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  • Except you aren’t “downloading” the .exe as this thread suggests.

    You’re right, it is more complex, “difficult” and fiddly than downloading an exe - presumably because you are trying to do something more complex than your walled garden software allows.

    I don’t do the repairs on my car myself, even though I probably could and most of them are probably simple and don’t require specialist tools. Same for free software to do specialist functions.










  • we had a (creative) writing workshop once where they said “write the worst possible dialogue you can!” with the idea that then we would read them back, and it’d be stuff like “I love you! I’d die for you!” “But you killed for me - that’s horrible!” etc and they’d point out it wasn’t actually that bad with a few tweaks and a good performance.

    I kinda saw that coming so I wrote stuff like,

    “Zbijgl, my old fart, my favmamort n n n n number is 183442356742255214676213566873225566333543”

    “But my cat food is singing, it goes anganganganganganganganganganga”

    and they were forced to concede that yes, it is possible to write truly bad dialogue.





  • sfdc (Salesforce dot com) is one of the biggest CRMs in the world and pretty much runs every sales department out there, adp (automatic data processing) is one of the biggest payroll systems in the world.

    it’s highly likely you’ve interacted with either or both but maybe in a white-labelled way (e.g. all of Carmax’s computer systems run entirely off Salesforce)