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extra internet points if someone can guess what Paolo Soleri's "bacon" number is to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Bacon_(architect)

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> Paolo Soleri's "bacon" number

Ha! Paolo knew Edmund, and Edmund certainly knew Kevin. Bacon number of 2, although in the original sense it should apply to actors, not to just any person [0].

From the Wikipedia article about Edmund Bacon:

> In 2002, at age 92, he skateboarded in LOVE Park, the plaza he founded and designed at Cornell in 1932, as a protest against the City's ban on the sport.

I didn't know anything about Edmund Bacon. Interesting character.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_Degrees_of_Kevin_Bacon


so gh has trained their AI programmers as much as they could with shit code examples, now to bridge the last mile they need some hand holding? sign me up! will I get a real online gf out of this finally?


reminds me of another potentially critical mistake, https://mncomputinghistory.com/gopher-protocol/

'According to Alberti, licensing “socially killed gopher.” Second, changes to internet hardware gradually made Gopher less appealing. As put by McCahill, Gopher was designed within “the limits of what the technology (at the time) could do.” It was deliberately text rich because images were slow to load on the comparatively slow modems of the early 1990s. The decision to prioritize text made Gopher relatively fast while the more image-oriented World Wide Web languished in slow speeds (the “World Wide Wait”). However, by 1994 improvements in modem technology had turned this asset into a liability.'


https://csunplugged.org/en/

“Computer science” is a terrible name. Astronomy is not called “telescope science”, and biology is not called “microscope science”.


Telescopes and microscopes are subjects of theory of optics, which studies the nature of light.

The "computer" in "computer science" is referring to turing machines, automata, etc, which are subjects of theory of computation, which studies the nature of computable functions.


Been meaning to resurrect my old vic20 system just so I can wait in anticipation of my "game" to load from the cassette tape. Nostalgia is a helluva of a good drug.


I think you can put the emulators in like a 1x mode? I do not look back fondly on waiting for things to load hahha


I suppose it's better than balck pearl. Good night.


clean your glass four eyes, it's grapes - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Rome_and_wine


> The postmaster general is the second-highest paid U.S. government official, > based on publicly available salary information, after the President of the > United States.[13]

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

PmG is a very powerful position.


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