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I think also the ridiculous nature of the automobile market is a significant secondary problem in the US. When the median new vehicle is $49000 and the median annual salary (pretax…

I actually require the book the Jon Bodner was talking about in a class I teach every couple of years. The students who do well (the ones you would want to hire) will read it, the …

Patrick Santore - he worked there sometime in the mid-late 1980s

How much of the school closures are because of declining enrollment? https://www.bostonindicators.org/article-pages/2024/june/emp... https://www.bu.edu/articles/2025/public-school-…

How big was the Franklin back then? My uncle worked there in the 1980s, but I was a kid and have no concept of if it was a scappy startup or a midsized company.

As a fan of Heinlein's book, the movie flattened the exploration of the political themes from the book and turned it into said black comedy. It would be like turning Animal House o…

>Despising older folks has been a thing a long time, made famous by Zuck starting out. and before that is was hippies with "Don't trust anyone over 30" which became deeply ingraine…

Sometimes people who are able to talk a lot do quite well in interviews - and University students need to be exposed to a wide variety of topics, but rarely support large projects …

So Thundarr the Barbarian? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_4HBH6Z-Iw

Right you are - if cheap was all that matter the Yugo would have been everywhere https://www.caranddriver.com/features/a21082360/a-quick-hist...

My parents were public school teachers for decades. When our oldest son was getting to be school aged they recommended that we homeschool because as they said "It is nothing like w…

large cities seeing erosion of their tax base are also hiring PR firms I think

Well The local governor of Hawaii used twitter to cancel a missile alert - so it isn't that wild an idea https://www.theverge.com/2018/1/23/16923080/hawaii-governor-...

Now if only they could do something like this for states. Some of the high pop high tax states are far worse to file for than the feds.

Wayland has struck me for years as being the new IPv6, the tech that the deep technical people tell me needs to come and replace the old thing that "doesn't work any more" and yet …

Was the one who got tenure the one who brought in bigger grants? Unfortunately in the R1 Universities these days that is probably the most important thing, even more than your acad…

>then I'd argue Maine should be in -4.5 instead of -5. Maine knows it should be in Atlantic, it just doesn't want to be more isolated from the rest of the country than it already i…

An interesting take on this. Will it lead to a general increase for the Global South? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKvT7OS-lbU

I was a subscriber 10-15 years ago, but I used steam/proton now, I wonder how large the market for something like codeweavers is in 2023?

Command line heroes was amazing, I was bummed they ended - but I guess they did cover a lot. ( https://www.redhat.com/en/command-line-heroes ) I'm also a big fan of Coder Radio ( h…

emm386 Error #06 And a subscription to the Microsoft knowledge base which came on CD (in addition to the books others have talked about) And I vaguely remember that the debugger in…

I've loved ubuntu for a while as well, but snaps are making me want something new - any suggestions for a "I'm middle aged with children so I need an it just works distro"?

Most of these (Kosher Butcher for example) are going to be very small companies and these kinds of requirements don't usually kick in till you have a certain minimum level of emplo…

This works fine for research universities, but in teaching universities (couldn't find the statistics, but there are a lot of them out there) someone has to subsidize the new STEM …