I remember in jazz class the instructor had a stack of jingles that showcased particular "weird" intervals. The only one I really remember now is the "Alway Coca Cola" jingle and a M6, but this was a _long_ time ago.
In the sitcom Mad About You there is an episode where Jamie tells Paul to put on a tie. Specifies the "navy blue one". "I don't own a navy tie." "Yes you do, it's the one that you think is dark green." My wife and I go…
Coming up on 20 years ago I was building a system that was going to be deployed at various locations throughout a very large country. All locations had internet access; but the throughput, latency, and quality (e.g.…
California has a low-double-digit percentage of the US population, and mandates organic waste separation/collection. https://calrecycle.ca.gov/Organics/SLCP/collection/
Years ago I worked for a company that bought another company. Our QA folks were asked to give their site a once-over. What they found is still the butt of jokes in my circle of friends/former coworkers. * account ids…
My favorite example of this sort of thing has been In My Tribe by 10000 Maniacs. The UPC/Catalog Number remained the same between the 1987 release and the removal of Peace Train (track 7) in 1989. I have this memory of…
> it was a good decade before they even admitted Perl 6 might take longer than expected I was there at OSCon when Larry announced Perl6, and that it would be "out by Christmas". And I was there the next year, when he…
I feel like Bezos has well more than $10M, $1B/100 (centi). Perhaps you were looking for "hecto" (SI prefix for 100)?
A former manager once told me > If you get fired, and didn't see it coming, that's a failure in management. You should have _plenty_ of explicit signs of where things are heading, starting in 1:1 and culminating in a…
We have the Enhanced Games (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enhanced_Games), so we already have an alternative Olympics that definitely includes medical companies.
All of them? It's gotten so bad that I remapped the Netflix button on the Shield remote to mute the receiver. The remote has volume up/down buttons, but no mute, and ads are _so_ loud now.
"The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don’t just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat…
This. "Scam resistance", in my mind, maps to critical thinking and a bit of pattern matching. Could definitely be taught, but critical thinking seems to be out of favor in (American) education at the moment (and has…
As with most things, it depends. If you truly do understand something, then you can derive a required result from first principles. _Given sufficient time_. Often in an exam situation you are time-constrained, and…
Better than one company I was at. Wednesday-evening meeting to announce that there will be layoffs. "If you are affected you will receive an email by 7am EST tomorrow." Which I summarized in slack as "Sleep well Wesley,…
At the start of Covid lockdown my group at work started having a daily "drinking alone together" afternoon Google Meet. When that job ended, our household started drinking on our front porch in the afternoons. Soon a…
I remember my junior high maths well enough, allowing division by zero is an essential step in proving that 1 == 2, which we _definitely_ don't want.
Interesting, I would have said Boyce-Codd unless you have a good reason to vary in either direction.
I haven't worked with sqlplus in forever, and I'm much happier for it. But back in the day we would wrap sqlplus with socat to add readline behaviors.
Reminds me of one of my Maths professors in college, Ben Freedman. He was a writer and an engineer until his son Michael started asking math questions that dad couldn't answer. So he went back for his PhD in his 40s.…
Watching that, I couldn't help but remember my father (who hasn't worked for Boeing since before I was born) saying in the mid-90s: > McDonnell Douglas bought Boeing with Boeing's money, which is a great trick if you…
I don't have an automated garage door opener. The only "garage" is as old as our historic house, and is a glorified shed. I would never put a car I cared about in it. That said, I _do_ have an automated gate controller.…
If I had to make a guess, the US military is dipping into ammunition reserves because they hope/expect to stop using 5.56mm and 7.62mm rounds with the rollout of the XM-7 and the XM-250 (which both fire 6.8mm)…
"Due to the changes in PEP 701, producing tokens via the tokenize module is up to 64% faster."
Manson?
I remember in jazz class the instructor had a stack of jingles that showcased particular "weird" intervals. The only one I really remember now is the "Alway Coca Cola" jingle and a M6, but this was a _long_ time ago.
In the sitcom Mad About You there is an episode where Jamie tells Paul to put on a tie. Specifies the "navy blue one". "I don't own a navy tie." "Yes you do, it's the one that you think is dark green." My wife and I go…
Coming up on 20 years ago I was building a system that was going to be deployed at various locations throughout a very large country. All locations had internet access; but the throughput, latency, and quality (e.g.…
California has a low-double-digit percentage of the US population, and mandates organic waste separation/collection. https://calrecycle.ca.gov/Organics/SLCP/collection/
Years ago I worked for a company that bought another company. Our QA folks were asked to give their site a once-over. What they found is still the butt of jokes in my circle of friends/former coworkers. * account ids…
My favorite example of this sort of thing has been In My Tribe by 10000 Maniacs. The UPC/Catalog Number remained the same between the 1987 release and the removal of Peace Train (track 7) in 1989. I have this memory of…
> it was a good decade before they even admitted Perl 6 might take longer than expected I was there at OSCon when Larry announced Perl6, and that it would be "out by Christmas". And I was there the next year, when he…
I feel like Bezos has well more than $10M, $1B/100 (centi). Perhaps you were looking for "hecto" (SI prefix for 100)?
A former manager once told me > If you get fired, and didn't see it coming, that's a failure in management. You should have _plenty_ of explicit signs of where things are heading, starting in 1:1 and culminating in a…
We have the Enhanced Games (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enhanced_Games), so we already have an alternative Olympics that definitely includes medical companies.
All of them? It's gotten so bad that I remapped the Netflix button on the Shield remote to mute the receiver. The remote has volume up/down buttons, but no mute, and ads are _so_ loud now.
"The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don’t just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat…
This. "Scam resistance", in my mind, maps to critical thinking and a bit of pattern matching. Could definitely be taught, but critical thinking seems to be out of favor in (American) education at the moment (and has…
As with most things, it depends. If you truly do understand something, then you can derive a required result from first principles. _Given sufficient time_. Often in an exam situation you are time-constrained, and…
Better than one company I was at. Wednesday-evening meeting to announce that there will be layoffs. "If you are affected you will receive an email by 7am EST tomorrow." Which I summarized in slack as "Sleep well Wesley,…
At the start of Covid lockdown my group at work started having a daily "drinking alone together" afternoon Google Meet. When that job ended, our household started drinking on our front porch in the afternoons. Soon a…
I remember my junior high maths well enough, allowing division by zero is an essential step in proving that 1 == 2, which we _definitely_ don't want.
Interesting, I would have said Boyce-Codd unless you have a good reason to vary in either direction.
I haven't worked with sqlplus in forever, and I'm much happier for it. But back in the day we would wrap sqlplus with socat to add readline behaviors.
Reminds me of one of my Maths professors in college, Ben Freedman. He was a writer and an engineer until his son Michael started asking math questions that dad couldn't answer. So he went back for his PhD in his 40s.…
Watching that, I couldn't help but remember my father (who hasn't worked for Boeing since before I was born) saying in the mid-90s: > McDonnell Douglas bought Boeing with Boeing's money, which is a great trick if you…
I don't have an automated garage door opener. The only "garage" is as old as our historic house, and is a glorified shed. I would never put a car I cared about in it. That said, I _do_ have an automated gate controller.…
If I had to make a guess, the US military is dipping into ammunition reserves because they hope/expect to stop using 5.56mm and 7.62mm rounds with the rollout of the XM-7 and the XM-250 (which both fire 6.8mm)…
"Due to the changes in PEP 701, producing tokens via the tokenize module is up to 64% faster."
Manson?