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I have enjoyed those (I have a complete Hammer's Slammers collection).... also definitely check out the Lt. Leary RCN series, starting with the novel "With the Lightnings"... my favorite series of his work.

So by my calculations, Each celebrity has flown the equivalent of 20 (24-hours) days worth of trips on average.

I imagine if I had a plane that would be expected use, or probably wouldn't have bought one.

I have worked on systems that had to do this in the long-ago past, and the headline is simply wrong.

There are many 8-bit EBCDIC code pages that support many languages (multi-hundred page book of them last I looked at it), at least as many as ISO-8859 alphabet soup encodings... and there are also shift-in/shift-out double byte EBCDIC encodings for Japanese, Korean, and Simplified and Traditional Chinese. They've been around since the 1980s at least. Since nesrly the beginning of utf8 acceptance, there is also UTF8-EBCDIC (shudder)

The bank developers just didn't write their code in a way that can support the multi-codepage way of storing EBCDIC.

My great uncle (now departed), as a teen who lied about his age to join up, served in Taffy 3 on the Fanshaw Bay. His stories of the battle always had me riveted, the massive Yamamoto, and especially about the loss of his sister ships Gambier Bay and St Lo and what it was like as a still-teen to see and be in all of that.

They don’t make ‘em like that anymore. Rest in peace Uncle Jimmy.

A nearly 80 yr old man I know has a nearly 200k per year pension. Every five years he lives adds 1 million to the economy.

I've been on Ting fiber for almost two years in Centennial, CO. It is so much better then the incumbents... (Xfinity and Centurylink (now Lumen, also put in fiber over a year later)

Los Alamos, not Las. (I grew up there myself, 1st grade on)

“Marine World’s old home is now the international headquarters of tech titan Oracle.”

Well up until Dec 2020. Oracle moved headquarters to Austin, TX that month. There is still a Redwood City presence of course.

Another cool grid-breaking language for Polyrhythms and euclidian and beyond sequences is Nestup. https://nestup.cutelab.nyc/

In addition to the website and github, It also has a great implementation as a Max for Live device and can drive Ableton. I’ve enjoyed it since it’s initial release.

An interesting interview with the creators from MusicHackspace is here: https://www.youtube.com/live/wZeadB56YFs

This author has the strangest use of “overwhelm” I’ve ever seen.

EY was the implementation partner, Oracle the vendor. The article doesn't make that clear, but a linked one does. PWC and KPMG were brought in to try and fix after EY failed at additional cost. All three are known for putting brain or three and a bunch of new hires at top rates on projects. Oracle is a red herring here.

Implementation partner was EY (Ernst & Young). Taking a heavily customized SAP into anything else is going to be painful, and the wrong partner for implementation can really cost.

A lot of the older code isn’t a great example of how to do things. Either too enterprisey, or C/C++ written by newbies coming from a mainframe RPG background.

I work on a 17.5 million line code base across 4 different languages that I know will not be something chatGPT has trained on and it won’t be due to commercial interests. Not worried about it.

Fire many of the deep layers Of administrators and get back to teaching.

Makes amazing stuff. A worthy hot sauce billionaire.

"...in my experience unless you are lifting a lot of weights 25 is the upper limit.."

I get you...

I'm 6'0" (183cm) and 212 lbs (96kg) (BMI=29). I'm at 17% body fat and am working toward 10%, but also have been lifting weights heavily. I just got down to size 32 jeans (82cm waist) but have a 48.5" chest (123cm) and 15.5" (40cm) biceps. I still wish to lose 15-20lb more, but then I'd be at 195lb and about 8% body fat -- with a BMI of ~27. (Assuming I don't add more muscle at the same time.)

It is a lot better than a 15 months ago when I made my life change - I was 240lb (109kg) and 38% body fat, and pushing a 38" (96cm) waist, truly obese. And I felt like shite.

I am surprised how much I have come to love weightlifting, rowing, and eating a diet better balanced towards low-caloric density foods (lots of veggies) and lean protein. And I am more surprised at how quickly my body changed, considering I'm now just over 50.

I’m living in a world that has to support a product which has many parts in C++ on Solaris, HP-UX, and OS/400 (in addition to Linux, AIX, and Windows). We can’t drop support yet for the AIX release that only support up to C++ 11 although they have a newer clang based compiler. HP-UX and Solaris native compilers only go to C++14. Those platforms have at least 5 years of enterprise support yet, but no new chipsets mean no extended compiler development. And up-to-date gcc doesn’t build there.

And then IBM’s OS/400 ILEC++ support isn’t even up to C++11.

It is hard to live in Enterprise software land where you support everything for a lot of years, but end up stuck on older third party libraries when they move to new standards to keep parity across your product line’s feature set.

The same interest rate for an additional 15 years is a lot more total interest paid. Example:

100k at 15yr and 6% interest with monthly payments, the total paid back is $151,894.23 - the amount over 100k was interest.

100k at 30yr and 6% interest? Total paid back is $215,838.19 - more than twice the total interest paid back.

Tesla’s interiors make me think of bog standard sparse office cubical with monitor. A cold soulless place to me. Luxury is far from my perception of Tesla except for the cost level.

Germany is huge in Digital Audio Workstation software. Ableton Live, Bitwig, Steinberg (Cubase and creator of VST plugin format), Native Instruments, Celemony (Melodyne=autotune), and the former EMagic, whom Apple bought to make Logic Pro. Also plugin makers U-He, Synapse Audio, zPlane. Probably more that I’ve missed.

This was brutal. Woke to -33f counting wind chill (-17f w/o). Glad my furnace kept working.

And yet another linked study does mention stevia.

In case you missed the link and discussion in the article, here you are:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35987213/

"Strange Attractors: Creating Patterns in Chaos" by Julien C. Sprott.

I am lucky enough to have a 1st edition print, but there is now a free PDF online: https://sprott.physics.wisc.edu/SA.HTM

I get what you’re saying but your home or McDonalds wifi is decidedly a third party, although encryption may mitigate that.

Gen Z still qualifies for their Gen X parents healthcare … until they turn 26. My 1998 born grad student daughter for instance still will be on my Gen X healthcare I pay for until her 2024 birthday of 26yo. Probably why Gen X pays the most for healthcare.

Doesn’t mention if they went into Spotify’s Settings—>Audio Quality to set it to the non-default ’Very High’ (=320Kbps). The experience described makes me think no.

Seems US estimate may be low. I work in a large US tech company and I get 14 holidays (and we are typically dismissed 3 hrs early on afternoons before holidays, which adds up to another 5 days) and another 3-4 weeks of vacation I choose when to use during the year. I'm typically off about 35-40 business days a year when all taken together.

Weird. I think of AARP as a political lobbying group - a strange requirement for a phone discount for AT&T. I guess they get payola from AARP?

I, too, as a former Los Alamos resident, immediately thought of Viola’s. I don’t have any idea how many hundreds of Christmas breakfast burritos I’ve enjoyed there. Haven’t been in years since my Dad retired from LANL and moved to ABQ.