Ward Christensen passed away recently. He co-invented the BBS system that many a nerd, including myself, used to network with other geeks, back in the heyday of Usenet. When we used XMODEM (invented by Christensen), then YMODEM and then ZMODEM. The inventor of ZMODEM (Chuck Forsberg) lived on Sauvie Island. Those were good times.
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If you ever wanted to build your own web browser, you must read this. It's so much more complicated now, with all the standards you must observe and adhere to.
And speaking of web browser, Google Chrome is disabling UBlock Origin. I recall when much protest was raised about this last year, when Google was planning to make this change. Since the chatter died down, I assumed Google changed their mind. Nope. They just waited.
Breast cancer has been largely unresponsive to immunotherapies, except for triple-negative breast cancer. But there may be a breakthrough using "proteolysis targeting chimera (PROTAC) to successfully destroy RIPK1 in cancer cells". "Getting rid of RIPK1 triggers immunogenic cell death and mobilizes the immune system to destroy any remaining cancer cells that have evaded
treatment or become resistant to drugs." Still sounds early in the development process, and the work is still in vitro and not a clinical study. Still, it's promising.
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1300 to be laid off from Intel jst before the holidays. And ASML isn't having a good time either. Not so rosy in Silicon Forest.
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Gordon Sondland schools Morning Edition's Steve Inskeep about the state of Portland. Inskeep apparently was mollified by an unemployment figure of 4%, up from 3.7% last year, even though we all know you have to be looking for a job to be considered unemployed. The city is full of people who are far from looking for anything except their next hit. And here's a report that Oregon is #4 on the list of states that give out the most SNAP benefits. We're a homeless magnet.
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Sad news. Sahomi Tachibana passed away last Thursday, just 6 months from her 100th birthday. She was a very sweet person, like a spirit from a different time. She will be missed.
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