Category Archives: General

The Failure to Social Isolate Illustrated

Posted on 2020-03-27 by jcs

Hardly a moment goes by without someone urging you to stay home and to social isolate. Not everyone is getting the message, apparently. One example is Spring Breakers flooding to Florida beaches until the Governor closed them. Via Karl Voit, … Continue reading →

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Quarantini

Posted on 2020-03-26 by jcs

Despite all the doom and gloom about COVID-19 some folks are maintaining their sense of humor. To wit: Time for a quarantiniii🍸😷 @AviationGin @vancityreynolds pic.twitter.com/l11ZWavFfg — marilyn starkloff (@MStarkloff) March 12, 2020 Of course Aviation American Gin and Emergen-C are … Continue reading →

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The PhD Movies

Posted on 2020-03-25 by jcs

If you’re a nerd—and, come on, you’re reading Irreal so you know you are—you will be delighted to learn that both of Jorge Cham’s PhD movies are available for streaming. If you’ve been or are a graduate student you’ll appreciate … Continue reading →

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Working From Home, Mac Edition

Posted on 2020-03-24 by jcs

Now that working from home is, at least temporarily, the new normal, many companies and employees are struggling to adjust to a novel work environment. Fortunately, plenty of people have been working from home for years and have advice to … Continue reading →

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Coffee

Posted on 2020-03-23 by jcs

I’m old enough that I been through several cycles of, “Coffee is good for you; no coffee is bad for you.” I stopped paying attention a long time ago because, you know, coffee. Now, brought to you from Irreal’s Department … Continue reading →

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Zamansky 69: Floobits

Posted on 2020-03-22 by jcs

One of the questions I often see is, “how can I collaborate in real time with Emacs?” This may be because a couple of programmers want to do some remote pair programming or because two or more people want to … Continue reading →

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Migrating from Emacs to Doom

Posted on 2020-03-21 by jcs

Jethro Kuan, whom I wrote about in regards to his work with smart notes, has another interesting post. This time it’s about his migration to Doom Emacs. There’s nothing unusual about that of course; I’ve written several posts about such … Continue reading →

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Data is Toxic Waste

Posted on 2020-03-20 by jcs

Over at Kaspersky, Cory Doctorow has an interesting article that argues that far from being the new oil, data is actually the new toxic waste. He begins by noting that any data you collect will, sooner or later, leak and … Continue reading →

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Interactive SQL Queries With Org-mode

Posted on 2020-03-19 by jcs

Marcin Borkowski (mbork) always has interesting posts that often give me good ideas. Recently, he posted on using Org-mode for SQL. I haven’t had to deal with SQL for a long time and I was never a heavy user so … Continue reading →

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Surprising Unix Programs

Posted on 2020-03-18 by jcs

Doug McIlroy has another interesting post on TUHS. This time it’s about Unix programs that he found surprising. Many of the programs have been replaced by updated tools and are no longer used by most people but they all offer … Continue reading →

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