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kwijybo··on Convert SimCity 2000 cities into Minecraft worlds
I also did the hydro mountain. From memory the hydro stations was one the few stations that lasted forever.
kwijybo··on Cursorless – A spoken language for structural code editing
I admit this a weird edge case, but a few years ago I fractured my left elbow and could only use one hand. When typing one handed, typing speed was a bottleneck.
kwijybo··on Robert's Rules of Order (1876)
The Wire also showed the importance of modifying Roberts Rules to meet the needs of a particular organization. In this case, not taking minutes, because they were discussing a criminal conspiracy to buy and sell large quantities of drugs.
kwijybo··on Why we ignore thousands of daily car crashes
> If they go to that effort why not, you know, fix the intersection/road?

It's several orders of magnitudes different amounts of effort. Putting up a cross can be done one person in an hour. Fixing a road or intersection is months of work for tens of people,several machines, tonnes of material. Source: I've worked on making several dangerous intersection less dangerous

kwijybo··on The Heilmeier Catechism
> delivered frozen by CISCO.

I think you mean Sysco. CISCO sell routers, Sysco sells food

kwijybo··on Alzheimer’s amyloid hypothesis ‘cabal’ thwarted progress toward a cure (2019)
As a counter example, look at how many countries have state funded healthcare with restricting unhealthy food or behaviour. By my count 66 countries have state funded health care and 0 have restrictions on unhealthy food or behaviour, (I admit my count was limited)
kwijybo··on The Birth and Death of the Office
Do you know if your coworkers like hanging out and talking to you? Are they there to have fun?

I've worked with people who want to have fun and hang and I found them to be a distraction and resented having them around.

kwijybo··on Unix command line conventions over time
Zawinski's Law of Software Envelopment, also known as Zawinski's Law, states: Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail.
kwijybo··on John Locke’s recipe for Pancakes (2021)
I also made the bad decision as a teenager to get high off nutmeg
kwijybo··on Why can’t you design noise in frequency space?
I'm a chemist. I've done a lot of food, beverage and water testing. Now I test dirt
kwijybo··on What the world can learn from Britain’s humble hedge
I live in Australia, which doesn't have hedgerows but does have large areas of native forest, normally called the bush. The bush (at least used to) contain unusually large amounts of pornographic magazines