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by jes 4y ago
I really appreciate the advice. I'll check it out.
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by jes 4y ago
I liked it too, when I used it. It's been decades, though. I think you're right about the use model and its benefits. uw-beaver!tikal!jes :-)
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by jes 4y ago
I'm enough of a dinosaur that I think I'd be good just going back to the days of USENET, UUCP and rn.
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by jes 4y ago
With respect, it's not a matter of money or resources. Getting angry is optional. With some practice (largely, mindfulness) people can learn to notice their emotions and not become strongly identified with whatever is happening in the
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by jes 4y ago
Of course. If someone wants to be angry, that's their choice. Yet a lot of people get angry easily, and being an easily-triggered person works against a person's life. No one wants to constantly have to walk on eggshells around an
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by jes 4y ago
> I'd be furious at the inequality of input and output Stranger here. Just want to suggest that getting furious over things outside of your control, or the world not being as you would like it to be, is optional. If you don't l
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by jes 4y ago
Thank you for those examples. I agree that they are examples of predictions made by Musk that did not pan out. That being said, do you think the majority of the predictions he makes in going about his every day business are wrong? To get to
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by jes 4y ago
Can you say more? Musk is the world’s wealthiest individual. I’m having trouble seeing see how being bad at making predictions results in that outcome.
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by jes 4y ago
Yep. Echelon is one keyword I remember.
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by jes 4y ago
M-x psychoanalyze-microsoft-pinheads
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by jes 4y ago
I am 62. About fifteen years ago I could have written almost exactly what you have written above. I blew up my long term marriage because of my fucked up thinking. It was a horrible mistake and one that I regret essentially every day. Of co
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by jes 4y ago
Back when I was hiring people, I would have probably hired you on the spot, if you said Scheme was your favorite programming language. But that's just me. More to your point, it would have been fine to collect your things, get up from
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Meta announces plans to slow hiring following challenging quarter(cnn.com)
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China Orders Government, State Firms to Dump Foreign PCs(bloomberg.com)
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How People Think(collaborativefund.com)
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by jes 4y ago
I'd love to find an old TI DS-990/10 system. Used one in 1979 for a few years. Good times, implementing Kernighan and Plauger's code from Software Tools in Pascal.
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by jes 4y ago
iMessage is next to useless for me due to SMS spam from political fundraising groups that send texts from so many different numbers that manually blocking each phone number is practically impossible. I want an app that will prowl my pool of
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by jes 5y ago
Back in the 70s, I dialed a number on my parent’s rotary phone. When the remote computer answered, I would shove the handset into the earmuffs on the acoustic coupler[1]. It usually worked. I don’t remember if the baud rate was 300 or 110.
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by jes 5y ago
I used The Google and found these links: 0. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/06/us/politics/russia-cyber-... 1. https://www.securityweek.com/investigation-launched-role-jet... 2. ht
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by jes 5y ago
TIL 1Password has a command line tool named op .[1] It requires authenticating with your 1Password credentials and any granted authentication is said to time out after 30 minutes. It looks useful and I'm thinking about downloading it,
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by jes 5y ago
I got a lot of pleasure from Usenet / Nutnews back in the day. I sometimes wonder if I should try to find an NNTP feed and a version of rn (1) and check it out again.
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by jes 5y ago
My experience may be similar. I started programming in COBOL in 1979 - 1980 timeframe. I was working in Seattle, Washington, using Ryan-McFarland COBOL on a Texas-Instruments DS-990 computer system. I thought it was a good programming envir
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by jes 5y ago
I subscribed to the app and used it almost daily for a few years. I found it helpful.
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by jes 5y ago
I'm 62 and if I'm understanding you, it's been the same for me the last four or five years. I received a lot of benefit from Sam's work, as well as from Alan Watts, Francis Lucille, Robert Wolfe, and other Advaita Vedant
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by jes 5y ago
I used to love Adobe FrameMaker. I was surprised to see it is still available. We were using it for tech pubs writing 30 years ago, if memory serves. I thought it was much more usable for that purpose than Microsoft Word.
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by jes 5y ago
I first discovered the Theory of Constraints and Eli‘s work in about 1992. I was also able to get a copy of Bill Dettmer‘s course notes for the course he was teaching at USC at the time on the Thinking Processes. I’ve been a fan of TOC and
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by jes 5y ago
> and clunky in-circuit-emulators… I wrote software for in-circuit emulators from Applied Microsystems back in the late 80s and early 90s. I was fortunate to be able to work with some really talented people. Our high-end ICEs were expe
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by jes 5y ago
Can you say more about this? I have never heard about this. To my knowledge, my bank cannot access my safe deposit box without my key or without drilling and replacing the lock my key opens. Am I mistaken about this?
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by jes 5y ago
In the late 70s and early 80s I did a lot of programming on Texas Instruments DS/990 computer systems. The manuals for those systems were quite interesting. If you had a question, you could read the manual and swear that the manual did
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by jes 5y ago
Loosely quoting Eli Goldratt, "Until the money is in your bank account and there is no possibility of having to refund it to the customer, you have not made the sale."

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