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@ShriramKMurthi Oh my.

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@ShriramKMurthi My most salient memory of Auckland: being awakened by a fire alarm prank in a hostel at 4 a.m., and waiting outside in the freezing cold for nigh an hour.

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@ShriramKMurthi Perhaps you intended hyperbole, but it was 640k that Gates mentioned. Me, I'm not paying $640k for a car.

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@ShriramKMurthi In a grad school class, we studied the Union-Find algorithm, and a fellow student asked, "how *did* he come up with that complexity result?". The professor's answer: "well, Tarjan is a genius ...".

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@ShriramKMurthi That was a backhanded compliment.

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@skdh Powered by a small modular fusion reactor?

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@ShriramKMurthi The zeal of the converted.

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@Dan_Christensen @trimet My Honored Citizen HOP card lets me ride for almost free.

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@lisperati If you're talking about the UNIX syscall, easily top 50.

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@aeberman12 So The Limits to Growth thesis is correct, after all?

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@GeoffreyHuntley @davidcrawshaw I worked with @davidcrawshaw for a bit in Australia in the pre-Github decade. That project's code sure could have used more review!

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@ShriramKMurthi What, you don't like parametric polymorphism?

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@ShriramKMurthi I heard an interview with them (on AstronomyCast, I think), they were entertaining.

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@davepl1968 In August 1995, I rode a bus from Stockholm airport. Inside the bus, an ad for Windows 95 was looping on a chyron display. "There's no escape", I thought.

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@pickover 9%. Obviously.

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@cryptodavidw Amen.

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@cryptodavidw Can he vibe-code the fixes?

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@MichaelDell Even with the current shortage, and accounting for inflation, memory is much less expensive per byte today than the 64kb for $149 in 1984.

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@ShriramKMurthi The NATO phonetic alphabet is neither phonetic nor from NATO. 73 de K7OO.

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@ShriramKMurthi Pearl-clutching may be difficult in this instance.