Maple Engineer

I write several flavours of BASIC fluently, Fortran and Pascal passably, three forms of assembler well enough to get by, and I’ve worked in COBOL.

I’m currently in treatment for Hodgin Lymphoma. An old friend that I rarely see volunteered to take me to chemo every two weeks for six months. We have really good visits while I’m in the chair. Last week I got out my tablet and showed him my farm in Minecraft. I don’t like being asked how I’m doing or how I’m feeling because literally everyone asks and I get tired of answering. I prefer, “Do you need anything?” or “Can I help in any way?” I’m not good at asking for help. A friend who I have helped several times just showed up with her partner and four kids and their partners and got our place ready for fall. One of the kids partners was a plumber and he installed a couple of sinks for us. We have a bunch of people around us who have offered to help and meant it. One got up early and drove my son and his bike to school two days after chemo. Another has done groceries for us and taken my wife grocery shopping because she doesn’t drive. If you offer to help mean it and do anything you can to help. Otherwise, just be there and do things other than talk about cancer. Normalcy is welcome. If she wants to talk, talk. If she just wants you to be there, be there.

In the days before *nx, “terminal” meant a VT terminal and “clear” wasn’t a thing.

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Is one of my favorites. Of course, most of you are too young to know what that means.

26 when your brain is almost certainly fully myelenated to 65 since the future of young people is far more effected by elected officials than the futures of retired people.

Strong acid, strong base. Bake at 500C over night if it’s borosilicate to bake off all organics. It won’t get much cleaner than that.

I think that a lot of that will depend on how much shit his red hats fuck up and how fucked up they fuck it up.

If not he will spend the rest of his life in court trying to avoid prison.

If he doesn’t win he goes to prison, possibly for the rest of his life.

This is rage bait. How many times a year would this happen? Two? Three? There are more important things to talk about. That’s why they’re taking about this

It violates noise laws where I live. I have called the police because my neighbours were having drunken, obscenity filled screaming matches on their driveway at 3 am. The police have come and told them to knock it the fuck off or they will drag one of them off the jail each time. They haven’t done it outside where they can disturb their neighbours, we are far from the closest, since the third or fourth time I did that.

My first thought.

Where did I say that?

Extremists hate being fact checked. The reality is that you can fact check the fact checking but that can also be fact checked.

Extremists never let reality get in the way of their absolutist slurs.

There’s is a road allowance between the edge of the road and the edge of your property. In our case is about 20 feet wide. You’re not allowed to build on that road allowance. We also have a deep ditch that requires a culvert and several loads of gravel.

Where I live you can’t simply bring a driveway out to the road. You have to get permission from the township and pay for access. They come out, install a culvert, install a blue 911 flag with your number on it, and build a driveway connection to their standards. It costs several thousand dollars.

Yup. Good movie.

Infinite quantum instantiation would allow anyone with the technology to instantly find massive prime factors and decrypt anything.

No more secrets.

I love organized fireworks.