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I'm SO happy to have retired a few years back!!

The issue is not that that itself is the doomsday, but that when the current collapses the climate trajectory changes and aims at catastrophe, and changing that will be beyond our ability

FORTH got me my first paid programming work in 1981: a management suite for a water company, with customer accounting and river water-flow checks (reported in a synthesized voice)! A fun project for which I home-rolled the FORTH interpreter, thanks to a book "Threaded Interpretive Languages" by R.G. Loeliger.

'Thence' is another nice word

To me "storytelling" certainly includes true stories, and isn't limited to fiction at all; "narrative" isn't a word I'd use in describing events.

Totally! At 87 that's gutsy! My very first paid programming work was in Forth on a 6502 platform in the '60s, building a networked accounting and flow management program for a water company, but I'm now 81 and very glad to be retired.

And the guy he works for ... sigh bigly

> what's going on in this country

The government has been hijacked by a gangster

Loeliger's 'Threaded Interpretive Languages' jumpstarted my career in the late 1970s: I built a networked water management system based on their code, which was my first big project, earning me £1,500. Note that there's a bug in their code (I no longer remember exactly where) so getting it off the ground was tricky.

Well I (as a widely-read 81 year old bookworm lol) have never heard of him

Interesting that they didn't find the nights too cold for sleeping out. We camped in Racetrack Playa one spring some years back and the nights were bitterly cold with extreme wind.

I don't think our current administration cares what we can afford

That headline sounds encouraging, but the actual info is anything but.

Yes, it's a lovely book and led me to my first paid project over 40 years ago! Using the book I built a Forth to monitor the local water authority systems, with water-level tracking and customer accounting & billing, implemented on a home-brewed network of North Star PCs. Iirc there's a minor bug in one of the base subroutines as written though now I don't remember what it was. But I still have the book :-)

In the phys.org article:

> The paper is published in the journal Land.

the word 'published' links to the MDPI paper

> Cold war was best thing ... I hope we see it again

Ummm, no thanks

> Putting tax always seems to be more popular

I think you typo'd there, with initial 'P' intended to be 'C'

Nice, but he totally hides the lining-up of the rear projector image with the main screen's image, which I imagine is a painful process.

It's a lot hard to re-enter society if you're separated from everyone and everyplace you know. Sure, it could be cheaper in some ways to ship the homeless out to bumfuck nowhere, but might be less cost-effective than you think, and certainly less humane.

I didn't wok on one of the US government systems, but much of my career was in COBOL compilers (writing run time systems, and checking against the ANSI standards). COBOL would not default to 1875 for a corrupt date.

I think navigating code definitely has a relationship to navigating meatspace, and the ability to internalize a view of the code space makes for a good programmer.

I'm long retired now, but attribute a lot of my programming ability to having had very poor sight in early childhood thus having to keep a mental map of my surroundings.

> more paying patients

that's a chilling thought; don't give them ideas

Yes! Many of the responses here are intellectual, missing something more earthy. In particular, hearing Lombardo reading from his translation of the Iliad [0] stirred me deeply. For sure I'm going to find a print of his version.

0: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFAjkf6tk60

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> everything around me was built with human hands and engineers

Same when your plan comes in for a landing over a city .. it's all been made by us, every big and tiny piece down to the screws holding the bits together.

> you have to keep maintaining and adjusting the pressure chamber to get the right pressure for the correct operation of the two check valves.

That may have been true of the pumps you made, but it's not correct in all cases. There was a ram pump where I grew up (in the 1950s) which worked year round to lift water from the spring line to a house higher up; it never needed adjustment and got almost no maintenance, it just worked and kept on working.

The web page says max G loads are +6/-4g but i've no real idea how much acrobatic performance that gives