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by flint 8d ago
How big a miss in not turning production and direction over to Bob Odenkirk?
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by flint 4mo ago
Something attacked my computer. I shut the page, and some old one popped up. I shut it, and they popped up again I shut my browser, and Notepad++ was filling with <cr><lf> I closed Notepad++, closed every open app, and restarted
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by flint 5mo ago
I went out to talk with a guy, back in about 1995, in Chicago, fired up APL on his notebook, loaded the JPMorgan Risk Metrics data set, fiddled a bit, and reduced the thing to a one-line formula in an interactive window - like a Jupyter Not
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by flint 7mo ago
I chatted with Gemini about it seems close: """It sounds like you were using the Jacquard J100 or J500 specifically as a "shared-logic" workstation. ... The Software: AM Jacquard "Data-Rite" While Jacquard
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by flint 7mo ago
I worked on an early spreadsheet and word-processing system at Lehman Brothers back in about 1984. The system was called Jacquard. The investment bankers built comparative financials in this system and printed them out on 14x11 folded pape
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by flint 8mo ago
I bought the book "A SUMERIAN OBSERVATION OF THE KÖFELS’ IMPACT EVENT" by Mark Hempsell, and Alan Bond. Tried to do a film adaptation, about 10 years ago. One part in Sumer and another in the Alps.
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by flint 8mo ago
My early boss had a different approach. If you want a promotion, you need to have people in place who can do your job. That was touchy. If I had people capable of doing my job, what would happen when we do layoffs (which happened regularly)
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by flint 11mo ago
Obviously, he's never been to Rikers.
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by flint 1y ago
I was going to mention APL, then decided to scroll through the discussion.
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by flint 1y ago
Chrome in Windows 11
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by flint 1y ago
I had a look, then heard the fan on my pc ramp up... 32.0 GB (27.8 GB usable) AMD Ryzen 7 8845HS w/ Radeon 780M Graphics 3.80 GHz
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by flint 1y ago
This is why I get outside and sweat every day.
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by flint 1y ago
Get a set of dominoes. Make up games with them.
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by flint 2y ago
I remember, in the mid 90s getting up at 6:00 am, taking a taxi to LGA and catching a 7:00 am Shuttle to Washingto DC so I could be at a 9:00 am meeting.
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by flint 2y ago
I play string bass. Many suggest you focus your attention through the thumb of your left hand as you practice.
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by flint 3y ago
Ever seen The Monuments Men? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Monuments_Men
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by flint 3y ago
I think Mark Ripptoe is the best guy on what and how to do it. His explanation of what to do and the details of how to do it in his book Starting Strength are astonishingly detailed. An engineering process document on how to build strength.
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by flint 3y ago
I'm gonna use this: "Thou art a jammy bugger!"
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by flint 3y ago
Dolly Parton
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by flint 3y ago
A bit of battlefield preparation for the coming massive insurance rate increase for eastern coastal cities? perhaps.
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by flint 3y ago
I live in Nashville now. That job was on Wall Street. I am not religious.
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by flint 3y ago
Years ago, I had an issue with a coworker. My mentor told me to pray for them. I cursed him but did it anyway. About six months later, a different coworker came to me and asked, "How do you get along with X? They really seem to respect
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by flint 3y ago
Sarbanes-Oxley https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/sarbanesoxleyact.asp
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by flint 3y ago
I am allergic to dust mites. After about six months on a shelf, I can't touch a book without getting an allergic reaction. Simply dusting or even vacuuming the exterior doesn't work. This gizmo looks like something I can use to ri
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by flint 3y ago
Here is the #1 story on HN right now https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-39810-w
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by flint 3y ago
What type of fiend rotates a map of Chicago ninety degrees counterclockwise?
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What Is a Shooting Brake?(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by flint 3y ago|0 comments
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by flint 3y ago
Colonel Bleep - and it is called Zero Zero Island https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonel_Bleep
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by flint 3y ago
Rick Beato is the Sal Khan of music theory
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by flint 4y ago
yup

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