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"Business Statistics, or, How To Tell Lies Using Facts" --probably the title of some textbook somewhere

Sometimes, people put on some of the most random-seeming words. Could someone perhaps explain why?

anyway this has been felthry gets annoyed at microsoft again

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this is what the configuration file looks like to install Word, Excel, and Powerpoint and nothing else. Note that you have to know not what you want to install but everything you don't want to install, and that you also have to tell it not to pin icons for each one on your taskbar because of course it clutters your taskbar by default

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you have to use the office deployment tool which is designed for setting up many computers at once and you have to go into its configuration file and instead of telling it "install this this and this" you have to tell it "okay /don't/ install this, don't install that, don't install this" for every single one of the apps and you have to look up what all of the programs are and I don't even know what lync is nor did we know it existed so if you forgot that too bad you have lync now, whatever it is

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Installing microsoft office but not installing every single office program is very difficult, much more so than it should be

I don't _want_ onenote, microsoft, stop trying to force it on us

(actually, a small comment. this image out of context is just very amusing to me for no particular reason)

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today I learned that HSPICE ("the 'gold standard' for accurate circuit simulation," which I use every day) was developed by Ashawna Hailey, who was trans, and her twin brother Kim. they went on to deliver the first 8080 clone for AMD.

#representationmatters

English could really do with having clusivity in its first person plural pronouns

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hey everyone please look at these pixel dragons i made because i said so and i'm proud of them a lot and want attention for my hard work computerfairi.es/media/L1K0MRR

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til, there's a species of owl literally called "powerful owl"

"The powerful owl (Ninox strenua) is a species of owl native to south-eastern and eastern Australia, the largest owl on that continent. It is found in coastal areas, the Great Dividing Range rarely more than 200 km (120 mi) inland"

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Powerful

One technical thing I like about the Spiderweb Software games, they all use less than 100MB of RAM, even the most recent ones.

Got an email saying that a student organization has invited a white nationalist speaker to talk at the university.... and they're not going to do anything about it but it was absolutely a student group and not the university that invited them and you shouldn't protest their speech, just ignore them and did we mention it was not the university who invited them

Just in case anyone wasn't aware it existed, thistothat.com/ is a surprisingly useful resource. It's one of those things where you never actually need it, but when you do need it, it's a lifesaver.

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