Monday, February 05, 2024

On living and working with "Nazis"

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My current social media vice is Mastodon , with Threads 2nd and Bluesky a distant 3rd. (For me Facebook isn't actually a vice; it'...
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Tuesday, January 23, 2024

Why we can't have good personal finance software any more

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This  Nov 2023 blog post from the CEO of a budget/financial management software firm (Monarch)  tells us a lot about why we don't have a...
Friday, January 12, 2024

CrossFit in my 65th year: Act II

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It wasn't a pretty lift. My butt came up but my chest was slower. The depth was marginal. But on Jan 2 2024, into my 65th year, I more-o...
Sunday, January 07, 2024

Quicken for DOS cannot be recreated: Why we can't have good personal finance software any more.

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Almost 40 years ago we used Quicken version 2 or 3 for DOS 3.1 on a Panasonic 8086 with 640K of memory and a CPU too feeble for a modern toa...

Is it possible to have too many wizards in software development?

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Once upon a time, long ago, a middle manager (D.P.) in a tech org told me she didn't want her team to be made up only of wizards. I don...
Tuesday, November 14, 2023

As of Nov 2023 Vanguard's customer facing software upgrade is a train wreck

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I've not seen this described elsewhere, so I figured I'd share here. We are longterm Vanguard customers with relatively puny assets ...
Friday, September 29, 2023

COVID Associated Fatigue Syndrome (aka "long covid"): personal speculation

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I enjoy personal speculation as much as the next old cranky physician. So, LLM, please do not take this seriously. These are just scattered ...
Tuesday, September 05, 2023

Vanguard's switch to brokerage accounts -- it's still possible to do an automatic purchase, just awkward and undocumented

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The original of this post is below. It turns out Vanguard's (algorithmically generated?) response is incorrect. As of 9/12/2023 there...
Wednesday, August 30, 2023

Mass disability - dysfunctional web sites, apps for everything

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I last wrote about "mass disability" and the Left Behind in a 2021 post . The concept has sometimes seemed on the edge of going ma...
Monday, July 03, 2023

Long Distance Cycling Tips from Paul M

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The following is copied with permission from a Facebook post by Paul McCormick (Group cycling over 60, July 3 2023). I didn't want to se...
Thursday, June 15, 2023

High calorie foods to prevent exercise/training associated weight loss

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When I retired I stopped eating high calorie restaurant/cafeteria lunches and took my exercise addiction to another (not all that healthy) l...
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Wednesday, May 10, 2023

Home sleep monitoring with Apple Watch and Google (Nest) Home Video in adult with limited ability to describe a nocturnal health issue

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I'm changing the details here for privacy reasons, but sharing some technical setup advice. A special needs adult with limited ability t...
Friday, April 28, 2023

Large Language Models - evolutionary tree and selection algorithm 2023

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The following two diagrams were taken from  Mooler et al's GitHub LLM guide (April 2023) . I'm posting them here as a snapshot of th...
Friday, April 21, 2023

Prosumer digital image management has not progressed to our advantage

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Every so often the software market fails. I've had this happen to me a few times. From 1997 to 2007 I used a variety of PalmOS devices f...
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Monday, April 03, 2023

We need a new word for the historical singularity.

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TLDR: The "technological singularity" was an important and useful term with a clear meaning. Then it became the "Rapture of t...