Blackstrat

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by Blackstrat 2y ago
Bleeding from the ear. It happened.
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by Blackstrat 2y ago
Byte magazine was a terrific publication. There's nothing similar in print these days that I'm aware of. Certainly, Byte couldn't be accused of dumbing down the content to reach a wider audience, unlike many of today's
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by Blackstrat 2y ago
I liked “Cosmology for the Curious” by Perlov. It’s available on a number of sites like Springerlink, Archive, academia, and probably others.
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by Blackstrat 2y ago
In my area the problem is over reliance on the postal service. Prime delivery routinely takes 3-5 days. Lost or damaged packages are far more common on USPS than on UPS, Amazon subcontractors, or Amazon corporate drivers. Our postal c
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by Blackstrat 2y ago
Before you go drinking the kool-aid here, read the sponsoring list. Then go back and read peer reviewed studies on masks that occurred before the COVID pandemic. Or read the disclaimers on the masks. Bottom line, masks, even N95, offer li
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by Blackstrat 2y ago
I haven't seen anything indicating whether these features can be disabled. I'm not interested in adding a further invasion of privacy to my phone. I don't want some elaborate parlor trick helping me write. I've spent
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by Blackstrat 2y ago
Now pushing 70 and retired for 4+ years, I don't seem to have any difficulties learning new or difficult things. There's some irritation at not remembering some of the prerequisites to certain topics that you once knew well, e.g.
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by Blackstrat 2y ago
Personally, I’d give OpenSUSE Tumbleweed a look. I moved from Leap to Tumbleweed last year and have found it very stable. It seems to have a good inventory of development tools.
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by Blackstrat 2y ago
Say goodbye to what little privacy we have left.
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by Blackstrat 2y ago
Mindset is on my list as well. I spent my high school years definitely locked in the fixed mindset. The transition to college was thus challenging. Peak and Ultralearning mske some good points as well.
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by Blackstrat 2y ago
Good article. As of the early 90s, Watcom was by far the best compiler option for professional development on Windows and OS/2. We used both Microsoft and IBM before settling on Watcom. Borland was fun on home PCs, but we didn’t app
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by Blackstrat 2y ago
There's no reason for this change. Experience has shown that when governments dictate technology changes, in the end, none of us are better off. There are alternatives to the IPad. Buy one of them. IOS/IPadOS are going to beco
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by Blackstrat 2y ago
We were running the same hardware as the rest of the world - nothing high end. OS/2 always outperformed NT regardless of the hardware. And it didn’t need to be rebooted everyday.
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by Blackstrat 2y ago
OS/2 ran circles around Windows NT. It's API was one of the best defined that I had worked with. Certainly better than anything for Windows. I worked for an IBM subsidiary in the early 90s. IBM was just never sufficiently commi
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by Blackstrat 3y ago
Remember where she is from. Nuff said.
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by Blackstrat 3y ago
So I'm guessing Apple didn't agree to collude with the government as Google, Facebook, et al has. It's not a monopoly. No one has to buy Apple. Globally, Android phones have a larger share of the market. In the US, Apple
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by Blackstrat 3y ago
Ridiculous. Most people don’t know the reference and certainly the target audience doesn’t. Right out of Orwell.
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by Blackstrat 3y ago
As others have noted Peopleware is a good book as is Slack by the same author. Slack will likely conflict with the philosophy of PMP focused organizations but it's very relevant. I strongly discourage relying on the many popular mana
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by Blackstrat 3y ago
Some 35+ years ago, I spent roughly a decade as a ‘c’ programmer. Recently, I started “Modern C” by Gustedt. Things have changed a bit.
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by Blackstrat 3y ago
This routine acquisition BS and has nothing to do with LLMs or the economy. Bloodbaths after acquisitions are the norm.
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by Blackstrat 3y ago
Accepting federal money should not mean the government gets to dictate specifics. The money comes from the citizens of the states. The government produces nothing. Return to federalism.
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by Blackstrat 3y ago
There are simple answers, albeit not politically correct ones: 1. The quality of education has declined precipitously in the US since the 60s 2. Organizations no longer focus on hiring the best based on merit but rather meeting “diversit
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by Blackstrat 3y ago
When the government starts requiring ids to vote or immigrate or stops companies from fraudulently controlling the narrative, eg Facebook, then I’ll take them seriously. If a person is underage on a porn site that’s on the parents not the p
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by Blackstrat 3y ago
I knew Ed back in the day. It was a lot of fun watching him interact with my programming staff, mostly C++ programmers. Trying to get them to see that objects printing themselves resulted in excess coupling. Or trying to get programmer
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by Blackstrat 3y ago
A discussion of editors/IDEs from 30 years ago and the author doesn't mention Brief?
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by Blackstrat 3y ago
Essentially everything Amazon does today costs too much and doesn’t deliver the quality it once did. In my area, Prime delivery usually takes about a week. I live in a large US city. Their book recommendations system has become garbage.
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by Blackstrat 3y ago
Sooner or later, people have to realize that the cloud and subscription are not in their best interests. On the front end, perhaps, it made sense. The company from which I retired, went all in on the cloud, pointing to all the money they
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by Blackstrat 3y ago
And where should insurance come from?
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by Blackstrat 3y ago
No left wing? The US has essentially become socialist.
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by Blackstrat 3y ago
Government money? What strings are attached? I'm not familiar with the Sovereign Fund.

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