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  1. I saw this segment on YouTube, in which #Fridman interviewed #Kernighan about his #programming setup. For an instant, I was surprised to learn that Fridman hadn't heard of #UNIX \(\texttt{ed}\), but then I realised....

    In my view, a luminary like Kernighan, from a certain era, should be interviewed by someone who wouldn't be stunned when hearing once-common names like \(\texttt{ed}\) or \(\texttt{ex}\) or \(\texttt{dc}\) or \(\texttt{adb}\), but would smoothly inject a brief historical description thereof, and glide on with the main point of the interview. But that 1970s/1980s #geek generation avoids the YouTube selfie camera like the plague.

    youtu.be/EF2-vcp1Te0?si=87w4vm

  2. Just realised I'm as old (at least to the year of release!) as the C programming language. So many memories of programming in it as an undergraduate at St Andrews. Kernighan and Ritchie was our programming bible. computerhistory.org/timeline/1 #ComputerHistory #ComputingHistory #1970s #StAndrews #StAndrewsUniversity #programming #coding #Kernighan #BrianKernighan #Ritchie #DennisRitchie #KernighanAndRitchie #Books #Cprogramming

  3. Recent ships of the human space fleet are equipped with #DiffieHellman-Drives (which enable them to exchange their position with other, far away ships without allowing outsiders to intercept) and #FloydSteinberg shields (which diffuses all incoming attacks).
    Interstellar navigation was very easy after all ships computers were programmed with the #Bresenham-Algorithm.
    All crew members were trained in all details of the #Kernighan-#Ritchie protocol.

    #MicroFiction #SciFi

  4. Recent ships of the human space fleet are equipped with #DiffieHellman-Drives (which enable them to exchange their position with other, far away ships without allowing outsiders to intercept) and #FloydSteinberg shields (which diffuses all incoming attacks).
    Interstellar navigation was very easy after all ships computers were programmed with the #Bresenham-Algorithm.
    All crew members were trained in all details of the #Kernighan-#Ritchie protocol.

    #MicroFiction #SciFi

  5. Recent ships of the human space fleet are equipped with #DiffieHellman-Drives (which enable them to exchange their position with other, far away ships without allowing outsiders to intercept) and #FloydSteinberg shields (which diffuses all incoming attacks).
    Interstellar navigation was very easy after all ships computers were programmed with the #Bresenham-Algorithm.
    All crew members were trained in all details of the #Kernighan-#Ritchie protocol.

    #MicroFiction #SciFi

  6. Recent ships of the human space fleet are equipped with #DiffieHellman-Drives (which enable them to exchange their position with other, far away ships without allowing outsiders to intercept) and #FloydSteinberg shields (which diffuses all incoming attacks).
    Interstellar navigation was very easy after all ships computers were programmed with the #Bresenham-Algorithm.
    All crew members were trained in all details of the #Kernighan-#Ritchie protocol.

    #MicroFiction #SciFi

  7. Recent ships of the human space fleet are equipped with #DiffieHellman-Drives (which enable them to exchange their position with other, far away ships without allowing outsiders to intercept) and #FloydSteinberg shields (which diffuses all incoming attacks).
    Interstellar navigation was very easy after all ships computers were programmed with the #Bresenham-Algorithm.
    All crew members were trained in all details of the #Kernighan-#Ritchie protocol.

    #MicroFiction #SciFi