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  • So many people think Mac is an acronym for whatever reason, as in “Do you use MAC or PC?”.

    I don’t know why they think this. It was never formatted that way in any of Apple’s marketing materials.

    It really annoys me. In my head when I read it I hear “MAC” pronounced in the voice of Gilbert Godfrey.

    I’m guessing they’re confusing it with MAC addresses? They probably saw the term somewhere and wrongly assumed it had something to do with Apple Macs.






  • Sheridan@lemmy.worldtoAsklemmy@lemmy.mlComputer related pet peeves
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    With Word, people using section breaks when most of the time they should have used the simpler page break.

    Section breaks are supposed to be used if you want to have a change in the document layout in the middle of the document. This change could be with the margins, the orientation, the contents of the header or footer, the numbering (eg switch from roman numerals to arabic numerals), etc.

    But if you just want the line to move to the next page, use a page break. Section breaks increase the chance of unintended layout and page numbering inconsistencies.

    Microsoft should rename section break to “layout break” maybe.

    Also, related topic, I really hate it when people just input a bunch of line breaks to get the cursor to the next page, instead of a page break.




  • While the rendering engine (WebKit) is the same across iOS browsers, WebKit is an open source project. To my knowledge there isn’t any telemetry baked into WebKit that reports back to Apple or whomever about user identity or behavior; tracking would have to added by the developers making use of WebKit for their browser, I think? So in terms of privacy, it should make a difference which iOS you select.








  • He’s doing a “census audit” and trying to consolidate a lot of different datasets from different sources containing the same individuals. None of the sources contain any sort of unique ID column in common so he’s using the SSN I guess to join tables? I don’t fully understand what he’s doing. I don’t think he actually has a functioning relational database setup. The few glimpses I’ve seen of his Access database looks chaotic.

    Separately I made a simple database with the same persons for the purposes of generating monthly invoices, and I gave them auto-increment IDs; my database is supposed to link to his because he wants to monitor record changes and incorporate them into his ongoing census thing. But he’s not liking my primary key and keeps wanting me to switch to SSNs so it’s easier for him to do whatever he’s doing.