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A familiar road, a moment of pause. I found myself looking at a place that once meant purpose and community. It’s a quiet reflection on what remains when people move on and what stays behind in silence.
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The Chair
A familiar road, a moment of pause. I found myself looking at a place that once meant purpose and community. It’s a quiet reflection on what remains when people move on and what stays behind in silence.
@stefano I presume your blogpost described L'Aquila area. I visited L'Aquila twice; first, in 1996, as a co-author of someone on the maths faculty of the University. They still had very old DEC machines, connected to the internet by modem lines, and I was asked to help to install GAP (https://gap-system.org) on one of them. The campus had a basic coffee bar where one could drink an espresso looking at Gran Sasso, and I stayed at an old convent (which, I was told, hasn't survived the quake).
The second time it was in 2015, with my spouse asked to visit a CS research institute there, so we went there with our 3y.o.; in a mountain village nearby he saw snow for the 1st time in his life. -
The Chair
A familiar road, a moment of pause. I found myself looking at a place that once meant purpose and community. It’s a quiet reflection on what remains when people move on and what stays behind in silence.
@stefano Beautiful text. Inspiring are those figures from the past. Bosses like him, putting humans above everything else, are now nowhere to be found. Or I am just pessimistic. Thanks to the scribe who backed-up the memories from this era.
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@stefano Beautiful text. Inspiring are those figures from the past. Bosses like him, putting humans above everything else, are now nowhere to be found. Or I am just pessimistic. Thanks to the scribe who backed-up the memories from this era.
@EnigmaRotor thank you. I don't feel old - but I'm old enough to have some interesting memories.
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@stefano I presume your blogpost described L'Aquila area. I visited L'Aquila twice; first, in 1996, as a co-author of someone on the maths faculty of the University. They still had very old DEC machines, connected to the internet by modem lines, and I was asked to help to install GAP (https://gap-system.org) on one of them. The campus had a basic coffee bar where one could drink an espresso looking at Gran Sasso, and I stayed at an old convent (which, I was told, hasn't survived the quake).
The second time it was in 2015, with my spouse asked to visit a CS research institute there, so we went there with our 3y.o.; in a mountain village nearby he saw snow for the 1st time in his life.@dimpase wow, thank you for sharing your memories. Not L'Aquila but the Emilia Romagna earthquakes (2012): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_Northern_Italy_earthquakes
I was living in Cento (FE) -
@EnigmaRotor thank you. I don't feel old - but I'm old enough to have some interesting memories.
@stefano /* I don’t think we got *that* old, but the volume of changes around us since the last few years made us probably fast-forward at an unexpected pace. At least, that’s what I am in, waking up in different world without having noticed the calendar switching the pages. I guess other generations might have felt the same, and at this point also found nostalgia to be a way to anchor to something. Yes, while I am too young to be the so called “boomer” we throw at people, I’m probably the one coward looking at the past to cherish things we knew for sure, instead of looking at the uncertainty of future. No wonder I like operating systems from the 60s 70s… */
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@stefano /* I don’t think we got *that* old, but the volume of changes around us since the last few years made us probably fast-forward at an unexpected pace. At least, that’s what I am in, waking up in different world without having noticed the calendar switching the pages. I guess other generations might have felt the same, and at this point also found nostalgia to be a way to anchor to something. Yes, while I am too young to be the so called “boomer” we throw at people, I’m probably the one coward looking at the past to cherish things we knew for sure, instead of looking at the uncertainty of future. No wonder I like operating systems from the 60s 70s… */
@EnigmaRotor yes, things are moving fast. And while, some years ago, we had specific targets or visions of what we wanted to acheive, I can't see this vision today. AI everywhere? Losing the servers because all the workloads should be some pods managed by someone else's servers?
I don't really know. But I know we should own our data 🙂 -
The Chair
A familiar road, a moment of pause. I found myself looking at a place that once meant purpose and community. It’s a quiet reflection on what remains when people move on and what stays behind in silence.
@stefano Beautiful story, thanks a lot for sharing.
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@stefano Beautiful story, thanks a lot for sharing.
@def thank you!
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@acirep uhm you might be right 😆
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99.8% of the time it’s not a conspiracy or even a very complicated evil plan. It’s incompetence, bad communication, poor incentives, and/or unvarnished greed.
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I'd like it to use a smaller font size and more line-height.
https://mastodon.social/@scripting@daveverse.org/115611695583223239
Otherwise it looks beautiful.
But with this font size and spacing I don't want anyone to see it.
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@pikesley (I can see it’s a hat with light up HAT logo. What’s the thing it’s sitting on?)
