In the soviet union, early in the 20th century. a political narrative was born.  In it a pseudo-scientist, really, an activist, named Trofim Lysenko decided that it was politically incorrect to study

In undergrad (Stony Brook), I had a math teacher (numerical methods class) who talked about this package he used in his research.  Macsyma was a symbolic math package, sometimes called a computer algebra

This is a tale of backing up data.  To date, I have a small-ish 28TB server at home running zfs (finally) on debian 11.5.  This is my local backup target, and

I use a CPAP machine.  I've had one for, I dunno, 12 years?  It started out being owned by a company that leased it to my insurance company.  Monthly.  For most

You know, those idiots who take 2 parking slots.  Or in this case, idiots in the (small) gym that insist they are using 2 machines at once.  Not letting other people use them.