Who was Aleph Null? (2013)
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Robert Morris mentioned in the letter was Robert Morris Jr.'s father.
Core Wars did lead to real life Cyber Wars.
[edit] Wow the in/famous CNN cover https://content.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,19880926,00.htm... said this two months before the Morris Worm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_worm
Other than relying on the Wayback Machine, what are the options for keeping a site like this alive and at least minimally maintained, at its original URL?
Random old mysteries like this are fun. Maybe this will spread far enough the original Aleph-Null could hear about it but there's increasing odds they're dead.
Then I looked at the cap and realised it has this wedgy shape slightly protruding.
Well, hold the jar strongly in one hand and hit that part hard with the ball of the hand near the base of the thumb. This deforms the cap just enough that air gets in.
Might take a couple of tries to get the hang of it but has worked for me ever since: I've never used the spoon trick again since at least a decade.
https://avantihomewares.com/jar-opener-blue/
I've got one in my kitchen drawer, and it works well. Occasionally you get a jar where the gap between the lid and the jar is too narrow for the tool to slot in, but that's rare.
Tap the edge of the lid on a hard surface while pointing the jar 45 deg downward.
Tapping the lid is a common suggestion, but the magic ingredient is the downward angle.
* by found I mean shown, by a senior professor of mechanical engineering.
They wrote on many eclectic computing topics. Their true identity is still unknown.
And no, this comment isn't an AI-written summary. :-)