TomMasz

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by TomMasz 11mo ago
Kodak did a lot of government work over the years. When the news came out, no one panicked. Kodak was the biggest employer in the region and had a lot of local goodwill, we trusted them to take care of things. Needless to say, that is no lo
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by TomMasz 11mo ago
A local apple farm and cider mill uses UV for pasteurization of their cider instead of heat. I use it to make hard cider, and it's as good as unpasteurized cider (no longer legal to sell in NY) was, and I don't have to use sulfite
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by TomMasz 11mo ago
Tubes are definitely inferior to transistors in a lot of ways, but nothing sounds like them (FETs come close). Plus, there's the comforting glow of those little glass bottles that just seems right.
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by TomMasz 11mo ago
On Firefox Mac, it doesn't scroll with the scroll wheel, though it does with the down arrow key. Go figure. Looks cool, but I'll stick with my DSLR scanning setup.
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by TomMasz 11mo ago
I think you've hit on something important with work and accomplishment. I've heard software developers say over and over again they don't feel like they've actually accomplished anything when they complete some coding ta
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by TomMasz 11mo ago
Cute, but I can't help but wonder if the resources used for this could have been better utilized elsewhere.
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by TomMasz 11mo ago
I fondly remember patching 68K code in memory on an industrial control system my company was developing. I was able to decode the instructions just by looking at the hex display. Daresay, I could not do that with any modern system.
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by TomMasz 1y ago
It's bad enough that one Reddit moderator can wield so much power with such impunity, but /u/spez handing over all of Reddit's data for LLMs to use has now poisoned the chatbots that so many are using in place of search
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by TomMasz 1y ago
I do a lot of photography, including "street" photography, but I don't shoot photos of people. I believe that you should be asked for your consent to be photographed, and I tend to avoid social interaction whenever possible.
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by TomMasz 1y ago
I was interested in the Zynthian kit, but it's unavailable in the US right now due to Trump.
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by TomMasz 1y ago
I'm old enough to remember a time before blue LEDs. Funny how they're everywhere now. I make photo prints using the cyanotype process and a UV LED light source. It's a combination of old and new technologies with a very uniqu
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by TomMasz 1y ago
>early-career workers (ages 22-25) in the most AI-exposed occupations have experienced a 13 percent relative decline in employment even after controlling for firm-level shocks. As a professor of software engineering, I'm feeling an
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by TomMasz 1y ago
I've been keeping a journal since the '90s, handwritten in cursive. Other than my signature, it's the only cursive writing I do. Everything else I use block capitals. Writing by hand helps you remember things in a way that ty
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by TomMasz 1y ago
It was Rochester's largest employer for so long. Now it's become a bit of local trivia, much like Xerox. Both of them struggled to deal with changing markets.
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by TomMasz 1y ago
Ah, E85. My wife's flex-fuel Chevy could use it, but it ran poorly and mileage noticeably dropped. It wasn't worth the meager savings (it's usually more expensive now) over regular gas. I've always wondered about the env
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by TomMasz 1y ago
When I was in Rio for business, one of my hosts took me to lunch and we had Caipirinhas, but with vodka instead of cachaça. He explained it would make it harder to detect on your breath. Either way, they're very sweet and go down nicel
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by TomMasz 1y ago
I found a Stevia product, White Stevia, in my local organic market. It has maltodextrin added, but that's it. The downside is it's not measure-for-measure with sugar (1/6 tsp vs 1 tsp sugar). https://www.nunaturals
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by TomMasz 1y ago
Couldn't help noticing they reference the now-shuttered FakeSpot for detecting AI-written product reviews.
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by TomMasz 1y ago
It's obvious that opinions are varied on what these were for. I wonder if the fact that they don't seem to appear in images or get mentioned in writing is some sort of clue. But that could mean anything from "so common not wo
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by TomMasz 1y ago
I remember using that compiler for M68K in the mid-80s, cross-compiling on a DEC Vax. The debug monitor we were using only displayed hex, no disassembly. The compiler was so predictable that I could locate the memory location for any C stat
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by TomMasz 1y ago
Kind of the opposite of colorblindness, where people (mostly male) see fewer colors in the rainbow and are often unaware of it.
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by TomMasz 1y ago
I casually follow the FODMAP diet and avoid sugar alcohols where possible. It's surprising how many sugar substitutes include it, sometimes as the primary ingredient. I've found a pure stevia powder that tastes okay, but it isn&#x
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by TomMasz 1y ago
Way back in the 80s, I had started a new job, and they held a meeting to discuss the results of a recent employee opinion survey. The results were overwhelmingly negative. It made me realize I had made a serious mistake. I quit before a yea
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by TomMasz 1y ago
>"PC LOAD LETTER" flashed on its display, but in a font that hurt to look at. At least that part of it is normal.
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by TomMasz 1y ago
Hey, that's me! I'm long past caring now and have no intention of stopping. Honestly, having no audience expectations is nice. There's no pressure to deliver anything, and I can take breaks without worrying my followers will
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by TomMasz 1y ago
I recall driving by the GE facility in Syracuse, right next to the Thruway. Over time, the number of cars in the parking lot dwindled to basically none. Now it's a Lockheed-Martin facility for military radar (or at least was). I imagin
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by TomMasz 1y ago
As a guitar player, it's nice to see at least some of these guitars get played. I'm old enough to remember when old Les Pauls, Strats, and archtops were cheap. Had I known then what they would eventually have been worth, I would h
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by TomMasz 1y ago
I got "No video with supported format and MIME type found." in the How It Works section.
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by TomMasz 1y ago
I remember as a kid seeing the ghost fleet of Liberty Ships in the Hudson River near NYC. They gradually disappeared, with the last of them sold off in the early 70s. You could even buy parts like hatch covers from the ships in antique stor
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by TomMasz 1y ago
This really brings back memories of how painful installing any software in the early 90s was. The small company I worked for got us a Yggdrasil CD to try but we were unable to get it installed on any of the PCs we had at the time. MCC mig

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