"This rare episode of CBS’s Tomorrow series, produced to commemorate MIT’s 100th anniversary (1861–1961), explores the early days of artificial intelligence, robotics, and the potential of “thinking machines.” Hosted by actor David Wayne, this documentary-style special features interviews with pioneering computer scientists, including MIT President Jerome B. Wiesner and AI visionary Oliver G. Selfridge of MIT Lincoln Laboratory."

Also a good opportunity to read about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radia_Perlman in general (she is mentioned in the blog of course).

I met her once in the Bay Area on BART as she was going from the airport to Berkeley to give a lecture (I admit I did not know who she was at the time). We had a nice 1 hour conversation. She's incredibly smart and humble.

It's interesting because we learned this lesson with JVM applets, Flash and X controls in the browser, yet somehow insist on revisiting it...

also - https://www.freedomforum.org/remembering-bill-biggart-911-an...

It's what JIT (just-in-time) inventory and offshore manufacturing took away from us. Hold onto your spare parts.

My dad worked at Lockheed and in the 80s they joked they used JIC (just in case) manufacturing. They had so many parts without a clear reason as to why they created so many.

JIC! That's funny. It may sound like inefficiency, but really it is an option on future flexibility. Just like the big box of cables.

For a brief second, I thought this was about an original 7104.

Are there specific TDS models that you have found to be better, btw, reliability-wise?

>an original 7104

I've got one, they are very cool. I also have a 7834 (storage tube), cool in a different way. On the other hand, they are taking up a lot of space... I also have two 485s, one with a broken trigger.

Other than the very bottom end ones, no. Mostly went to Hp/Agilent instead.

Thanks for answering, not surprising. I think the transition from all-hardware to Windows-driven digital hard on Tektronix and many other storied engineering teams.

I found this which might interest you:

https://507movements.com/

Which MacOS version are you on, out of curiosity? Do others see the same software issues?

"Arm was officially founded as a company in November 1990 as Advanced RISC Machines Ltd, which was a joint venture between Acorn Computers, Apple Computer (now Apple Inc.), and VLSI Technology (now NXP Semiconductors N.V). "

Wow, I didn't know that Apple was a founding member of ARM!

This is the equivalent of a Kubernetes pod restarting.

Following this metaphor, what was Chernobyl?

Someone runnning Kubernetes on an old unpatched on-prem Windows box, conducting a "failover test" by pulling one of its power supplies, spilling coffee on the other one, catching their house on fire, and waiting to call the fire department due to being embarrassed.

One shouldn't make jokes about a situation where people died. Just to sum up Chernobyl 1. no containment building 2. flawed reactor design 3. operators turned off safety systems and improperly operated the reactor 4. delayed / improper emergency response

Crash of the monitoring/C&C process of a 48xxl AWS hosted spot priced EC2 instance, locked in an infinite loop?