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Virtualization of Classic Computers

Posted on June 23, 2024 by ericgharrison

As my friends know, I’m a huge fan of classic computers (and LEGO, but that’s a whole ‘nother blog post). My personal collection includes an original Macintosh, an IBM PC Jr, Atari 600, Timex Sinclair 1000, a new-in-box TI 99/4a, several Radio Shack Color Computers, two Coleco Adams, a 20th Anniversary Macintosh and many more. […]

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Clean Windows 11 Installs

Posted on June 23, 2024 by ericgharrison

A lot of people are upset by the advertising and misc junk that clutters up Windows 11 immediately after install.Here are two tools to help remove that clutter: OFGB OFGB is described as: A GUI Tool To Removes Ads From Various Places Around Windows 11 OFGB will disable: Download It OFGB can be found at: […]

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Mapping the AI mind of Claude

Posted on June 8, 2024 by ericgharrison

I find it fascinating that we really don’t understand how AI (aka LLMs) really work! https://www.anthropic.com/research/mapping-mind-language-model

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mRNA Cancer Vaccines Show Great Hope

Posted on May 15, 2024 by ericgharrison

A lot of people were resistant to mRNA vaccines for Covid 19. I wonder if they will feel the same if it can save them from guaranteed death? https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-05-mrna-cancer-vaccine-triggers-fierce.html

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Republicans in congress are warning that some of their members are compromised by the Kremlin

Posted on May 12, 2024 by ericgharrison

Just sticking this here for future reference. https://thinkbigpicture.substack.com/p/gop-russia-kompromat-putin-congress

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Blockchain: Innovation or Illusion

Posted on April 19, 2024 by ericgharrison

Just going to leave this here. So far the claims in the video (that blockchain hasn’t found a strong reason to exist that isn’t already handled by other, better, solutions) is holding true. Will it in the future? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tspGVbmMmVA

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A Minimalist Start Page

Posted on December 31, 2023 by ericgharrison

Got this from Paul Thurrott’s end of year wrap up. It’s a chrome extension to do a very pretty and minimal start page. It also works with Edge and should work with other Chromium based browsers. Bonjourr – A minimalist start page.

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Hey! FAQs about leaving the cloud

Posted on December 21, 2023 by ericgharrison

I’ve said for years I never want to build another data center… and this blog post validates that… but it doesn’t mean that going all in on the cloud is always the right choice. https://world.hey.com/dhh/the-big-cloud-exit-faq-20274010

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New Yorker – A Coder Considers AI

Posted on November 19, 2023 by ericgharrison

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/11/20/a-coder-considers-the-waning-days-of-the-craft

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Having a Problem Pinning Something to QuickStart?

Posted on October 24, 2023 by ericgharrison

For some reason my Documents shortcut was missing from the quickstart side panel in file explorer. No matter what I did, I couldn’t add it back (but I could add / remove others). This trick from SuperUser.com fixed it: Note that the file isn’t recreated “within a second” until you do something with File Explorer […]

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