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I wonder what ChatGPT would say about it.

That's to replace the original deal from 2018 that the Delaware court invalidated.

But Waymo can't yet offer commercial service on freeways.

The book was included in the ACM's Classic Book series, but a free PDF was not available until now. Backstory here: https://mcjones.org/dustydecks/john-allen-1937-2022-and-anat...

I've had a book on Lulu for almost 5 years, and that hasn't happened yet.

Thanks again; added that (and fixed up previous edit fat-fingering).

Thanks; I added citations for both of those.

More on YKTLISP (and its predecessor) here:

https://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/LISP/ibm_lisp_...

Did anyone notice the fib function on the first page? It doesn't terminate:

fib :: Nat->Nat

fib 0 = 0

fib 1 = 1

fib (n+2) = fib (n+1) + fib (n+2)

The last line should be fib (n+2) = fib (n+1) + fib (n). The published version seems to have the same problem: https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/82b4/ea72b89270c528006dd253...

I'm the editor of that document, and happy to answer questions.

Lots of Prolog history here: https://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/prolog/

Nitrogen: you’re breathing it right now.

The 911 will be 60 in 2024.

Is it inspired by the baobab trees in Antoine de Saint Exupéry‘s _The Little Prince_? See page 15 of https://blogs.ubc.ca/edcp508/files/2016/02/TheLittlePrince.p...

Note it's normal for ISS "junk" to be burned up in returning cargo ships, but getting photos is not so common.

Larry Masinter is playing a central role.

Lots of information here: https://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/FORTRAN/

Here’s a story about disassembling a short binary card deck for an old time sharing system:

A CAL TSS debugging tool https://mcjones.org/dustydecks/archives/2023/04/22/1196/

The time sharing system on the SDS 940 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Genie) led to TENEX on the PDP-10.

My mother contracted coccidioidal meningitis (CM) [1] around 1991, perhaps because her immune system was weakened from chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL). Apparently fluconazole was not widely used at this point, and they treated her with Amphotericin B via intrathecal delivery, but the treatment was unsuccessful and she died. Apparently treatment is now more successful.

[1] https://health.ucdavis.edu/valley-fever/about-valley-fever/c...

Re old Prolog systems, lots of them are described here: https://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/prolog/

Knuth has been saying interesting things for a very long time. He began _The Art of Computer Programming_ project in 1962.

Almost as good as Severe Tire Damage https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Severe_Tire_Damage_(band)

Dennis and I overlapped at Tandem Computers in the early 1980s, but we didn't meet until 2003, when we were both members of a small private club of computer geezers. In addition to being a great software designer he was one of the nicest and most thoughtful people I've ever met.

No, it was being explored in the context of System R at IBM San Jose Research -- see this link in the Wikipedia article: http://www.mcjones.org/System_R/SQL_Reunion_95/sqlr95-System...

Imagine repairing a noisy potentiometer using powdered graphite.

James => Jerome.

Apollo 11 landed on July 20, 1969, so just over 8 years after the main speech at the joint session.

Correct. We used PL/S for the RSS, which was the lower layer of System R, the first SQL database. See https://mcjones.org/System_R/ and https://mcjones.org/System_R/SQL_Reunion_95/index.html

I’ve been married for 53 years; we share our accounts and have never had any problems.