Some 20 years ago I worked for a small company who's lead programmer was legally blind. He wasn't 100% blind, but had very little vision. He worked on a Linux box that had one of the biggest screens available at the time, and his font size was huge. I could easily read his screen from across the room.

Guy was a phenomenal programmer. His code seldom had bugs. He knew the entire code-base inside out. Basically, as it was so hard for him to read code, he memorized it when he did read it.

My top priority is being able to have Thunderbird connect to the mail server. I much prefer having my email local, rather than in "the cloud".

We figured out the Atari cartridge was nothing more than a popular PROM (2716?) with one of the control signals reversed. We made our own cartridges that used an EEPROM, then used our EEPROM burner to read cartridges and store the contents on a floppy. We'd then burn EEPROMs of the games we wanted, and pop them into the ZIF socket on our home made cartridges.

I remember 7-8 years ago I was lead on a new project and we were deciding on a scripting language. I wanted Python over Perl. It was clearly easier to both read and write, and had object orientation.

What shot it down? My boss telling me "we have a thousand engineers world-wide who know perl, and you 6 will be the Python experts. You really wanna support a thousand engineers learning Python over the next 5 years?"

Wanna simplify the tax system? Declare anyone in Congress must do their own taxes. No CPAs, no accountants, no advisers. I'd be tempted to say no tax software, but that might be going to far.

Guarantee, within 1 year taxes will be greatly simplified.

Get yourself a better CPA. Mine is a tax expert. First few years I used him I did my taxes in TurboTax to compare, he always found enough magic such that he paid for himself in taxes I saved. Not to mention I just had to shovel data to him, instead of spending a few hours in TT myself.
Gotta find a new guy though, last year he told me he was getting married and moving out of state :(

My dad used to go to church Saturday to mimeograph the Sunday bulletin. I still remember the smell and sound of that thing.

Let's try two hours of exposure to pornhub and see what sorts of jeans expression changes are detected.

Doing my taxes

/ way too complex
// how to fix?
/// all congresscritters are required to do their own taxes

I switched to ddg a year or two back because I thought google had too much information on me. Maybe 2-3 times a week I need to revert to a google search, but ddg is fine for 99% of my searches.

Take a bunch of overly bureaucratic organizations that have needed weeding out for decades, create a huge new bureaucracy to oversee them all, and WTF can you expect?

/ Bush was the worst president in my 50+ year lifetime
// Homeland security never made any sense to me
/// I vote Republican prolly 70% of the time

In the living room I've got the windows closed, no heater yet, and it's 65. In the bedroom the window is open and it's in the 40s. I love snuggling under my pile of blankets, and sleep much better that way than I do in the summer when it's 80 in the bedroom.

Then again, I beat a computer at kick boxing once.
Not original, I read that somewhere not 30 minutes ago.

This is also how Uverse works. Lose your cable/internet, you can't even watch shows already recorded. When I move in a few months I'll be getting another Tivo.

In San Diego PSN was fine for me Christmas day (when I only logged on to see if I could), down all day the 26th (which was the 1 day of the week I'd planned to play CoD all day), and back up yesterday (27th). Haven't tried it today.