OldGuyInTheClub

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by OldGuyInTheClub 2y ago
I have read this article many times, usually whenever I look at Forth for whatever reason. As a non-computer scientist I learn a little about language design every time I look at it. But,I can never figure out what the author actually thi
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by OldGuyInTheClub 2y ago
> In my estimation their success is largely due to word of mouth and a perception of being legitimate company with a serious interest in security in privacy in a market rife with scams and lies. Anecdatum: I picked Mullvad because of str
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by OldGuyInTheClub 2y ago
I agree that the UX could use a tweak or three. With so many sites blocking VPNs sometimes it takes a few adjustments to get through. I've asked a couple of times for a pinnable Mullvad app window so I don't have to keep opening
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by OldGuyInTheClub 2y ago
I get lots of Cloudflare authenticators, some Youtube content gets blocked, and a few sites will not load at all. Reddit (which I avoid as often as possible) blocks it completely [1]. Switching to a different country sometimes works but i
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by OldGuyInTheClub 2y ago
Shockley recruited/managed both. Bardeen (on the left) went on to win a second Nobel for explaining superconductivity.
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by OldGuyInTheClub 2y ago
> You are aware, that you are on a board of grinding workaholics, who work hard to have nobody escape the gulag of modern labor - by forcing everyone to grind their lifes to dust to compete with them? As Pat Paulsen might have said, &quo
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by OldGuyInTheClub 2y ago
If so, it seems odd that it would happen at a social time of year for many if not most.
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by OldGuyInTheClub 2y ago
I am not a computer scientist but I acknowledge Dijkstra is an honored name in that field. Yet for his shots against academia and industry, he signed it 'prof. dr.' and 'Burroughs Fellow.'
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by OldGuyInTheClub 2y ago
Must be something in the air: From yesterday, 275 comments. "One way to fight loneliness: Germans call it a Stammtisch" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42488263
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by OldGuyInTheClub 2y ago
The author of the article? Doesn't sound like she is trying to make friends. Comes off as an assignment where she polled a bunch of people and added some text around their replies.
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by OldGuyInTheClub 2y ago
"Oh stewardess, I speak jive." --- Barbara Billingsley
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That's well and good until the table has one too many and invades Poland.
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by OldGuyInTheClub 2y ago
I heard about these decades ago when studying German in college. Always wondered how the bar/pub deals with these. Is there one stammtisch per establishment? Otherwise it seems like a place could be full of groups not "turning
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by OldGuyInTheClub 2y ago
Thanks for the pointer! The itch for fine dining went away over 20 years ago and these days I mostly eat to live. I did enjoy looking at their menu.
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by OldGuyInTheClub 2y ago
I think it depends where one is. I grew up in the Bay Area and our vegetarian family's go-to place for special events was Greens at Ft. Mason. Prix-fixe and enjoy. Tried to find an equivalent in the Los Angeles area and was told by
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by OldGuyInTheClub 2y ago
I've been told that the secret to exercise, woodworking, playing the piano, whatever is to "enjoy it." But, having or getting the skill to have some successes to "enjoy it" is difficult and not everyone has the abi
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by OldGuyInTheClub 2y ago
I was a postdoc there and I would not say it was brutal. I got a very good salary (far above an academic postdoc), health benefits, relocation, the ok to spend $1000/day on equipment with no managerial review[0], and access to anyone
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by OldGuyInTheClub 2y ago
Impostor syndrome was real at that joint!
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by OldGuyInTheClub 2y ago
Alexander Technique can have benefits if one puts in the effort and to some extent believes in it. FM Alexander referred to his method as "the work." But, it takes time and a certain mindset to integrate it into daily life withou
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by OldGuyInTheClub 2y ago
Sounds like the new ringtone. All the rage for a while, then everyone moved on. Most notifications are pretty terse anyway. Emails are very short these days. I don't use the socials but aren't they all character limited? Me: M3
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by OldGuyInTheClub 2y ago
Good ideas but as with so many things, easier said than done.
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by OldGuyInTheClub 2y ago
His response of switching to "ancestral" food and jawline modification is ... interesting.
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by OldGuyInTheClub 2y ago
The engineers of his day and his client both raised concerns. This is the first I've heard that engineers build to barely last. Maybe that's true in software. I hope to hell that it is not true for homes, cars, roads, bridges,
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by OldGuyInTheClub 2y ago
The wealthy can be into that kind of ... abuse. Jay Leno explains why he doesn't own a Ferrari. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUPOvcolNZg Highlight: https://youtu.be/VUPOvcolNZg?t=96
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by OldGuyInTheClub 2y ago
I believe other engineers were concerned about the Fallingwater cantilevers at the time of construction and in the end they were correct.
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by OldGuyInTheClub 2y ago
I don't get the worship, either. Fallingwater has required a lot of intervention to stay up. The much praised Johnson Wax complex has a tower that can't be occupied. The administration building has workers on the ground floor (
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by OldGuyInTheClub 2y ago
Youtuber "But Why" marvels at the size of 52! in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hoeIllSxpEU and then tries to relate it to something graspable by humans https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RdnVhjYFr7w
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by OldGuyInTheClub 2y ago
>> I don't think wealthy families send their kids to any of these private schools with a view to jobs at LocMart, Boeing, or Argonne. > You're underestimating rich people (or maybe the rich people I know have a tech bias,
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by OldGuyInTheClub 2y ago
Very interesting perspective, thank you. >> Also, the contacts one makes at an Ivy or a Stanford are leagues ahead of what's available at a public school. > As someone who attended an Ivy/Ivy Adjacent, I highly disagree,
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by OldGuyInTheClub 2y ago
I'm now sensitized to the senior citizen housing issue now that I'm approaching that age. I can't downsize - no place to go to. Lots of people are nominally leaving California to be just outside of it in Nevada (Reno, Tahoe

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