Recent content by MoonSong

My Dad would keep his brother's Atari ST (I guess a 520 FM model) around the house. It was the first computer I got to use and learned to code on it. One day my uncle came and took it back. I still miss that machine. It was my first computer love. (The second one was a small Lanix Netbook that...

The other day I heard a podcast about how most CEOs don't have a clear strategy for AI deployment so that it is effective. They need the workers to invent it. The same workers whose best interest is on it not having a real impact and just dying out.

And how could I forget? The coffee maker we use is from over thirty years ago. Before the pandemic, we changed the main switch because its light didn't work anymore and it was getting dangerous. I'll do my best to keep it for the rest of my life.

I'm not that old, but I still keep a vcr and an 8mm videocamera, also a mostly mechanical photo camera, none of them are that active though. I still use an LCD monitor with an adapter for HDMI. It ought to be at least 20 years old. Among the old laptops I somehow accumulated, there's an Acer...

Wouldn't it be wyf-wolf?

There's always the unofficial recut.

Well, will you be to one? Hurry my bookmarker is on the line and I need to know!

In @trappedslider 's home universe it might be.

Going after this tangent -and from an outside perspective-, top colleges get pick of the litter for students. The admission process is basically an audition for access to upper middle class. It is biased towards richer students but that is part of the appeal. The value of a top college degree...

Just cranky avocado prices skyrocket this time of year.

When I was like ten, I tripped and used my left hamd to stop my fall. But being simultaneously so flexible and so clumsy, my hand fell at an odd position. I sprained my hand and couldn't use it for the rest of the summer.

So, it's that time of the year again when everybody suddenly likes American Football just to forget it after Monday, uh?

Best wishes for all of you trapped by the ice and snow.

In the private sector, yes it is good as long as you can afford it. We can get medical appointments in the drugstore for a few bucks, but something more complicated than a broken bone is going to be pricey. Meanwhile, the public sector faces shortages of medicines, specialists, and hospital...

Take this with a grain of salt. In the previous years they centralized and took away the independence of many institutes, including the ones that make statistics and reports. Even taking the news at face value, what has been reduced is extreme poverty, not poverty itself. As for healthcare...