pmdulaney

This strikes me as very un-American.

Well, don't be too hard on yourself. A lot of folks struggle with reading comprehension.

And I can't imagine that Apple's leadership is upset about this. There is some pressure on SV companies to ratchet back on DEI, but in the case of Apple they know that their most faithful customers skew left, and they don't want that base to become disaffected.

So it sounds like these people already worked for the government when Musk arrived. We're not talking here about defections among the engineers Musk brought with him.

Yes, the Left has known this for decades, right? That's why they affix "phobia" to every traditional sentiment they don't like.

I read a book about Johnson that said he could kill a man with a single kick.

But if Canada as a whole is to become the 51st state, then these should probably be designated municipal parks.

Droste Chocolate of Holland is going out of business. I will miss their Pastilles.

You beat me to it!

When I was a work/study intern at Hughes in the late '70s, I worked with a guy who had worked on the Glomar Explorer. He was told that he was working on a program for outer space, and told his supervisors that the hardware was ridiculously overspecced. Of course, the HW did in fact need to withstand very high pressures that far under water.

I was never accessed to the Glomar Explorer program.

This reminds me of the Orange Juice Test which was (along with my favorite, "Stop Metric Madness!") part of the recurring lore of The Whole Earth Catalog.

A major company has an annual meeting at a hotel at which all employees are expected to attend. The company's event planner gives the following spiel to the managers of prospective hotels:

Our CEO has a long-standing tradition. In the opening session of our annual meeting, he has us all raise a glass of freshly-squeezed orange juice. It must be freshly-squeezed. Can you provide 2,000 glasses of freshly-squeezed orange juice for our opening session?

If the manager says no, he doesn't get the contract.

If he says yes right away, he doesn't get the contract.

If he stops and thinks for a while before answering yes, he gets the contract.

Pick any non-mentally ill American over the age of 18. Offer him or her to be added Mount Rushmore. Would anyone besides Donald Trump say yes, put me up there? I don't think so.

Well, I think we can save a good chunk of money by getting rid of the Supreme Court.

A "war" was fought over this 0.5 sqmi island!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whisky_War

Yes, it's a matter of which axis you rotate about to compare the two images.

I don't like the multiple keystroke commands that emacs uses.

And deal with the problem of surplus Scottish children.

A.C.L.U. looks as odd as U.C.L.A. would. Is the New Yorker style book reverting back to the 1950s?

No, I'm happy with vim -- or more precisely, Macvim. I'm somewhat tempted to make the jump to ad, if anything, but I'm afraid the learning curve would be pretty steep for this old dog. It's also in its very early development. But I love what he's trying to do.

https://github.com/sminez/ad

I basically flunked out of that class -- twice. My roommate at Cloyne was a brilliant EE major, but I was too embarrassed to ask him for help.

In the late '70s at Berkeley I was taking a programming class. I don't recall the exact class, but I remember that to do the assignments you had to log into video terminals in Cory Hall. The programming concepts were not difficult, but I simply could not get that editor to do what I wanted. It was only years later when I learned (and learned to love) vi that I realized that it was the same editor that had caused me such aggravation in college!

No, I didn't mean to project my view onto you!

"This, too, shall pass."

That's pretty good. But Christians have something better:

"This, like everything else that happens to me, is something that my heavenly Father -- who causes all things to work together for good for me -- has ordained to take place."

You saw it here first: "the expectation of universal awareness". Or should I say, this is my first exposure to the phrase.

Try and guess what "Decoding the San Jose Semaphore" could possibly mean before opening the file.

I love that "No AI" is a selling point for this product. It isn't, IMO, that AI must be avoided at all costs (a futile endeavor, surely), but it is to be avoided as a matter of course.

I'm always a sucker for honeycomb patterns (Shopping 1).

I personally don't see the benefit of either down voting or flagging. Flagging in particular, more often than not, seems to denote: "This post is not sufficiently ingratiating to my political convictions".

When I used to ride a commuter bus, one of the most difficult experiences for me was having to listen to certain foreign-born men sniffle loudly about every 30 seconds. Blowing one's nose apparently is not done in their culture.

Introduced me to the word kirigami -- similar to origami but with the added dimension of cutting.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirigami?wprov=sfla1

I haven't heard of him. Is that idea drawn from his book End Times?

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/62926960-end-times