I took my first computer course in high school directly as a result dropping out of typing class. Always hunting and pecking. I don't need to look at the keyboard too much but yet I know touch typing would have sped things up. You spend less time typing than thinking in general though. The other downside is the big nodule on my index finger from all that pecking.

This was back in the 1960s. It didn't affect me as far as I know (insert joke about my strangeness here). It smelled so good. Who knew anything back then? No one wore seat-belts, rigid steering columns would impale drivers on impacts, everyone smoked, etc.

I started working full time at home many years before the pandemic. I used to print a fair number of pages before that when working in the office. My desk had stacks of white papers on it, etc. At home I think I printed an average of maybe 5-10 pages per year at most. That showed me I was formerly wasting a lot of paper.

The worst nightmare is to have a healthy body and worthless brain. Let's pay for grandpa's retirement place for an additional 20 years while he sits with Alzheimer's.

When I was 12 we did Disneyland and road this. They had engines but mine stalled a couple of times and a technician had to come get it going. I think I was holding up things behind me. When I finally made it back, the guy controlling the ride said to me "What are you - stupid or something?" I felt like a real champ.

I took the bait and created a Meta account. Then it told me Imagine not available at my location. A-holes.

I don't know if they are lying this time, but yes, there is precedent.

Scrum stuff was just astonishingly bad in my experience. As I told my company via feedback surveys, of all the bad ideas I saw in 40 years in the business, on a scale of 100 (100 being horrible), prior to Agile/Scrum, nothing else was worse than say 40. Scrum was 95.

Biological organisms route around damage. Agile/Scrum is damage, and we programmers routed around that damage as best we could. Only cults should have ceremonies.

The concept of using a piece of software to record the work to be done is good. How you define that work and how much work you put into it is the crux of the issue.

Instead of Agile/Scrum I always advocated a method I called Common Sense.

Could it be digitized to make a random number generator or be used with cryptography in some way?

See Spot sniff covid. See Spot get covid. Cough Spot cough! Can it happen?

Curiously NIST stopped recommending use of SMS for two-factor authentication in 2016. I wonder if they knew about this hack?

In the dedicated Kobo ebook app on my computer (a thinly disguised stripped-down web browser), I am always asked to solve a CAPTCHA before purchasing a book. Now that is depressing. Typically I am doing this before bed time because I forgot that I just finished my last book and I need to start a new one immediately and I'm tired.

To top it off, I cannot re-size the CAPTCHA widget in this pseudo-browser and the images are very small. How the heck am I to tell the difference between a sailboat and bus at that resolution? I just want to read a book ...

From a theoretical point of view programming may not be hard, but if it takes 50 screens to explain how to trim whitespace from a bash variable, we are all doomed and programming is indeed very hard.

The house I grew up in was demolished a few years ago. I realized that I had no good photos of it. The Street View archive saved me there for which I am grateful. I wouldn't count on those images being there forever. My daughter is also immortalized walking to school.

He hates the idea of stock splits as I recall, but in this case, it would buy him one bit of space.