I remember reading Unix source in Geoff Steckel‘s office at Harvard who got the first Unix distribution outside of their labs and the line printer would just would use overstrike on parentheses to designate curly braces and upper case (lower case was printed as upper since the line printer didn’t have lower).
Helped Carl Helmers start Byte along with another Intermetrics co-worker Dan Fylstra (who founded VisiCorp a bit later, the first PC software company that published VisiCalc) in the summer between semesters at Harvard.
Wrote a couple of articles and spent some time in Nashua (IIRC) with Helmers and Green (the publisher), but had to get back to school in the fall so faded out, and didn't overlap with Tinney's work.
Look up "where did the towers go?" on Youtube, a lecture by materials scientist Judy Wood. She argues I think conclusively that the towers were turned into dust by directed energy weapons.
(I know this will get downvoted to hell, but I suggest you find out for yourself.)
I bought a barely-used (2K miles, 35% off (year on lot)) high-roof Sprinter on a whim back in 2017 (was a PGA tour shuttle, apparently) and took out all 3 benches, for a truly wonderfully capacious, full-enclosed hauling and moving machine.
We've also used it as a great family country-touring machine with all benches in (8 kids), and the kids have taken it around the country a couple of times with friends.
Can't recommend them more. Just a basic V6 diesel, but Mercedes does build solid trucks.
(The only drawback being that the roof a/c gaskets always break on these things at great expense (1600usd), out of warrantee. They even settled a class action suit about that exact problem, but only up to 2015. I suppose we'll have to start another to cover 2016 and up...)
Boy, every new Apple laptop release people harp endlessly about the cost.
Look, people, Apple high-end laptops generally cost $3-4K. And if you think that's high, you're forgetting that (in many of our cases) you're running your whole business on that.
$3-4K every couple of years should be in the noise. Cost relative to other laptops has little meaning, if you want high-end Apple gear.
There are 300M guns in the USA spread across 3.8M m^2.
1M soldiers (O(current armed forces)), armed with all the equipment they have (unless they decide to nuke the whole country) could not take down a rebel force spread across most of the US (concentrated away from the coasts, of course ;-).
If you want a wonderful newer translation of Dante, there's a newer one by Anthony Esolen that is muscular, dynamic and just ripping good! ;-)
We used it with our kids in our home education efforts.
But, yes, the Dorothy Sayers translation is a real tour de force, if a bit stilted because she has to resort to truly archaic English to get the terza rima to work. But still...
With a fast parsing algorithm, you could parse as a programmer types, unlike the current syntax highlighting editors which use only rough pattern matching instead of having a real parse tree. Imagine seeing syntax errors the moment you type them.
That's what Xcode 4 does with the new Clang/LLVM machinery inside.
If things really HTF, you're gonna want to not be blocked by a closed bank, etc.