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I've been seeing this too. So after reading your comment and the one above, I did a search to see what operators are still supported by Google and stumbled across this page: https://ahrefs.com/blog/google-advanced-search-operators/

It's nice to see that AND and OR still work, but from a few tests, it seems that most of us should be prefacing our searches with "allintext:" (without the quotation marks). It works well to dramatically improve the results of my searches. I think I'll write myself a google search page that automatically prepends it to my searches.

I haven't seen the ThinkPad L440 mentioned here.

I bought one a few years ago because it has the same benefits as a T440p but the value hasn't been inflated. It's part of that last generation where the CPU is user replaceable. The screen can be upgraded to an IPS if you can find a good replacement.

It's supposedly a lesser build quality, but the plastics seem great and mine's still going after my wife stepped on it. I have a bad habit of leaving it on the floor by my chair.

I edited an old service book to gain MMS functionality on my Bold 9900. My carrier (Koodo Prepaid, Canada) doesn't have BIS and never did. If I lose any other functions, I'll probably have a look at the other service books to find out what's in there.

Some Grandstream ATAs support pulse dialing. That's probably the easiest solution for most people.

In British Columbia, 112 was once the prefix for making long-distance calls. That changed in 1985 to bring us into conformity with the rest of North America.

Edit: also, you could call for free on rotary pay phones by tapping out the number on the "hangup" switch.

There are ATAs (Analog Telephone Adapters) that permit pulse dialing. I have one and my old black rotary desk phone is happily VOIPing away.

Here's a bit of evidence for the last statements, and it doesn't even include Gao Gang and Bo Xilai as major targets (though it does mention the latter):

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/7/2/in-its-100-years-who...

Just to contribute to the general discussion, I use Bookmarks Home add-on for firefox (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/bookmarkshome...). It turns your bookmarks into a homepage. You can customize which bookmarks folders appear and tweak the css. You can also save the page to html and turn off or remove the add-on if you like.

It does not include widget support though, so it doesn't address all of the issues mentioned in the original post.

Dishwasher: saves you effort.

Dishwashing: when you have all of your best ideas after a long day.

The best: an old CD player called Workbone on Slackware. It made great use of the number keys for pause/play/ff/rw/eject.

The worst: I used to work with an awful custom-built industrial computer.

You had to enter the 10-character alphanumeric codes of 98 rail cars into a command-line interface that didn't permit backspacing. One mistake. Car 97. Do it all again.

In Canada, most direct patient care is done by practical nurses and health care assistants. They make a LOT less than 80K (in the neighbourhood of CAD 40-60K) and suffer all the hardships. The burnout rates appear to be high and those who continue to work are covering for missing workers (including both those who are burnt out and those who refused vaccination), working long hours, etc. It's a complete mess.

Someone here once posted a link to duckduckstart.com. I have it set up in my search bar now.

If you search, it goes through Startpage (Google results, more privately). If you search with a bang, it goes through Duckduckgo. It's probably close to what you're looking for.

The same legislation would ban non-compete clauses. Good stuff.

I didn't see this coming. At this point, I'm waiting for Chairman Doug to redistribute farmland and announce a five-year plan...

Agreed. The provision that calls for businesses to create a policy on the "right to disconnect" at the end of the workday is great too.

You have to give credit where credit is due...

I'm old. That is all.

The formats have different qualities.

I buy records because I like physical objects and reading the liner notes. I've been listening to music, sitting in the midst of a pile of records, since the 70s.

But I buy CDs too -- mostly used -- because it's a great, inexpensive way to get high bitrate music.

My father became the maintenance man for an inner-city homeless mission after he retired. It was a great choice that gave him a purpose and got him out of the house. When he finally decided that it was time to quit (at 78), the manager told him he had to give two weeks' notice. Dad replied that he was a volunteer.

Smart man. I'll be following his example.

For free access to actual discussion groups (not binary downloads), go to eternal-september.org

There are still good discussions going on in particular newsgroups. You have to do a bit of searching. comp.misc would be of interest to Hacker News readers.

mplayer in the console. I've been using it for fifteen years and it's such a great, minimal piece of software that just works.

Looks like I got the downvotes too. Sometimes the unpopular opinion is the correct one.

I was just about to add the same reply.

This is my solution too. My server with private data is only accessible via my LAN. I'm home often enough that syncing isn't a problem. I kind of treat it like the old Palm desktop, where you had to sync regularly by USB. The nice thing is that the sync is automatic in this case. I know that kind of punctuated syncing wouldn't work for everyone, but it works for me.

My public server has a couple of ports open to the internet, but SSH, SFTP, etc., are only accessible on the LAN with access by key (no passwords). It does things like XMPP (hashed passwords, no locally-stored chat data), public websites, and the like.

Nuclear is such a horrible replacement. Let's let future generations deal with the waste from the power that sustained our lifestyle. I hate it. I'd rather live with less.

I noticed that the pedagogical ideas were fairly generic too. That's why they work for me when I'm in a completely different discipline.

I think that taxonomy is a great idea. Maybe it's something that could be developed inside a department with a wiki?

If you follow through the links, you'll find this: https://www.lifescied.org/doi/10.1187/cbe.14-02-0023

It's actually got a table of teaching practices, which they presumably want to see. I went through them and it looks like good stuff to me. I do a lot of it, though some wouldn't fit my (non-CS) discipline well.

I don't know about C.S., but anecdotally, I studied with another student as an undergrad and taught him Zoology. It was good for me (I was forced to explain all the concepts thoroughly) and good for him (he did fairly well in the course). Win-win.

It must take a lot of coal to make steel. The mine I used to work for shipped 3-4 million tonnes of metallurgical coal to Japan every year.

I'm with you. I still use Classic Shell on Win10 and LXDE on Debian -- and I'm happy with both.

I wonder if you can still replace the entire shell on Windows? I haven't done that for over a decade.

The Carter gap is not surprising.

It's misleading to put some of those CIA actions into 1979 in the timeline, since Carter was guardedly supportive of the new governments in El Salvador and Nicaragua, and the actions against them were undertaken by the subsequent Reagan administration.

It's worth pointing out that the abstract of the Nature article appears to suggest that the pre-Columbian evidence is for a different variant of TB: "Here we present three 1,000-year-old mycobacterial genomes from Peruvian human skeletons, revealing that a member of the M. tuberculosis complex caused human disease before contact. The ancient strains are distinct from known human-adapted forms and are most closely related to those adapted to seals and sea lions."

This is completely speculative, but if post-contact TB was a different strain imported from Europe, that may explain why it took such a toll on Indigenous peoples.