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"Oft as not, in talk or script, we'll force the use of some long hard word, and with it, blunt the keen edge and dull the sharp point of what we want to say." - H. Phelps Gates

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From the article: "[Ron Milner] remembered showing it off to some buddies at a county fair when the game first came out, but that was 40 years ago!"

Perhaps it did?

Parchives. Great for adding recovery to any file. :) I use them [now par2cmdline-tbb] religiously for archives. I started doing this years ago after having CD-R's burned on a drive (Plextor, no less) that I started having a hard time reading on any other drive.

Problems with CSVs 10 years ago

A regional (to me) real estate web site that we had to work with had a data service that output XML. It was naively implemented and managed to output malformed XML. Mostly in the form of a CSV field crammed into an XML field with non-conformant XML markup.

This categorized approach is what my email usage has evolved into over the years. I ended up "demoting" email addresses over time and letting them be used for spam-attractive uses or disuse altogether.

I have another category for family/close personal friends. For money matters, I go a step further and split out general commerce (online shopping) from financial institutions (banking/investment).

I have a Canon Pixma MG7520 that works fine over wifi with a Win 8.1 client. Quality of the prints are scans are pretty much inline with the price I paid (i.e., mediocre). It sees very light use, so I have no ideas about how long or well it will last. I got it to scan contracts and for the occasional color print (not photos).

On the desktop side, IE9, the last version on Vista, which is in extended support until April 11, 2017, only supports up to TLS 1.0.

OTOH, progressive JPEGs tend to require much more memory to decode. I do not have specific numbers to cite. Only going off of anecdotal usage of image programs over the years (e.g., Java photo uploaders that choked on progressive JPEGs).

For processing data types without quality natural unique keys, being able to generate a unique key beforehand is very useful. I've written code both ways: inserting to get an auto-incremented integer, and generating a UUID, and the UUID approach was much easier to write and maintain.