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Something attacked my computer. I shut the page, and some old one popped up. I shut it, and they popped up again I shut my browser, and Notepad++ was filling with <cr><lf> I closed Notepad++, closed every open app, and restarted.

I went out to talk with a guy, back in about 1995, in Chicago, fired up APL on his notebook, loaded the JPMorgan Risk Metrics data set, fiddled a bit, and reduced the thing to a one-line formula in an interactive window - like a Jupyter Notebook.

I chatted with Gemini about it seems close: """It sounds like you were using the Jacquard J100 or J500 specifically as a "shared-logic" workstation. ... The Software: AM Jacquard "Data-Rite" While Jacquard was famous for its Type-Rite word processor, the spreadsheet-like functionality for bankers was likely a component of Data-Rite. Here is why your description fits so perfectly: Row-Column Text Format: Unlike modern spreadsheets that are "cell-centric," these early systems were often "record-centric." They functioned more like a flat-file database, with each row a record and each column a field. The "Formula Bar": In Jacquard’s system, you didn't usually put a formula into an individual cell. You entered a "Procedure" or a "Calculation Rule" at the top of a column. "Drawing Down": When you "drew the bar down," you were essentially telling the mini-computer to execute a Batch Process on the text file. It would sweep through the records, applying your math (e.g., Col C = Col A * Col B) to every row in the file.""" It was old when I got there. I never saw any manual; they barely let me touch it.

I worked on an early spreadsheet and word-processing system at Lehman Brothers back in about 1984. The system was called Jacquard. The investment bankers built comparative financials in this system and printed them out on 14x11 folded paper. The deal was that you could enter formulas into a bar, with a formula for each column, and drag the bar down to apply the formula to the cells.

I bought the book "A SUMERIAN OBSERVATION OF THE KÖFELS’ IMPACT EVENT" by Mark Hempsell, and Alan Bond. Tried to do a film adaptation, about 10 years ago. One part in Sumer and another in the Alps.

My early boss had a different approach. If you want a promotion, you need to have people in place who can do your job. That was touchy. If I had people capable of doing my job, what would happen when we do layoffs (which happened regularly)? But it was also through a period of strong growth, so the boss needed proven people in place to take on new opportunities. Working for a firm during its strong growth phase is very different from trying to climb a 10,000-deep corporate ladder.

Obviously, he's never been to Rikers.

I was going to mention APL, then decided to scroll through the discussion.

Chrome in Windows 11

I had a look, then heard the fan on my pc ramp up...

32.0 GB (27.8 GB usable)

AMD Ryzen 7 8845HS w/ Radeon 780M Graphics 3.80 GHz

This is why I get outside and sweat every day.

Get a set of dominoes. Make up games with them.

I remember, in the mid 90s getting up at 6:00 am, taking a taxi to LGA and catching a 7:00 am Shuttle to Washingto DC so I could be at a 9:00 am meeting.

I play string bass. Many suggest you focus your attention through the thumb of your left hand as you practice.

Ever seen The Monuments Men? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Monuments_Men

I think Mark Ripptoe is the best guy on what and how to do it. His explanation of what to do and the details of how to do it in his book Starting Strength are astonishingly detailed. An engineering process document on how to build strength. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Rippetoe

I'm gonna use this: "Thou art a jammy bugger!"

Dolly Parton

A bit of battlefield preparation for the coming massive insurance rate increase for eastern coastal cities? perhaps.

I live in Nashville now. That job was on Wall Street. I am not religious.

Years ago, I had an issue with a coworker. My mentor told me to pray for them. I cursed him but did it anyway. About six months later, a different coworker came to me and asked, "How do you get along with X? They really seem to respect you." I told him that I prayed for X. He called me an axxhole.

Sarbanes-Oxley https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/sarbanesoxleyact.asp

I am allergic to dust mites. After about six months on a shelf, I can't touch a book without getting an allergic reaction. Simply dusting or even vacuuming the exterior doesn't work. This gizmo looks like something I can use to rid a book of dust mites so I can read it.

Here is the #1 story on HN right now https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-39810-w

What type of fiend rotates a map of Chicago ninety degrees counterclockwise?

Colonel Bleep - and it is called Zero Zero Island https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonel_Bleep

Rick Beato is the Sal Khan of music theory

yup

At an elite event there are LEDs along the inside of the track that are set to pace at world record pace or what ever pace the meet chooses. The rabbit can pace off the LEDs, or at some interval to the LEDs. Recently there may be multiple paces set by the LEDs.

Yup. Google tries to get me to make a left turn from a stop sign across 4 lanes of main street suburban traffic rather than waiting at the traffic light one block north - a light that that also backs traffic up past the stop sign when the main street traffic flow stops. I wrote them a couple of times a few years back, but I've learned to ignore the directions.