From the ancient Greek for equality in freedom of speech; an eclectic mix of thoughts, large and small
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Jim: What got it started in the first place was public school. Schools are for slaves. I don’t mean this derogatorily, I mean this clinically. It is essential to understand that school by its very nature breeds (heh) the social dysfunctions characteristic of slave populations. Some varieties of school are more dissolutive than others, but all in greater or lesser inculcate the same slavish tendencies of personality. The most explicit admission of this is to be found in the General Education...
Mike in Boston: ”It spreads from one to another, healthy and infected” It has been said that the sexual revolution didn’t start with the Pill, that the Pill only kicked things up a notch, but what got it started in the first place was antibiotics.
Pseudo-Chrysostom: Well you know what they say, feds of a feather oft flock together.
Pseudo-Chrysostom: “This explanation helps us understand why Unix was successful and Multics was not. Naively, you would have expected Multics to succeed. After all, whereas Multics was developed by dozens of researchers across MIT, Bell Labs, and General Electric, Unix was created by a single person looking for something to do while his wife was out of town.” In other words, the main difference between the former cases and the latter case, is that Ken was a king in his own kingdom, however small it may...
TRX: K&R C, the original standard, was extremely barebones, and implementations varied drastically across vendors. ANSI C added a boatload of commands to the basic language, and vastly expanded the “runtime library”, which technically isn’t part of the C language, but is integral to any useful C program. Then came all the modern impedimentia, and C++.
McChuck: So, the average Pulitzer winning novel is something almost nobody has read.
Adar: “Brothels are advertised with pictures of prostitutes hung at the door, the price of one night written up with the furnishings required for revelry . . . and this is the state of even the Muslims in these parts!” Shia and the practice of temporary marriage??
Freddo: Bob, computers process assembly language, which is crazy detailed and error-prone for human programmers, so some smart people invented programming languages such as C so humans can program in a more abstract languages and then a compiler program can do the crazy detailed hard work of translating our C program into an assembly program. C and its cousin C++ are very powerful languages that allow you to stick in your fingers with the engine running. So very suitable for writing an Operating System...
Adar: Those persons able to write innovative code and operating systems no longer exist in the USA? Gone to foreign shores and for good?
Bob Sykes: So, today Macs run on Unix, which itself sits on C, and Windows machines run on C. Is that the takeaway?
Faze: Few Ohioans know of the terrible battles and massacres that took place in their placid state during the late 18th century. Not only the famous battles, like Fallen Timbers and Pickawillany, but the hideous Gnadenhutten massacre and others. Indians also committed unspeakable atrocities on random whites. It was a squalid trail of psychosis leading from the Ohio River, through the Dayton area to Sandusky.
Jim: Per La Wik, “Morse” was Nicholas Morse, the great-grandson of the inimitable Oliver Cromwell. Very cool.
Ezra: European captain of fortune was quite popular in Indian during the time of European expansion into thye area. Trained and commanded the armies of the various Shah, Nawab, Sultan, Nizam, etc. Wellington said his hardest fought battle was in India.
Bomag: “a high need for certainty with a low need for competence” On first blush, maps onto every internet crank with an explanation of the world. And other low-achieving groups. Needs to be a component of humility, a willingness to acknowledge evidence and let it guide you forward.
Bomag: Parallel’s today? Wagner group; drug cartels.