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I was hoping someone would point out slayradio. Incredible community of people, and I've been listening and chatting with those guys for decades.

Gauloises Smoke Algorithms a different type of thinking Tonight mechanics of language ring like bells or machinery Or lust after longing Circuits cut on paper Writ on paper Walls o…

Lady Astor: "If you were my husband, I'd poison your drink." Churchill: "If you were my wife, I'd drink it." -Apocryphal

I did not buy it. I traded Night Driver for it (and the paddles). 1980? And yeah, not to put too fine a point on it, just... no. But, given the replay-ability of Night Driver, stil…

Quite challenging. That game is impossible to solve without spoilers, so far as I'm concerned. And lord knows I tried. As far as Infocom goes, the only ones I managed to solve unas…

Google is getting some serious flack. From NPR this morning... https://www.npr.org/2020/12/18/947918291/google-researcher-d...

Maybe the 8th is an implied nested recursion. It's the story of Mr. Vonnegut telling the story of the other 7 shapes.

I learned spreadsheeting in Lotus 1-2-3 on DOS in the early '90s. It is so fast and super powerful. I still use the 1-2-3 keystrokes in Excel to this day (an option that I'm both i…

Yep. I had a C64 and my step-brother had an Atari 800. It was a cool machine as well. Same processor, but radically different graphics and sound chip, if I remember correctly.

Great book. Little dated, but still worth a read. Love the HOLE HAWG analogy about tools that do what you tell them to, immediately and sometimes dangerously, regardless of whether…

I was happy to see the C64 called out near the end of this. I love that machine, and the Amiga so much. And reading about this Pi 400 the other day truly struck me in the same vein…

good god, man. well said.

Cool story. Here's a real one, if anyone's interested... A Tiny Mistake https://pastebin.com/gZa36S0K

Nice catch. No judgment yet, but feels like bowdlerization to me. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bowdlerize

“The Secret Life of Machines” My god how I loved that show. Tim Hunkin is such a weird and wonderful person. And though the show sorta predates the modern internet, as soon as the …

Years ago I took a tip from (the admittedly fictional) Mr. Sherlock Holmes: I never go anywhere without my small notebook and a pen. Back pocket for notebook (and yeah, the current…

Very cool article. Having grown up on msoft BASIC and assembly on the C64, I really appreciate the low-level insights.

Holy crap that was a comprehensive article. Much more of this stuff, please. I haven't power-read anything so dense in a long while. And I'm not even a Star Wars fan (other than ha…

various 8bit '80s BASIC implementations: REM Yes, it's the comment marker, standing for REMARK. But it's also, metaphorically, a line that is "asleep." Genius.

I would argue that we, humans, as mathematicians, carpenters and apiarists have worked together with the bees resulting in a net gain in honey over time.

I'm 51 years old. Think I was about ~40 when I realized the dipshits I went to high school with (and thousands more like them) are running the world now. That was an absolutely ter…

Daughter is an architect. She's been doing origami since early kidhood, and I marvel at the intricacy of the models she now handcrafts. Point being, like anything, the art of patie…

Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra

James Kunstler (despite being a bit of a kook), has been making this argument compellingly and entertainingly for like, 20 years. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gz7oJjWg8_Y

I listened to audio book at age 47, and really had several... moments. Yes. I think there's a lot to be gained from a re-read with some road years on you.