TomMasz

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by TomMasz 1y ago
Really. Different marketing, and let's be honest, better battery technology, and this would have succeeded.
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by TomMasz 1y ago
Says the man who killed it. Has he even used his own product in recent years?
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by TomMasz 1y ago
Specieism in science goes way back. The funny thing is, people who live closer to nature and birds and animals have known about animal intelligence for millennia. But they were "primitives" who couldn't possibly have more k
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by TomMasz 1y ago
I never imagined a day when faculty would be given instructions on how to handle ICE demands, but here we are. The activity so far has only been visas being revoked, but this is just beginning. Enrollment for Fall semester is way down, thou
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by TomMasz 1y ago
I bought a bunch of old film cameras in the mid-2000s fairly cheaply when people were dumping them en masse to buy digital. Film was still easy to get. Ten years or so later, film suddenly becomes cool, prices skyrocket. Not surprising, I g
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by TomMasz 1y ago
I tried DMSO for elbow tendinitis, it sort of worked but caused such intense itching that I found myself washing it off soon after applying. It's sold in farm supply stores for use on horses, so it's fairly easy to obtain.
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by TomMasz 2y ago
If you're new to the realization that every technology has both good and bad effects, where have you been in the last 40 years?
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by TomMasz 2y ago
I use DuckDuckGo mostly, but have a Kagi subscription for other searches.
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by TomMasz 2y ago
I read the book when it came out and it was indeed a great story. Kidder did a remarkable job explaining technical topics that even non-techies could understand. You could just feel the pressure the team was under to deliver. The Eagle seem
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by TomMasz 2y ago
John got tired of the Beatles, his drug use made things worse. Paul's perfectionism did its part as well. Yoko was a distraction. She's a provocateur, art is the medium she uses.
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by TomMasz 2y ago
If you say anything derogatory about Zuck it disconnects.
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by TomMasz 2y ago
So do I, avoiding FODMAPs helps, but stress seems to be more of a factor than food. More stress == more problems. It's harder to manage, though.
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by TomMasz 2y ago
I'm crossing my fingers but history seems to be against them. You have to pay the piper at some point.
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by TomMasz 2y ago
I noticed the content change, but missed the reason behind it.
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by TomMasz 2y ago
When I was in high school my neighbor's daughter had an older BMW 2002 coupe. None of us had heard of BMW and just thought it was an odd-looking foreign car. It wasn't long before everyone was aware of BMW.
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by TomMasz 2y ago
The Digg of (literally) yesterday was not the Digg that shot itself in the foot. It was just a site that posted links to various things you could find in other places. Not sure what they're planning but I can't help feeling the ol
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by TomMasz 2y ago
I only use it to develop in C for the Raspberry Pi Zero W since VS Code doesn't work with it. While it's great they keep it updated the C tools haven't been touched in a long while and you have to add the repository for them
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by TomMasz 2y ago
I threw out my HP when it stopped recognizing it had a black cartridge installed. The complaints about using non-HP ink were annoying but at least it worked until it didn't. Replaced it with a Brother laser, never an issue. The loss of
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by TomMasz 2y ago
The Amazon Appstore is a steaming puddle of absolute crap for the most part. I have a Fire tablet I play some simple games on, they're all chock-full of ads. Very few mainstream apps are available, though plenty of cheap knockoffs of t
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by TomMasz 2y ago
Wow, I haven't seen Yggdrasil mentioned in a long time. In the early 90s, one of the guys at work tried to install it on a 386 PC. They never quite succeeded. Just a couple of years later I was running SuSE at home, after having starte
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by TomMasz 2y ago
The Alto is another example of what Xerox could have been had it not been so wedded to putting dots on paper. In my twenty years at Xerox I watched it slowly (and then quickly) shrink as the dots on paper market shrank. In an alternative
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by TomMasz 2y ago
Designed to weed out anyone who might not follow orders. Was this a cult?
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by TomMasz 2y ago
I remember reading about the Therac-25 when the first post-mortem explanations appeared. Those poor patients, they could feel something was wrong but were told everything was fine because the operators didn't see anything out of the or
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by TomMasz 2y ago
That watch looked pretty cool. The exploding part, though...
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by TomMasz 2y ago
This took an interesting turn. A sprinkler system might have helped but it's not mentioned as part of the changes in maritime regulations following the incident.
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by TomMasz 2y ago
This is one more reason that Orcas should not be kept in captivity.
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by TomMasz 2y ago
They had some of the brightest minds in the world, thanks in part to the Nazi's rejection of "Jewish science".
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by TomMasz 2y ago
Sounds like Xerox. I got out after 20+ years with the last of the good voluntary layoff packages. The ones that hung on got a lot less than I did.
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by TomMasz 2y ago
SYSTAT UNHAPPY MACNAM
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by TomMasz 2y ago
This is unfortunate for Lexmark employees.

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