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You picked up on what I didn't write existing machines don't have to be built, you just use them. It occurred to me much later that local machines could become a shared resource of…

You're right, and problems were chronic and painful and as I said elsewhere, have mutated over the past 30 odd years. Speech recognition error misrecognized 30 years as 3 years.

Speech recognition got the number of years wrong. It's more like 30 years. I was forced to stop programming in 1994. And hand problems was an aggregate thing. first chronic pain th…

> The best people want to work in a place where they're valued (and paid) on merit. It is well recognized that meritocracy is an illusion. A much better determinant of success is t…

Unfortunately, I can't not use AI because it provides the best speech recognition I've ever used and, going along with hand problems, it now allows me to write code after a three-y…

You're right that we can't limit access to fossil fuels today. We can't do it without a substitute energy source. We know from practical experience that replacing fossil fuels with…

Don't forget tornadoes and nor'easters (temperate-zone winter hurricanes). How do we compare on floods, drought, wildfires, heat domes, and deep cold?

I honestly don't remember. It took me a moment to even get back to TPL, a variation on RATFOR. I don't remember anything about the BYU conversion. That must have happened after I l…

Good Lord. That takes me back. I ported Kermit to the Computervision CGOS environment. It was very popular in the user community. Internally, it was used to transfer files between …

I'm not an intentional investor in AI companies. I have index funds, which still expose me to the risk of AI froth. Although yes, AI as a technology is still in its early stages, a…

Our astronomy club is the same way. Except it's a bunch of people standing around in the dark, looking at things through telescopes. And then, when everybody's seeing the object, w…

Darn, I was afraid I would have to make a trip just for the food. Although maybe I could turn to a food import business. When I was in Scandinavia a few years ago, I discovered the…

Detroit doesn't change its ways until it's been hit in the balls with a baseball bat once or twice. The baseball bat is smaller, cheaper, more efficient cars in the 70s and smaller…

Okay, how can I get a sampler pack of all those breads delivered here in the States?

Good points. I think that running rail parallel to highways, especially if the rail can travel twice to three times as fast as road traffic, is a good plan. I think increasing the …

> people protesting the whole idea of new industry and energy, I may be venturing into aluminum hat territory but it appears that oil and gas companies and conservative organizatio…

And planes go to more places than trains do. You want to add a new destination? Go through a few years of planning and construction for a couple thousand feet of tarmac, and people…

I've heard some good arguments for eliminating a wealth tax and instead treating inheritance as income. There are other forms of money manipulation that should also be treated as i…

If Proxmox works for you, great. It looks like a very capable system. The only reason I suggest switching to XCP-ng is if you are fleeing VMware or the warts of your current system…

Free speech is not a binary effect (have/dont have). You can have free speech, but the parties you communicate to are only listening to others with more compelling voices. (politic…

xcp-ng. You can use a built-in mini-management tool (xo-lite) to build the full-featured management tool (Xen Orchestra) from git. There are a couple of maintained scripts that aut…

Am I the only one who sees the similarity between Larry Ellison and Jean-Baptiste Emanuel Zorg? I mean, other than they're both evil and crazy. https://villains.fandom.com/wiki/Jea…

Thanks for the links. I hope they don't make it difficult to add batteries to these systems. You can pick up five plus kilowatt rack mount batteries relatively cheaply. It would be…

Is it time to change registrars already? I fled Gandi a while ago because of private equity fuckery. And now I need to go somewhere else. Who won't adopt enshitification-as-a-busin…

Those are good examples of serendipitous discovery. But what if you have a targeted need? For example, how to drive a woodchuck away from your yard before it causes more damage, ho…