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Re:Dymaxion Car by andrewp123 on Monday May 13, 2024 @03:13AM (#40340528)
The word dynamic was popular in naming around that time - dynamic programming is another example (1950s).

Somehow just by internalizing the old meaning of the world “dynamic”, I feel I have a better idea of what the world felt like back then.

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Re:Dymaxion Car by noduerme on Monday May 13, 2024 @03:58AM (#40340777)
I learned to program in dynamically typed languages and all I got was an undefined t-shirt
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Re:Dymaxion Car by pfdietz on Monday May 13, 2024 @08:11AM (#40342398)
T is a perfectly cromulent type.
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Re:Dymaxion Car by sp332 on Monday May 13, 2024 @07:37AM (#40342071)
Fuller hired a wordsmith, who hung around for a few days listening to the way he spoke and then invented the word Dymaxion for him.
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Re:Dymaxion Car by sidewndr46 on Monday May 13, 2024 @09:12AM (#40342954)
It is no different than someone saying their product has "AI" nowadays
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