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Re: Dave Farber has died

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Post by kristopolous »

rinze wrote: post #30
kristopolous wrote: post #28

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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...

Thanks. Really wish I had known about this. I wanted his commentary on an article I mentioned him in from 2022

I would have paid serious money to have gotten that

This is the article btw https://siliconfolklore.com/internet-history

Here's the one other large project I've got at that domain https://siliconfolklore.com/scale/

It for a history talk in 2024. I worked months on that

Re: Dave Farber has died

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Post by andyjohnson0 »

jordanscales wrote: post #17

Was fortunate enough to attend a few guest lectures from him at Stevens when I got my minor degree in science and technology studies. He was so sharp that I was blown away that he was (at the time) 80 years old. I wonder what his life in Tokyo was like! Did he ever write about it?

I recall a few posts when he moved out there. Based on a quick look at my archived IP emails:

https://seclists.org/interesting-people/2018/Jun/35

https://seclists.org/interesting-people/2018/Jul/2

https://seclists.org/interesting-people/2018/Jul/84

Re: Dave Farber has died

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Post by anjel »

zamadatix wrote: post #26
anjel wrote: post #20

Farberisms 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?

history's only full time, professional published epigrammatist, Ashleigh Brilliant

https://www.ashleighbrilliant.com/

Re: Dave Farber has died

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Post by kristopolous »

rinze wrote: post #30
kristopolous wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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...

Thanks for that link. I attended that at 4am california time. So sorry I didn't ever get to talk to him.

It was like attending a funeral for someone I never was able to track down. Feel kinda terrible about all of it. Really sucks, sounds like he was a very friendly guy.

Re: Dave Farber has died

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Post by sennawcf1 »

Met this gentleman on a plane and we had an amazing conversation of Health care exchanges and information. I did not know him other than that and posts on LinkedIN. I learned so much in such a short time.

Re: Dave Farber has died

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Post by unsupp0rted »

ryan_n wrote: post #37
wizzwizz4 wrote: post #25

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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 peop…

Ok, I guess I just didn’t think someday soon meant “the next couple hundred years”. I agree with what you’re saying though.

Nah I meant more like in one of the current generations of humans, or possibly the one right after.
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