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I am retired in Southern California after working on the computational side of chemistry, medical electronics, environmental monitoring, motion pictures, and even some web commerce.
I am interested in hiking and the outdoors, exercise physiology (especially for someone in my age group), gardening, and old man projects in general.
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I am retired in Southern California after working on the computational side of chemistry, medical electronics, environmental monitoring, motion pictures, and even some web commerce. I am interested in hiking and the outdoors, exercise physiology (especially for someone in my age group), gardening, and old man projects in general. Posts auto-delete after two months.
I am retired in Southern California after working on the computational side of chemistry, medical electronics, environmental monitoring, motion pictures, and even some web commerce. I am interested in hiking and the outdoors, exercise physiology (especially for someone in my age group), gardening, and old man projects in general. Posts auto-delete after two months.
I wonder if anyone, probably some little guy, is going to disrupt social media with AI. I know the majors have their ideas, and I guess the X vision is that the AI is in the platform and you ask it questions as kind of a secondary channel.
But what if you talk to your own AI, and it is just current on what your friends and interests are up to? You could use it to direct feedback, or share thoughts across platforms. It might even get weird if a bit of that is automatic. To what extent is it you?
I am retired in Southern California after working on the computational side of chemistry, medical electronics, environmental monitoring, motion pictures, and even some web commerce. I am interested in hiking and the outdoors, exercise physiology (especially for someone in my age group), gardening, and old man projects in general. Posts auto-delete after two months.
I am retired in Southern California after working on the computational side of chemistry, medical electronics, environmental monitoring, motion pictures, and even some web commerce. I am interested in hiking and the outdoors, exercise physiology (especially for someone in my age group), gardening, and old man projects in general. Posts auto-delete after two months.
Attached is a screenshot from Digg, describing their modern problems.
You may recall that I sometimes caution people who blame Google for too much in my opinion. It's really about what I called the malicious counterparties.
As described here:
I am retired in Southern California after working on the computational side of chemistry, medical electronics, environmental monitoring, motion pictures, and even some web commerce. I am interested in hiking and the outdoors, exercise physiology (especially for someone in my age group), gardening, and old man projects in general. Posts auto-delete after two months.
I am retired in Southern California after working on the computational side of chemistry, medical electronics, environmental monitoring, motion pictures, and even some web commerce. I am interested in hiking and the outdoors, exercise physiology (especially for someone in my age group), gardening, and old man projects in general. Posts auto-delete after two months.
It's nice, after a complex, months long, process involving many emails and exchanges of documents, to just call the thing done.
And then do one Google takeout for that mail account, and save it offline.
Optical even.
I am retired in Southern California after working on the computational side of chemistry, medical electronics, environmental monitoring, motion pictures, and even some web commerce. I am interested in hiking and the outdoors, exercise physiology (especially for someone in my age group), gardening, and old man projects in general. Posts auto-delete after two months.
I am retired in Southern California after working on the computational side of chemistry, medical electronics, environmental monitoring, motion pictures, and even some web commerce. I am interested in hiking and the outdoors, exercise physiology (especially for someone in my age group), gardening, and old man projects in general. Posts auto-delete after two months.
"Panic-stricken markets are losing faith in Donald Trump"
What a very, very, strange way to phrase it.
I hope the suits operating in our financial industries were not operating on "faith in Donald Trump."
I don't really believe the Efficient Market Hypothesis either, but I'd hope for something a bit more efficient than faith in a madman
I am retired in Southern California after working on the computational side of chemistry, medical electronics, environmental monitoring, motion pictures, and even some web commerce. I am interested in hiking and the outdoors, exercise physiology (especially for someone in my age group), gardening, and old man projects in general. Posts auto-delete after two months.
I am retired in Southern California after working on the computational side of chemistry, medical electronics, environmental monitoring, motion pictures, and even some web commerce. I am interested in hiking and the outdoors, exercise physiology (especially for someone in my age group), gardening, and old man projects in general. Posts auto-delete after two months.
"My $150 mini PC runs 12 Docker containers and hasn’t broken a sweat"
A reminder that the low end doesn't really start at $500.
https://www.xda-developers.com/my-150-mini-pc-runs-12-docker-containers-and-hasnt-broken-a-sweat/
I am retired in Southern California after working on the computational side of chemistry, medical electronics, environmental monitoring, motion pictures, and even some web commerce. I am interested in hiking and the outdoors, exercise physiology (especially for someone in my age group), gardening, and old man projects in general. Posts auto-delete after two months.
I am retired in Southern California after working on the computational side of chemistry, medical electronics, environmental monitoring, motion pictures, and even some web commerce. I am interested in hiking and the outdoors, exercise physiology (especially for someone in my age group), gardening, and old man projects in general. Posts auto-delete after two months.
A mountain biker died of a snake bite in Irvine CA recently. To give the gist without too many details he was adjusting a clip and fell over into a bush and the rattlesnake was in the bush. He was transported to the hospital and died some days later.
I've seen many and heard many more rattlesnakes while mountain biking. It always struck me as the worst case scenario, if you're all pumped up, got the high heart rate going, get bit .. straight to the heart.
Blood is in a loop. Heart lung legs.
I am retired in Southern California after working on the computational side of chemistry, medical electronics, environmental monitoring, motion pictures, and even some web commerce. I am interested in hiking and the outdoors, exercise physiology (especially for someone in my age group), gardening, and old man projects in general. Posts auto-delete after two months.
I am retired in Southern California after working on the computational side of chemistry, medical electronics, environmental monitoring, motion pictures, and even some web commerce. I am interested in hiking and the outdoors, exercise physiology (especially for someone in my age group), gardening, and old man projects in general. Posts auto-delete after two months.
Related to yesterday's Minisforum news,
"Hustlers are cashing in on China’s OpenClaw AI craze"
https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/03/11/1134179/china-openclaw-gold-rush/
I am retired in Southern California after working on the computational side of chemistry, medical electronics, environmental monitoring, motion pictures, and even some web commerce. I am interested in hiking and the outdoors, exercise physiology (especially for someone in my age group), gardening, and old man projects in general. Posts auto-delete after two months.
I am retired in Southern California after working on the computational side of chemistry, medical electronics, environmental monitoring, motion pictures, and even some web commerce. I am interested in hiking and the outdoors, exercise physiology (especially for someone in my age group), gardening, and old man projects in general. Posts auto-delete after two months.
"Honda Cancels All Three EVs That It Planned to Build in the U.S."
Sad. A regression. Not the world I hoped for.
https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a70722299/honda-0-series-suv-saloon-acura-rsx-canceled/
I am retired in Southern California after working on the computational side of chemistry, medical electronics, environmental monitoring, motion pictures, and even some web commerce. I am interested in hiking and the outdoors, exercise physiology (especially for someone in my age group), gardening, and old man projects in general. Posts auto-delete after two months.
I am retired in Southern California after working on the computational side of chemistry, medical electronics, environmental monitoring, motion pictures, and even some web commerce. I am interested in hiking and the outdoors, exercise physiology (especially for someone in my age group), gardening, and old man projects in general. Posts auto-delete after two months.
"Only Half of Americans Went To a Movie Theater In 2025, Study Finds"
I think that's pretty good actually. What with the big screens.
I am retired in Southern California after working on the computational side of chemistry, medical electronics, environmental monitoring, motion pictures, and even some web commerce. I am interested in hiking and the outdoors, exercise physiology (especially for someone in my age group), gardening, and old man projects in general. Posts auto-delete after two months.
I am retired in Southern California after working on the computational side of chemistry, medical electronics, environmental monitoring, motion pictures, and even some web commerce. I am interested in hiking and the outdoors, exercise physiology (especially for someone in my age group), gardening, and old man projects in general. Posts auto-delete after two months.
I decided a little bash script would make my life easier. So I wrote a paragraph specifying what it should do to Gemini and got it back out again. A short thing but one shot.
The only question is what the multiplication factor was for effort and reward. I could have coded it. How much more time would that take than to specify it though .. possibly 10x, which seems to be going around as the number.
Is that right?
I am retired in Southern California after working on the computational side of chemistry, medical electronics, environmental monitoring, motion pictures, and even some web commerce. I am interested in hiking and the outdoors, exercise physiology (especially for someone in my age group), gardening, and old man projects in general. Posts auto-delete after two months.
I am retired in Southern California after working on the computational side of chemistry, medical electronics, environmental monitoring, motion pictures, and even some web commerce. I am interested in hiking and the outdoors, exercise physiology (especially for someone in my age group), gardening, and old man projects in general. Posts auto-delete after two months.
I missed this news from January, that Kia has a K4 sportwagon, with a manual transmission, just not for the United States. Sad. Even sadder:
"Made in Mexico, but only for Europe"
https://www.gearpatrol.com/cars/2026-kia-k4-sportwagon-manual-surprises-at-brussels-auto-show/
I am retired in Southern California after working on the computational side of chemistry, medical electronics, environmental monitoring, motion pictures, and even some web commerce. I am interested in hiking and the outdoors, exercise physiology (especially for someone in my age group), gardening, and old man projects in general. Posts auto-delete after two months.
I am retired in Southern California after working on the computational side of chemistry, medical electronics, environmental monitoring, motion pictures, and even some web commerce. I am interested in hiking and the outdoors, exercise physiology (especially for someone in my age group), gardening, and old man projects in general. Posts auto-delete after two months.
"The big news today is that AMD and Meta announced a massive expansion of their strategic partnership to deploy 6 gigawatts of AMD Instinct GPUs."
So weird that computer deployments are sized in gigawatts now.
https://www.servethehome.com/amd-and-meta-announce-a-massive-6gw-deal/
I am retired in Southern California after working on the computational side of chemistry, medical electronics, environmental monitoring, motion pictures, and even some web commerce. I am interested in hiking and the outdoors, exercise physiology (especially for someone in my age group), gardening, and old man projects in general. Posts auto-delete after two months.
I am retired in Southern California after working on the computational side of chemistry, medical electronics, environmental monitoring, motion pictures, and even some web commerce. I am interested in hiking and the outdoors, exercise physiology (especially for someone in my age group), gardening, and old man projects in general. Posts auto-delete after two months.
I am retired in Southern California after working on the computational side of chemistry, medical electronics, environmental monitoring, motion pictures, and even some web commerce. I am interested in hiking and the outdoors, exercise physiology (especially for someone in my age group), gardening, and old man projects in general. Posts auto-delete after two months.
I am retired in Southern California after working on the computational side of chemistry, medical electronics, environmental monitoring, motion pictures, and even some web commerce. I am interested in hiking and the outdoors, exercise physiology (especially for someone in my age group), gardening, and old man projects in general. Posts auto-delete after two months.
I am retired in Southern California after working on the computational side of chemistry, medical electronics, environmental monitoring, motion pictures, and even some web commerce. I am interested in hiking and the outdoors, exercise physiology (especially for someone in my age group), gardening, and old man projects in general. Posts auto-delete after two months.
I am retired in Southern California after working on the computational side of chemistry, medical electronics, environmental monitoring, motion pictures, and even some web commerce. I am interested in hiking and the outdoors, exercise physiology (especially for someone in my age group), gardening, and old man projects in general. Posts auto-delete after two months.
