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OfficeMonkey

@ OfficeMonkey @lemmy.today

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  • If you have one, how much do you pay for a domain name? Any cheap registrar recommendations?

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  • I have entirely too many domains at namesilo.com. Privacy is included for free in the majority of circumstances -- not for .org. .com renewals for me are down to $8.85 year because of the aforemented "too many." I also have some .social and other newer TLDs and those are stupidly expensive.

    I use nothing else from namesilo. For domains I use I don't even use their nameservers. But for what I need, their UI is sometimes awful, but it does what I need.

  • If this list of candidates turns out to be real, might as well pack it up and just hand the election to republicans

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  • I hadn't seen these charts before. I simultaneously thank you for sharing and wish I could go back to my ignorance, just for a little longer.

  • Companies with TLDs named after them is the best example of how ridiculously big those companies are.

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  • Google.com and YouTube.com and goo.gl. OneDrive.com and office.com and PowerPoint.com. It's because as every company's footprint expands they've proliferated domains and they're not all subdomains of the obvious ones.

    I wonder if it also overall lowers their costs, as they no longer have to pay for hundreds of .com registrations.

  • Companies with TLDs named after them is the best example of how ridiculously big those companies are.

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  • It's so that you can approve .Google and only .Google .

  • Companies with TLDs named after them is the best example of how ridiculously big those companies are.

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  • "Well actually..." I understand that some of the large companies are leveraging it to ease filtering for customers. No one wants to block all .com, but you can opt to unblock/block all of .microsoft or .google, that would be useful.

    Third or fourth hand information, so I don't know how far along any of these companies in implementing, but... It kinda feels like they're trying to build a centralized version a la CompuServe or Prodigy or even AOL over the internet that a company can choose to connect to.

  • On familiarity

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  • I use Generative AI at work because I know it's being tracked. I've offered examples and suggestions about things I've done with it.

    I've then outright referred to it as the World's Worst Intern. Sometimes it does the right thing, but you always have to check. Sometimes it says it's going to do the right thing, but actually does something different. Sometimes it does completely the wrong thing.

    So I have it do the things that I can do -- rote steps, easy changes I can explain faster than I can type, bulk renames or code cleanup that the compiler can validate -- but not the things I don't know if I can do. I trust the compiler, I don't trust the code it wrote. I'll use it to write the first draft of documentation based on the steps I took, but I'm editing it and expanding it.

    It's not smart. It's not intelligent. It can kind of do things as long as you're willing to let it flail for a while or to spend the time checking it's work. It's the World's Worst Intern.

  • 3.5" floppy disks were peak tactile feedback in storage: easy to stick in, drives had a button to immediately eject them, big enough to get labels, thin enough that stacks didn't take too much space

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  • Oh, I know. I'm not a little kid but I probably shouldn't put them in my mouth. Honestly, I'd be more worried about my dog.

  • Cookbook Recommendations

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  • 3.5" floppy disks were peak tactile feedback in storage: easy to stick in, drives had a button to immediately eject them, big enough to get labels, thin enough that stacks didn't take too much space

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  • Switch cartridges also taste terrible, so simultaneously you need to put them somewhere to be sure you don't lose them while switching cases AND you don't want to make the mistake of finding out the hard way because you needed your hands free.

  • What paid software is absolutely worth the money?

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  • There's a blu-ray decoder extended license.

  • Mixtapes 2.0

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  • Stop! You're scaring me!

  • Trump says America should change football's name so soccer can have it: 'It really doesn't make sense'

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  • He's still sore about the XFL, isn't he.

  • Please please please...

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  • My spouse once told me that she hadn't been allowed to play Risk because it was a boy's game. Apparently as a child she had been sent "back to the kitchen" to help with "women's chores" while the menfolk played strategy board games.

    I didn't shed a tear when her dad passed. And neither did she.

  • Meet the AI workers who tell their friends and family to stay away from AI

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  • I am being tracked for my usage of AI, so I fiddle with it. My conclusion: worst intern ever.

    It sometimes gets things right, just like you said - but I've reviewed what a coding assistant claimed it did, been reasonable impressed, then glanced at the code and discovered it hadn't even done what it claimed. It wasn't just buggy - it lied about itself.

    My previous worst intern just didn't do the work. This nonsense wastes my time.

  • Home with others

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  • He learned what he was good at... And what he enjoyed.

  • Home with others

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  • Kevin is a shop lifter after he panics with the tooth brush. Since he learned never to trust cops, he assumes he'd get thrown in jail like the hardened criminal he is... And then there's the cop who's trying to break into his house. Yeah, can't blame him for not making that call.

  • Removed Locked

    Hundreds of students line up as murdered cheerleader becomes organ donor

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  • My understanding is that the most basic of funerals and associated trappings is in excess of $10k (and that was prior to the current inflationary economic situation). Final healthcare expenses are likely also a few thousand dollars - and yes, the family likely has to pay it. So the amount of unexpected expenses is probably $25k to begin with... It starts seeming less excessive, to me at least.

  • Why did Thanos, with the power of all the infinity stones, never think to try doubling the amount of resources in the world?

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  • I - and since regretting it - rewatched the early MCU movies recently. The first time you really see Thanos mirrors the first frame, and the line immediately before he turns and smiles talks about how to invade Earth is "to court death." Given the comic book version, I'm not sure they had the whole 50% motivation thought through yet.

    I'm not sure they've thought it through yet, although I do like the argument elsewhere in the thread that Thanos did it to prove he was right, not to save the universe.

  • Cuddly gerbils

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  • Someone had to take the picture!

  • 3DPrinting @lemmy.world
    OfficeMonkey @lemmy.today

    Req: newcomer guide to SLA printing?

  • 3DPrinting @lemmy.world
    OfficeMonkey @lemmy.today

    First level printing too tall