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I’m sure this dial from a 1950’s telephone lineman’s test set will come in handy someday.
This handy pocket guide to Unix (what your grandparents called Linux) was printed 35 years ago and is still mostly current.
I’m not sure where this came from. I think it was left behind by the previous occupant of one of my old bell labs offices.
Other than the date at the bottom, you can tell the approximate time of printing from the Death Star logo and the particular name of the company.
Also, this was almost certainly formatted with troff.
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An unfortunate side effect of the ubiquitous availability of (generally terrific) online maps and navigation software is the near extinction of printed city street atlases, which I still find much more useable for a couple of applications.
Like, I just moved to a new city that I know only superficially well. Google maps/earth is great, but doesn’t give me the sense of scale and distance that a good printed map does for just generally getting a sense of where things are.
It’s related to the way e-books are fine for reading something from start to finish, but aren’t (yet?) nearly as well suited for “flipping through” or jumping around in a book.
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We just pulled out of a major nuclear arms control agreement with Russia and it's barely a page one story because everything is on fire.
But it's not like, um, an increased threat of civilization-ending global nuclear war is something people might want to discuss or be concerned about.
Arms control is subtle and complex, with unimaginably high stakes. Reaching meaningful agreements was a tremendous accomplishment in a particularly dangerous period of history, the culmination of decades of moves and countermoves on both sides. They aren't like business deals.
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I’m as skeptical (and frequently horrified) as anyone about Facebook. But criticizing them for hiring a crew of top-tier privacy people seems at best premature. It could be a cynical move or ot could be a sign of progress. Indistinguishable at this point from the outside.
A frequent comment is “they’re only doing this because of regulatory pressure”. But, if so, that’s also a sign that the regulatory pressure is having exactly the intended effect. Only time will tell here.
I apologize if you think my lack of clarity on this is dishonest or disingenuous. I assure it’s simply because I’m too stupid and poorly informed to see things as clearly as you do.
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