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My Dad, a flight instructor, loves to remind me that there are bold pilots and old pilots. But there are no old bold pilots.

The Welsh language getting LLM training with Nemotron https://www.bangor.ac.uk/news/2025-09-15-reaching-across-the...

Surprised that there was a lack of mention of Peter F. Hamilton's "Exodus: The Archimedes Engine" - video game "Exodus" https://www.exodusgame.com/en-US/news/agreement-with-random-…

Remind me of how in modern Irish, a prefixed t- appears before vowels in masculine nominative singular nouns. It relates to Proto-Celtic masculine nominative singular article *sind…

I follow a runner on YouTube who just posted his channel's earnings as well: https://youtu.be/QfkUM4hBge8

I've a 18 year old and a 20 year old. Both boys in college. Despite my being an electrical engineer and they're having grown up in an environment where I've always had computers an…

Calibre has supported this for some time now. Calibre is also available on Linux.

Overland Park is a part of Johnson County, KS which has a part in the history of segregation in the greater Kansas City area. [0] [0]: https://shawneemissionpost.com/2020/08/18/joh…

I turned down a job offer in a principal engineering role at Microsoft because they were not allowing long term remote work.

At Garmin, we ran PalmOS as a process on top of our RTOS. Fun times.

One interesting side effect of the Great Vowel Shift occurred when the word Uisce Beatha (Whisk(e)y) was anglicized twice. It was first brought in during the Elizabethan period fro…

I wonder if this can also interfere with Ant+?

I drink 4 shots of espresso in a latte each morning. It calms me and helps me focus on my coding tasks as I sip it through the morning. I’ve never had issues stopping or from prolo…

This is the way.

My concern would stem from them attempting to replace the firmware with Android Wear. Because Android Wear is licenced they may feel pressure to use the same os so as not to upset …

The difference in spelling is due to the fact the word for Uisce Beatha was brought into the English language twice. Once from Irish Gaelic before the Great Vowel shift in English …

I'm 51, an electrical engineer who has migrated over time from ASIC design, to board design, to ASIC validation, to embedded software development, to team lead, development manager…

BeOS is another one that comes to mind.

Hosted our family email server and Wordpress blog running OpenBSD on an Old World Mac using DynamiC DNS from home back in 2003. Specifically, I ranOpenBSD 3.4 on my G3 Blue & White…

I think it starts with ensuring that you have staff that actually review an action before it takes place. Relying on automation can be catastrophic for someone like OP.

I must confess the title made me think about Monty Python skits: Philosopher Competition https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2gJamguN04

Spotify is available via Discord, Xbox, and Playstation. The diversity of clients is key for me. Apple Music has at most what an Android App?

Thanks to my trusty Atari 800 in 1981 I learned to program through magazine articles and books and experimenting with code at home. It was a great experience.

I taught myself to program in Atari Basic on an Atari 800 in 1981. I still remember the book and the way it described a for loop as an Oreo cookie. I remember subscribing to Byte m…