Me in the winter of 1979, halfway through my sophomore year of high school. I’m taking a sheet-rocking class and can’t stop coughing and sneezing.

What can I transfer to?

Well we have this new class about computers?

I dunno what the fuck that means but I can’t keep sheetrocking.

I walk into a room full of DecWriters and teletypes.

To connect to the computer you dial this phone number when you hear this weird noise you push the phone into these rubber cups.

You talk to that computer using this thing called BASIC. You can actually get the computer to do things!

I remember my first guess a number program, and printing it out to show my dad. He didn’t understand it but thought it was cool I did.

45 years later I’m still making computers do things through code. All thanks to BASIC.

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https://youtu.be/u3Seqsx7I_A?si=vvLkp6KPhJlzJ3Yr

A while back a woman died after eating at a Disney restaurant and being assured that the food she was ordering was allergen free. Disney responded very poorly to the husband’s suit, but I wonder if the Disney employee believed things were allergen free because of one of these hacked menus.

I use Plex’s download feature to make sure I always have music available. The same could be done for other media but I don’t bother.

My Plex server runs in my home and all my media is available outside my home. A travel server seems like a solution for a problem that doesn’t really exist.

Your worth, your value is not determined by what someone else makes.

Also, I’m a bit ignorant of this subject so forgive me if I get it wrong, but did he not go to school significantly longer for his MD than you did for yours?

I believe he also had to go through the hell that is residency, I didn’t believe nurses do.

If you’re envious of his salary, improve your skills, or your education. If you’re happy where you are at In life, then don’t let the fact that others make more than you interfere with that happiness.

No matter what you do, there will always be others who make more, one of those sad facts of life.

Boy THAT will work! Good idea government!

Very very aware.

So you had another mail server elsewhere that port forwarded port 25 via port 22 to your internal mail server’s port 25.

I take it that outside mail server was secure.

That’s an impressive setup.

Did you really only use it when you were home? If you used it outside the firewall then port 25 must have been open also.

I used to run my own server and this was in the early 90s. Then one day, perusing the logs I realized I was not smart enough on the security front to even attempt such a thing. It was quickly shut down and the MX record moved to an outsourced mail provider.

I’ve been on my project for 23 years. I haven’t written production code for ten of those years. There are still commits in the production branch with my name on them. Is both gratifying and mortifying.

I was talking with two other “old-timers” today about our inability to pay off tech debt because our teams are never given the time to do it

We’re a Sonos family. Listening to Sonos right now as a matter of fact. But this really bugs me. I don’t allow voices control in my home so was interested when Sonos brought out their own version. I’ve contemplated rolling it out, but now likely won’t.

Truly repugnant

Truly one of the dumbest theories I have ever heard. If you and I are talking, and we are not being recorded or overheard, those “messages” disappear immediately. Signal allows us to have nearly the same privacy face-to-face verbal communications have.

This relationship can be saved as long as the guy’s wife does not start expressing an interest in Emacs. That would, of course, put an end to the relationship, but if she’s one of those “Notepad is all I need” types, there is hope this can be worked through.

Did you let them know you use Arch?

Make it happen! It was so far ahead of its time

I was a dedicated OS/2 user for many years. I still miss REXX.

I was delivering papers at 11 or 12. First real job at 14.

My daughter just turned 14 and she has her first job working one day a week at an after school program.

This should not be such a big deal. You learn important life skills and have your own money to spend.