thousandknives

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I am from Austria, and here you can buy water in cans. It's not common, but lately, there are 2-3 brands that offer canned water, which you can find in a normal supermarket.

On the other hand, I've never seen water in cartons in my life.

But both cans and cartons are also lined with plastic on the inside, afaik.

I was seeing "When Chinese Industrial Espionage Goes Wrong" [1] some months age, industrial espionage related to the inside coatings of the cans. Quite interesting video.

1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8ojlJoM0FE

The Rise of Unix. The Seeds of Its Fall. [video] youtube.com

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Comment · 2 years ago

Well, he writes himself:

*The book is augmented in places to help understand its rightful place in a historical context amidst the major changes of the 1970's and 1980's as Computer Science evolved from a hardware-first / vendor-centered aproach to a software-centered approach where portable operating systems and applications written in C could run on any hardware.

This is not the ideal book to learn C programming because the 1978 edition does not reflect the modern C language. Using an obsolete book gives us an opportunity to take students back in time and understand how the C language was evolving as it laid the ground work for a future with portable applications.*

I assume the exercises are to be written in ANSI C, though I haven't attempted one yet

The Hack That Made China a Superpower: Operation Shady Rat [video] youtube.com

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Comment · 2 years ago

I watched his "Internet History, Technology, and Security" course. That one was phenomenal.

Now I discovered this course, the first two videos in that YouTube playlist are very interesting (A History of C, UNIX, and Computation (a.k.a "The importance of 1978")).

There is also a course website to this with a lot of additional material, but it requires a password (it is "42"), that's why I submit the YouTube playlist.