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@wollman@mastodon.social · 2d ago

Do you have an account with Bank of America? If so, they want to force you into arbitration of any disputes. You have less than 60 days to tell them you do not agree.

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@wollman@mastodon.social · Apr 12, 2026

@dashdsrdash My mother used to get All The Magazines (except Cook's Illustrated, idk why, but now I give her mine every Thanksgiving). She would have a cabinet full of decades of them, and she would dig through them saying things like "I know there was this Easter ham recipe a few years ago...". Now she keeps a couple of binders with tab dividers and only the recipes she actually likes. (My father is no longer allowed to cook; he makes too much of a mess.)

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@wollman@mastodon.social · Apr 12, 2026

@dashdsrdash What I do: buy cookbooks. (Actually I've stopped buying cookbooks because I just have too many now, and usually go back to old favorites rather than searching for something new.) I do also have an America's Test Kitchen subscription which I basically only use when visiting my parents at Thanksgiving.

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@wollman@mastodon.social · Apr 07, 2026

@0xabad1dea If I didn't know better I'd say you were being attacked by a bear, not a dog.

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@wollman@mastodon.social · Apr 07, 2026

@filippo @neverpanic That model is the sad result of upstreams' inability to provide / disinterest in providing stable interfaces. (I don't know how Go is in this regard.)

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@wollman@mastodon.social · Apr 02, 2026

@dashdsrdash What's worse is that some sites are designed to intentionally disable reader mode. (Which to my mind is a bug in the browser that it even allows that.)

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@wollman@mastodon.social · Mar 15, 2026

@Saltssaltgirl I will admit to having an occasional weakness for the giant frosted chocolate-chip cookies that supermarket bakeries sell with seasonal designs on them in awful dyed "bettercreme" frosting. Nothing about these is good but sometimes you want what you want.

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@wollman@mastodon.social · Mar 15, 2026

@Saltssaltgirl The best cookie is very specifically the "egg yolk chocolate chip cookie" as sold by Claire Ptak's Violet bakery in Hackney, London, the recipe for which is also in her cookbook of the same name. The second-best cookie is Joanne Chang's "ginger molasses cookie" from Flour in Boston (and again the recipe is in the cookbook of that name).

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@wollman@mastodon.social · Feb 10, 2026

@cks Different pots of money, often enough. I can't speak to Toronto but at MIT the overhead rate on staff is very high compared to the same services provided by an outside contractor. Not ten times as high but enough to be a pretty significant incentive to outsource. That's especially the case if some significant portion of the outsourcing bill can be capitalized (e.g., one-time development and conversion costs).

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@wollman@mastodon.social · Feb 09, 2026

@cks @eloy @gnomon The administration will replace them with an outsourced service that costs ten times as much, like all the B-school-brained finance people have been advising for a decade.

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@wollman@mastodon.social · Feb 07, 2026

@fluidlogic @argv_minus_one The controller had an option ROM.

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@wollman@mastodon.social · Feb 07, 2026

@fluidlogic My mother worked for IBM so of course rather than a normal computer we had to get a 5150 (version 2 system board, so it could hold up to 256K RAM), which she paid for through payroll deduction. A few summers later I went to a "computer camp" where I was the only kid with a PC in a sea of TRS-80s and C-64s and Apple IIs. It was upgraded over time; the second floppy drive broke and was replaced with a 20M hard drive, and we got a better (non-Epson) printer and a color monitor.

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@wollman@mastodon.social · Jan 31, 2026

@pekkatahkola Lovely pictures, but I have to say, I lived for six months in the rural area outside Kuopio (albeit 37 years ago) so I'm not sure I'd be too eager to try Oulu even farther north. You're up at 65N and I'm down here at 42N thinking the days are still too short. A different kind of folk to be sure.

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@wollman@mastodon.social · Dec 11, 2025

@mattblaze@federate.social Photographed at a CHRS event there in 2010, these are the letters that used to be on the front of the building (or maybe reproductions?):

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@wollman@mastodon.social · Dec 07, 2025

@mark Today's user interfaces are an excellent example of what @graydon talks about as a prescriptive norm: not only do you have very little choice about what software you use, because oligopoly; not only can they rip out the user interface from underneath you at any time without warning, because you are forced to accept whatever updates the vendor pushes; but also, all of this software is designed by the same small clique of developers who all think the same way and jump on the same bandwagons.

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@wollman@mastodon.social · Dec 07, 2025

@jk "AI" = the latest and greatest in accountability sinks.

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@wollman@mastodon.social · Jun 21, 2025

@jbigham Nobody is left who remembers the time before WW2 when the US was an intellectual backwater and Americans who wanted to make their mark went to Oxford or Goettingen or the Sorbonne.

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@wollman@mastodon.social · Feb 22, 2024

@msbernst @axz @karger I never got into the whole scoring filter thing, there were a bunch of different implementations of that but none really took off before the bottom dropped out, and writing good scoring rules was even harder than writing good KILL files.

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@wollman@mastodon.social · Feb 22, 2024

@msbernst @axz @karger (And of course Usenet is also a shadow of its former self: a really busy newsgroup 30 years ago was two or three hundred articles a day, and people were doing stuff like gatewaying wire services into newsgroups; now a busy newsgroup sees a couple dozen articles a day.)

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@wollman@mastodon.social · Feb 22, 2024

@msbernst @axz @karger I still use trn today, and find its interface unsurpassed. Gnus implemented threading with multiple backends, so it could thread email archives as well as netnews, and a lot of people (by 1990s standards) used it as a mail client, well before other email programs implemented threading (mostly badly), although a lot of the communication we used to use email for has moved elsewhere so correct email threading is less necessary than it used to be.

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@wollman@mastodon.social · Feb 22, 2024

@msbernst @axz @karger I think there may be an interesting story about "preadaptation" — we had References: headers and even the "In article Joe Blow wrote:" convention long before anyone figured out how to do threading properly. The original newsreaders were all delivery-order, just like email was. nn actually was the first threaded newsreader, but Wayne Davison's "hunt the wumpus" patches to the most popular reader, rn, were what made it real (along with server-side indexing).

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@wollman@mastodon.social · Feb 22, 2024

@msbernst @axz @karger How can you forget Usenet? (OK, I assume it's in the paper, but Usenet is literally the one early system where we know exactly when the transition from flat to threading happened, and who did it.)

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