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I didn’t have a pro to help me. But I used Linux a lot on the cloud/cluster. I didn’t want to futz. So I bought a computer with Linux preinstalled. Then I got one for work. Then a …

Chariots of fire soundtrack was good too.

Is it because the criteria is wait time not travel time? Destination dispatch would avoid some extra stops on the trip. I just visited a new building with destination dispatch, so …

Curmudgeon is the perfect term to describe. He was a great part of TWIT. I liked his obscure software references (lotus Jazz was one I think). He also found this new thing is like …

The non-profit I help with moved to Wordpress so people can edit the site without having to use git. (We have a lot more editors now)..

I find college radio to be a good curator of music. MIT radio is a mix of students and long time music lovers who DJ. They archive shows for a couple weeks (though it’s automatic s…

We did whole genome crispr designs at my last university job. Can confirm that off target effects are an issue with cas9. Pattern matching across the genome to see if a design is u…

V5? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VR5_engine We owned an vw inline 5 Passat (quantum in North America). Good engine and synchro awd.

Steam set up a sales queue for the deck, so scalping wasn’t an huge issue with them. You can only get them through steam. The price is another issue…

I love the bottom pop up which says “It’s better with the App” The options are “yes” or “Not now” No option for the “No thanks, please don’t bother me about this again for at least…

We’d get the same every time. It wasn’t great but it did work.

Intel this year seems to have something competitive with the core ultra cpus. The “wildcat” cpus are being released now in budget friendly machines. We’ll see how they do. I’m not …

We had Fortran converted to ADA semi automatically at a place I worked. We called it Adatran. That code was weird and very hard to maintain. That goodness it was just small functio…

I think it’s just your browser. They got me.. just enough off the main text to give a little jump..

If you watch the documentary it’s an interview with the people who were there. There might be some discrepancy but I think the IBM guys were being honest about how it went down. Th…

Interesting story of how MS got into the operating system business. IBM wanted the CPM operating system, but Digital Research wouldn’t sign ibms NDA… really a pivot point in comput…

They tried to neutralize but couldn’t apparently. “But when members of GKN Aerospace’s response team arrived to inject a neutralizing agent into the tank to reduce the liquid’s vol…

They’re “triumph of the nerds”really good. Really gets to the pivotal points in business. The story of how MS got the operating system contract told by Gates/Balmer and the IBM exe…

Modern PHP is pretty good. I’ve been using it for a while so it’s comfortable. I’ve been doing so Perl maintenance lately and I miss PHP. Perl is a lot weirder than PHP. If I didn’…

I know areosmith, phish and the Dave Mathews band gave fan club members dibs on good tickets, though this was year ago. My friend was a huge phish fan and he’d always get a bunch o…

“Data recovery”?

Well Flea just released a jazz record where he plays trumpet. I admire him for it, but might need some financing now. https://youtu.be/1r0k2AW153g?si=-J6qNeyc3dHQJ6Gk

I used canvas for some Harvard extension classes 10 to 5ish years ago. It worked Ok. Work distributed, grades posted. I didn't realized so many schools used it, or that it was all …

Wmbr is great. I always assumed it was “Walker Memorial Building Radio” based on the building it transmits from.

We used to be amazed when I ran cross country in high school that these pro marathoners would best all of us in our approx 5K(3ish mile) races and then go on to repeat that distanc…