TomMasz

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by TomMasz 5y ago
I did exactly this, starting when I was 30. It was a lot of work and it was made worse by starting a family in the middle. That extended things by a couple of years. But it was worth it, salary and position-wise.
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by TomMasz 5y ago
In 1987 I was programming in C via a VT220 terminal connected to a VAX which was then cross-compiled for the MC68020. Except for C, none of those things are likely to be found outside a museum. Also, I am old.
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by TomMasz 5y ago
The Hitachi (now Renesas) SuperH family was pretty good for its time. A project I worked on the mid to late 90s used one and it was great to develop for. Even the assembler code was understandable for someone like me coming from a Motorola
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by TomMasz 5y ago
I worked at Xerox during this period and know and/or worked with all of the people in this article. Dealing with paper is a colossal PITA but it's why printers and copiers exist so you have no choice. Xerox's strategy of buil
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by TomMasz 5y ago
I sold my moka pot at a garage sale when I bought my first espresso machine. Which broke. As did the two others I bought after that one. I'm now using an Aeropress, which is another device that coffee snobs look down on. But I'm s
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by TomMasz 5y ago
Xerox purchased a number of small desktop and larger machines from Samsung, including the one you mention.
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by TomMasz 5y ago
Make sure you read this all the way to end. It made me chuckle, and not just a little.
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by TomMasz 5y ago
I live in the US. When I was done with my Bachelors, which I did in the evenings while I worked full time, I had a choice of two local universities for graduate study. The CS grad course in one was really a PhD that granted a Masters part w
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by TomMasz 5y ago
There's no question git is overkill for individual projects but it doesn't take long to learn the add/commit/push commands you'll most often use. But there's nothing wrong with wanting to build your own tools.
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by TomMasz 5y ago
Pascal was the teaching language in the early 80s. I had compilers available for the IBM 370 (VM/CMS), the VAX (VMS) and even cross-compilers for bare metal MC68000 and PDP/11. Early Macintosh development used Pascal (though it
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by TomMasz 5y ago
When things don't work in Firefox I try Edge (Canary) and then Safari. Right now, Edge is about 10% of my web usage but it's growing.
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by TomMasz 5y ago
I trained in cold water rescue and there was a lot of emphasis placed on low head dams. They seem to be everywhere once you know what to look for.
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by TomMasz 5y ago
I ran UUCP on a Mac Plus, of all things. But it was a local call for me.
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by TomMasz 5y ago
When I canceled my DSL the person on the phone admitted their service was lousy. They just gave up trying to defend crappy service.
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by TomMasz 5y ago
They called my 7Mbps DSL "High-Speed Internet". And it was only that "fast" because we had two phone lines. Now I have Spectrum and get 200Mbps. A lot of people around hate Spectrum but it's been fine for me so far.
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by TomMasz 6y ago
I use a Mac, which has GarageBand installed, and Audacity is still my go-to choice for any audio editing. I just used it to split a stereo track into two mono tracks, something I'm not sure I can do in GarageBand (TBH I didn't loo
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by TomMasz 6y ago
I took an Ada programming course when I worked at a defense contractor in the late 80s. Coming from C and Pascal it seemed familiar enough to learn quickly but was overkill for what we were doing at the time. I left soon after and I have no
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by TomMasz 6y ago
I've got a Zorki 4 rangefinder (works well), a Kiev-6C (variable frame spacing, loud AF), a Moskva 5 (Rube Goldberg-inspired rangefinder but otherwise okay), a Lubitel 166U (what's "edge sharpness"?), and now a Zenit-19M
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by TomMasz 6y ago
Don't forget CowPiss, I mean Calpis!
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by TomMasz 6y ago
It's hard enough to build something like the F-35 for one customer, let alone three. Especially when those three customers have wildly differing requirements. Not that it can't be done, but it can't be done they way they did
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by TomMasz 6y ago
I once interviewed for a programming job that was a bit of bait and switch. The hiring manager showed me a foot-high stack of green bar paper that was Fortran code written by optical scientists that I was expected to convert to C. He was so
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by TomMasz 6y ago
Post-WWII R&D was vastly different from what R&D is like now. No one is funding research that isn't directly product-related or with an unclear or long-term ROI like that anymore. There never will be a Bell Labs or PARC every a
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by TomMasz 6y ago
The problem was he's not a techie and only has a Linux laptop because of cost. Trying to get him to understand how to work the shell cost me a year of life.
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by TomMasz 6y ago
As a musician, I am thrilled that JackTrip and Jamulus are available to make real-time collaboration possible but they're not simple to install and configure for everyone. I spent numerous sessions trying to get a non-techie friend&#x2
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by TomMasz 6y ago
I love the Uniball Jetstream series, they're kind of hybrids between oil and water-based ink pens. Perfect for use in journals like Moleskines or Mnemosynes since they don't smear.
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by TomMasz 6y ago
There may still be value in getting tested. A friend of mine was certain gluten was the source of her abdominal issues and avoided it religiously. She did mostly okay until the symptoms got suddenly worse and it was determined it was actual
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by TomMasz 6y ago
I live just down the street from their office. I remember their parking lot full of cars. Then one day, it was empty and there was a large sign on the front door. Their sign is still up, oddly enough.
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by TomMasz 6y ago
I occasionally watch YT videos on my Fire TV Stick. Although ads are technically skippable, the on-screen directions don't actually work. I was watching a concert the other day and got stuck in a 3 minute ad that I couldn't esca
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by TomMasz 6y ago
Oh man, this brings back memories. When I first got started in my career we developed on an IBM 370 and I spent a lot of time on 3270s. Eventually, though, we got our own VAX that we didn't have to share with the rest of the company an
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by TomMasz 6y ago
The overwhelming majority of hams are male, white and old (like me). Just take a look at most of the photos in QST or glance around a hamfest sometime. There is some synergy happening with the Maker crowd but it doesn't seem to me th

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