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I just bought a new Macbook Pro, with 24 gigs of RAM.

In 1984, they made 50,000 macs, each with about 128k of RAM. That's 6.4 gigs of RAM total. My new mac has almost 4 times the RAM as all Macs on the planet in 1984 combined.

The Apple stock I sold in the 1990s would be worth $1,900,000 today. But maybe only $1,800,000 tomorrow.

This is the worst day in the history of the world

Guess the tiki bar.

My sister made me a tiki mug. Year of the snake, I’m told. I thought I’d stick a maitai in there. #tiki

"If we've been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We're no longer interested in finding the truth. The Bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we've been taken."

-Carl Sagan (The Demon Haunted World)

2025 is also the 23rd Centered Octagonal Number.

#AdventOfCode well, D21 defeated me. I don't understand why moving up then left vs left then up would produce any differences in distance. Going to ^ then < then A should be the same as going to < then ^ then A.

Also, I did it on paper, and still got the same wrong answer, so...

Violent Femmes: 40th Anniversary with the Milwaukee Symphony This concert features many of the songs from their 1983 iconic debut album.

www.pbs.org/video/violen...

I wonder how much of their equipment they brought on the bus.

I just completed "Race Condition" - Day 20 - Advent of Code 2024 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2024/day/20. I used the "well, at least it worked" approach.

I just completed "Linen Layout" - Day 19 - Advent of Code 2024 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2024/day/19

nothing a bit of memoization couldn't fix.

I just completed "Warehouse Woes" - Day 15 - Advent of Code 2024 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2024/day/15