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Re:Celebrating 70 Years of Fortran on Thursday October 15, 2026 @04:38PM (#50109872)
I’m still amazed that the first dozen programs I ever wrote back in 1963 for an IBM 7090 (or 7094) ran first time. (They were trivial programs). I’m also still pissed that I never got to debug the 13th, in FAP (Fortran Assembly Program), which had a minor syntax error – a comma instead of a period, or vice versa. NASA had just launched a weather satellite, which monopolized computer time, leaving zero minutes for high school students.
Re:Do dentists know what they're doing? on Thursday October 15, 2026 @10:29AM (#50104209)
One dentist has a much bigger mortgage payment than the other.
Re:An Update on Orion for Linux and Windows on Saturday October 03, 2026 @11:21AM (#49945068)
The ad blocking in Wipr 2 makes the Apple News app tolerable.
Re:California is chasing wealth that has feet on Wednesday September 30, 2026 @06:37PM (#49915369)
So the land tax does away with zoning?
Re:Silicon Valley sees AI as the solution – for everyone else on Wednesday August 05, 2026 @04:07PM (#49188274)
A bug in the scriptlet I used to post it, which truncated the title as “Silicon Valley sees AI as the solution – for everyone els...”, which I didn’t notice had dropped the third line of the title.
Re:Why thinking out loud with someone beats thinking alone on Wednesday June 17, 2026 @08:12PM (#48578814)
Then again, different people’s minds work very differently. My verbal SAT was low 790’s, yet some of my best thinking is purely kinesthetic.
Re:Why thinking out loud with someone beats thinking alone on Wednesday June 17, 2026 @08:08PM (#48578787)
Different people’s minds work very differently. More differently than most people imagine.

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