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Even greater is someone understanding my own sardonic sense of humor and putting it to good use. I did have a nice half round of golf today with my wife. What a beautiful day to sp…

20 years later, looks like they are taking RFPs for re-engining: [PDF] https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/IN/IN11413 I guess he was right about the engines.

> I know that jokes aren't really welcome on HN IMO, while I really don't come to HN to find dial-a-joke, or joke-of-the-day, I think some humor is essential in modern life. Since …

I know Matt too, primarily from him rejecting my Libfive PRs for being " too 1337". But seriously, Matt, I might have a project for an in-person event regarding printing robots. St…

Thanks! I noticed "PAiA" electronics sold kits of these--I remember that name from back then. Did they sell parts or other kits? Looks like they are still in business. Also noticed…

I worked at Boeing Wichita (which is no more), and an engineer told me that the B-52 was getting heavier over time because the old wires weren't removed for avionics upgrades. Of c…

My wife sent me these that she has read and recommends: Textbooks: Cephalopod Cognition by Anne-Sophie Darmaillacq (Editor), Ludovic Dickel (Editor), Jennifer Mather (Editor) Cepha…

Taken further, you might argue that there might be condemnation eventually of the whole concept of pets and work animals too. I'm not sure I "condemn" these ideas, but I don't have…

Thanks all, for these references! My wife is into cephalopod intelligence. I'll forward this to her and ask if she has any other recommendations. I do know there are a couple of we…

I've never heard of Rick and Morty, but take my advice, don't try to shop your screenplay to VCs. They took a dim view of my "Adult Stewie" concept last year (think "Young Sheldon"…

> Nevertheless simultaneous invention happens all the time. Try telling that to Isaac Newton. :) Or better yet Edison or the USPTO.

I had that book too, I just recognized it when I looked it up. I don't remember it as well, but apparently it was the display circuitry only.

> delicious recipes Ha ha He also did the TV typewriter: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TV_Typewriter which allowed people to have something to hook their bare board micro to. I had…

I think I even discovered "intentional O(random)" complexity with this gem from Acey-Deucy: 270 A=INT(14\*RND(1))+2 280 IF A 14 THEN 270

By the way, back to the original topic, a bare-bones machine like the KIM-1 also required a lot of hand assembly. I guess everybody is gone from this post too, but I wonder if ther…

Thanks again. Like you said it is fun to dream (ask the "Scheme Machine" guys sometime about how they would go about it now), but practically with technology like Julia's Zygote: h…

Everyone's probably way past reading this by now, but for the record I ported the first example to Common Lisp: https://github.com/koalahedron/lisp-computer-games Man that brought …

Thanks for your thoughtful comment. I'm afraid my DEC assembly language study ended at the PDP-11, but it is edifying to know the VAX had such an instruction. In some domains like …

I was thinking an interesting (probably not feasible) opcode would be a derivative op for automatic differentiation at the machine level.

I wanted a KIM-1 or a COSMAC Elf in the '70s, but I couldn't afford one as a kid. I eventually built a ZX81 kit from the proceeds of a summer job as my first computer. The KIM-1 ha…

I recommend this MIT OCW for people interested in the math behind origami and folding problems: https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-compu...

It really seems like it should.

Furthermore, to get an Emacs-like REPL (Edwin) 1 ]=> (edit) ;Loading "/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/mit- scheme/lib/prx11.so"... done