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Out come the "this is dumb because .." messages in the redit responses. I have experiences dozens of projects where the developer had the wrong view of the end use needs for a myri…

Yes. Found shield icon beside the lock and it specific block twitter(X).

Curious! Tweets render in Chrome but not Firefox.

In the days when perl was the language of choice for the web I got a 97% reduction in code size. I was asked to join a late project to speed it up. (Yes I know that has low success…

I am the MapGuy(TM). I had paper maps of every destination and triptix from AAA. I would fly with a pocket Rand McNally Road Atlas and be able to identify where we were from featur…

There have been a few factorization paper using various QC techniques over the last few year how ever the size were small. This SE question sites some examples https://quantumcompu…

I have used variations of password revel bookmarklets. I keep searching for new one when I need them again. Most recent find was. https://gist.github.com/robbiet480/4711696

I listen to the Embedded podcast. https://embedded.fm/ They on occasion talk about the process to make boards that are ready for manufacturing. They talk about the difference betwe…

No, he really did mean Matlock. Grey hair guy in a white suit lecturing...Fictional Lawyer. https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo/matlock-tv-andy-griffith.h... Reboot on TV this year.

Protestant work ethic Black Swan. The solution to the problem is 15 years before now, not today when there are so many conflicting force out to crush you. If you try to get out lot…

This is the XKCD comic in action. https://xkcd.com/927/ Someone should write a family of filters of the form CSV2ASV, CSV2USV, CSV2JSON ,USV2XML , TOML2USV, USV2Cuneiform.......

Sour grapes. Buy our new computers even if you cannot afford them. Yes any of those issue is possible. Many people buy used cars under cloud of the same risk profile. However if yo…

The comparison between human language is fine but.... French is less dense than English. APL and its ilk (J ...) are the density winners. Same concepts, even with proper idiomatic …

Warning about old books. (The NoStarch one is from 2005) Given that IPv4 Evolved a lot over the last 20 years to manage the complexity of address assignment and shortages, everyone…

Tried it on Windows 11 but got a Java run time error. Used the recommended JRT https://adoptium.net/ Wandered through the https://github.com/hneemann/Digital site and saw past issu…

This URL worked last week. In fact I was watching video from the channel and left the window open over the weekend. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEIRXYQO4_Y It played for 10 sec…