Deputy CTO. Java Champion, member Java SE Expert Group, JCP EC, OpenJDK Vulnerability Group and Adoptium SC. AMA about Java and JVM.

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  Outstanding customer service from

  @porterairlines

  . I fly from Ottawa to New York tomorrow and have checked in. To access my boarding pass, I need your mobile app. This isn't available to someone from the U.K. Why not?

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  How can a 27-slide PowerPoint presentation be 11.8MB? I deleted every slide with a picture (not many), and it's still 6.8MB. While I'm at it, what moron in the Microsoft UI group decided to relocate the compress picture option? 😡

  

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  Hi

  @aixenergy

  . Can you tell me how I can unsubscribe from your spam emails that I never signed up for? I have used the link that claims to unsubscribe me, but it doesn't. I even tried sending a direct email to [email protected], but that also failed. JUST STOP SENDING ME SPAM!

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  I was yesterday years old when I discovered that it's a *really* bad idea to remove the Python package from your Ubuntu installation. An awful lot of stuff suddenly stops working.