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I'm at a turning point in life, planning a move, so I yanked four small Clairefontaine notebooks off the shelf and assigned them these functions. 1. MUST DO, downsize, repair, incl…

We had DWB (Documenters Work Bench) troff at one job. It was astounding. We were collecting test data, so I would run the data (with some sed and other filtering) into grap and pic…

In the beginning, there were no "blocks" to build with, so we coded everything in its entirety. Then came a higher order language, and a third and then fourth generation language. …

Beyond all of this, "firings" are meaningless. Abusive cops are just hired elsewhere.

Note to techies. PI means Private Investigator, not a small computer.

HitchHiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

The Twitter time machine says: These are text from past tweets. No graphics here. • Donald J. Trump # @realDonaldT... 25/09/2013 Remember what I previously said--Obama will someday…

Up the Telegraph. https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-16040489/Spy-cameras-... > Royal Navy surveillance drones used by Britain's elite special forces were fitted with cameras c…

Does someone have a paywall bypass? I am out of patience. Even archive.today is putting up endless CAPTCHAs. I let my captcha sovlver extensions burn up time and CPU, to no avail. …

> People quickly assume that if jobs disappear, purpose disappears too. As if jobs were the only legitimate way to contribute to society or create meaning. In this article, I argue…

How about Archive Buttons? [0] I don't know what's going on behind those 5 buttons, but this was the first, and who knows? [0] https://www.archivebuttons.com/articles?article=https…

Wagner's Ring Cycle Paywalled, so I'm wasting zero time going there. For full length performances, annotated by Sean Bianco, and archived at capradio.org: https://www.capradio.org/…

It's common to lump agency actions under "Trump administration" or "Biden administration" I personally would not use "Trump admin" and would name only the agency. If it's common, a…

San Francisco Bay also has an island for Trump. Federal property. Needs tons of work. Arab capital could get the job done.

> NFH said it “strongly disagrees” with the HHS’s finding and will appeal the decertification decision. HHS is part of the administration.

https://bypasspaywallreader.com/search.html?url=https%3A%2F%... Really nothing new. • He is never wrong or at fault. It's always someone else's fault. • Every Accusation is a Confe…

That's not "his" style. There's nothing subtle about him, and since January 2025, everything seems to be a distraction from certain files being released, to the point of a complete…

The five universal laws of human stupidity In 1976, a professor of economic history published an essay outlining the fundamental laws of a force he perceived as humanity’s greatest…

The one thing oligarchs dread most is when the Democrats veer from centrism. Because that's when they win.

> Trump lashes out at industry profits. Because he thinks he's not getting "his fair share". Don't overthink it. This is a grift-ocracy unparalleled in world history.

I wore glasses almost all my life, enduring "four eyes" taunts, losing them, breaking them, and losing them again, many times over. I tried contact lenses, but they were a struggle…

> In traditional niche dev circles, respect is earned slowly through years of activity in their respective fora, sharing elegant code, displays of genuine curiosity, and through sh…

No problem, and thanks. I understand the size of the problem, and why the above link is "most upvoted" By archiving all, I can easily filter titles as text, if I really wanted to d…

I don't normally read the front page, more /newest Any chance of implementing that? Your site works with my Firefox auto-pager, which is really nice for archiving posts for later s…

Not having gone there, I can recommend some classical pieces for serenity, for an ethereal experience, and so on. Many Mozart and other arias just transform the moment. Some favs: …