acomjean

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by acomjean 6d ago
Its snark/stereotype, but there is some truth. But my take, is physics sort of took over a lot of chemistry, biology.. and to them its the answer to all questions, because in the end it just molecules. There is some truth to that bu
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by acomjean 7d ago
The whole WP engine thing. I think it’s private equity buying a wordpress thing, but things got weird and it starting getting bad press. There was the hijacking of a plugin from them if I recall among other things (checkbox in login saying
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by acomjean 7d ago
Cars can be a form of signalling. I had a coworker who sold his small lexus, because it made dating weird.
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by acomjean 12d ago
"Bob" is also the most difficult to listen to Primus song. Probably by design considering the songs subject matter.
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by acomjean 13d ago
Honestly it depends on the situation and saddly the common sense of everyone. I grew up in the 70s and 80s, and in the neighboring town a child went missing. Pre internet there was still a lot of worry. We got talked to by my parents who w
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by acomjean 22d ago
stuff that annoyed me on mac was the "find" feature was useful, but to get to a enclosing folder (what I want), involved searching, clicking something, finding the file again in the display and "enclosing folder" (this m
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by acomjean 28d ago
Nice. I have an old Canon manual focus T90 film camera which I loved. Put in the AA batteries (it ran on 4 for camera and motor drive). The display screen in the view finder said "HELP" in its glowing red letters. It said EEE
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by acomjean 1mo ago
It’s weird, because the center of the image will be more detailed, so how are they dealing with the “grid of pixels” that is on the display. Are they doubling up the wide angle. “Easy-to-understand framing The brackets over the viewfinder
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by acomjean 1mo ago
A teleprompter operator was making bets on what the president would say.. And thats just one that got called out. Grift is kind of the new normal sadly. https://arstechnica.com/culture/2026/07/trump-teleprom
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by acomjean 1mo ago
I didn’t have a pro to help me. But I used Linux a lot on the cloud/cluster. I didn’t want to futz. So I bought a computer with Linux preinstalled. Then I got one for work. Then a desktop from a different vendor. There is an extra c
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by acomjean 1mo ago
Chariots of fire soundtrack was good too.
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by acomjean 2mo ago
Is it because the criteria is wait time not travel time? Destination dispatch would avoid some extra stops on the trip. I just visited a new building with destination dispatch, so it seems to be still around. My EE roommate in college had
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by acomjean 2mo ago
Curmudgeon is the perfect term to describe. He was a great part of TWIT. I liked his obscure software references (lotus Jazz was one I think). He also found this new thing is like that old thing. His non positive takes were a great additio
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by acomjean 2mo ago
The non-profit I help with moved to Wordpress so people can edit the site without having to use git. (We have a lot more editors now)..
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by acomjean 2mo ago
I find college radio to be a good curator of music. MIT radio is a mix of students and long time music lovers who DJ. They archive shows for a couple weeks (though it’s automatic so the shown typically starts a couple minutes in). Some sho
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by acomjean 3mo ago
We did whole genome crispr designs at my last university job. Can confirm that off target effects are an issue with cas9. Pattern matching across the genome to see if a design is unique takes some time. These were interesting pipelines to
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by acomjean 3mo ago
V5? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VR5_engine We owned an vw inline 5 Passat (quantum in North America). Good engine and synchro awd.
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by acomjean 3mo ago
Steam set up a sales queue for the deck, so scalping wasn’t an huge issue with them. You can only get them through steam. The price is another issue…
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by acomjean 3mo ago
I love the bottom pop up which says “It’s better with the App” The options are “yes” or “Not now” No option for the “No thanks, please don’t bother me about this again for at least 30 days” that I want The times will repeat this about ever
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by acomjean 4mo ago
We’d get the same every time. It wasn’t great but it did work.
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by acomjean 4mo ago
Intel this year seems to have something competitive with the core ultra cpus. The “wildcat” cpus are being released now in budget friendly machines. We’ll see how they do. I’m not going back from Linux but I’m glad there is competition a
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by acomjean 4mo ago
We had Fortran converted to ADA semi automatically at a place I worked. We called it Adatran. That code was weird and very hard to maintain. That goodness it was just small functions.
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by acomjean 4mo ago
I think it’s just your browser. They got me.. just enough off the main text to give a little jump..
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by acomjean 4mo ago
If you watch the documentary it’s an interview with the people who were there. There might be some discrepancy but I think the IBM guys were being honest about how it went down. The doc is on the Internet archive and worth a watch. You ge
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by acomjean 4mo ago
Interesting story of how MS got into the operating system business. IBM wanted the CPM operating system, but Digital Research wouldn’t sign ibms NDA… really a pivot point in computing history. From “Triumph of the Nerds” tv transcript: h
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by acomjean 4mo ago
They tried to neutralize but couldn’t apparently. “But when members of GKN Aerospace’s response team arrived to inject a neutralizing agent into the tank to reduce the liquid’s volatility, they learned that the tank’s valves were gummed up,
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by acomjean 4mo ago
They’re “triumph of the nerds”really good. Really gets to the pivotal points in business. The story of how MS got the operating system contract told by Gates/Balmer and the IBM executives. (MS at the time didn’t have an operating syst
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by acomjean 4mo ago
Modern PHP is pretty good. I’ve been using it for a while so it’s comfortable. I’ve been doing so Perl maintenance lately and I miss PHP. Perl is a lot weirder than PHP. If I didn’t know C or had dabbled in Perl before I would be complet
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by acomjean 4mo ago
I know areosmith, phish and the Dave Mathews band gave fan club members dibs on good tickets, though this was year ago. My friend was a huge phish fan and he’d always get a bunch of new years tickets in the 90s.
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by acomjean 4mo ago
“Data recovery”?

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