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TV news is curated for a particular effect; Why this story, and not that one? It is a type of commercial entertainment. It it simultaneously inane and culturally violent. Here are …

He'd have lost a toenail or two and might have a bit of callusing.

That's part of the system. Management is failing if it's not acknowledging and tackling this part of the system that's prepared to destroy the whole to preserve itself.

Yes, it made a racket! There is a description of the Harvard Mark I crashing in Beyer's "Grace Hopper and the Invention of the Information Age": > Hopper, Campbell, and Bloch inves…

Archive.ph version which loads promptly: https://archive.ph/jiER0

Terrific, thanks. That's new to me. Laurent Bossavit's "The Leprechauns of Software Engineering"[1] is fun and accessible. It claims that much of what we consider fact in software …

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Wonderful stuff. Gerald Weinberg had a huge influence on at least the 1990s generation of testers, with his ethnographic approach. He doesn't seem to have had as much influence on …

...and the filename is shown as a focused highlight, leading you to think that's where the focus actually is! But no, it's in the search field, at the bottom right of the dialog.

No more "every fortnight in future". Instead, it's "biweekly going forward". I do miss the 'old' terms.

There's a terrific episode about BEFLIX on the "Advent of Computing" podcast: https://open.spotify.com/episode/6m1EPM2w1oX9aPoNyXa6Bb

For near-line stuff and long-term storage, a HP Microserver with software RAID5 array via Linux mdraid. No inbound access from outside the network. Powered on as necessary. I've re…

> (my hips would need a day to recover from a 20 km walk). > > I'm in my mid 50s, so I'd like to believe my age is part of that. Nah, it's just lack of practice. I turned fifty dur…

"Cailín" is Irish for "girl". https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/cail%C3%ADn

A film of the exhibition captures the multimedia aspect well: https://vimeo.com/721486048/description (Via https://civilizationofllhuros.org/ )

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Alan Bromley and Doron Swade's rebuild of the Difference Engine, done using metals and techniques that were available in Babbage's time, seem to have put paid to that idea. These d…

A 65 page tract on programming as it relates to Bookchin's "social ecology" and Wikipedia-like "peer production".

No difference. Just a branding exercise. Nextcloud will soon be at version 25, which will also be named Nextcloud Hub 3. Frank Karlitchek talks about this during the Q&A, about an …

The ARM binary isn't up yet. ``` $ uname -m aarch64 $ restic self-update writing restic to /data/data/com.termux/files/usr/bin/restic find latest release of restic at GitHub latest…

Don't you find the background rumble of the air in the vents very enervating? I was in a friend's place with a heat pump, and I felt like I was inside a badly tuned organ. Lots of …