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I got MP/M working on the softcard back in the day. Never really had an application for it though.

I really enjoyed S.L. Sanger’s book “Hanford and the Bomb: An oral history of World War II” - but it’s out of print now and used ones? Sheesh!

Make your own with padding cement. Put the stack of bills in a vice and coat one edge a few times with the cement. I did this for a nephew as a unique gift. Some people being paid …

Not in the last four. Switzerland & UK, two years ago.

As a US person who has, You need to experience euro train travel. The whole experience, from booking using an app to waiting for a train. You’ll find the apps are good, the schedul…

After my daughter went through two laptops in high school (1st: "I closed a pen in it and broke the hinge" 2nd: "Dad! Someone ELSE knocked it off my desk") I found an ex-state-poli…

anyone implement the game of life on this yet, for a particular line length?

How many kids do you have, dad engineer?

Seems like they could use something like GammaPix from https://www.imageinsightinc.com/ with their existing drone's CCD camera to estimate radiation levels.

I think I recall Alice and Bob also being mentioned along side Louis Reasoner in SICP problem sets in ‘81 or ‘82… (Edit) well, according to Wikipedia, the cast of characters for SI…

Deleo's Autobody was down there near the Good News Garage, that guy was ALSO a character, and Mr. Deleo had a very distinctive voice. I was hoping that one day they'd have him on t…

Cover letters. “Respond to requirements with qualifications and specific examples”

Our expectations have also changed over the years. Despite the perception of a downward spiral in quality, cars have, in general, become much better. Remember when fuel injection w…

I believe Patrick Winston used to say this... (actually, "It's only AI until we know how to do it.")

Thirty+ years ago was a time of big changes. There were a bunch of companies competing for the "supermicro" and workstation business, both in hardware, and software. If you wrote t…

This commercial product uses the CBRS frequency allocations, which they (and others) point out is already built into commercially available devices, like iPhones. Is there not an O…

child: "When will Daddy be home?" parent: "Any minute now..." child: "I choose THIS minute!!!!"

Pretty sure that's not what happened. Gabe had a different view of how PCs would become a bigger part of entertainment (this is in the 90's, when watching video on PCs was heresy!)…

Try this modern take: https://youtu.be/-F-IHvF5OCA BTW The series is totally worth watching.

Seems like you should have been fully vested from any original grants by now. So, 8 year vesting, plus the low salary? Hope you are learning things that will position you for succe…