Suborbital is only 100km up. Even icbms go higher, to 1000km.
2020-02-21:
Suborbital is a waste of time. Bad news for Virgin Galactic and Blue Origin.
Month: May 2010
France Euro Threat
the loser countries of italy, spain and france making common cause. the beginning of european disintegration.
Programming History
LOL
1801 – Joseph Marie Jacquard uses punch cards to instruct a loom to weave “hello, world” into a tapestry. Redditors of the time are not impressed due to the lack of tail call recursion, concurrency, or proper capitalization.
1940s – Various “computers” are “programmed” using direct wiring and switches. Engineers do this in order to avoid the tabs vs spaces debate.
1957 – John Backus and IBM create FORTRAN. There’s nothing funny about IBM or FORTRAN. It is a syntax error to write FORTRAN while not wearing a blue tie.
1986 – Brad Cox and Tom Love create Objective-C, announcing “this language has all the memory safety of C combined with all the blazing speed of Smalltalk.” Modern historians suspect the 2 were dyslexic.
Hipster to hippie
ironic mustache -> bushy beard, stains on shirt -> tie dye
Mass dilution
Homeopathic weapons are the ultimate Smart Bombs,’ warned President Obama, ‘They are so smart that they only affect the gullible. The only defence is for everyone to remain calm, vigilant and to always wear a magic vibrating crystal.
NomicWiki
dedicated to nomic, the self-modifying game by douglas hofstadter. i really look forward to playing this.
Beer demystifier
lovingly done, 150! pages. as a pdf unfortunately, so a bit tedious to search. i want this as a mymap so i can follow it more easily!
Gregor J. Rothfuss 