TomMasz

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by TomMasz 2y ago
Well, for one thing, it's either that or die. Sure, you can travel overseas and get healthcare at much lower cost, but if you can afford that you probably don't care much about the cost anyway. It's a total seller's mark
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by TomMasz 2y ago
Even better, rats actually enjoy driving tiny cars ( https://www.livescience.com/health/neuroscience/neuroscienti... ).
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by TomMasz 2y ago
This is the kind of petty, childish behavior that reflects badly on all involved. I'm too invested in WP to change now, but if I was starting out I'd choose something else.
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by TomMasz 2y ago
I'm in the same boat. I need to update my Apple Watch but can't because I can't update my iPhone 8. I love Apple stuff but there's no ignoring the costs (beyond the purchase price).
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by TomMasz 2y ago
I teach Software Engineering at the university level. I can definitely tell the students in my intro classes that are in it for the money and have no talent or real interest in software development. Provided they make it through the program
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by TomMasz 2y ago
It doesn't relieve nasal congestion and it never did. While it's certainly safe, it's not even slightly effective.
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by TomMasz 2y ago
Pascal was my first "real" programming language and the language used in my CS undergrad. I even used it to develop for a bare metal 68000 system and a MicroPDP-11. But once I learned C and found how much easier it was to do embed
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by TomMasz 2y ago
It's often a case of becoming (or believed to be) so essential to a product that moving them is considered to be dangerous. It really feels like being just competent enough is your best bet for career growth.
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by TomMasz 2y ago
At a company I once worked for failure was anything but a barrier to getting offered newer, bigger opportunities. Those who did well often get stuck in the same place without further advancement.
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by TomMasz 2y ago
This is 1.4rc1, not a stable release. Lots of new content and fixes so worth checking out if you're an Inkscape user.
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by TomMasz 2y ago
I currently have 0 coins and 0 bills on me. I had to borrow $10 from my wife to tip the bartenders at a wedding this past Saturday since I didn't want to go to an ATM. Cash (and coins) have their place but it's not worth the effor
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by TomMasz 2y ago
The NY State Thruway (I-90) put up metric distance signs between Rochester and Syracuse back in the late 70s. They remained for years but I never saw any evidence of any others being erected. They're gone now.
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by TomMasz 2y ago
I worked for a company that built equipment using the AMD 2901 4-bit slice chips. Follow-on products used the Motorola 6800 and then 68000, though.
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by TomMasz 2y ago
It's hard to imagine US/Russian relations improving in the coming years. It might be easier and safer to retire the ISS sooner rather than later.
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by TomMasz 2y ago
When I was working at Xerox in the mid-90s all our printers were HP because ours sucked. It's a shame what happened to them.
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by TomMasz 2y ago
They eliminated the "friction" associated with sports betting, threw in some easy credit and the result was exactly what you'd expect.
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by TomMasz 2y ago
It confirmed there are no Vogons on Earth, even though it seems like there are. Which I can't disagree with.
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by TomMasz 2y ago
Coming from working with Vax/VMS to NT I was struck by the similarities between them. It was only years later I found out about NT's DEC connections.
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by TomMasz 2y ago
I was surprised I could hit the Back button and not get hassled.
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by TomMasz 2y ago
I worked for exactly one company in 35+ years that had a career track for senior engineers as an alternative to management. I would have taken that instead of going into management but I had long ago left that company.
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by TomMasz 2y ago
Strava got me to join a few clubs (I'm not in any IRL club) but the messaging I just ignore. Not everything has to be a social network. I'm looking at you LinkedIn.
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by TomMasz 2y ago
It's a food dye, if you can eat it you certainly can put it on your skin. And they probably did but don't want to announce that they experimented on themselves.
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by TomMasz 2y ago
Fake bands are not a new thing. Of course, that usually meant a real vocalist and real (usually studio) musicians but those songs were still sold for money. If this guy produced songs that people listened is it any different than what came
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by TomMasz 2y ago
Corvids and parrots upended our beliefs about bird intelligence and made us realize there's more than one way to organize a brain. We still have a lot to learn about them.
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by TomMasz 2y ago
When we get to CSVs I tell my Python students that while the CSV module does do a lot of nice things for you, CSVs are still a minefield and you really have to look at the file in a text editor first if you're not the one who created i
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by TomMasz 2y ago
If you remember the average age of Oldsmobile customers (and remember Oldsmobile) you know this would never have sold well, even if they had switched to a more conventional interior. This is something Pontiac might have tried, though.
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by TomMasz 2y ago
Oral traditions are fragile. Writing is more durable, but only as durable as the medium it uses. We're lucky we know as much about the past as we do.
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by TomMasz 2y ago
In the mid-80s the company I worked for, which made process control systems, had some Russians in for a tour of the engineering facility. We were using the Motorola 68000 processors in a new system and we told to cover every board that had
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by TomMasz 2y ago
What I find interesting is that people with aphantasia still dream like everyone else but can't voluntarily evoke images in their mind.
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by TomMasz 2y ago
My dad would have been very interested in these photos. He worked for Western Electric and spent most of his time working on Long Lines installations in NYC.

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