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cdkmoose | 2 months ago | on: Map of all the buildings in the world

Looking around my home area, I found HS football bleachers showing up as buildings and an outdoor basketball court showing up as a building. Looking at the coloring of those features on Google maps, I can see how the mistakes might have been made. But still feels like it needs tuning.

To be fair, I checked my boyhood home in very rural Maine and it was correct for the size and shape of the multiple farm buildings.

cdkmoose | 5 months ago | on: Apple iPhone Air Review

I think Apple would be better served by re-introducing a line of smaller phones. Whether it is for physical or functional reasons, not everybody wants to outdo the size of the previous model. Bigger isn't always better. People with smaller hands, young teens or smaller stature adults, would love an appropriate sized phone.

cdkmoose | 6 months ago | on: The MiniPC Revolution

I have repurposed retired laptops for my tech lab at home. They no longer keep up with the current software bloat for wife and kids usage, but make reasonable linux servers. Currently serving up 3 databases on one, kafka and networking on another and services/applications on a third. They take up very little space under my desk.

cdkmoose | 9 months ago | on: Square Theory

Also, My friend accidentally drank a bottle of invisible ink... she's at the hospital now, waiting to be seen.

"Waiting to be seen" having slightly different meaning with respect to hospitals and invisible ink.

cdkmoose | 9 months ago | on: Fewer people want to work in the U.S.

That's a big pet peeve of mine, although to be fair I've seen much worse than this one. It can make the deltas look more meaningful than they actually are.

cdkmoose | 11 months ago | on: Hunt for Red October 1990 (2016)

Love this movie, it turned me into an avid reader of Clancy.

At the time of this movie, I was working as a software engineer for a defense contractor building combat control systems for submarines. When it was released, the company took the entire department, including former Navy submarine officers now project/program managers to a private viewing. There were definitely groans when some things on the sub were inaccurate, but given the level of hands-on knowledge and expertise in the audience, it was very well received.

cdkmoose | 1 year ago | on: Red Hat and Microsoft Bringing RHEL to WSL

I also think there is a chunk of the audience that would like to develop on the same distro they would be deploying to. There is a fair amount of RHEL in production environments. Larger operations may be running Windows for business purposes and being able to work with WSL/RHEL on the same (or upgraded for developers) machine makes some business sense.

cdkmoose | 2 years ago | on: Never Event

Depends n your definition of dangerous objects. For example, sheets?

cdkmoose | 2 years ago | on: Thoughts on the Remarkable 2

I am very happy with my Remarkable 2 but I think that can depend on individual needs and expectations. My desk was perpetually covered with stacks of paper with notes from meetings. As I handled each note, I had to keep each piece of paper until the last note on it was handled. When I tried a paper notebook, I found that there would always be unhandled notes several pages back from my current page.

For me the RM 2 is an infinite persistent (editable) notepad. I can organize my notes by project/task and can easily cleanup things that have been taken care of. Most importantly, like OP, I didn't want yet another device that does it all. I don't need to add to desktop PC, laptop PC, IPad, IPhone and then forget where everything is.

cdkmoose | 2 years ago | on: The PC and Internet Revolution in Rural America

This story really hits home. I started a little earlier but rural Maine was just as isolated. My first computer at home was a TRS-80 Model 1 we got in 1979. It had a cassette deck for storing programs. I spent many hours hand entering game and utility source code from Byte magazine.

I got my first IBM compatible while in college around 1985, 640 K and DUAL floppies. It was from a startup PC maker named PCs Limited, started by a college drop out named Michael Dell. Two floppy disks provided infinite opportunities. A 300 baud modem connected me to the campus mainframe.

Years later for work I remember having a 28.8K (then 56K) modem to connect to work on nights and weekends to do support work and access the companies T-1 line.

Strangely enough, by the time cable was run to my parents home in that rural Maine town it was more cost effective to run fiber than copper, so my parents got fiber to the house.

cdkmoose | 2 years ago | on: To help new students adapt, some colleges are eliminating grades

Growth, both educational and occupational, is greatly enhanced by meaningful regularly spaced feedback. Delaying that feedback to the very end of a long process can lower the likelihood of success.

We can debate the merits of different models of assessment, but totally skipping assessment robs the participants of useful feedback.

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