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Legacy Update @legacyupdate.net · 14/06/2026

Is the Microsoft Office Ribbon causing people to have fewer children? A provocative new working paper explores the persistent drop in birth rates since Office 2007 was introduced nearly two decades ago.

The top-left corner of Microsoft Word 2007, showing the ribbon.

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Michael Coblenz @mcoblenz.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

@jonathanaldrich.bsky.social Do you know what's up with this new ACM DL Cloudflare requirement? I often get stuck for minutes or longer trying to get access to papers. Clicking the checkbox just spins and eventually asks me to check the box again:

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Michael Coblenz @mcoblenz.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

You know what's not right in this "America First" world we live in now? I have to scroll past other countries after I type "U" to get to "United States" (for example, "United Arab Emirates" comes first). I think we need to immediately change our country's name to "_United States". Who's with me?

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Michael Coblenz @mcoblenz.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

Will FL health insurance companies raise their rates? www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/u...

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Florida Says It Plans to End All Vaccine Mandates

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Michael Coblenz @mcoblenz.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

We'd really appreciate help with our study of Rust programming! If you know Rust, please take about 20-30 minutes to help us find out how to make Rust programmers more effective: ucsd.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

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Rust Learning Quiz

Help us learn more about Rust by taking this short and easy quiz!

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Michael Coblenz @mcoblenz.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

For the record, ChatGPT is happy to take over the job of an air traffic controller. Looks like Musk et al. can save a lot of money on actual ATC staff!

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Michael Coblenz @mcoblenz.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Hey, @icseconf.bsky.social: when do you expect to post the presentation schedule for the technical track?

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