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by BXLE_1-1-BitIs1 11mo ago
"The people writing COBOL and FORTRAN on mainframes - I got my start writing C and FORTRAN on DEC VAX and Stratus VOS mainframes - didn’t speak about the joys of programming. They clocked in, clocked out and went on about their lives.&
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by BXLE_1-1-BitIs1 11mo ago
It's become a lottery similar to pursuing a professional sports career. Similar to professional sports, the career duration is short. There's always kids coming up trained in the technology du jour who will work long hours for pe
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by BXLE_1-1-BitIs1 1y ago
The Immigration and Nationality Act is a moving target. Periodically it is amended, or the Supreme Court strikes down certain provisions. Having been born to a Canadian father in the US and moved to Canada when I was nine, my US citizenship
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by BXLE_1-1-BitIs1 1y ago
Happily Canada has Close in Age exceptions depending on the age of the younger party.
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by BXLE_1-1-BitIs1 1y ago
The surgery is not fun. The worst part was the cannula for the subtenon block - not painful, but my anxiety at something being poked into my eye socket went through the roof. My sister opted for sedation after she heard of my experience. Th
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by BXLE_1-1-BitIs1 1y ago
One of my boys was invited out by some classmates, then beaten up in a back alley. I called the police who visited their homes. They got the message that they'd be in court if they did anything like that again. End of problem. If your
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by BXLE_1-1-BitIs1 1y ago
Netanyahu recently spoke that Israel needs to become a Super Sparta as the world is turning against it. Sparta periodically declared war against the Helots. In between those "wars" (it's not really a war when a helpless popul
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by BXLE_1-1-BitIs1 1y ago
My favourite Pixel feature is Screen Call. My primitive security precautions: 1. DO NOT use your Gmail for recovery. Use another email provider. 2. Use a family member's phone number for recovery. 3. DO NOT install your bank's app
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by BXLE_1-1-BitIs1 1y ago
Having worked in Toronto and Calgary, I vastly prefer Calgary's +15 system. Daylight in Calgary's +15 second floor retail spaces is the only daylight exposure an office worker gets in the depths of winter.
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by BXLE_1-1-BitIs1 1y ago
The Tick Key, www.tickkey.com, does the job quite well. You put it over the tick and slide the narrow slot from behind until the mouthparts are in as far as they can fit. You may be surprised at how hard the tick holds on, but work slowly u
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by BXLE_1-1-BitIs1 1y ago
You don't need explosives to take down a helo,just a good enough length of strong rope with weights to put the rotors out of balance.
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by BXLE_1-1-BitIs1 1y ago
20- & 30- somethings in the 80s are now mostly past retirement age. Actuarial attrition is a fact.
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by BXLE_1-1-BitIs1 1y ago
Abdul Azziz al Saud, founder of Saudi Arabia, received supplicants on a near daily basis as all his subjects believed they had a right to bring their complaints to him. In the early years of his reign, he was involved in military campaigns
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by BXLE_1-1-BitIs1 1y ago
I spent several years with DCF, Document Composition Facility, and markup languages - including one of my own. At Xerox I worked on software to enable DCF output on Xerox printers. Much preferred Optima to the sans serif fonts. Printer and
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by BXLE_1-1-BitIs1 1y ago
Perhaps the question is how much misery are you willing to tolerate to prolong your life for how long? Certain treatments take weeks to recover from while giving you months, years, even decades of life expectancy with good quality. Other tr
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by BXLE_1-1-BitIs1 1y ago
Axial flow made more demands on metallurgy of the time than centrifugal flow. The Viscount was the first turbine powered civil aircraft using RR Darts with two centrifugal compressor stages. I enjoyed flying on the Viscount. It offered a mu
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by BXLE_1-1-BitIs1 1y ago
I am reminded of my time at Xerox: Financialisation, making numbers, frequent reorgs, looking down on software... But the biggest was coming up with nice new technologies, selling to customers; then not that many years later dropping suppor
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by BXLE_1-1-BitIs1 1y ago
Started programming over half a century ago. The insurance company I was working for gave me a joint life actuarial evaluation problem for which I wrote a Fortran program, picked up from a book. My uni student buddy let me use his ID so I c
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by BXLE_1-1-BitIs1 1y ago
The helo route was likely instituted decades ago when traffic was lower. The NTSB incident database search turned up a close call between rotary and fixed wing just about every month in the last several years. This was a accident waiting to
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by BXLE_1-1-BitIs1 1y ago
I wonder why Oz Customs didn't simply seize the shipment as it seems it was declared on the invoice or packing list. Given the miniscule amount, the authorities would not have known otherwise. On a similar note a Canadian prosecutor in
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by BXLE_1-1-BitIs1 1y ago
Nice puzzle with a twist of Zugzwang. Took me about 8 minutes, but it's been decades since I was doing chess.
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by BXLE_1-1-BitIs1 1y ago
Played it on the mainframe in the 70s. It took many plays to make Adventurer Grand Master. Another game at the time was Lunar Lander. I finally achieved a landing with only three commands: Retrofire, Coast, Final fire. There was also a Form
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by BXLE_1-1-BitIs1 1y ago
2nd Amendment and self defense arguments could be argued if you shoot plainclothes officers in fear of your safety.
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by BXLE_1-1-BitIs1 2y ago
z boxes use a flavor of VM to run all the LPARS and allocate memory and devices. z/OS, z/VM and Linux all run as VMs. Then there's CMS which runs under VM; theoretically it could run as an LPAR, but I've not seen that as
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by BXLE_1-1-BitIs1 2y ago
I've done solo trips in a 16' 4" Pinetree Ojibway 32" beam canoe in Lake Superior and a number of river systems. Didn't sleep in the boat and didn't take cans. Pasta, sauce and soup in packets. Didn't have
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by BXLE_1-1-BitIs1 2y ago
An interesting read which tempts me to put up an essay assignment: Compare the conduct of Trump and his acolytes to Cortez, the Pizzaros and other conquistadors.
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by BXLE_1-1-BitIs1 2y ago
What I don't see in the Guardian articles is any measurement of lead levels in the neighboring air and soil, and the difference between that and neighborhoods away from racetracks and airports.
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by BXLE_1-1-BitIs1 2y ago
In Australia, there have been cases where fishermen have disappeared from docks high up from water leaving behind their tackle. Don't dangle your legs over a dock. It is also unwise to sleep on a lonely beach. https://www.ra
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by BXLE_1-1-BitIs1 2y ago
The Reconquista had finally driven out the Moors from Spain in 1492 - 26 years before Cortez entered Tenochtitlan and began the dismantling of indigenous religion. The Spanish Catholics were the Wahhabis of the day. Thought Experiment: If t
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by BXLE_1-1-BitIs1 2y ago
It's going to be a field day for China and Russia state hackers.

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