extended family will live you for it!

A wordy explanation, but intriguing!

True, but their FAQ addresses this:

> Our 3D rendering engine currently uses a Chrome-only technology called Native Client to power Earth Studio. However, we’re closely tracking the evolution of WebAssembly (especially threading). Stay tuned!

I think that the blue gradient title bars came in with Windows 98. I remember marveling at how smooth the gradient was!

Before that, the Office 95 applications had a curiously black-to-dark-blue custom drawn title bar.

Then Windows 2000 introduced the subtle mouse pointer shadow, and translucent fade-on-click effect on menu items.

Agree with you about Tahoma being pixel perfect, at 8 point I think. Then came the marvels of ClearType!

Luna[0] looks pretty dated to my eyes, but I'd gladly switch back to the Windows XP icon style.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_XP_visual_styles

Sounds like you're in a state of shock. Understand that you don't need to decide anything now. Don't make any irreversible decisions yet. For now, why not take a year out, spend time with your family?