I know, right? Ballmer was batshit crazy but at least you could squint your eyes and his decisions kind-of made sense (e.g. Windows 8 was a turd, but you could at least see what he was trying to do). Nadella has just shoved in cloud and now AI bullshit since he took over, and no thanks.
I've said that, and meant it, but it was when Teams first came out. At the time, it was just a bare-bones Slack clone with the alternative being the godawful Skype for Business. lol.
All they had to do was just stop making it worse from there.
Latest alt of a long term persistent troll who has nothing better to do with their life. Would be sad if they weren't such an obnoxious POS. Wish I had that kind of free time.
Looks like they got lazy and setup a bot on an endless loop.
Also, toast.ooo clearly needs to set some damn rate limits.
If I need that level of precision, I'll use a digital clock or set an alarm.
I can usually tell the time, at a glance, within 1-2 minutes which is precise enough for 99.999% of cases. Most IRL scheduling has a lower bound of 5-minute increments, so looking at an analog clock for the exact minute isn't really necessary. e.g. 7:21 and 7:23 are effectively the same for all but the rarest of my purposes.
Mostly short stories based on a single "what if" concept. Like, "What if everyone in the world had to have a unique name?" That may not be the premise of the story, but it factors into the characters and the world building and the story goes from there. Most of the stories don't really "go" anywhere, but that's not the point. The point is to spend a day in a world where the "what if" concept is true and see what society, people, and life is like.
The setting is usually ambiguously Earth but it's never stated nor that they're even humans or what time period. That gives it a lot of leeway.
It's mostly just a creative outlet / thought exercises so I don't even save half of them when I'm done.
For the "What if everyone in the world had to have a unique name?" example, the short story had the following elements:
Surnames / family names quickly became extinct since they were found to be redundant.
Different cultures in that world implemented the unique name requirement differently:
Some kept the family names but combined it with a unique name as a suffix. e.g. SmithFriendlyGame, SmithSoccerFan
Some went with just number designations. e.g. 12345
Most came up with brand new words when a child is born e.g. Fluginary
Other cultures did something similar to "What 3 Words" does for locations by combining 3 or 4 ordinary words. e.g. BashfulCarpetTree
Families could register specific naming conventions which could only be used by that family. Prestigious families could would add numbers to the family name with the patriarch/matriarch of the line being "0" or "first of their name". If someone was Smith47, it meant they were directly descended from the Smith.
The uniqueness requirement included not reusing names of those who have died. e.g. There could only be one "John" ever, for example. All mentions of "John" would only refer to that individual.
Because of that requirement, heirloom jewelry became popular in this world to make up for not being able to honor a loved one by naming your child after them.
Ah, yeah. I don't Discord or Twitter so wasn't thinking about those. ArsTechnica would benefit as well. They still do the forum-style inline replies which is hard to follow.
I know, right? Ballmer was batshit crazy but at least you could squint your eyes and his decisions kind-of made sense (e.g. Windows 8 was a turd, but you could at least see what he was trying to do). Nadella has just shoved in cloud and now AI bullshit since he took over, and no thanks.