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Given enough ignorant comments it can be hard to tell what is satire and what is not.

That's hilarious. Why do you think ZFS isn't more broadly adopted in Linux?

You can disable this (at the cost of having to remember to stop it yourself at the end). I definitely ran into the nag on harder hikes.

That's sort of broadly true of engineering (including CS if they call it that) at major research universities. They don't really teach practical basics but mostly expect you to pic…

The battery life negative on the Apple Watch is the big thing. I have an Ultra that is a bit better but I don't wear it say-to-day because the charging routine is a bit of a pain.

It's not even about wrong-think. So many people I know just drifted away--or cut contact and nothing equivalent replaced it. It was a fairly important type of social media to me an…

IBM had something of a downward blip last quarter, partly because of mainframe cycles. But it's actually done generally well the past few years and pays a pretty good dividend. $10…

Or, more likely, they just lifted copyright protected photos from somewhere on the web without even attribution,

My washing machine was intermittently staining stuff for a while. The it started smoking one day. Should have replaced it at least a couple years prior. Bet it was a good 50 years …

Apparently a short circuit in the control panel in the middle of the night. At least that's what the investigator said. I wasn't using it and was asleep. So I didn't start it. Was …

No. A 15-year old (so not ancient) dumb microwave. Not a luddite but, aside from a couple of Alexas, just no need for any IoT.

Most of which you don't need IMO. When a bunch of stuff had to be redone after a kitchen fire, I told my electrician that I wanted everything to be dumb.

People who know more about the topic than I do will argue for a default image for an online article for SEO and other reasons. Online pubs I've done stuff for would usually take a …

I didn't get the link to the current date. But aside from the fact there was no Mars linkage probably my favorite Bradbury short.

It's pretty simple. There was a point in the early 2000s (especially pre-AMD x64) when it was pretty broadly assumed that Itanium from Intel was going to inevitably win given that …

Seriously? Up to a certain point filming in studios and backlots was pretty much the norm.

>Most recent innovation has been the automatic vacuum Which are pretty useless for a lot of home layouts and degree of putting cords etc. away. I took a look a few years back and g…

Yeah, I guess I can also see it as more of a Britishism (etc.) currently.

If it's in a sector you know/have intuitions about--including an employer--some individual stocks (not all in) may not be terrible bets. I've been pretty lucky especially over the …

It's complicated. It's tied in with various family stuff and the reality is that I had accounts I just wasn't managing. Could I make a change someday? Maybe. But this works for my …

As a native English speaker, keen feels like a very 1950s TV word. Don't know if that's actually true but feels like that way. I expect you're more likely to hear like cool today a…

I have had a financial advisor for a while now. (Did and does handle my dad as well.) Costs a bit of money but he probably does some things with his brokerage's computers that I do…

The PowerPC name is still around although it's mostly around in the form of the POWER ISA used in systems that run AIX and, I believe OS/400. IBM i used to be a largely distinct pr…

I think he's generally been right with autonomous driving skepticism even if, arguably, still too optimistic himself.

I'm definitely at the point where, if not sticking money in my mattress, I'm keeping a lot in pretty safe investments. Did sort of an equity housecleaning a couple years back and c…