Posts by BebopWeBop 2863 publicly visible posts • joined 11 Dec 2015
I did once have a copy of the 'Anarchists Cookbook' - purchased secondhand in the US when visiting as a teenager.* Perusing it, and with a decent knowledge of A Level chemistry it seemed pretty clear that it had been written by people wishing to accelerate Darwinian selection. Not that some of it was not useful for a controlled bang.
* note to the inevitable listeners in I have it no longer - this was the late 70s.
Talking of light, many eons ago, the organisation I was working for got one of the first Intel Hypercubes that were allowed out of the US (export restrictions). The debugging software was f*ng awful, but it had red and green lights that indicated communications and processing. These came to be invaluable in debugging and optimising thre codes we were writing (parallel Fortran with a McFarland comp[iler - the one with the infamous "this error should never occur" compile message).
We sold 20 - generated as an experiment when Bitcoin just came out. Profit- - near infinity percentage wise. Very content at the time, and frankly despite the rises (and falls) I am, still very happy. (as are the kids who got 6 each). I must say, I was very very grateful that I have been religious on backups in the last 15 years.
C/O the Times, the vacant baroness of somewhere for something (the ex Tory-digital minister) was looking forward to the free for all on data processing to come January. I would not trust the Uk government as far as I could throw the tossers. Indeed we did not - hence a new modest (26 person) ops group in Germany. Shame those jobs could not have been retained in the UK.
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