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I remember in 1976 we were using mark sense cards to write programs, and we definitely had to slash the letter O. I think we also had to slash the Z to distinguish it from a 7.

dmolonyon My New Old Apple IIe Computer

You might want to check this out - https://www.kansasfest.org/

dmolonyon Gresham’s Law: Bad Drives Out Good as Time Passes (2009)

You can add Canberra to that list. I know several apartment blocks that are close to collapse, one Owners' Corporation is currently suing the builder (and the local government authority) in a case before the Supreme Court.

dmolonyon Not everyone has an internal monologue

"I posted a poll on instagram to get a more accurate assessment of the situation."

Cute.

dmolonyon An art dealer disappeared with $50M. 17 years later a documentary crew found him

The documentary says he is in France.

dmolonyon Darktable 3.0

Check your VPN?

dmolonyon Decoding the Ancient Greek Astronomical Calculator: Antikythera Mechanism

[2006]

dmolonyon My MacBook Pro exploded and burst into flames

Delaminating screens...

dmolonyon The Obsessively Complete Infocom Catalog

Will this overwrite files that have the same name but are in different directories?

dmolonyon Airport Made Fence Holes for Planespotting Photographers

I'm pretty sure Australia has done this for 40+ years.

dmolonyon Fly over a reconstruction of 4th century Rome [video]

Nice idea, but the saccharine voiceover made it impossible to listen to for me.

dmolonyon The Paris Compressed-Air Power Network (2018)

In contrast, the worst that could happen with compressed air was a burst pipe; this would not be a good thing to be standing near, but since the pipes ran through the sewers the chance of this was very small.

Even more reason to avoid standing near a burst pipe.

dmolonyon Amazon ‘flooded by fake five-star reviews’ – report

Amazon - the company that broke online shopping.

dmolonyon Cracking the mystery of egg shape

That web site is all flashy presentation, I couldn't tell if there was any actual information hidden amongst the animations.

TLDR anyone?

dmolonyon Java Streams and State

It's a shame the author never actually ran the code, it has bugs.

For example, the Factorial next() function should be:

  return new Factorial (index + 1, value * (index + 1));

And of course the iterate line should be:

  Stream.iterate (Factorial.SEED, Factorial::next)

dmolonyon Additively manufacturable micro-mechanical logic gates

I hope they build a Difference Engine or Analytical Engine as a proof of concept.