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Beware of Bacillus Cereus: https://rightasrain.uwmedicine.org/body/food/leftover-rice-b...

I'm running the latest MacOS right now on a modest m4 Mini and it doesn't seem slow to me at all. I use Windows for gaming and Linux for several of my machines as well and I don't …

My first college girlfriend made me realize that I wasn't a fast thinker. In person our conversations didn't seem problematic to me, but on the phone she would respond too quickly …

When I went to college, practically every student arrived with a slide rule. I bought mine when I was 14 years old. (I still have it, a Picket model N4-ES https://www.sliderule.ca/…

Time for hexadecimal.

Rhino horns are not made of ivory.

Humans too can be committed to beliefs that are not true. I have friend that believes in and regularly consults her "clairvoyant". I wonder if our AI assistants in the future will …

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There have been decades of work on file name completion put into Emacs, nothing I’ve seen comes close. Currently I’m using add on packages vertigo, orderless, marginalia, consult, …

This isn’t obvious to me. It doesn’t have to simulate itself in real time. It may not be able to simulate itself simulating itself. There may be proof of this using a diagonalizati…

Is there a reason for me to pick up Fleet if I already use JetBrains other IDEs?

I've taught hundreds of people programming. For one year, at my first real job, I was tasked with teaching the programmers within a big company Pascal. All of them were already pro…

These must be the masses of the Mars rovers, the weights would be measured in newtons (or pounds in the USA) and would differ between mars and earth.

In grad school, many years ago, I would plug the drain and let the tub fill while I showered. I would pull the plug and let the tub drain once the water had cooled. This way my bat…

BASIC was almost my first programming language. Ten years before anybody had a home computer (1967), I decided that I would write a program. I was just a kid and I came across a ke…

I'm sure it was possible to punch the compiled executable as an option, but I was a student during most of my keypunching days so the cards would be read by a card reader the compu…

I lugged around my favorite boxes of programs on cards for years, I even had big, full sized tapes, see [1], containing more programs I had written. [1] http://www.columbia.edu/cu/…

I still have fond memories of working on the 029 keypunch machines, the keys made such a satisfying sound. I also remember the rooms where thousands of chads from punching the card…

I started programming around 1967-1968. In my high school, there was an old keypunch machine used for school administration purposes. I had a friend that was able to submit any pro…