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Trick in getting 99% satisfaction is asking you about it 30 nanoseconds after you bought it or before you even received it.

There are actually four "outlook" implementations now.

1. Outlook desktop - old MFC / win32 crapfest

2. Windows Mail / Calendar - new WPF crapfest.

3. O365 online outlook / outlook.com - fat web app.

4. "New" Outlook - this is a fat Electron style app based on the web app.

The latter is actually pretty good - been using it for a couple of months. This is apparently going to replace all the other ones on the desktop.

That's a vast difference in the number of layers of abstraction though. Digital electronics is not.

Probably the wrong way to look at it. Digital electronics doesn't really exist outside of theoretical spaces. It's all analogue underneath and any experienced digital designer will know that and what the consequences for things like signal integrity, noise immunity and latency.

They aren’t terrible as long as you have a supply of wall warts available. I ended up powering mine off a little Meanwell switching supply in the end as they don’t blow up as often.

Netgear do some half decent fully managed switches. It’s not all blue crap off Amazon.

The worst switches I ever used were HPE ones in the old C5000 blade chassis. Absolute turds. Packet loss, constant port failures and complete hangs. HPE’s solution was to tell us to buy new ones.

But at the same time I can remember basically every small block of code in a large saas I single handedly built a few years ago, even today.

Trying to replace that with something useful here at the moment. Much more difficult than it looks.

I haven't done any productive work for about 5 years so doing something and failing would be an improvement.

This is really great marketing for Microsoft and .Net

This sounds less stressful than an average half a decade working at my current position. It is actually motivating. Whether or not that was the desired outcome, I don't know. At least I get to travel to half decent academic conferences and not large vendor marketing conferences.