earleybird

The DEC 20 I was familiar with was a PDP-10 with a PDP-11 as a frontend (i/o) processor. I recall one of the cookie messages was "Help I'm trapped in a PDP-11"

Ordered choice may cause a PEG parser to fail where a CFG parser would recognize the string.

Dick Van Dyke for President!

Did you do a backup :-)

Merry Christmas

These agents are acting on behalf of a person. Charge that person with a crime.

You get a Saucerfull of Secrets :-)

I can't take the argument seriously when they ask "Pop quiz: You’re going to get hit by something coming at you at 50 miles per hour; given equal mass, would you rather that be a small object, or a large object?"

Either way you're dead.

Well, Chekov is not Scotty

And both Charles Keating (actor) and Charles Keating (Lincoln Savings & Loan) passed away in 2014 :-)

It's possible that Adams was expanding on an Alan Kay quote "Technology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born"

Depth of use over the lifetime of an app is a quality all its own that often not appreciated. A recurring pattern at $dayjob is that a new manager or director will join a business unit and declare an existing app as the worst terrible, no good, horrible app they've seen and they're going to fix that. A year and a half later the new app is finally delivered with 80% of the original functionality and a fresh set of bugs. The new dev team sees the surface functionality but misses a lot of the hard earned nuance the old system accrued over time. This is a pattern that existed long before LLMs.

Now add a retention policy of 30 days. Business memory lived in those emails and now it's 50 First Dates