@hypostase I don't know why, but I had to put it on my calendar. The shot of "feel-good" every year makes it that much easier to not feel temptation when I'm around those who still partake. I'm happy that you too have disposed of that vice.

Today marks 20 years since I ran out of cigarettes. It's not always been easy. I started smoking at age 12 and went on 'til age 43 at about a pack per day. If we assume about $6/pack, over the last 20 years I've saved almost $44,000.

It feels to me that the right course of action is to redirect support from Israel to Ukraine and let Israel work things out with its neighbors on its own merits.

My 2025 performance review...

It's just like Christmas, but better! (none of that religious or commercial stuff)

@grammargirl
For the record, in Oregon we cook our salmon on CEDAR planks, not that other inferior tree! That can be very confusing when there are two identical letters in the same place...

Yesterday I had a somewhat surreal experience. I interviewed a software engineer who might be my replacement when I retire in 4 months. Sadly I liked her and would love to work with her, but, that's not what replacing me is about 😃

Today I'm proud of Italy for rejecting ICE's "help" during the olympics.

I just emailed my retirement date to my manager and HR. The 28th of May will be my last day of involuntary work!

When did the capacity of a data center start getting expressed in power used/heat dissipated? In the olden days we talked about flops or storage units. Now I envision a very high end data center with a bunch of resistive heaters and no computational capability at all.
I had this thought while listening to @jimsalter and @joeress on @25admins