W-Stool

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by W-Stool 4y ago
Limited run of only 150 units! Sheesh ...
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by W-Stool 4y ago
The guy who was behind VMS (the OS for the VAX-11 series) and Windows NT-3.51 - Microsofts first native 32 bit operating system. Spent some of his money going Formula Atlantic racing when most people his age would be looking at bowling bal
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by W-Stool 4y ago
"Trading Places" reference noted and logged. Well done.
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by W-Stool 4y ago
In the immortal words of the character Mark Baum (based on Steve Eisman) in "The Big Short": "That's hilarious". I am referencing the scene when he meets the CDO manager, and he said this with the utmost sarcasm. A
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by W-Stool 4y ago
I always thought it was "Big Earl". You're right!
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by W-Stool 4y ago
I've been donating to SomaFM for many years, and it is my music provider of choice in my home office (Space Station Soma for me). Some years ago I had an afternoon to kill while visiting San Francisco and Rusty was kind enough to let
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by W-Stool 4y ago
This word salad from Janek and Harry Dean Stanton's recitation of "The Repo Code" in Repo Man are some of the two best rifs on word play I've heard in my lifetime. I've never seen the full text of Janek's spee
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by W-Stool 4y ago
I've got a whole "HAL9000" feeling going here right now. "Sorry Dave - I can't quite do that ..."
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by W-Stool 5y ago
In Reno (NW Nevada) 1/8 (of an ounce, 3.5 grams) will set you back around $39. Quarters on sale (1/4 of an ounce, 7 grams) will normally be in the $49-$59 range. I've seen ounces for $99 once in a while. I might add this
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by W-Stool 5y ago
More information can be found in the book "The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and its Dangerous Legacy" by David E. Hoffman. It really is a Dr. Strangelove inspired "Doomsday Device".
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by W-Stool 5y ago
There is no way to overestimate the impact of Dr. Dongarra and LINPACK. If you're active in the high performance computing world you know them both quite well. Well done Jack!
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by W-Stool 5y ago
An old friend of my wife retired to The Villages in Florida and my wife went down there and stayed for a long weekend. Her impression was it was one of the strangest places she'd ever been - on the surface everything looked perfect.
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by W-Stool 5y ago
Reminds me of a recent US President. Very recent ...
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by W-Stool 5y ago
Anyone who is interested in P.J.'s earlier work should look at his contributions to the late, great National Lampoon, where at one time he was editor. His piece "Foreigners Around the World" is completely outrageous and cert
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by W-Stool 5y ago
I owned a new one of these back in the day. Took it on an airplane to do some database input (bingo card leads from Dr. Dobb's) using PC-File for a MicroISV I was running at the time. Passengers looked at me like I was someone from t
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by W-Stool 5y ago
So you are part of a collective then - you have a small mining/compute farm in your home that contributes results to a much larger group?
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by W-Stool 5y ago
Can you ELI5 how making small amounts of money in crypto works? I thought it was a "winner take all" kind of arrangement where whomever solves the "puzzle" (for lack of a better word) first gets all the bitcoin as a rew
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by W-Stool 5y ago
3.6?
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by W-Stool 5y ago
I highly recommend Sir Frank's late wife Ginny's book "Williams: A Different Kind of Life". It details Frank's struggles in his early racing days (too broke to have a telephone at home) and his struggles later on a
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by W-Stool 5y ago
Don't forget Blockchain - IBM was going to change the world with that.
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Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) Explained(twitter.com)
18 points by W-Stool 5y ago|6 comments
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by W-Stool 5y ago
"I get the sense that the people who would make up those audiences probably have better things to do ..." This 1000%.
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by W-Stool 5y ago
I was born in 1958 and it is amazing to me what has been invented even since then. But in the early 60's it seemed like the future was limitless. I distinctly remember the promise of flying cars, vacations on the moon, and electricit
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by W-Stool 5y ago
IBM's Watson would probably agree.
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by W-Stool 5y ago
I honestly do not understand why any sentient person would have anything to do with Facebook at this point, VR headsets or not. It is just an awful company, period.
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by W-Stool 5y ago
I guess I'll be the first to say it - does the author of the article strike anyone as a bit of a pretentious asshole? Downvote away if you have to, but I just thought someone needed to say that.
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by W-Stool 5y ago
But you know eventually someone will do a big over the air firmware update and brick a couple of hundred cars. This is almost certain to happen eventually.
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by W-Stool 5y ago
Did I miss in the article what the author plans to do about this? It is one thing to poke fun at patent trolls, but when you are the target of the troll legally you need to do something. What's their response going to be?
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by W-Stool 5y ago
Only child of divorced parents here, who both remarried and fought endlessly with their new spouses. I will be married 40 years this August. I was just lucky enough to marry a person who turned out to be my best and closest friend in life
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by W-Stool 5y ago
Anyone remember the Dominos Pizza "deliver in 30 minutes or it's free" guarantee of many years ago? A couple of accidents by delivery drivers and it was a "Gentlemen: Start Your Lawyers" situation. This seems eeri

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