they are like $30 it seems though?

I guess this would take the place of tapes and/or be better/more usable?

mere mortals certainly don't have storage needs like this and just use the cloud generally these days

what practical use would this have?

honestly, compared with other similar jobs I've had, it's not so bad generally really

I mostly know what's important and make an effort to mitigate the risk associated with errors

they would 100% fire someone (and have in the past) in my company for doing something like this and my company has total garbage spreadsheets which we aren't allowed to fix because..."sarbanes oxley"...

yeah - this

I block all updates and don't do anything dumb/unsafe with my computer and haven't had an issue pretty much ever...

big benefit being that updates in the past have caused more harm than good with microsoft...

yeah, STD is not just woke trek, it's bad trek

LD and SNW are much better

yeah, I read all sorts of reports on how the SF police have largely given up on going after criminals

I'm an actual accountant and find the 150 credit requirement to be a joke

it would be better if they made the actual cpa exam difficult instead of making people take more useless classes

most accountants I know can't figure out anything or manage a simple spreadsheet and they did the 150 hours whereas I didn't need do ages ago and have no problem managing large accounting systems, drafting policy/position memos, basic scripting/programming/etc....

further, generally speaking the salaries I observe are pretty reasonable at least re: the amount of work at least re: 120 credits, once you add the extra 30 credits, I can see why (and predicted) there would be a drop in grad rates

at least this will keep me in high demand I hope...

99% of the vba I come across is terrible, undocumented, and not performant

but usually works in most cases if you can even get your excel to allow it to run

as I've gotten older, I've found that I can usually avoid using vba and more elegantly accomplish my tasks with existing functionality (or just accept having slightly wrong outputs in exchange for clarity and performance where being 100% right isn't important like being off a couple dollars on certain business calculations where the full result is a huge numerical estimate anyway...)

While I 100% agree with your technocratic/liberal view of the world, mine has been tempered moderately by reading the The Republican Brain (by Chris Mooney) years ago

The thesis essentially is that evolution has yielded a continuum of people on this planet in terms of how they view the world and there's sadly not much we can do to convince conservatives to be more liberal.

Perhaps I have a defeatist/cynical view at this point in my life but I don't expect any sort of real movement on CO2 emissions to meaningfully address climate change and don't expect the US (or other similarly immature/corrupt countries) to adopt changes in healthcare or prison reform until it benefits special interests. I don't foresee the populace at large adopting purely technocratic/liberal views until we reach something closer to post scarcity which I doubt will ever happen :(

I've been using acrobat 8.0 for like 10-15 years

once in a blue moon I encounter some incompatible pdf and I just open it in sumatrapdf but that's like 2% of the time

because sometimes the very best doctors come to the US since they'll get paid the most here though for the overwhelming majority of situations and people (assuming you're not in the top 1% of income), you're better off in any other developed country besides the US

Don't think for a moment that the people who wrote this question at The College Board are top quality developers which may or may not make this a good question depending on one's perspective

didn't know that about ABA check digits - that's comforting

by receiving bank, do you mean whoever receives the ACH push or pull request?

yeah, 15 digits is often not enough space

realistically speaking though, there's little to prevent a motivated criminal from siphoning money from someone's account one way or another these days since anyone can print any check routing/account number on any "secure" stock and "sign" it close enough esp when positive pay isn't in place on the majority of accounts anyway...