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I'm retired now but it never occurred to me the vocational languages I enjoyed most were all respectable or false starts (or obscure): FORTRAN, Pascal, Icon, Ada, Tcl. And in hinds…

This mentions a piece by the guitarist Michael Hedges, dedicated to the minimalist composer Steve Reich. Interesting...

Excessive prompts as ceremony. That's an interesting idea.

It would also be an interesting job, even if off the beaten track. As a hiring manager, if I saw this on a resume interspersed with various web development work, I would be intrigu…

That's fair.

"Chat is a terrible UX General use needs ‘apps’" I'm old so my computer career has gone: punch cards => calculators => command-line => GUI => touch screen => voice => chat. Chat se…

I hope Peter Zeihan lives a long life.

The three surprises for me: NV/Tagalog, AL/Korean, KY/German. The first two are presumably recent immigration. Kentucky in particular surprises me despite my German ancestors settl…

This is why John Cage's 4'33" mentioned above is genius. If you listen to the composition with sincerity and seriousness, you get the full, unadulterated (non-silent) experience as…

Codex has used Power Shell, C# and Python and I[m mostly none the wiser. Ok.

Companies have a long history of mis-management of their acquisitions (and mis-managing their portfolio of projects outside their money-making expertise). As you suggest, it's good…

I, an American, was on a business trip in Sweden then a holiday in Scotland. It was easier to understand the Swedes than the Scots...

I have a computer science degree yet continue to use Windows. Is it because I have 30 years of experiece knowing what to ignore?j I do also use WSL for the command-line.

I lived in Silicon Valley without a car for 2 years. Commuted between Palo Alto and Santa Clara by Caltrain commuter rail. Took the local bus system frequently. Rented a car occasi…

"Even as a child, he had that engineer’s directness, an innate distrust of authority, and the gifted kid’s impatience with lesser mortals."

> only safe place to be Originating from 17th century persecution for their religous beliefs and practices. I can't speak of modern-day mistreatment of the group.

The Fourth Turning argues institutional effectiveness is cyclical and that the US is headeds towards the end of tearing down institutions versus building them up (and towards the e…

I had a boss who took his notes on loose-leaf notebook paper and would weed the notebook frequently. He had been involved in litigation in the past.

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I traveled to Wuhan twice a year for business for much of the last decade (until the pandemic). China was a growing country that clearly knew how to build infrastructure. In Wuhan,…