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Stealing is still illegal

The book "Angle of Attack: Harrison Storms and the Race to the Moon" by Mike Gray, was published in 1992 to 1994, so it is available at low cost at AbeBooks.

https://www.abebooks.com/servlet/SearchResults?cm_sp=SearchF...

"Rexx is arguably the first general-purpose scripting language."

"Arguably" sounds mean; who wants to argue?!?!

I would say there are compelling uses. Being a "first general purpose" one? Large claim that is up for a conversation. :)

Plot point for evil person disaster movie: large masses are staged above super long vertical tunnels. The masses are released at the same time and increase the Earth's rotation speed to cause something bad to happen. ;)

Reminds me of

"Eats, shoots, and leaves"

Or is it

"Eats shoots and leaves"?

;)

Book "Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eats,_Shoots_&_Leaves

While a home may not be a good monetary investment, it is a good investment for social and family stability=> have a place to go home to, store your stuff, have a family hangout space, all with predictable monthly payments is great to have.

"The only catch is the Stargate in Ashland County doesn't exactly work − like the ones on television." lol - the ones on TV actually work ;)

The small AWK book "The AWK Programming Language" was a great resource on many things :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_AWK_Programming_Language

On Wikipedia "List of stories featuring nuclear pulse propulsion"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_stories_featuring_nucl...

Wooden spaceships has been part of some science fiction stories.

https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/250692/disgusting-...

Beavis and Butt-head high-fiving and snickering for weeks on this headline ;)

Vending machines are not passive! They need repair, management of the money, if they sell goods then they need restocking (and that restock needs to be purchased), and you have to negotiate for location location location.

And if coins are involved there is work to collect the coins and get them to the bank.

Lastly, running a vending machines company requires regular involvement to make sure everything is running.

https://archive.ph/m9QoN Article archive link

I took M490 “Problem Seminar” (a math class) in 1995 with Dr. Hofstadter - we studied triangles, and the definition of a triangle’s center.

You would think that there is a limited set of “triangle centers” but he showed us (and he had us discover and draw them out using The Geometer's Sketchpad) dozens of ways to find triangle centers and he had notes on hundreds more definitions of triangle centers.

His approach to teaching was fun and made us want to take on challenging problems. :)

There are other things still not available, like this!

“Lisp lore : a guide to programming the Lisp machine”

https://archive.org/details/lisploreguidetop0000brom

I discover this reference and boom the Internet Archive book is not available:(

“Wayback Machine (provisional, read-only) service.

Other Internet Archive services are temporarily offline.

Please check our official accounts, including Twitter/X, Bluesky or Mastodon for the latest information.

We apologize for the inconvenience.”

This video shows such an expansion, increasing passengers from 212 to 312

https://youtu.be/OTpVxCOjmPY?si=FK5qR-Tvf027WZKM

"Some of the scariest viruses of the 20th/21st century emerged in large-scale farming operations (1918 influenza, SARS-CoV-1, most likely SARS-CoV-2). It seems like these farms are massive accidents waiting to happen."

What source says 1918 came from large scale farms?

Large scale farming in 1918 would not have existed as we think of it today, as average farm size was about 150 acres with approximately 6 million farms.

For reference, 2022 average farm size was 464 with approximately 1.89 million farms.

Sources: Changes in agriculture 1900 to 1950 https://www2.census.gov/prod2/decennial/documents/41667073v5...

Farming and Farm Income https://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/ag-and-food-statistic...

In the mean time Intuit raised the prices of QuickBooks desktop "subscription" about $100 :( to $694.43 (yes, to the penny).

Survey says:

Sell threads.com to Meta

“Many do not consider Object Oriented Programming good”

Is there data to support this statement? The video is mainly an opinion focused presentation, there was no research provided to support the statement above.

"However, human trials are yet to be completed, which could take about five years. The tablet is awaiting approval from the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) and is expected to be available in the market by June-July."

???

Human trials have not been done. That makes this a non story story.

"We’re building the National Zoning Atlas to unlock zoning’s black box by centralizing, standardizing, and making accessible information about zoning. We believe if people understand zoning, they will be empowered to improve it."

Call/cc !

This is a great book; easy to read / understand :)

But HN still works good enough:)

Well done interview! I like the idea Professor Kawakami Hiroshi shared to make inconvenient design ideas as design principles.

His inconvenient design cards reminded me of the IDEO Method Cards (https://www.ideo.com/post/method-cards , IDEO is a design company).

I will now look at some of the DESIGN TALKS plus series :)

This is a press release article…

My portable machine of youth was the HP95LX (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP_95LX). It had Lotus 1-2-3 built in, MS-DOS, and a nice HP calculator app :)

Subtitled "Why Douglas Hofstadter Is Changing His Mind on A.I."

Real. I worked on a TI Explorer with IntelliCorp's Knowledge Engineering Environment (KEE) to develop a tool called Conceptual Design Representation (CODER) to help with US Air Force cockpit design.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowledge_Engineering_Enviro...