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Computer control of a machine for exploring Mars (1964) [pdf]

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Re: Computer control of a machine for exploring Mars (1964) [pdf]

#11

Hey, HN Admins, is it really necessary to micro-manage the titles?! I had “by John McCarthy” (which is highly relevant, and in the next line in the doc)! It’s just a bit prissy to have to have the titles your favorite way all the time. Please stop it, and if you need to micromanage peoples posts, you should be working for Wikipedia. Yeah, yeah, I know ... OFF TOPIC!

Oh, I wouldn't have opened the link if it wasn't for the John McCarthy mention.

Re: Computer control of a machine for exploring Mars (1964) [pdf]

#12

Hey, HN Admins, is it really necessary to micro-manage the titles?! I had “by John McCarthy” (which is highly relevant, and in the next line in the doc)! It’s just a bit prissy to have to have the titles your favorite way all the time. Please stop it, and if you need to micromanage peoples posts, you should be working for Wikipedia. Yeah, yeah, I know ... OFF TOPIC!

IIRC, it's automatic.

Re: Computer control of a machine for exploring Mars (1964) [pdf]

#13

Hey, HN Admins, is it really necessary to micro-manage the titles?! I had “by John McCarthy” (which is highly relevant, and in the next line in the doc)! It’s just a bit prissy to have to have the titles your favorite way all the time. Please stop it, and if you need to micromanage peoples posts, you should be working for Wikipedia. Yeah, yeah, I know ... OFF TOPIC!

IIRC, it's automatic.

How do they do it? Prune "By X" every time? Or is there a more sophisticated system?

Re: Computer control of a machine for exploring Mars (1964) [pdf]

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And the name of the proposed rover was "Beagle"!

Unfortunate name for a Mars rover, in the passage of time at least

Made me wonder if Beagle 2 was in fact inspired by that robotic thing from 1964...

Re: Computer control of a machine for exploring Mars (1964) [pdf]

#15
post #10

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Unfortunate name for a Mars rover, in the passage of time at least

Made me wonder if Beagle 2 was in fact inspired by that robotic thing from 1964...

I saw a TV programme about this last week, it was named after Charles Darwin’s ship - H.M.S. Beagle.

A bit of interesting reading here http://www.beagle2.com/author/beagle2/

Re: Computer control of a machine for exploring Mars (1964) [pdf]

#16

Hey, HN Admins, is it really necessary to micro-manage the titles?! I had “by John McCarthy” (which is highly relevant, and in the next line in the doc)! It’s just a bit prissy to have to have the titles your favorite way all the time. Please stop it, and if you need to micromanage peoples posts, you should be working for Wikipedia. Yeah, yeah, I know ... OFF TOPIC!

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Re: Computer control of a machine for exploring Mars (1964) [pdf]

#17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

IIRC, it's automatic.

How do they do it? Prune "By X" every time? Or is there a more sophisticated system?

This seems to indicate some sort of cron just fetches the tag a little while after something's posted and updates accordingly. Matches with my experience - I've seen perfectly good titles reverted to nonsensical garbage no admin would've manually reverted to.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6572910

Re: Computer control of a machine for exploring Mars (1964) [pdf]

#18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

IIRC, it's automatic.

How do they do it? Prune "By X" every time? Or is there a more sophisticated system?

I think it’s manually done. They also moved the date to the end.

Re: Computer control of a machine for exploring Mars (1964) [pdf]

#19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How do they do it? Prune "By X" every time? Or is there a more sophisticated system?

This seems to indicate some sort of cron just fetches the tag a little while after something's posted and updates accordingly. Matches with my experience - I've seen perfectly good titles reverted to nonsensical garbage no admin would've manually reverted to. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6572910

But the title of this page was noise. The title was embedded in the pdf.

Re: Computer control of a machine for exploring Mars (1964) [pdf]

#20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This seems to indicate some sort of cron just fetches the tag a little while after something's posted and updates accordingly. Matches with my experience - I've seen perfectly good titles reverted to nonsensical garbage no admin would've manually reverted to. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6572910

But the title of this page was noise. The title was embedded in the pdf.

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