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Your European parents paid that $30K and more in additional taxes though. The money came from somewhere; land and buildings and qualified professors do not come for free in Europe.…

> Where is all this tuition even going to? Administrative staff, which has ballooned over the past several decades. Many of these people have mediocre ability, don't really do much…

Athletics is normally (always?) a separate self-funding enterprise attached to th e university. Tutition dollars don't pay the coaches; alumni donations/gifts, sponsors, and ticket…

Used oil is very much burned for heat. Common for shops in areas that need heat in the winter to have a "waste oil heater" instead of using utility gas or electricity for heat. htt…

I used to used dd to convert EBCDIC to ASCII reading tapes from a 1/2" reel-to-reel tape drive. The "convert" capability of dd is what differentiates it from utilities such as cat.…

Warranties are for sales. They don't really say much one way or the other about the reliability of the car.

Sometime in the first half of the 1980s I had a TI99/4a, my first computer. I started programming in BASIC and it was interesting but I felt I was missing a lot in my understanding…

This is actually not a new idea at all. I once worked in a place in the 1990s that took it to such an extreme that every table name, column name, and variable name had to be approv…

That's fine, as long as you are still solving the original problem in the required time. The IRS won't excuse that you missed filing your withholding data on time because you were …

Came here to say this sounds like hoarding behavior. To OP: do you also have problems accumulating physical things, organizing them, being unable to discard anything? For your onli…

Lots of products target particular races. It's only racism if it's motivated by hate, bias, a desire to cause harm, etc.

Yeah, none of that may matter for a "brochure" type of website, or a blog where you are the only person updating it. As soon as you start processing forms and doing anything transa…

Maybe I would as well. Who is Uncle Roger though?

I don't see that it matters much which way the fan is blowing. What matters is the air exchange, which is about creating an airflow. If you have a multistory house you can open win…

You don't have insect screens on your windows? That's just standard where I live. Every house has them on every window.

Andersen, to be correct.

I won't be here when I retire.

I disagree. Maybe because I've worked with computers for my entire career. The last thing I want to do when I'm old is interact with technology. I'd much rather have a dog.

I'm getting close to 60. I live alone since my wife moved out 20 years ago. The closest friend I have was a co-worker who retired at the end of 2021 and I have not seen him since. …

Proof that dick humor is as old as humanity?

I have a soft spot for that CPU. My first computer was a TI99/4a when I was about 14 or 15. I started with BASIC, then learned assembly language on that machine. I give it a lot of…

Why does there have to be a point? Just go with it.

But don't spend all your money! You have very few obligations when you are young. Basically feed yourself and pay rent. Save the rest. You will thank yourself when you are 50, beca…

Yes. People and jobs are more sedentary. Kids sit in front of screens instead of riding bikes to the park and playing ball or just running around. Fat in prepared foods has been re…