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Lol, not compared to what they paid us :-)

If you were already an IRIX shop, the servers were performant for a lot of uses. SGI did networking and disk I/O at least as well as Sun, IBM, and HP. We ran NFS and Perforce for h…

or The Andromeda Strain. I was on the edge of my seat for the last half of the movie as a 10 year old when it came out. The book still holds up as a medical mystery - thriller and …

Traveling internationally with hundreds of pounds of gold wouldn't be that hard for a CIA senior official on "official" business. A diplomatic passport and access to the State Depa…

You will no longer be scare when either you do not enjoy work enough at the current comfort level, or you have something better to go to. Since the first seems unlikely, explore th…

/hogs reminds me of the earlier (mid Eighties) /nightowl and nightowl group. Davie Curry and others were taking up precious disk space on utilities of dubious necessity. One exampl…

Sounds like I met George only a little later - Fall 1980. By then, EE's had two Vaxes to abuse - EE and ED. The ADMs were supplemented with ADDS Regent-20s. Students had strong opi…

No, the bottom of the page says they subcontract production. So it's an infomercial for a company that markets sweaters they may or may not design. And they disclose that in the ar…

Not at these prices :-) $150 - $200 for a sweater is not cheap. I think of fast fashion in terms of "how many times do I have to wear it to get my money's worth?" If the answer is …

What a thoroughly modern world we live in. My first reaction was to check if this was an April Fool's blog post.

Nice idea, but "small composable programs" includes R scripts? That's great if you're already using R, a bit much to install if you're not. You could simplify things by cribbing fr…

Off the top of my head: Chair Standing Desk Redundant Network Connection / VPN / Better Home Network Noise cancelling headphones / earbuds Cheap laser printer Power protection Thun…

It's unfortunate election insecurity is only an issue when the other side wins. Democrats and the media (but I repeat myself) were quick to label the claims about Biden's anomalous…

My wife was a great example of this. She was an undergraduate math major, then went on to get her master's and PhD in engineering. The first year of the master's was largely remedi…

No, I had the same strategy in computer science, foreign language, and elective courses. CS? The first week of the class, I'd read the entire language manual. I wouldn't understand…

Check your state laws. Here, there are a variety of liens available to enforce a small claims judgement. While foreclosing a real-estate lien requires an attorney, the process begi…

I read that book in 1985, and heartily recommend it. I was blown away by Reid's observation that in another era, Kilby and Noyce would be more famous than Edison. Reid notes the re…

If you're in the US, there are many resources. Many states have a beekeeper's association that offer mentoring, training, and apprenticeship programs. If you have a child, 4-H prob…

Also, that "80%" had a sample size of 63; they had 361 total, but only 63 had information on the hunter's gender.

Don't believe the clickbait titles. It's nothing earth shattering or unexpected. From Skepchick: "This study also can’t speak to the frequency of female hunters: “80%” is a binary …

Looks like a display error, right? Your query was 50+123/1000000, so the answer is correct. For some reason, the calculator is not displaying the "+". Are you intentionally obfusca…

Talk about timeless - Strang was the textbook for my undergrad course in Linear Algebra - 40 years ago.

Corollary: Dave Ramsey's observation that Cash is King. It's less true now that commercial sellers (car dealers, big appliances, etc) often make money on selling you the financing,…

If the batch jobs have few or simple interdependencies, scheduling is the easy part. Are your tasks too complex for cron/at/batch? For example, do they require coordination across …

I love Apollo, but it's not a complete answer. If you attempt to visit an 18+ reddit on mobile, it will redirect you to either HOME or Reddit's official client. Not the "iOS App yo…