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It was the Electron for me. Bought it new for the equivalent of less than #100 when Acorn discontinued it, the only computer I could afford from my allowance. Incidentally it also …

I just heard energy analyst krutikhin explain on the news that Gazprom could have blown them up using so called "pigs", maintenance drones that move through the pipes.

Isn't that obvious? It's to strengthen Germany's resolve. The temptation to surrender and get the gas turned back on is going to be enormous this coming winter. Germany and several…

Start with source control, you can get that done in an afternoon and it could save you 20 million dollars a year.

I know RPG did that. I can't tell you if all programs do that, probably not today, but that was the origin. Keep in mind that at the time, all your data was on tape, punch cards or…

What else it is going to do is keep looping until the end of the input file is reached, which was the programming model at the time.

The problem with this article is the same as with every article about COBOL, FORTRAN, RPG, Mainframes etc: The assumption that it is only 50+ year old legacy code running on depend…

I guess the raw vegetables contain just enough protein to survive

Ages ago, I had a colleague who was deeply into hacking of his mTOR pathway. Among other things, this included a permanent calorie deficit and removal of all protein from his diet.…

Not only that, it would have been highly inappropriate for the US to intervene in another country's domestic affairs uninvited. The assumption everything bad is always our fault is…

I think you have this upside down. The oligarchs didn't swoop in and ruin everything. The Russian government did not want their resources and industry controlled by foreign share h…

Automatic transmission is very rare in Europe.

Github Copilot won't give students anything they couldn't already google. It seems to be a natural part of aging, to start to complain about education and kids these days because i…

I thought people lose their caste when they cross the "black water".

I can relate to this, I am a dedicated fan of the Toyota Corolla

It was just an example, I don't have any special insight into the China-Taiwan situation. Maybe the conflict would be over a TV show, or a sports match, who knows. It just occurs t…

All the sources I've read agree that this had more to do with the complete absence of a long term strategy on the German side, not the weather. They had resources for 6 months, and…

It's more about being reliant on one source under the control of a potential rival.

That's not what I mean. Half the world's semi conductors are made at the TSMC complex in Taiwan. If China invaded, we would lose access to those.

That's a cliche that's not historically accurate. Napoleon's army occupied Moscow by late summer. They started their retreat in early fall, and got stuck in the mud. His army had b…

It's easy to point at Germany and tell them they have only themselves to blame, for becoming so dependent on Russian gas, but aren't we in the US making the same mistake when it co…

I've seen similar documents about Tito. In the end it doesn't change anything, you deal with the de-facto ruler of a country, not with his ancestors. https://www.nsa.gov/portals/75…

Why? I bring that up in every job interview. None of them have ever found it objectionable. In my experience, except for some startups, it's something every company in tech is at l…

You forgot the part where the product owner negotiates the number of story points down for every story, and negotiates up the number of sp in every sprint, and complains that the t…

I haven't done a quantitative study either, but here are two examples of extremely influential open source projects that the internet runs on: The spring framework has contribution…