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"Shoot first, ask questions later"[0] when cutting staff seems like a delusional idea to me.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33496808


Moving a window: Alt-Space, M, arrow keys


If you Alt-Space, M, and press one of the arrow keys, the windows will 'stick' to your mouse cursor so you can just wiggle your mouse after they key combo to bring it to you.


The old CUA, Windows 3.0 corner square has an oblong rectangle that represents the space bar (at least in my mind). Unless the window is a child window, in which case the shortcut is Alt-Hyphen[1], and I haven't used that shortcut in many years. The fashion for tabs has probably made that useless.

[1] http://www.robelle.com/smugbook/win3x.html


I was inspired by nostalgia to do the research via archive.org: This shortcut goes back to Windows 2.0, almost 35 years ago. I remembered it from the 3.1 days.


OneNote can do simple calculations for you: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/insert-and-calcul...


Click on the '+ help' label in the upper-right corner for a detailed description.


Please don't do this, Mozilla.

I have a lot of open tabs on my 1920 x 1080 monitor, and switching from compact density to default (I just tested this) reduced the amount of visible text on each tab such that I couldn't identify what most of the tabs contained.

In other words, if you have a lot of tabs open at once, the reduction in usability is significant.


Edit and continue, Visual Basic 3, 1994

After adding a major piece of new functionality to my app, I would step through the new code, fixing each bug as it appeared, and then continue stepping. Being able to produce bug-free code after only one run-through just blew my mind.


There's the correct answer.

You're seeing the fruits of 70+ years of conservatives telling their audience "Everything sucks now, and everything will suck more in the future, and those people over there are to blame for all of it".

This is the reason you're seeing so many educated, affluent people among those who stormed the Capitol - they're just really, REALLY pissed off.


I think the Functions Translator[1][2] add-in might be worth a look to you. Note: I haven't used it myself, and it's a Microsoft Garage project, so there's no guarantee of support or maintenance.

From the description:

Functions Translator helps people use a localized version of Excel by helping translate from the US Excel function names, or research how to create a solution on the web with predominately English content.

Easily find the equivalent localized functions and formulas in any of the supported 15 languages. Functions Translator will automatically configure the language settings to US and the Localized version, and people can provide feedback on the translation of functions if it is not what they expected.

[1] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/garage/blog/2018/03/new-gara... [2] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/garage/profiles/functions-tr...


>You could do that, but the way to write it in the bash way would be `dir | select -first 3`

Fyi, `dir | select -first 3` also works in PowerShell.


Yes, this is what the parent meant: it is valid PowerShell. It wouldn't work by default in Bash unless you had `dir` and `select` defined there somehow.


"dir" is commonly available on Linux and "select" is a bash built-in, which is probably why so many of us were confused by the comment :)


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