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Yikes, must have missed that one. Horrifying thought.

This one of my favorite speeches for being both educational and entertaining. It's especially gratifying to learn the background story for the mysterious Alice and Bob.

You can still ride a Shay-powered train at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cass_Scenic_Railroad_State_Par... . It's an old-time logging railroad that goes up into the mountains from …

Nice! That Windows 95/98 GUI design wasn't the most beautiful ever made, but it was quite usable. You never had trouble telling what was what.

Ooh, nice! This very much appeals to the historian and former GUI developer in me. Update: The Pixel Perfect checkbox makes a noticeable difference in appearance. I presume this is…

Interesting site. As a non-Web developer, I've vaguely wondered about the various frameworks and where the "look and feel" that I see on different sites' user controls come from. T…

For tools that don't support -0, you can add the NULs yourself without much fuss. It's a one-liner in awk/perl/sed. Very handy.

That's a new one for me. Do you happen to have any pointers to more info? I found a few mentions, but nothing substantial.

In fact, he loves us!

> time is now part of the io interface [...] Nice, didn't know that! Sounds like this could be extremely useful for some of the simulators we work on (though we mostly work in C/C+…

> Why? Because I can. Always the best reason.

> 11. If you have a procedure with ten parameters, you probably missed some. That brings back some memories. Just glad I eventually learned better.

It was amazing to read the original account in the alumni newsletter, and it was great to see the photo. The legend is real! Heh heh.

I was... not prepared for your standup to comic README. Besides just being a cool idea, you gave me some things to think about and several new rabbit holes to explore.

> 1948 was an interesting time for computing. Not a commonly seen statement :-)

Dammit, another horrifying yet entirely realistic near-future scenario to keep me up at night.

Oh, absolutely. For instance I never thought Lysenkoism would happen again, but the conditions are ripe for it.

Same here. The Teams meeting page layout pisses me off on a regular basis, with way too much useless space around everything, tons of unhideable icons and crap filling half the scr…

Ratarmount is so cool. Recently I wanted to look at a couple random files in a > 300G compressed tarball. It just wouldn't have been worth doing without it.

- Terrorist Bomb Pierces Bob Dole's Outer Hull - Are Your Cats Old Enough To Learn About Jesus? - Deadly Super Rainbow Tears Through West Coast - Clinton Deploys Vowels To Bosnia -…

Correct.

Docs like this make playing space engineer so much more fun.

Very sad to hear. As an already-addicted computer nerd when The Soul of a New Machine came out, his book put me inside an utterly fascinating alternate world, a world where brillia…

Same, this is something I would use often. Sort of like #pragma once, but for initialization.

Just realized they tag the releases with great names in math/computing. Very cool.