On Thu, Jan 17, 2019 at 11:29:54AM -0800, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote: Just in case you have just judged me: if I post a link it really only means I notice a trend, not that I endorse it. :-) -- Regards, Tomasz Rola -- ** A C programmer asked whether computer had Buddha's nature. ** ** As the answer, master did "rm -rif" on the programmer's home ** ** directory. And then the C programmer became enlightened... ** ** ** ** Tomasz Rola mailto:tomasz_rola at bigfoot.com **

On Thu, Jan 17, 2019 at 02:50:01PM -0800, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote: Ah, ok then. It would not have been a big deal if I was judged but I needed to know. O yeah, new shiny colorful tech. Supported by people who are a bit indifferent to potential problems from using it. So we come to times when thousands of websites stop loading because they all depend on piece of code sitting on a server in Antarctic and guess what, the iceberg... Or let's wire anything bigger than matchbox to the net. Crazy f*ers. If it sounds like I am overtone, it might be because I can anticipate (or read a bit). I guess many of them count on running away before their junk hits the fan - but nowadays, fans are everywhere and crazies are playing with those, too. Knowing they will always be under somebody's fan soothes me like hell. Speaking of paper, I would love to have more of it but my space is really limited at the moment, my library is spilling over despite weighting only about two metric tons. I had to slow down buying. I resigned subscribing a mag with 100-page-no-equations-monthly and replaced with 20-pages-equations-and-real-puzzles, replaced another 100-pager with pdf of the same. Paper is cool, hardly obsolete. I would like to learn making my own, one day. But I do not really buy much into this "love smell of paper and print". It simply is very practical thing, which is why I like it (taking notes, working with multiple books etc). OTOH, if I want to read a book and can get it reader. This way, I can increase my small library many folds with books which I would hardly be able to buy anyway. Which is good. I can learn a lot from so called obsoleted tech but I welcome opportunity to use new tech smartly. BTW, me mentioning a monolith in bedroom was about Kubrick's "2001" :-) . BTW2, the way I understand those things, obsolete tech is not so much obsolete as it is inapropriate for majority of people, so they abandon it as soon as they can. There was a thread here about how email is getting obsolete. But the truth is, when email was all the rage there were how many users of it, ten millions? I mean, in mid-1990-ties. And they were majority of all internet users, I guess. But "the majority of them all" was never very much up to writing anything longer. And this have not changed. Only "them all" now are connected, too. But will not want to use email, because in the past they were not willing to write too much either. The talk about "obsolete" might be just marketing. Making impression that they are not wrong. Etc. -- Regards, Tomasz Rola -- ** A C programmer asked whether computer had Buddha's nature. ** ** As the answer, master did "rm -rif" on the programmer's home ** ** directory. And then the C programmer became enlightened... ** ** ** ** Tomasz Rola mailto:tomasz_rola at bigfoot.com **