Accujack

Precision matters, and legos only have a certain amount of precision.

Besides that, things like the number of holes in the calendar ring matter.

Check out Clickspring on youtube, he's one of the people who narrowed the hole count down to 2 numbers, and this paper argues hard for one of those.

He's building a replica of the mechanism using period tools, and it's amazingly precise so far.

...and that example was actually used in one of the dissenting opinions.

We really need legislation in the US to regulate the use of data... something like the GDPR with enforcement for people who are careless with their customers.

As well as strongly regulating sales of data/data brokers, of course.

We are, all of us, born EBCDIC. The world teaches us ASCII, and we can make no sense of all we knew.

The reward is the find. No magnet fisherman except the ones on Youtube or Patreon actually makes enough to pay for their magnets.

You don't do this to try to make money, you do it for fun, knowledge, and the occasional cool (but not very valuable) item.

See also "Open Plan Workspace".

AI Bubble!

Think about it... Google could train its AI to recognize malicious behavior for moderation purposes, to recognize astroturfing and manipulation of public opinion (for purposes of stopping it or carrying it out).

There's not much value in training it to simulate a redditor, but there's a lot in modeling bad behavior.

They haven't innovated in years. The only real changes to reddit have been a cosmetic re-work and release of an app for mobile use.

Well, that and the API changes that drove away something like a third of the users.

My experience as well.

Much depends on whether your systems were running BSD-style RPC services.

Best of luck.

My pay peaked in 2001. If subsequent job moves and raises had kept up with inflation, I'd be making just under $150,000 a year today.

As it stands, the job market is so poor (and my skills need updating, to be honest) I'm having trouble getting a job that pays even $80k.

Yeah. Briquettes are basically bottom of the barrel coal powder, sawdust and other additives mixed with a binder.

Or under the Salton Sea.