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Dave Farber has died
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#22"at the too-young age of 91" Ok I chuckled
Someday soon this won't be humor. I pray for that day.
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#23RIP :-(
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#25Earlier quoted context omitted.
Someday soon this won't be humor. I pray for that day.
“Someday soon” Based on what exactly makes you think this?
Humans have been around for thousands of years. Look at what we've accomplished in the last hundred. We have artificial heart pumps now. In the next two hundred years, if cancer research doesn't slow down too much and if we find some quick fixes for neurodegeneration, I think it's entirely plausible that 90 will become the new 60. I doubt I'll be around for it, and we might never hit the "life extension outpaces people reaching their life expectancy" medical immortality Holy Grail; but in the abstract, there is hope.
Judging by https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46923612 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46901862, I expect unsupp0rted's logic is closer to "we'll build superintelligent AI servants some time next week, and that will usher in a new golden age"; but that doesn't make the claim invalid.
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#26Farberisms https://www2.cs.arizona.edu/icon/oddsends/farber.htm
Thanks for this, it gave me many good chuckles. I feel like I see these kinds of lists less often lately. Does anyone know of some more recent good ones?
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#27Farberisms https://www2.cs.arizona.edu/icon/oddsends/farber.htm
these are basically like the things Yogi Berra was famous for saying, like "Nobody goes there any more, it's always too crowded."
and apropos this moment:
You should always go to other people's funerals, otherwise, they won't come to yours. -- Yogi Berra
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#28I was trying to get a hold of him for years. People who knew him kept saying they'd get me in touch, never did. His name pops up a lot during the 60s and 70s as an author on numerous articles about networks, often regarding many competing, now defunct alternative networks to the Internet. Examples of scans I personally made: https://siliconfolklore.com/internet-history/farber-datamati... and https://siliconfolklore.c…
IP-Asia met every week via Zoom. Several other people whose names appear in the same literature frequented it too. Pop in tonight for the final session?
I had no idea. I can't find out where this is. Can you send me a link
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#29Another one of the greats gone.
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#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
IP-Asia met every week via Zoom. Several other people whose names appear in the same literature frequented it too. Pop in tonight for the final session?
I had no idea. I can't find out where this is. Can you send me a link
His mailing list was public. No harm in sending the link to the meeting for last week, I guess. You can find the Zoom meeting coordinates there; they were reused every time. https://ip.topicbox.com/groups/ip/T2c0d41d801eaa76c-Mbdfe983...