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lol. No, seriously. I thought it was about a band. sigh.

This title needs to be disambiguated. I had assumed that most musicians, and especially prog metal bands, were non-profit by default. I was curious why that had to be made explicit…

I'm a big fan of capturing the toolchain(s) with the repo. I have had to hack this for embedded toolchains out of necessity for years (decades?) using VirtualBox on a Mac. I still …

Copilot is going to really rock the numbers on lucrative unhose-your-sucky-codebase consulting gigs. I'd feel gleeful about that but those gigs are the definition of soul-sucking s…

This seems to broadly conflate CS and Software Engineering. The differences have been covered elsewhere. Stuff like cognitive vs. physical science, (mostly) thinking about thinking…

Not really on topic, but it has been "interesting" to watch the cheating progression unfold in fitness games (Zwift, etc.) where it essentially IS digital steroids. Although often …

I think you are on to something here. Make all elevators in hi-rises down-only and all stairwells up-only. Convert falling excess desk-jockey blubber into usable electricity while …

Seems reasonable. March/April is the end of the Concept2 indoor rowing annual "season" and I noticed that I had put essentially the same distance on my rower last year as my truck.…

I told a fairly obnoxious and (in my mind) idiotic customer to "take a chill pill" on a conference call. This did not work out well. I did call them back and apologized before my m…

I wrote about my trip bringing up the iPod software development board. Now if I could only remember what that first song was...

Maybe not for general-purpose computing. I've used it for on-the-fly code generation (hacking display rotation into the Windows 3x BitBlt engine) and programming special-purpose me…

The university I went to had used Xerox Sigma 6/7/9s. One of them is now in the living computer museum. Yeah! After programming 6502 assembler in high school, having multiple block…

It's a tough one. I'm annoyed that Amazon forked Android and now I have to build for their store.

Ya, have a cat who took on 2 copperheads at once with great delight. I won't say I rescued him but I did get him out of there with some blood loss (mine). Maybe a study on the cat …

Compared to this? "You should at least read the whole abstract before assuming you understand it." I can do the math for you, but it would be great if you could pitch right on in t…

It's great that you have my browser history and can tell what I looked at. Or didn't look at. I think you could make a lot of $ at Facebook.

Cat owners are used to being used.

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Indeed. The thing that caused me to actually move stuff off AWS to GCP was that you could deploy generic Node Express apps as Firebase Cloud Functions (and then Cloud Run). I knew …

Probably would have been better for the author to have taken the "don't sell out to a single cloud vendor API" angle. But I guess no clicky-baits for that approach. I've been screw…

"Move slow and make things" is no joke. I mumble that every morning as I fall out of bed.

Or pretend you're in the southeastern US, where "Sam" and "Sue" are both non-gendered, and probably ageless, according to Mr. Cash, at least. You could also go with Courtney, Tracy…

Occam called, he wants his razor back :)

A group of high-performers draws non-maker hangers-on like moths to a flame. I would tell them that "Around here, the squeaky wheel greases itself." You have to be careful about us…