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In Conversation with Eric Allman: The Evolution of Sendmail and the Internet(youtube.com)
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by rootbear 4y ago
Eric Allman talks about Sendmail, the early Internet, and coming out in the 70s in this interview from 2021 at the Hillside Club in Berkeley. Uploaded to YouTube by his husband Kirk McCusick. Some of the more interesting technical content i
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I kept hoping I could trick NASA into sending me down there for a few weeks. Surely a senior Linux/Unix admin would be useful there? Ah, well, there's always the tourist option.
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by rootbear 4y ago
The impressive visual effects from the climax of Gold were used in the last part of the film The Magnetic Monster. When I saw that film, I thought it was bizarre how the effects suddenly got so much fancier. I eventually learned they had re
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by rootbear 4y ago
And Poul Anderson was Bear's Father-in-law! I'd loved to have heard a discussion of such concepts between them.
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by rootbear 4y ago
Ah, thanks. It's been a while since I looked at the Fortress papers.
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by rootbear 4y ago
I think it's crazy that we limit programming languages to using ASCII in 2022. Yes, I understand the chicken-and-egg issues of input, but it still seems like we're limiting ourselves as developers if we don't make use of a ri
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by rootbear 4y ago
I’d work at SpaceX, maybe Tesla, depending on where, but not Twitter.
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by rootbear 4y ago
I knew they programmed in Lisp! But they write it in Cuneiform with their beaks.
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by rootbear 4y ago
I had one of those buttons. I got it at one of the regular Usenix conferences, as I recall, or perhaps at LISA.
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by rootbear 4y ago
This posting brings back memories. I was a computer science major at the University of Maryland, College Park, in the late 70s. CMSC 330 was then taught by the late John Gannon, a demanding but excellent teacher. He tragically died in 1999
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by rootbear 4y ago
The oldest functioning electronic computing device I have is a Nokia N800 Internet Table, ca. 2007. I never wrote anything for it beyond a shell script or two, but it was possible to write custom code for it. I never owned any of the classi
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by rootbear 4y ago
My pilot friend did this maneuver in a light plane (Cesena 172?) with me once or twice. It was cool to see my camera floating in front of my face for a few moments.
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by rootbear 4y ago
I don't think that was one of the talks that was live streamed, so there won't be a recording. I'm traveling today so I'll have to look for it when I get back. Henry may have a website, I'll look for that too.
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by rootbear 4y ago
I just sat through a talk at Worldcon by Henry Spencer that addressed some of these issues. He presented the case that to provide the energy we need to address future needs, including raising the standard of living in Third World countries,
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by rootbear 4y ago
I am a boomer. My brain is fine. Please do not make unsubstantiated generalizations about an entire, highly diverse cohort.
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by rootbear 4y ago
I was on X3J11, the ANSI committee that created the original C standard and my experience was similar. It was a great opportunity to learn C at depth and get an understanding of many of the subtle details. We rejected a great many suggestio
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by rootbear 4y ago
It was only when I saw the French spelling of Baritone is Baryton that I made the etymological connection between the "heavy" particle and the "heavy" male voice part.
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by rootbear 4y ago
I actually like the Elizabethan English in Shakespeare, but it's good to have a text with footnotes that explain some things. One thing we miss in modern times is a lot of Shakespeare's puns. The words he punned on have shifted in
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by rootbear 4y ago
The idea that HIV/AIDS is primarily of concern only to gay men is completely false. At the Whitman-Walker clinic in Washington, DC, which was for years primarily an HIV/AIDS clinic serving mostly gay men, the majority of new HIV&#
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The agency tolerated CentOS but was never happy about it. The fact that it was directly derived from RHEL and could be expected to get timely security fixes probably helped make them comfortable with it. The agency is also concerned about P
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by rootbear 4y ago
I'm a NASA contractor and until recently we used CentOS a lot. With the changes made to CentOS by Red Hat, we are now moving to RHEL or Ubuntu. The Agency prefers to have an OS with official, paid support. (I do not speak for NASA, my
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by rootbear 4y ago
Brian Greene's "The Elegant Universe" does a very good, completely non-technical, job of explaining the conflict between the two theories. It then goes on to explain why String Theory is one possible solution to the problem.
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I was going to say this. The sdcard is the weak link in the Raspberry Pi system. Even a USB flash drive is better. I have a Pi 4 that I use as a secondary system and it boots from an external SSD. It makes a real difference in responsivenes
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by rootbear 4y ago
I would like to have gone to the New York World's Fair, I was seven or eight, but the World's Fair I really regret missing is the 1939 New York World's Fair. As a fan of Art Deco, that place is amazing! And they had Elektro,
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My sister lived in the Knoxville area and my whole family went to that Fair, the only World's Fair I've attended. We had a good time, but for Knoxville, it was a financial boondoggle. I've still never been up in the Sun Spher
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It's a great channel. I was also fascinated by his rice cooker episode. I had no idea they were so clever, combining thermodynamics and the physics of magnetism. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSTNhvDGbYI
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I saw paper menus disappearing before inflation started going up. I took it as a Covid measure - no physical menus that needed to be disinfected after each customer used them.
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A person of my acquaintance owned a PDP-10 which he had in his apartment. Originally he had no memory for it and could only run programs from the registers and I remember thinking how strange that was.
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I'm also a big fan of the Cyberiad , and Douglas Adams. When a bunch of us first heard The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy radio plays, we were sure Adams must have read the Cyberiad , as some of it seemed so similar in tone

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