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by pmcjones 3y ago
See https://xeroxparcarchive.computerhistory.org/_cdcsl_93-16_/.... -- it's from a CD-ROM attached to a Xerox blue&white at the time.
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by pmcjones 3y ago
Setback thermostats were invented a century ago — not digital.
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by pmcjones 4y ago
_Bootstrapping: Douglas Engelbart, Coevolution, and the Origins of Personal Computing_ by Thierry Bardini https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0804738718/ref=nosim...
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Jeff Koons Goes to the Moon(gq.com)
1 points by pmcjones 4y ago|1 comments
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by pmcjones 4y ago
"Leonardo da Vinci is the name he has given to one of the 125 “moon phases” in his Moon Phases project—a project that will, among other things, deliver 125 small sculptures via SpaceX rocket and Intuitive Machines lander to the lunar s
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by pmcjones 4y ago
You might give https://www.librarything.com a try.
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by pmcjones 4y ago
I flew on a Douglas DC-6 and a DC-7 in 1957 -- they seemed quite modern to me at the time, despite having propellers.
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by pmcjones 4y ago
ARPANET dates back to the 1960s.
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Swearing in as Member of the 118th Congress(web.archive.org)
2 points by pmcjones 4y ago|1 comments
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by pmcjones 4y ago
"U.S. Representative George Santos was sworn in as a Member of the United States House of Representatives by the Speaker of the House on January 3rd, 2023." -- not possible, since no Speaker was elected today. The page was quickly
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by pmcjones 4y ago
Keep clicking in the box until it goes away.
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by pmcjones 4y ago
The only Nest I've used was at a vacation rental we stayed in once a year for a number of years. That thermostat was horribly confused by the new guests with different behavior every few days. And after a years' absence I always h
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by pmcjones 4y ago
In 1972, I worked on a project at the Center for Research in Management Science (part of University of California, Berkeley) developing an APL-based timesharing system. We rented time on Resource One's SDS-940 to do our development wor
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by pmcjones 4y ago
They weren't losing as much in the past as they are now.
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by pmcjones 4y ago
Also: MIT's PAL (1968 -- Art Evans, Martin Richards, and others) and John Reynolds' GEDANKEN (1969): https://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/PAL/ https://www.softwarepreservation.org&#x2
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by pmcjones 4y ago
> which is why it took 20 years of further research to go from Lisp 1 to Scheme. Actually it only took Peter Landin a few years. For example see: P. J. Landin, The Mechanical Evaluation of Expressions, The Computer Journal, Volume 6, Iss
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by pmcjones 4y ago
Wirth designed two languages before Pascal: EULER and Algol W.
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by pmcjones 4y ago
I’ve had a domain (at Godaddy) for 28 years with no privacy protection and no particular problems from bots/scrapers.
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by pmcjones 4y ago
For the record, Alexander Stepanov's original focus for the Standard Template Library was generic _algorithms_. Of course, he provided generic data structures ("containers") too. See http://stepanovpapers.com .
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by pmcjones 4y ago
Any suggestions for how this could be scaled up to the general public (the vast majority of whom aren't comfortable reading code and have no idea what github is)?
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by pmcjones 4y ago
It was probably typeset by typing it on an IBM Executive typewriters which had proportional spacing and a carbon ribbon.
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by pmcjones 4y ago
The ARMs in the 1980s in the United States were well-documented and the potential interest rate increase was both "rate-limited" and capped. They were not fraudulent.
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by pmcjones 4y ago
That version of the Cedar source was on a CD-ROM accompanying the blue-and-white version of this SOSP'93 paper: Carl Hauser, Christian Jacobi, Marvin Theimer, Brent Welch, and Mark Weiser. 1993. Using threads in interactive systems: a
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by pmcjones 4y ago
Ditto. Fifty-two years and counting.
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by pmcjones 4y ago
I think Fenaughty must have been involved with a much later project: the LISP 2 project at SDC (with III) started in 1963.
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by pmcjones 5y ago
Here's a good place to start: https://amturing.acm.org/lectures.cfm
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by pmcjones 5y ago
I've been a member since February 1971 (I was still in college), and signed up for the ACM Digital Library when it launched. So you can thank people like me for the existence of the ACM and the availability of all those papers that you
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Silvermint. Fast, Secure, Decentralized. Choose Three(silvermint.net)
1 points by pmcjones 5y ago|0 comments
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by pmcjones 5y ago
It is sometimes possible to register at least two hardware keys with a particular online service, and then specify that you want the other fallbacks to be disabled.
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by pmcjones 5y ago
For a very short list, see this from Alexander Stepanov (C++ STL, etc.): http://stepanovpapers.com/#Civilization

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