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They literally didn't have a Lunh check digit? Like, 1960s math? My gobs are smacked.

Mocking the signs at Facebook started literally the day after they appeared suddenly in the 1601 building. "Break fast and eat things", and so on. There was a very fancy print shop…

In the early 2000s, back at the beginning of the world, Yahoo's web code used ^A and ^B for field and record separators to avoid having to escape commas and quotes and newlines. Th…

Yes, literally. Same argument applies to limited copyright terms. Though I'd say it would be with less concern, not completely without it.

You can like the work but hate the jerk. The real question comes when you decide whether to financially support a jerk's work.

Another n=1, but it depends. Outside interruptions when I'm on a tear are horrible. I don't often distract myself with a full-featured computer. In fact I often spin off into "rese…

Browser DOM Security Mechanism.

A SIM card is an often-overlooked "what you have" second factor, yes leaving aside phone company social engineering hacks. I made the mistake of buying an iphone on a trip to US, w…

There was no pipe, as such. Just a wide deep long trench full of rocks.

100 years on, everyone involved was dead. Happens a lot in old neighborhoods.

Oh, yes. No lawns in that neighborhood but I thought hard about what might be going into the fruits. Years on, no ill effects.

I discovered French drains while trying to dig a hole for a fruit tree a while back. The land was on a hill and about 30cm down I hit this huge pile of dirty gravel. Ok, so maybe s…

You mean, Yet Another Human-Organized Ontology?

About ten years ago I got my hands on some of the last production FusionIO SLC cards for benchmarking. The software was an in-memory database that a customer wanted to use with exp…

Try "the music of the spheres". https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musica_universalis

30 years is a lot of time. I agree with GP. Starting back then would have been best; starting now would be second. I live in a country that has twice the number of medical school g…

Ah, you're right. They announced they would but Congress didn't act. https://catalog.usmint.gov/proof-set-2024-24RG.html?cgid=ann...

The US stopped minting pennies last year.

Note: This applies only to traditional "harvest" surgery and not the new aphereisis method used today. The surgery itself wasn't great but I was at 80% after a month and 100% after…

I was part of a study of bone marrow donors. Basically a short phone call every year. The questions were solely about physical effects, but each time I tried to explain psychologic…

Something that's kinda funny but baffling to me is the unspoken assumption that a UI with voice input should also default to voice output. That's not how two humans work on command…

You might be surprised. I spent a long time carefully and politely explaining to an immigration case officer that "Firstname NMN Lastname" meant, in fact, that there was No Middle …

Yes. Thank you for reading. :) It's aged a bit but I am working on an update for the cloud era: https://carlos.bueno.org/2023/03/aws-dismal-guide.html

In my profile, but https://carlos.bueno.org . I also write kids books on computer science and that seems to hook some parents. ;)