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Legal definition of both assault as well as battery is state dependent.

An assault charge is likely relevant for most positions. If I hire a convicted felon with a track record of assault and they end up assaulting another employee or customer, I’d fee…

I can't believe anyone would do a study about this for two reasons. First, well, duh. Don't need a study to tell you this. Second, was this done for someone to explain why they're …

I've programmed in 6502 Assembly for decades and your skepticism is right on. These comparisons have so many variables that they are extremely hard to make accurately. FTA - I woul…

OK imagine you have $500 million in revenue and $154 million in losses. That means you've been selling $1.00 for 70 cents. Not sustainable. If their customers don't like what they'…

Who will pay for Stack Overflow servers and maintenance if OpenAI is just going to scrape their content and stop people from going to Stack Overflow?

There is a voltage regulator in the standard Commodore 64 power supply that fails catastrophically. Specifically, it sends > 5 volts down the 5 volt line. When this happens, depend…

I knew the embarrassment level was going to be turned up to 11 when your link was to archive.org.

One of the most rewarding things I have done in the past few years is learned component-level repair on Commodore 64s. Take a dead 64 showing nothing but a black screen, try the de…

Easily 90%+ of the faults on Commodore 64s, especially the early models. My Christmas 1982 model died with a faulty PLA well within the warranty period.

I... gave an honest and reasonable assessment of the book. I think I gave it 3 stars.

He posted his review within a day or two of me posting my review.

How did Apple become so successful making high-end CPU chips on their own so quickly?

I reviewed a programming book on Amazon must've been 15+ years ago. The author posted a review of me on his blog. Not a review of my review. Of me and everything he could find out …

I’ve been programming for 15 years now...There are no additional features. They are not faster or more optimized. They don’t look different. They just...grow? I've been programming…

Me too! Although I did web hosting and company ISDN lines and not dialup 1996-1998. Used Windows NT for web hosting and Slackware Linux with qmail for mail hosting. Sold out at wha…

ISP's router [...] Put it into modem mode and pass all the packets straight through to a third-party router. Best thing I ever did. Put in a Linksys Deco X55 mesh system with WiFi …

Blockchain technology has historically claimed several innovations: 1. Decentralized currency 2. Immutable ledger 3. Transparent transactions 4. Streamlined transactions (no T+2 or…

Principle of Belief Conservation. For any proposition, P: 1. Taking a certain cognitive stance toward P (for example, believing it, rejecting it or withholding judgement) would req…

My first IBM compatible was a 10 MHz 8088. Never had a compatibility problem but if I had I would’ve just needed to hit the ol’ Turbi button to bring it down to 4.77 MHz.

I called almost exclusively local BBSes with my 300 bps modem starting in 1985. There was no local Compuserve dial-in number for me. Between the long distance and the per minute ch…

Same. In 1990 was a field service engineer at a PC shop. We used to use circuit cooler or "cold spray" as we used to call it. We had three levels of hard drive data recovery that w…

3.5% unemployment rate = nothing will get people back into office if they don't want to be in the office. This all flips around at some point though. Maybe 10% unemployment? For me…

It's really awesome how different people are able to engage in this hobby with different requirements. For me, working on a real 64 is essential but I don't care about disk drives …

What are the clinically significant differences between long covid and things like fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome that have been around for quite a while? I don't appear…