TomMasz

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by TomMasz 8y ago
I'm shooting my last pack of FP-100c in my Mamiya RB-67 at the moment. I emailed the Polaroid Originals crew about reviving pack film but they said this: Thank you for contacting Polaroid Originals. Unfortunately, that film is no longe
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by TomMasz 8y ago
As a kid I remember reading an article in a hot rod magazine about a drag racer powered by a Merlin engine. It was quick, as you'd imagine, but easily overpowered the tires of the time so not as quick as it could have been. I wonder wh
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by TomMasz 8y ago
I live in Rochester, NY and my brother-in-law works as a mechanic on coating machines. Glad to see he's still got some time before he needs to change jobs.
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by TomMasz 8y ago
Oh, the memories. Being able to predict the exact instructions the compiler would generate. Patching in memory using NOP instructions. Actually being able to write assembler code. Unsegmented memory. It has always disappointed me that Motor
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by TomMasz 9y ago
I took a voluntary layoff in December and yes I have left the tech workforce. I was in product infosec and the stress was taking a toll on my health even though I didn't realize it at the time. I'm thinking about moving into acade
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by TomMasz 9y ago
I just participated in a "Voluntary Reduction In Force" at (company I can't mention for legal reasons). It was applied across all of R&D but only people with 15 years or more of service were allowed to apply. We're b
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by TomMasz 9y ago
Remember the "Don Gall" ads? Holy crap, were they awful!
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by TomMasz 9y ago
In my experience the problem with Excel is it gets used as a database often because there are more Excel gurus than DB gurus. The Excel guru in my department had to update his version of Office to 64-bit and add RAM because our spreadsheets
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by TomMasz 9y ago
I was really interested in the NeXT machine but couldn't afford one. So when I got my hands on a surplus PC I set it up with Red Hat and WindowMaker. WM was okay as long you used programs intended for it but I never really got used to
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by TomMasz 10y ago
I wore contacts for over 30 years. I had astigmatism and only one brand of contacts worked for me. That was great until the company discontinued them and their suggested replacements didn't work for me. I had LASIK and I've experi
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by TomMasz 10y ago
As the article points out, a phone and data plan cost as much per month as a car payment. Perhaps, just perhaps, millennials simply don't have enough money to afford the equivalent of two car payments a month.
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by TomMasz 10y ago
I was recently recruited by Amazon's video division but I had to decline due to personal issues. Looks like I dodged a bullet.
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by TomMasz 10y ago
Having a Alzheimer's sufferer wander away is a story every single elder caregiver has in common. This solution seems much better than the usual solution of confinement to a room or apartment.
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by TomMasz 10y ago
I was quite adept at 6800 and 68000 assembler but I can't imagine getting to that level with modern x86. Maybe some glue routines, but beyond that give me any of the current compilers.
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by TomMasz 10y ago
I believe this is called "Making them someone else's problem". Difficult employees get bounced around from manager to manager because that's easier than actually firing them. It's probably most common in very large
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by TomMasz 11y ago
My first tech job in the early 80s included testing batches of TI 741s. Since we always had bunches of leftovers we used them for all sorts of things. Wonderfully versatile little devices.
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by TomMasz 11y ago
The discovery has been covered extensively elsewhere. The politics, and particularly the fight over credit for the find, was something I wasn't aware of. It's definitely not what you'd expect from Buzzfeed.
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by TomMasz 12y ago
Electric guitars were first sold in the 1930s. At first all they wanted was a louder guitar to compete with the big bands of the time (after having repeatedly made them physically larger. Larger guitars were louder, but harder to play for
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by TomMasz 12y ago
It's less than ideal but the obvious remediation is to update OpenSSL. Of course, if there are any other remediations it would be nice to know about them sooner. I know I'll have customers bugging me before Thursday.
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by TomMasz 12y ago
I have Exchange/Outlook (w/Gpg4Win) at work and OS X Mail w/GPGTools) at home. I can't send GPG signed/encrypted emails between work and home. But I can with the S/MIME implementation built into Outlook (w&#x2F
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by TomMasz 12y ago
On my Mac, I have no problem with it. Yes, it's a bit bloated because it does too many things, but I don't feel limited by it. Other than FLAC files, which I have a converter for, it plays everything I deal with regularly. On my W
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by TomMasz 12y ago
I took a course on it in the 80s when I worked for a government contractor. It was fussier than Pascal but once you got it to compile, the resulting code was pretty good. I imagine that over time you'd just adapt to the environment and
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by TomMasz 12y ago
My elderly aunt, who is 88 now, has Alzheimer's and while she's declining in cognitive ability now that her doctors have figured out her medications and dealt with some psychological issues her rate of decline has improved. The id
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by TomMasz 12y ago
His Computer Network book is one of the few that I never sold back to the bookstore. Mine is less than 6 feet from me right now, should I need to consult it.
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by TomMasz 13y ago
A lot of programming decisions were made to save a byte here and there. It's easy to point at them today and say they're "bad", but at the time they were the absolutely correct thing to do. It's hard to imagine
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by TomMasz 13y ago
I once asked, on LinkedIn of course, if anyone had ever gotten a job using LinkedIn. No one had.
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by TomMasz 13y ago
Actually you can, you just need a license. That you'll never get one is assumed, however. You need a license to export anything to the AT (Anti-terrorism) countries but for some items you probably can get the license, at least for certain
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by TomMasz 13y ago
Even cells in solitary confinement have windows.
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by TomMasz 13y ago
Yes you can. BIS effectively decontrolled open source encryption software a few years ago, essentially admitting that attempts to control the export of something that was already available world-wide was a waste of time.
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by TomMasz 14y ago
Pascal was the first "real" language I learned (BASIC doesn't count) with a compiler that ran on the IBM mainframe at work. From then it was an easy transition to a Pascal compiler from Motorola that produced code for the 68000. Tellingly,

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