Phil Landmeier @shuttersparks@social.cleverlibre.org

@cra1g This one has been obvious to me since I was little. With strong, all you have is the strength you have. With smart I can make strong, as much strong as I want, 10 megatons of strong if need be.

Hearing delayed for prosecutor who obstructed the Arbery murder investigation.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/hearing-delayed-for-ex-da-charged-in-wake-of-arbery-killing/ar-AA15IzdW

@jdhaight @lauren Starting at programming in 1968, and also working with computers from the generation before mine, I thought of myself as a computer OG through the 1980s and into the 90s. But in 1997 I became friends with a married couple, both programmers, that reset my attitude.

The two of them had worked together for Raytheon since the 1950s. The two of them were largely responsible for the code that operated the early OTH radars, the "DEW Line" or Distant Early Warning System. I frequently spent hours with them listening to amazing stories of how those early systems worked, the weird hardware that had to be developed, software methods they had to invent, on and on. After that I didn't feel like an OG anymore.

I mean, when I started we had Fortran compilers and everything. Lmao.

@lauren @EugestShirley @dbc3 No knowledge of DEC CEs here but plenty of IBM. All the stories of IBM CEs are positive. Those guys knew their business and didn't fool around. I was impressed.

OTOH, IBM customers paid BIG money for leases and service so the service damn well better be stellar, and it was.

@lauren @EugestShirley @dbc3 Hah. I did. An IBM 1401 (!)

@lauren You should write a book. You're a good writer, and have lots of unique stories that no one else knows and never will know unless you write it.

One of my background tasks is adding more and more to my autobio as I think of things. Asimov's title for his autobio is always an inspiration for this work, "In Memory Yet Green."

Gas prices fall below $3 and the media says nothing.

https://www.politicususa.com/2022/12/27/republicans-and-the-media-say-nothing-as-gas-prices-fall-below-3-gallon.html

@MichaelJStern Commonly known as fraud. And Santos emphasized that he has never committed any crime in any country of the world. (A statement that seems rather odd to me.)

@juglugs Yes, this has long been the case. I suspect it's due to Twitter's algorithms. Unless you are already famous, or an "influencer", or are trending, nobody sees your stuff.

@vwbusguy I see what you did there. Very funny.

@lauren Yes, indeed. The same machine, an X-MP, was then used for 2010's CGI.

What we were most excited about was being able to solve the problem of "too much motion at once" using models. It was possible for the ship to move while the weapons doors were opening, while each of the covers were opening -- dozens of things in motion at once.