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1/3 isn't that bad in the late 80s/early 90s at the UT Austin CS department. Only ~30% graduated at the time. The orientation was literally "look to your left and looked to your ri…

You can definitely say that ego was the fountainhead of progress for him!

I live in Austin. In the 1980s, there was a building boom that collapsed. Austin had 23%(!) apartment vacancy in 1990 after a collapse that started in 1985. It wasn't until about 1…

The Proton CEO is not "backing Trump and Vance." He wrote something positive about a narrow policy Trump supported that's favorable to little tech over big tech. That's it. It's ce…

Related: when UT Austin computer science dropped Haskell for Java for it's first course in 2001. Dijkstra on Haskell and Java https://chrisdone.com/posts/dijkstra-haskell-java/ "A …

Enterprise Linux was getting going for real in the late 1990s but in my view it was more 2005-ish that it became "mainstream" in these sphere. Sun Computer for example started to s…

Any views or experiences evaluating OpenStack instead of one of the big ones AWS/Azure/GCP? OpenStack has a bad rep due to added complexity and limited developer tools that may lea…

The biggest problem with housing the USA is largely local zoning that artificially limits what can be built. Cities that have minimal zoning such as Houston, Texas have rents that …

Yet another reason to move to Debian. While in many ways not comparable to what's happened with Redhat, with Suse turning to the dark side one wonders how much longer Canonical wil…

Yo, Larry needs a new yacht.

They (1-3) do not exist but they are psychically real- they are genuine illusions, as instantiated in the dynamic, split-second successive whiffs emerging from the processing of ne…