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Enjoying retirement. Amazed how fast I was able to just stop thinking about software. It's very liberating.

I'm probably not the only person that types math problems into google search because I'm too lazy to open up a calculator (or do the math myself). So yes, given I do that, I probab…

This might be just the thing for my elderly mother. She's used an iPhone for many many years, but struggles lately with motor dexterity, vision, and a bit of cognitive challenge ma…

MMOSS (Massive Multiplayer Online Screen Saver) is what I've always seen it as. Beautiful game. Not for the faint of heart .

I have yet to get the page to load, but due to gmail mixups I've been confused with a retired professor of economics in the UK, and also got a pair of tickets for a King Gizzard an…

My elderly mother paying $350/month for Eliquis (in the US) would love this sentiment.

My personal model of motion sickness is that either your inner ear is saying, "Hey we are moving" and your eyes are saying "No we're not!" (classic sea sickness/car thing). Or your…

This brings to mind Neil Rickert's "The Parable of the Two Programmers", which was published in the ACM SIG Software Engineering newsletter, January 1985. https://dl.acm.org/action…

Please re read the start of my comment. I took a contrary position in a debate just to spark a deeper discussion. Which it has. I didn’t say I believed this.

I’m not sure if you’re one of the down voters, but I appreciate your comment. I purposely took a contrary position in a debate just to spark a deeper discussion. Glad it has done t…

See https://www.reddit.com/r/neovim/comments/1u0vg28/vim_appeara... This is from the person who wrote the original article on Emacs.

Very devils advocate here, but I mean.. what if it actually is the way to use them? We have such a huge mental / moral block on the idea of using nukes, but we're willing to do a l…

> Old people don't have that because they didn't grow up with computers. You realize that someone who was 18 when the Mac was first released would be 60 now?

During COVID I started taking almost daily walks as I drank from the firehose of taking over the code base for a mature software product. I started tracked the walks using the City…

Man does this bring back memories of my old Atari 800 and entering or writing games in BASIC for it. Something extremely nostalgic about that kind of development for some of us.

I found a Thacher Cylindrical Slide Rule [1] in the garbage once at the university I worked at. I didn't have a holy grail list for such things, but it assumed that role when I fou…

> Google Cloud placed Railway’s production account into a suspended status incorrectly, as part of an automated action. This action extended to many accounts within Google Cloud. A…

The US states of Oregon and Washington were major exporters of raw logs to Japan as well. The 1962 Columbus Day Storm [1] fell 11.2 billion board feet of timber, which flooded the …

At first I thought you were playing the Ad Hominem card there, but reading the article I'm assuming you mean to point out that the author seems like a rather interesting individual…

As much as I should really care about this, I have to say... I don't. I should, but I don't. To me it's a little bit like, "I love these new cellphones but I'm keeping it in airpla…

This is probably not the kind of approach to taking out new domain names you should encourage. A lot of other causes might think this is their way to set up an "official" represent…

I saw a talk by Brian Merchant ( https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/ ) a while back where he talked a lot about the Luddites and their revolts against automation. He's definitely no…

Speaking of bullshittery, I don't really appreciate it's little game when it comes to trying to convince me to turn off JavaScript. It knows when you see it and you'll know when yo…

Personally I put the Jonnie Walker The Man Who Walked Around The World ad with Robert Carlyle as the greatest one take shot. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZ6aiVg2qVk

I'm repeating what others have essentially said, but ask yourself what's on your resume. If it says "Software Engineer" and that's all it talks about, then yea you might not find i…