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Towards the bottom of the page, there are two pictures of the mainframe that they used. The desktop computers in the other pictures were probably just terminals that were connected to it. It was a DECSYSTEM 2020. It ran the TOPS-20 operating system.

The text of the link calls it a minicomputer, but the links that I found called it a mainframe.

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/gbell/digital/...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DECSYSTEM-20

The fans of TOPS-20 were nearly as anti-Unix as the ITS partisans. This may help explain why Microsoft has not been so fond of Unix and the Unix way of doing things. At least in its early days.

I'm submitting this to the awesome list of awesome lists.

https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome

This way, you can just star that repository without cluttering up your GitHub star page.

To round out suggestions for studying logic, I recommend the following.

Mathematical Logic, Set Theory and its Logic, Methods of Logic. All three of these are by Willard van Orman Quine. If you know anything about modern logic, then that is a name that you should recognize.

A more accessible textbook is Sweet Reason by Tymoczko & Henle. They're a philosopher & mathematician pair and I like their approach. I'm currently halfway through the first edition. The errors are a bit annoying and I wish that I had waited for the second edition.

We're all nerds, here, so I understand the emphasis on mathematical logic, but you owe it to yourself to be familiar with traditional Aristotelian logic, as well. Noting the difference in mindset between traditional and modern logic is enlightening.

Being Logical, by D.Q. McInerny is a quick introduction to traditional logic. Socratic Logic by Peter Kreeft is much more involved. Be warned; Kreeft takes a strong stand against modern logic. He has some good points, but he's a bit unfair.

For a humorous take on the issue, see

http://www.supportkillerrobots.org/

Shameless plug, I wrote it on a lark.

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Reminds me of Robert McNamara, SecDef under JFK & LBJ. Early in the Kennedy administration, both he Kennedy knew that the way that they were fighting in Vietnam made the war unwinnable. They kept on fighting the war on unwinnable terms.

In the 1990s, when he wrote his memoirs admitting as much, anyone who was anyone in the Beltway attended the celebratory launch of his book.

Carly Fiorina nearly destroyed Hewlett-Packard. After she left HP, Bush the Lesser immediately began floating her name for the International Monetary Fund. When that didn't take, she ran for the Senate against Babs Boxer. She lost that, too. And now this: https://www.carlyforpresident.com/

Left wing and Right wing, our elites seem to be selected for their ability to fail at scale.

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Your comment has been hellbanned for some reason. You may want to look into it.

Thanks for the link to hiccup. In your code example, shouldn't that be a 3 instead of a 6?

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>At one time I was in a physics program at university until I discovered that I couldn't understand physics. I changed to computer science ;-). My experience, though, was that most people I talked to had only a cursory understanding of actual physics. What they really understood was the math.

The science fiction author, Jerry Pournelle, who has a measured IQ of 180, once complained to Richard Feynman, "I don't understand quantum mechanics." Feynman replied, "That's okay, Jerry; neither do I."

The article twice mentions that the emulator would use analog circuits. So there must be some reason why digital circuits would not work.

The graph shows Thomas Aquinas as more influential than Duns Scotus. As much as I admire Aquinas, I dispute that.

When I was in seminary, one of the guest lecturers told us of how he was in Rome, doing his dissertation, and he needed to consult a work by Scotus. He went to one of the Vatican libraries and requested the relevant book. He struck up a conversation with the librarian, saying "You must not have a lot of copies of Scotus' work." The librarian disagreed, saying "Oh no. We have more manuscripts of Duns Scotus than we do of St. Thomas."

Except for a brief period during the Council of Trent, the works of St. Thomas Aquinas were almost forgotten from the time shortly after his death until Pope Leo XIII revived his reputation. Graphs like this do not reflect the change in influence over time.

Symbolic logic. Years ago, I did a paper in logic which my professors initially took to be of publishable quality. They took a closer look and decided that I needed to clean it up a bit.

I've finished reviewing Aristotelian logic and am now going deep into modern logic. I don't know for sure, but I have a hunch that my paper will be of use to mathematicians.

Here's an example of a book published with Chesterton's marginalia.

http://www.amazon.com/Platitudes-Undone-Facsimile-Handwritte...

EDIT: I own a copy of this book in mint condition. It's a fun read.

Growing up, I was taught not to make a mark in a book, ever. But I learned from one of my philosophy professors that one of the benefits of owning books is that one can put one's own notes in the margins. Re-reading such books years later can be eye-opening.

I will quote you on this. I don't care if you mind; it's just so good.

One of my Latin teachers told us that "the Church would give her right arm" for a copy of the book (the title escapes me) that convinced St. Augustine to stop being a skeptic and become a Christian. That book is lost.

Then there's the Eigenharp.

http://www.eigenlabs.com/

As far as I know, that equivalence betwixt "shortage of workers" and "not paying workers enough" holds for economists as far apart as Milton Friedman and John Maynard Keynes. That makes management's policy especially inexcusable.

According to Eric S. Raymond's version of the Jargon File, people used to joke that MS-DOS system calls delivered "same-day service." Now that we're living in the future, that joke has become literally true.

The largest nuclear detonation set off by the United States was Castle Bravo. It was fifteen megatons. It had serious fallout issues, but it did not cause the kind of damage that is claimed for this weapon.

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

Greg Cochran has been making that argument for some time now. Here's his take on the issue: http://westhunt.wordpress.com/2014/07/03/rasmus-nielsen/

There are only a handful of independent nations in the world. They are Russia, China, Iran, North Korea, and "the international community."

Iceland is a part of the empire. I wish that it weren't so. I do sympathize with your wish for privacy.

Traditionalist Catholic religious communities still use this calendar to a certain extent.

At the beginning of dinner, the seminarians will assemble in the refectory and listen to the daily reading of the Roman Martyrology. It begins, for example, with "A reading from the Roman Martyrology for the fifth day before the Kalends of February, the thirteenth moon." Thereupon, we would hear about the saints whose feast days were established for the following day. The reading would end with the words "and elsewhere, many other holy martyrs, saints, and holy virgins."

The oddest day in the calendar was the dies bisextus, which gets inserted somewhere after the Nones of February in leap years. On that day, the reading is simply "Many holy martyrs, saints, and holy virgins."

To this day, indult parishes that celebrate the 1962 Roman liturgy have saints days that get moved apparently arbitrarily in late February on leap years. If you understand the old Roman calendar, it makes sense.

I dropped out of university in order to enter the seminary. I completed all of my seminary courses, then I was rejected for the priesthood because I was thought to be "better suited for research."

Since then, I worked some blue collar jobs, and am now learning web development.

sologrrl, your account has been hellbanned. I don't know why, though; your link is what you claim it to be except that the audio track has been muted by YouTube because it's a copyrighted Daft Punk song.

Mencius Moldbug is behind this. He will give a presentation on Urbit this Wednesday in San Francisco: http://personalclouds5.eventbrite.com/

Read the next sentence: This would be news to Georgetown University -- one of only two Catholic universities to make U.S. News & World Report's list of top 25 universities -- which just recognized its adjunct professors' union, citing the Catholic Church's social justice teachings, which favor labor unions.

When I read "Dell Optiplex GX270," my memory tickled and I looked it up. Just as I thought. I used to be a field tech for a service company around 2007 and 2008. I remember having to swap the motherboard for a bunch of those computers in grocery stores. Same problem every time; popped capacitors.

Grocery stores run by Nash Finch, on the other hand (Sunmart, if you're in Nebraska) had old NCR POS terminals from the early 1980s. These were some of the very first computerized point of sale terminals in non-upscale retail stores. Those things were still going strong more than thirty years later. The printers on those things were mechanical failures waiting to happen, but the POS terminal, itself was crazy reliable.

The Midwest gets some impressive electrical storms. Occasionally, one of these storms would fry a peripheral card in one of the terminals. When that would happen, I would have to go to the store after closing hours, call up the tech who specialized in these terminals, and he would walk me through ripping out the proper card and rebooting that terminal from the master POS terminal. Yup, the thing would still boot up; even after a peripheral card had been burned.

NCR had long since gotten sick of that model and I don't blame them. Those printers were dodgy. Nash Finch were such cheapskates.

>Older programmers are sometimes being enticed out of retirement to maintain legacy systems (this is rather hit or miss as there appears to still be some age discrimination here).

Dear Lord. The one area where age discrimination should rationally favor older programmers and they still get the shaft. How does that conversation go in HR?

"Here's a candidate who knows COBOL... but wait, he's over 60. Ewww, it's so depressing looking at old people [i.e., those over 30] who aren't management track. And we'd have to pay him good money to do something that isn't focused on giving orders to underlings. How yucky. Welp, guess that mission critical piece of software can wait."

Perhaps I've been channeling Michael O. Church a bit too much for my own good, but sometimes it looks as though he's nailed it.

Scott Locklin had a weblog post giving background information on past attempts to use 3D printers to make guns. Note that this was published in August of last year.

https://scottlocklin.wordpress.com/2012/08/11/bad-engineerin...