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I took a course exactly like that. I wonder if we went to the same school, or it’s due to curriculum standardization. The professor was particularly enthusiastic about Ada, so I ha…

Although, they also said, "Because the patches appear to be written by humans".

I prefer to read on screen if it can set to “night mode” (white-on-black), large font, and full screen. For one, I find it’s more ergonomic to look at a well-positioned monitor tha…

I asked ChatGPT for a succinct definition, and I thought it was pretty good: “Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a cloud computing platform that provides on-demand access to computing po…

Non-techies don’t. Here’s how CNN answered, what is AWS? “Amazon Web Services (AWS) is Amazon’s internet based cloud service connecting businesses to people using their apps or onl…

They’re not buried around here for the most part. I think the population density is just too low to justify the cost.

And if you live a rural, mostly wooded area like I do, fallen trees are constantly taking out the fiber services for days at a time.

> sometimes it rains ash When the sky turned orange in 2020, my wife and I were just done. Also, there's something to be said for living in a place with four seasons, and a sense o…

That was my thought. More keystrokes with less certain results.

I was carrying a pager as late as 2009 because a customer's data center was two stories underground in one of the older tower blocks in downtown Toronto.

Having had to recently deal with a prosecuting attorney in a small rural county, even hallucinating AI would be a significant improvement.

I suspect it’s more about cost savings than environmental concerns, but the grocery store we frequent doesn’t provide bags at all. However, you can take boxes from the pile they ha…

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I've found that quail is often available frozen in many Asian grocery stores.

They seem to be popular with retirees who don't need to do much more than use Facebook, email, and watch YouTube videos.

I rigged up something similar in my first corporate job in 2000, plugging an ORiNOCO into the PCMCIA slot of my corporate laptop and a spare at my desk. My boss, an old mainframe g…

"The leftist of the over-socialized type tries to get off his psychological leash and assert his autonomy by rebelling. But usually he is not strong enough to rebel against the mos…

You might also enjoy The Geography of Nowhere by James Howard Kunstler.

I guess now I know the story behind this flyer I saw in a Bay Area shop window a little over a year ago: https://files.catbox.moe/48giot.jpeg

We have a gas well on our property, so we come pretty close to getting a free lunch.

> will put out the gas too Gas is obviously far more resilient, though not immune to more extreme problems. I’ve literally never experienced a gas outage, yet power outages are rou…

Unfortunately, there has been quite a few deaths in my family in the last decade, and most were on some form of pain management. They weren't always lucid, but none were as perpetu…

My aunt passed away a few years ago now. Her husband will never read this. The rest of the family agrees with me as far as I know. I don't see who I'm disrespecting by publicly and…

By respect I meant that I didn’t attempt argue with her husband about it, or say anything to her, which would have been pointless anyway.