jbgreer

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by jbgreer 8d ago
In the 90’s I worked for a large retailer. Our centralized systems were on IBM mainframes, with some Unix servers for specialized work. We ran a small Unix server - really just a decent PC - in the stores. We had very low end machines ru
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by jbgreer 1mo ago
In a former life about ten years ago I transitioned to managing a long-established, mature development team. Some of the developers had a couple of monitors. I think the largest was maybe a 19" model. Our business users, who sat on
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by jbgreer 4mo ago
I saw Sonny Rollins at the Montreal Jazz Festival in 2005. I had written a paper that was accepted at a conference, and thing realized the festival was going on at the same time. Unfortunately I learned this very late. Pat Metheny was th
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by jbgreer 4mo ago
I was fortunate to go to a high school that acquired a single Apple ][+ kept on a rolling cart that was locked in the chemistry lab closet for safekeeping. Every school day at 2:15PM there was a race to see which student could claim it unt
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by jbgreer 5mo ago
My wife and I visited Reina Sofia last year and saw “Guernica”. That entire wing is fantastic: the section leading into the room covers war posters and other contemporaneous works, leading you into a room dominated by the painting, with si
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by jbgreer 6mo ago
Darn it. I literally just passed through and transferred trains in Maastricht in the last 2 weeks. What with the “anytime today” flexibility of Dutch and Belgian train travel, I would have loved to make a visit to the church a side quest.
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by jbgreer 6mo ago
I’m wondering who else recalls Charles Simonyi’s Intentional Software efforts at similar concepts? Not completely novel even then (1995) but mature for the time.
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by jbgreer 6mo ago
I have an Amateur Extra license in the US. I am also a Volunteer Examiner with a couple of organizations. Locally I am a Net Controller for a VHF Net. I am working on my ARES Level 1 Qualification.
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by jbgreer 7mo ago
It was GMT, wasn't it? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9aVO7GAwxnQ
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by jbgreer 8mo ago
My read on the reception of Steve’s post is that there are largely 2 camps, one of which thinks he’s given them a concrete tool to use, and the other of which thinks he has given them something to think about. I read his experiment as sugg
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by jbgreer 9mo ago
I thought this article might be about Latent Semantic Analysis and was disappointed that it didn’t at least mention if not compare that method vs later approaches.
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by jbgreer 2y ago
I fondly recall being a site operator and programmer on a Univac 1100/62. Remote sync terminals (UTS 40s?) and UTS 4040 cluster controllers. Fun times.
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by jbgreer 2y ago
I had no idea of the influence of 'The Cheese and the Worms', but I also didn't know how long it had already been around when I chanced upon it in 1989. Time to read it again.
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by jbgreer 2y ago
I’m with you: I read the link and think they are referring to BLE advertisements. The frequency of such advertisements is configurable. AIR, the advertisement interval has to be a multiple of 0.625msec. Per the spec, a random delay of 0-
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by jbgreer 2y ago
In the free tier, Suno owns all of the Output. I'm wondering when someone will make a song, realize it's pretty good, and attempt to recreate it after creating a paid tier account. Subject to your compliance with the terms of thi
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by jbgreer 3y ago
I transitioned from Apple Pascal (based on UCSC p-system Pascal) on the Apple ][+ amd //e to Turbo Pascal on DOS in the early 80s. Turbo Pascal was a blast: the very quick compiler, good feedback, colorful editor, and use of the
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by jbgreer 3y ago
Read the article and found myself nodding along. If you work with larger Contract Manufacturers, they often have design for manufacturing centers that will perform mold analysis and suggest modifications. They often have the advantage of
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by jbgreer 3y ago
I note that one of the few dentists he mentions by name as providing a diagnosis consistent with his panel and a reasonable estimate is still practicing: Dr. Henry Wah in Marion, AR, apparently still has a good reputation and has been joine
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by jbgreer 3y ago
I have a small connection to an early part of this story. In 1982/3 I worked for a local data processing / software consultancy / hardware reseller doing a variety of odd jobs. One day the owner came in and said they were goi
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by jbgreer 3y ago
Like others, I got to play with one at university, but my lab mate was the main user of that machine. [ I did have my own AT&T 3B2, though. ]
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by jbgreer 3y ago
As someone who programmed assembly on a one's complement machine* 40 years ago, this discussion is interesting, from both the "haven't we learned anything" and the "makes sense to me" camps. More interesting to
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by jbgreer 3y ago
For alternate long distance French routes, check out Chemin St Jacques. I note this trail passes through St Jean Pied de Port, and thus could be used as a natural connector to walk across France and Spain.
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by jbgreer 4y ago
That’s funny: I remember seeing it in the mid-to-late 90s and being amazed at how lax the security was. I took several pics and walked all around it.
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by jbgreer 4y ago
VeinViewer was invented in 1995 by Herb Zeman, a professor at The University of Tennessee Health Sciences Center. [ Disclosure: Herb’s a friend, but I wasn’t involved and only know most details second hand. ]. Commercialization of the dev
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by jbgreer 4y ago
Interesting. As a counterpoint, I was in Norway a month ago on business and as a tourist. Did the Norway in a nutshell thing from Bergen to Oslo with time in Bergen, Flam, and Oslo. I used the Bergen and Oslo day passes for unlimited pub
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by jbgreer 4y ago
Back in 2006-8 I had an NSF teaching fellowship, and my peers and I used BlueJ as an introductory IDE in high school CS classes. BlueJ has a feature called “Object Bench” whereby one can instantiate and invoke methods on an object. The mai
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by jbgreer 4y ago
I still have my autographed copy of Mark Pesce's 1995 book "VRML - Browsing & Building VRML", subtitled "The definitive resource for VRML technology." I am pretty sure I met Mark and got that autograph at a SIG
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by jbgreer 5y ago
I have often said to other devs that if you write code long enough, you’ll eventually find some crusty piece of your own code that will make you want to throw up.
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by jbgreer 5y ago
I'm a big fan of 'The Big Sleep', Kubrick & Lynch. I also enjoy nonfiction literature that dumps you in the middle of the story. I find encountering unfamiliar words, characters, etc. interesting, and the extra work to
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by jbgreer 5y ago
"call of the void" => I believe another phrase you may be looking for is "imp of the perverse". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Imp_of_the_Perverse

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