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Today in 1911, 113 years ago: The destroyer USS Terry makes the first airplane rescue at sea saving the life of Douglas McCurdy 16 kilometres (10 mi) from Havana, Cuba.

#OnThisDay

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That is AS400 from IBM. Although discounted by IBM, it is still in production in many places running mission-critical apps. It's far better than the stuff people write today. This is how reliability looks. Why break it when it works?

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Today in 1595, 429 years ago: the tragedy Romeo and Juliet, written by William Shakespeare, is premiered in London.

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Sometimes I will put my blanket over my head because my dog cannot deal with it all. He will bark at me then jump on the couch and pull the blanket off.

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62F this morning. That is a 50 degree shift in a week. They are out cold patching roads already.

The worst thing to come out of the pandemic were the always-on remote working toolchains, and the expectation that you never stop working.

A lot of rain this afternoon. We need it.

It reminds me of that scene in Smokey and the Bandit 2 where someone keeps saying no while being handed more and more money, until they say yes.

@mntmn The internet has created this idea where you have to google everything, but I know with the reform that whatever it is, it's almost certainly in the handbook.

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By 2026 Covid policy is going to be “Smell this Tabasco and if you can’t you can go home half an our early as long as you work through lunch”, and you pay for the Tabasco.

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Today in 1921, 103 years ago: in Paris, the Conference of Allied Countries establishes that Germany must pay as war compensation 226 billion marks in 42 annuities (until 1963) .1924: in Russia, Petrograd -formerly St. Petersburg- is baptized Leningrad.

#OnThisDay

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Get Ready for the Great #AI #Disappointment
wired.com/story/get-ready-for-
“Some people will start recognizing that it was always a pipe #dream to reach anything resembling #complex #human #cognition on the basis of #predicting words.”

@mntmn Every time I have to use the reform manual (needed to look up some battery compatibility) I realize what a great job you all did with the documentation. It is some of the best I've seen and the renderings are superb.

These airline CEOs shitting all over Boeing may have a point, but they are ignoring the fact that they pressured Boeing for years to deliver airplanes at minimal cost.

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"The Czech state administration will stop providing its services over IPv4 on 6 June 2032" 👍👍👍

konecipv4.cz/en/

#IPv6 #IPv4

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