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- Comment on Do you ever worry that you're secretly a psychopath that unknowingly manipulates people around you? 8 months ago:
Troll.
- Comment on US Question. Will the people that have to wait until 70 to get Social Security ever get what they paid in to it back out before they die since men's life expectancy is only 77 now? 1 year ago:
You really need a Vegas odds maker and and epigenetics expert to figure the over and under.
I’m 62 I’m hoping to work to 65-70 to get as much as I can before I kick the bucket.
- Comment on US Question. Will the people that have to wait until 70 to get Social Security ever get what they paid in to it back out before they die since men's life expectancy is only 77 now? 1 year ago:
You can start at 62 but you get twice as much if you wait until 70.
What a gamble.
- Comment on Trump’s Truth Social Has Lost $73M Since Launch, New Filing Shows 1 year ago:
Fraud.
- Comment on Elon Musk Offers to Also Ruin Wikipedia 1 year ago:
Yeah and pollute it with fascist content.
- Comment on Not even the ghost of obsolescence can coerce users onto Windows 11 1 year ago:
I heard they took out a lot of junk. But I’m not going near it.
- Comment on Cost of a 128KB computer with floppies in 1985 1 year ago:
I wish I knew what happened. It still bothers me.
- Comment on Cost of a 128KB computer with floppies in 1985 1 year ago:
Well, actually this went from funny to tragic.
The company was called Need to Know, and it was initially in an old Victorian under a freeway overpass in San Francisco.
So I got the computer Friday and ran into this 23 line fail that evening. I called around 8:00 pm, expecting to get an answering machine. Instead I got, " Hey come on over!"
So I drive back to SF and get there around 9:00 pm. Somebody immediately puts a drink in my hand. People are just partying in a low key way. There are computer parts all over the place, but people are just partying.
So one of the guys took my machine apart, diagnosed the CPU failure, and replaced it with parts on hand.
I’m back in Berkeley by maybe 11:00 pm with a fully functional computer.
Here’s where it gets ugly. I did business with them into the late 1980s. During that time , some psycho took on a grudge against them and literally burned their place of business down.
Several places of businesses, burned down sequentially. Fucking tragic.
I lost track of them by 1990. I don’t know if they went further underground or what.
But they gave me a really human intro to computing. I can only hope they are well , wherever they are.
- Comment on Cost of a 128KB computer with floppies in 1985 1 year ago:
I do have a funny story about the place I got it in San Francisco, of you care to hear it.
- Comment on Cost of a 128KB computer with floppies in 1985 1 year ago:
I just used it for writing papers in college.
I had no idea how to use COBOL.
- Comment on Not even a wolverine giving me prostrate exam would get this info from me . 1 year ago:
Prostate
- Comment on Cost of a 128KB computer with floppies in 1985 1 year ago:
Around 1983 I got a Morrow Microdecision with two floppies.
No hard drive or mouse. It did come with COBOL.
It failed after 23 lines of text entry. Turned out the CPU was defective.
People kept asking me, “Dude, what do you need a computer for?”
- Comment on How does someone with no experience learn to make food? 1 year ago:
Try one of these five ingredient recipe cookbooks. It will get you going with the basics.
- Comment on Amazon saved children's voices recorded by Alexa even after parents asked for it to be deleted. Now it's paying a $25 million fine. 1 year ago:
Like $25 million is laundry change for them. They will probably pay it in quarters.