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In a former life about ten years ago I transitioned to managing a long-established, mature development team. Some of the developers had a couple of monitors. I think the largest wa…

I saw Sonny Rollins at the Montreal Jazz Festival in 2005. I had written a paper that was accepted at a conference, and thing realized the festival was going on at the same time. U…

I was fortunate to go to a high school that acquired a single Apple ][+ kept on a rolling cart that was locked in the chemistry lab closet for safekeeping. Every school day at 2:15…

My wife and I visited Reina Sofia last year and saw “Guernica”. That entire wing is fantastic: the section leading into the room covers war posters and other contemporaneous works,…

Darn it. I literally just passed through and transferred trains in Maastricht in the last 2 weeks. What with the “anytime today” flexibility of Dutch and Belgian train travel, I wo…

I’m wondering who else recalls Charles Simonyi’s Intentional Software efforts at similar concepts? Not completely novel even then (1995) but mature for the time.

I have an Amateur Extra license in the US. I am also a Volunteer Examiner with a couple of organizations. Locally I am a Net Controller for a VHF Net. I am working on my ARES Level…

It was GMT, wasn't it? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9aVO7GAwxnQ

My read on the reception of Steve’s post is that there are largely 2 camps, one of which thinks he’s given them a concrete tool to use, and the other of which thinks he has given t…

I thought this article might be about Latent Semantic Analysis and was disappointed that it didn’t at least mention if not compare that method vs later approaches.

I fondly recall being a site operator and programmer on a Univac 1100/62. Remote sync terminals (UTS 40s?) and UTS 4040 cluster controllers. Fun times.

I had no idea of the influence of 'The Cheese and the Worms', but I also didn't know how long it had already been around when I chanced upon it in 1989. Time to read it again.

I’m with you: I read the link and think they are referring to BLE advertisements. The frequency of such advertisements is configurable. AIR, the advertisement interval has to be a …

In the free tier, Suno owns all of the Output. I'm wondering when someone will make a song, realize it's pretty good, and attempt to recreate it after creating a paid tier account.…

I transitioned from Apple Pascal (based on UCSC p-system Pascal) on the Apple ][+ amd //e to Turbo Pascal on DOS in the early 80s. Turbo Pascal was a blast: the very quick compiler…

Read the article and found myself nodding along. If you work with larger Contract Manufacturers, they often have design for manufacturing centers that will perform mold analysis an…

I note that one of the few dentists he mentions by name as providing a diagnosis consistent with his panel and a reasonable estimate is still practicing: Dr. Henry Wah in Marion, A…

I have a small connection to an early part of this story. In 1982/3 I worked for a local data processing / software consultancy / hardware reseller doing a variety of odd jobs. One…

Like others, I got to play with one at university, but my lab mate was the main user of that machine. [ I did have my own AT&T 3B2, though. ]

As someone who programmed assembly on a one's complement machine* 40 years ago, this discussion is interesting, from both the "haven't we learned anything" and the "makes sense to …

For alternate long distance French routes, check out Chemin St Jacques. I note this trail passes through St Jean Pied de Port, and thus could be used as a natural connector to walk…

That’s funny: I remember seeing it in the mid-to-late 90s and being amazed at how lax the security was. I took several pics and walked all around it.

VeinViewer was invented in 1995 by Herb Zeman, a professor at The University of Tennessee Health Sciences Center. [ Disclosure: Herb’s a friend, but I wasn’t involved and only know…

Interesting. As a counterpoint, I was in Norway a month ago on business and as a tourist. Did the Norway in a nutshell thing from Bergen to Oslo with time in Bergen, Flam, and Oslo…

Back in 2006-8 I had an NSF teaching fellowship, and my peers and I used BlueJ as an introductory IDE in high school CS classes. BlueJ has a feature called “Object Bench” whereby o…