Atari 520ST with the monochrome monitor. Motorola 68000 I think. 1986.

I was a student and paid for the computer plus most of my tuition by typesetting essays using a word processor named Paper Clip. Started a bad habit of independent geeky gig work because of it.

Is it that uniformly bad? I guess the exceptions to the rule stand out starkly then.

You know that this is a global forum, right?

Oh, do your regional school districts let teachers design their own curriculum?

lol it’s all good friend

A teachable moment for some readers who have trouble discerning the difference between the words.

This is one case where misspelling ‘affect’ works.

Free, except for the amortized R&D and construction costs.

They are in some jurisdictions.

Deaf people compensate with a lifetime of experience.

Fuck dangerously earplugged or headphoned drivers.

If the analytics cross over a certain threshold, trigger an ad.

This is extremely simple and does not require an LLM.

Battery would be grand for a household solar install. Seats would be nice on the porch. The frunk can hold a lot of chicken feed, and the cabin would make a fine henhouse for a small flock.

That cadence…

It’s a failure of ownership not management. If the people doing the work had ownership over the building, tools, process and products, it would only be as shitty as desired.

cf. Mondragon

My daughter, who is kind of broke and physically disabled and a student, just told me she feels wealthy because of the social connections she has: good friends from childhood, new friends from school, and a cohousing community that she’s staying at that has kind of adopted her as an honourary member, plus all kinds of our old family friends who she’s social with and trusts.

She gets it. In the end it’s how well you loved as much as how fine you lived.

Yup, dude even gets disappeared just for being in the wrong street at the wrong time.

Such a prescient episode.

Approximately 15.5KHz. Not out of range for healthy human hearing. Most of us are damaged by noise pollution and blood pressure issues by the time we’re adults and high frequency sensitivities drop off first.

If a CRT is on in a large space with volume off, I can still hear it a bit, but mild tinnitus masks most of it.

Hypermobility can be a health risk indicator for more than just EDS. Consult your GP.

I graduated from this to accessing the muscles that open up sinuses, and can clear up most congestion with a little concentration. I wouldn’t have noticed except that I cured my headache problem that way, and it has baffled every health practitioner I mention it to.