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Found this fun video from the 1980's about the QRS roll production from the QRS site. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3FTaGwfXPM


Apple had added assistive mode well suited for seniors — https://www.theseniorlist.com/cell-phones/assistive-access/


Genius indeed, found it in comments on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39175873


It supports `jc foo | jq` which is quite handy. E.g. `jc dig google.com txt | jq '.[]|.answer[]|.data'`


Also, `jc` automatically selects the correct /proc/file parser so you can just do `jc /proc/meminfo` or `cat /proc/meminfo | jc --proc` without specifying the actual proc parser (though you can do that if you want)

Disclaimer: I'm the author of `jc`.


From the PDF:

The guy handling the affairs describes his experience: "I have over 40 years of legal and restructuring experience. I have been the Chief Restructuring Officer or Chief Executive Officer in several of the largest corporate failures in history. I have supervised situations involving allegations of criminal activity and malfeasance (Enron)."

Then states: "Never in my career have I seen such a complete failure of corporate controls and such a complete absence of trustworthy financial information as occurred here. From compromised systems integrity and faulty regulatory oversight abroad, to the concentration of control in the hands of a very small group of inexperienced, unsophisticated and potentially compromised individuals, this situation is unprecedented."


It sounds a bit like the whole Billy Madison judge speech[0] doesn't it? Just missing the, "and may god have mercy on your soul" ending.

[0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hfYJsQAhl0


This rings very true! This 1000%:

  Once my wife learned of my plans, the requests for custom pieces started rolling   in.  Knowing that whatever I build has an eager recipient awaiting it is rocket fuel for motivation.

  And since it's my wife asking for it, it's easier to justify buying the tools I "need".
I've grown my tool collection repeatedly this way :)


Give home renovation a go. Endless tool purchases, all easily justified because hiring out the labour is so expensive!


Exactly. Why purchase a new roof ventilator for 150EUR if you can spend 1000EUR for a small lathe and fix the ventilator that was broken?


But a VW campervan, whole new genre of tools required :D


Intro video linked from that page: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9MAvRpT6Cg


Check out the author. For those not in the know, Kahan was the driving architect behind IEEE 754 -- pretty much the basis of all computer floating point now. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Kahan

I remember seminars at Berkeley where equipment manufactures show up to talk about their gear and Kahan would sit in the front row and grill them over their floating point implementations.


So that is where Kahan summation algorthm comes from!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kahan_summation_algorithm


I have no exposure to the A+ program, so apologies if this is obvious.

A friend's kid right out of high school is going through the Google IT certification program (https://grow.google/programs/it-support/).

Do the programs overlap at all? Is the Google program as useful as the A+? Being newer, is the Google program more relevant to the industry now?


You're probably right, this program looks great and reflects how the industry has changed since A+ towards cloud-based systems. Shame though - people tend to come to IT because they like playing with their computer and A+ was a natural stepping strong from that to administrating a computer. It was like the Hobby->JuniorProfessional stepping stone.


I really like https://www.brother-usa.com/products/ads1700w -- scans and OCRs docs lightning fast. Has great Mac support.


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