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ThinkPad T series and E series are very good - first hand experience...
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Thanks!
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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I appear to be in a small minority here, but I've had good experience with the HP laptops. Over the last 15 years I have bought 6 laptops for various family members. 5 are still working away to this day. (The oldest was junked because its screen broke in a fall)
They are not bleeding-edge technology, but they work for us.
As for Lenovo, we have had two of them. I don't like the amount of spyware and bloatware that they come with. They also make it difficult to remove - after installing a clean system, using their "driver installation" app will also reinstallmuch of the spyware.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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As the subject line says - not something I came up with, but I like it. I stole it from this discussion when researching the topic.
In any case. Not a programming question.
I like to label my fields, listboxes, etc so if the user is only allowed to make a single selection, the label is singular. If the user is allowed multiple selections (including just one), I like to indicate it as such by using a label such as "Widget(s)" (as opposed to "Widgets"). Maybe I'm thinking like a developer (or so I'm told), but to me the parens make it clear making multiple choices is possible, but still just an option.
One of my coworkers hates this. Or to use the example from the discussion at the link above, something like "Party(ies)".
What's your preference? Or has your company adopted something formal?
I'm thinking this might be a good survey question.
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If 1 - Singular
if 1 or more - Plural
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But do you use the plural version using the parenthesis, is really my question. That's what my co-worker hates, to the point of having searched our entire codebase and checking in "corrections"...
I'm okay with that...just wondering what the world at large thinks...
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I wouldn't put Parenthetical Pluralization in a UI. Even a Tooltip should be along the lines of "Select one or more Widgets", "Select up to ten Parties".
In documentation sure, but only when it's a simple (s), (ies) is an abomination. Better to reword the statement to avoid the issue and possibly the meaning will be clearer as a result.
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What a waste of effort, 2 keys to insert a parenthwhatever and adds very little to the readability of the code, actually I think it detracts from the readability. Besides the information should be in the comments!
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity -
RAH
I'm old. I know stuff - JSOP
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How do you feel about online data storage? Is it really secure?
Paranoid.
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The data can be technically secure, but then there's always this...
xkcd: Security
With this out of the way...
If I absolutely, positively, had to upload data I don't want shared, I'd only be uploading TrueCrypt (or similar) file containers. That'd be missing the point of convenience, but that's hardly ever part of the question when it comes up.
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I use OneDrive as it's the easiest way to share stuff between my desktop, Surface, and phone - but if it's anything I don't want public, it gets encrypted first. (Even if it's just "normal" photos with identifiable humans in).
Is it secure? I assume it's at the "Chocolate Teapot" security level. 
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That's exactly what I use it for as well - I have a bunch of tiny, self-contained utilities (one EXE, no install, etc - think the SysInternals stuff) that I like to keep up to date and synchronized across the systems I use. OneDrive is great for that.
If it gets breached? Obviously I'll be concerned there was a breach at all, but the fact that those files got compromised is completely unimportant.
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I also use OneDrive for general stuff. It has a section called "Personal Vault" requiring 2FA with Microsoft Authenticator that I use for more sensitive stuff.
Really sensitive stuff stays on an SSD in a bank vault. Different levels of paranoia 
Mircea
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I don't put any of my data online, not knowingly anyway.
Who knows what security they have and even then it can be hacked. Not that I have top secret information, I just don't want anyone to know about that cheeze-whiz incidence.
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No one can protect your stuff as well as you can.
If security is important, then don't let anyone else have your stuff.
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Yes.
It's secure. (as secure as you can keep your own password secure).
It's friggin' practical.
It's safe in case of catastrophic failure.
Remember that 99.9% (made up statistic) of people do not have the technical knowledge or discipline to make backups and duplicating backups and storing the duplicate backup offsite and also to make sure the backup actually works.
I'm happy with the cloud
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Strangest supermarket online shopping substitutions[^]
To save you going near the Sky News (which requires PPE at the best of times), I'll summarize:
Dog chews instead of chicken breasts.
Toilet rolls instead of bread rolls.
A bag of onions instead of a loaf of bread.
Shoe polish instead of fruit.
Bacon rather than BBQ-flavoured crisps (Chips for the west ponders).
Easter egg despite ordering hot dog rolls.
A roll of tinfoil which was swapped out for a chocolate Santa.
Strawberries instead of bin bags.
Alcohol-free bottle of wine in place of a standard bottle.
And my personal favourite: Toilet roll replaced with Sellotape (Scotch tape for West ponders, Durex for Ozzies).
I'm assuming that either this was computerised via QA, or the UK supermarkets employ surrealist packers ... 
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OriginalGriff wrote: or the UK supermarkets employ surrealist packers
If those in my area are anything to go by, just take a look at these people, and try to convince me they care about the job they do.
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The ones round here are all tidy folk - happy to help, friendly, willing to take (and make) a joke.
Self-scan Jan can be difficult to understand (she had a stroke about 6 years ago and is still relearning how to talk) but she takes care (and the piss).
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OriginalGriff wrote: The ones round here are all tidy folk - happy to help, friendly, willing to take (and make) a joke.
Mom-and-pop shops, maybe, but grocery chains around here tend to hire whoever's willing to work for (barely-above) minimum wage. This is the result.
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No, I'm talking Tesco and Asda ... Possibly the lack of other jobs around here motivates them, or the Welsh are just generally community minded?
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