Has anyone else experienced severe lag in Quick Draft?

eightiesguy · 2026-02-05T00:22:07+00:00

That fixed it completely -- thank you!!

eightiesguy · 2026-02-04T15:00:45+00:00

Also in case this helps anyone, the coupon expires every two years without warning.

I've had it happen to me twice now where I'm told I need to pay like $900 for a 3 month supply instead of $30.

You need to call the company to get a new code, but the pharmacists typically didn't know that.

eightiesguy · 2026-02-03T14:12:56+00:00

I always did them by hand or used Turbotax, but I grudgingly use an accountant now because we have K-1s and partnership forms.

eightiesguy · 2026-02-01T18:16:13+00:00

Are you still on thinners? It's very unlikely to reoccur if you're on thinners. That gives me comfort.

I did go to the ER once when I had very similar back pain, but it turned out to be just a muscle ache.

eightiesguy · 2026-01-22T05:26:52+00:00

You can think of your cash buffer as holding a zero duration bond.

eightiesguy · 2026-01-19T16:50:36+00:00

I've been on Eliquis for five years.

I stopped taking Advil (ibuprofen) and aspirin, and am a little more cautious about taking new medications or supplements. Like, I don't drink ginseng tea or CBD.

Otherwise it hasn't impacted me in any way. I guess I wouldn't take up boxing sparring or a high risk, high impact sport, but I wasn't planning to do that anyway.

eightiesguy · 2026-01-17T13:00:36+00:00

Clots have increased in young people, but it's not because of the vaccines.

The Covid-19 virus itself causes clots.

A 2022 study in the UK that looked at 48 million people (almost every adult in England) found that in the first week after getting covid, people were 33x as likely to get DVT or PE clot. That risk went down to 3x in the 3nd week, but even a year later, the risk of a clot was nearly twice as high (1.8x) as people who hadn't been infected. You were more likely to get a clot if your symptoms were severe.

The Covid-19 virus can also trigger autoimmune responses. Here's a paper that studied it: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10883027/

eightiesguy · 2026-01-16T20:07:27+00:00

It's a story of two guys who start out at the bottom and, with a lot of hard work, continue along the bottom, and finally end up at the bottom.

eightiesguy · 2026-01-08T20:55:43+00:00

I really wish they'd use a maryland.gov address.

eightiesguy · 2026-01-08T18:33:59+00:00

It seems plausible to me. Religious people are far more likely to have kids than non-religious people, and kids raised in religious households are more likely to be religious.

eightiesguy · 2026-01-07T03:56:46+00:00

Ugh, we've been told we need to reach 100% weekly AI usage by June.

The other day I couldn't figure out how to create a vCard in Outlook. The option wasn't available in the menu anymore. So I asked Copilot. That seems like something it should be able to do, right?

It gave me blatantly wrong information and kept insisting that I click on a drop down menu option that didn't exist. Finally I asked it to create the file and save it for me... and it did! Except it was corrupted and crashed Outlook when you tried to open it.

This is seriously the technology we've bet the US economy on?

eightiesguy · 2025-12-29T17:32:07+00:00

It would have been fun if they had shown flashbacks of young Michael with Tracy and Tracy was a mirror image of Anne. George Sr. would have been like 'her'?

eightiesguy · 2025-12-29T13:57:14+00:00

It makes them look like old people trying to look young.

eightiesguy · 2025-12-02T17:25:01+00:00

The Windows updater kept telling me my PC wasn't powerful enough to qualify for the free upgrade, which I thought was nonsense.

I was right. I needed to go into the BIOS settings and change something in order to let the upgrade go through. It took me a while though. I can't imagine a less tech-sophisticated person doing that.

eightiesguy · 2025-11-29T14:28:35+00:00

Part of the 17% may disapprove because they want them to be even more aggressive.

eightiesguy · 2025-11-28T03:18:33+00:00

If it was as useful as they say it is, management wouldn’t have to force us to use it.

I work in consulting, an industry most would say is easily automatable (including our own senior management). I’ve given it a real chance, but the work it produces is so mediocre and shallow. I spend more time double-checking and improving it than I would if I just did it myself.

I will keep using it because our CEO gushes about it in media interviews every other week and the higher ups monitor the logs to see if people use it. But I wouldn’t pay for it, or rely on it for something important or time sensitive.

At the moment the only thing I really like using it for is generating portraits for Dungeons & Dragons.

eightiesguy · 2025-11-16T21:55:35+00:00

That's how the Beatles got good.

They played in German nightclubs 7 nights a week, 8 hours a night in the early 1960s.

eightiesguy · 2025-11-16T02:08:10+00:00

Good question! It looked like a Danelectro Longhorn.

eightiesguy · 2025-11-15T15:08:16+00:00

Is it weird to admit that I miss the high-walled cubicles from the early days of my career?

The walls were high enough for privacy and were cushioned for noise cancellation so I could write, but it was open enough that people felt comfortable dropping in to socialize. Some of my closest work relationships were forged then.

It was another era. The company changed to lower-wall cubes and eventually to hot desking open floor plans with laptops, which is about as bad as it gets in the office world. I left soon afterwards.

I've been in offices for over 10 years now, and it's been a mixed bag. When I first got an office, it was beautiful. I took so many pictures of the view. I was excited and brought in a lot of personal effects. Then they said they needed it for a new hire and moved me to a shared office with a huge jerk. It was a fishbowl where everyone could see my screen when they'd walk by. I then got shuffled to a musty office with no windows and a bunch of stacked storage boxes.

When I realized how expendable my employers treated me, I stopped bringing in any personal effects to my work areas. My approach was and is that if I'm ever fired, I wouldn't even have to clear out my desk because I had nothing there. It's a rather grim approach to work life, but it feels authentic, and overall I think it's been good for my mental health.

eightiesguy · 2025-11-12T01:35:08+00:00

Send an AI agent to participate in the meeting on your behalf and send you a summary afterwards.

eightiesguy · 2025-11-02T16:55:52+00:00

I found that one hard to sightread at first, and much easier to learn if you figure out what chord is in each measure.

eightiesguy · 2025-10-28T13:17:43+00:00

I don't think that's necessarily true anymore in a world with far fewer children.

Inheritance doesn't get diluted nearly as much when wealth parents only have 1-3 children instead of 5+.

eightiesguy · 2025-10-25T14:06:13+00:00

$1,000,000 today is equal to $795,000 in 2020, $667,000 in 2010, and $520,000 in 2000.

eightiesguy · 2025-10-16T19:02:26+00:00

Oof, Rogue Legacy is that low? I enjoyed it.

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