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To make matters worst, what you see with your open eyes, is not one image, is a collection of images with all kind of distortions, blur and other smudges that your brain "photoshop…

Asm 56 GB/s (you are reading Sanskrit) C 41 GB/s (you are reading US Tax Code) Rust 30 GB/s (you are reading English) Python (why bother) (you are speed reading ) So many tools, so…

What brought me into the coding world was its novelty. In those days an electronic games were: Merlin, Simon and Mattel Football. Today, there is nothing novel about coding and its…

It might read unrelated yet, term limits is the only concrete way to limit the damage of a corrupt lawmaker.

US Insurance Aetna President Karen Lynch Compensation 2020: 7.33M https://www.comparably.com/companies/aetna/executive-salarie... Ferengi Rules of Acquistion #87 : A friend in need…

CNN: Amuse yourself. NYT: Me and my money. WAPO: Them and what used to be my money. LAT: The news, with looks and style that will dazzle.

At one point the mobile phone turns into a Skinner Box? It is my claim that the amount of hours vested on Internet consumption is directly proportional to the inability to interpre…

Not to be thrown into semantics but... Scope vs. Goal The goal defines the scope. If the goal does not change, neither the scope. When the goal includes a date...the scope has no w…

Containers add a substantial level of indirection for us, developers. Now we have to grow a seventh arm to juggle to manage/fold into our workflow. For production? Hands down the r…

One well written document can spin out many programs. One well written program cannot spin out a well written document. Is up to savvy developers and ultimately a computer to give …

he he. DLLS is short for DOLLAR$ :)

I worked in the DELL Manufacturing plant in north Austin (Metric Blvd) on the 386->486 heydays. The DELL Optiplex 386SX will run around 800 to 1200 DLLS and came pre-installed with…

Reminds me of Kodak Eastman Business Park. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastman_Business_Park Just visiting Wikipedia found out that they weapon grade Uranium in an underground la…

No mention of Terminus?? https://files.ax86.net/terminus-ttf/ Those were the days. Today I stick with whatever the IDE or distro system font has. Meh.

Ah! Another case of who police the police. The police police the police. Good news that the spare PCU took over and it was good. We all hope that the spare PCU was not part of an u…

True that. Also we all plateau at it. That is where time and effort stops yielding satisfaction or usefulness. Unless, unless, you are really in love with yourself and thing that e…

Granted, not all the Marvel movies are terrible. Yet They have gone from a freshly squeezed orange drink to a canned energy drink.

One question from a Junior Dev or any dev for that matter with multiple possible outcomes depending: Q: Hi , say, why are you asking in my review if the class I introduced is reall…

Who can forget the adorable Nabaztag? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nabaztag

In elementary school we played soccer during recess. The kid who owned the ball wanted to play striker. We wanted him to play defense because he sucked. He played striker because i…

Eternal dialog: Ethos: Is it right to leave that pointer un-checked? Pathos: It makes me angry that code reviewers let this through. Logos: The code has bugs, don't act surprised, …

Meetings: The activity of people hearing themselves talk. I think I stumbled here or in lobsters with this site: https://www.justingarrison.com/blog/2021-03-15-the-document-... Ver…

Good tortillas are moist, soft, pliable and chewie. It was in 1978 when I stumble for the first time at corner store in Monterrey, MX with tortillas bagged in a plastic bag for sal…

Maybe we all have to re-watch Good Will Hunting and understand the importance of "being there".