sach1
Joined 3 years ago
Joined 3 years ago
I don't know if this is apocryphal or not but that machine was supposedly named Clementina because it could 'play' part of "Oh my Darling, Clementine".
Found this cool video doing a little sampling but I have yet to find a sample of a Ferranti Mercury playing the tune. https://youtu.be/CiEw5kmRvvs?t=45
Edit: Here are some engineers playing games with 'her': https://toobnix.org/w/3doJWfhE3H1D5oVg2DYQQJ
I mean, focus on whatever you want, but he hasn't done anything Linus Torvalds hasn't done (at least similar enough).
I would be curious as to what your prompt ends up being (and the reply obviously) if you choose to do so.
I'm not disagreeing with you completely, but I would like to know more about what other factors you would consider to have been more impactful. I don't know that you really need hippies around to get that kind of 'california capitalist' mentality either tbf.
Try to understand that there is no individual ownership over turns of phrase, and that they tend to shift around over time. Bugs Bunny turned Nimrod from a byword for a competent hunter into an insult.
This is natural and all of your favorite words have or will be subject to it as long as there are humans to communicate with them.
The way I see it, it's a bit like putting up a job posting for 'somebody who knows SSH'. While that is a useful skill, it's really not something you can specialize in since it's just a subset within linux/unix/network administration, if that makes sense.
I looked but tbh I am on mobile and I have a hard time with this media in this medium.