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Ferran Adrià published a recipe for an omelette using potato chips.

I find most of my references while browsing, and capture from the browser is Zotero's winning feature for me: automatically save the pdf and extract the bibliographic data. And whi…

Come back when your computer is in a room with a raised floor (for cabling), tremendous AC, and windows in walls so a passer-by can look in and see the tapes rotating. Geezer here.…

What about language was used in the masters program? Spanish? I'm guessing that German is your first language.

Origins of the 1918 flu are unclear, but there is evidence that it started in Haskell County, Kansas, and spread to Camp Funston, Kansas. As a consequence, many of the trainees bec…

This also works in drawing and painting. One of my painting teachers used to admonish us: "copy, copy, copy".

Article title should be "Efficient C++ Programming for Modern 64-bit CPUs...".

Nothing new under the sun: Strobe Data did this decades years ago for things like PDP-11s ( http://www.strobedata.com/home/pioneer10.html ) and DG Novas.

I'm a pretty conservative emacs user, partly because I don't want to spend time tinkering to get things to work consistently across Windows, ubuntu, and mac os -- all of which I us…

The port in 1977 of Unix to an Interdata architecture was one of the singular accomplishments of the Unix operating system.

My first computing experience: Fortran on an 1130 in about 1967.

Love this kind of fearless DIY. Keep at it.

Similar thoughts here. That was when I realized the potential of the Internet: I didn't have to be a grad student at a tier 1 research university to learn about the frontier.

I have a Kelty BB5 that I purchased in 1972, and I used it as recently as 2025. On family trips where you end up carrying odd loads like two sleeping bags or outsized tents, it bea…

When I was a wee lad, a conference speaker announced that "portability" meant "runs on anything that supports OS/360".

Huge privacy minefield.

Libraries. I use both languages, and a survey of what libraries are available is part of picking an implementation language when starting a greenfield project.

I went the other way: from a Pixelbook to a Macbook Air. I mostly do SW development in the CLI, so the Linux subsystem on the chromebook was fine, as is macports/homebrew/etc. on t…

When I did a small concrete project at home, I was advised not to over do the vibrator.

The Greenland shark appears, if I remember correctly, in her book "Golden Mole", which is about many interesting creatures. This is published as Vanishing Treasures in some countri…

Accounts receivable, revenue, and cash are related, but separate, accounting items.

I enjoyed Werner Herzog's "Encounters at the End of the World" at many levels, not the least of which was how different it was from "Aguirre, the Wrath of God".

I used to ask myself the same question, but then I realized that for these people it doesn't matter how much they spend. When you are worth billions of dollars, the difference betw…

"You can learn anything now. I mean anything." This was true before before LLMs. What's changed is how much work it is to get an "answer". If the LLM hands you that answer, you've …