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The full title was "Algorithm: Recreational Programming".

I have only 4 issues of this quarterly magazine from the early 1990s. The rest seem nowhere to be found online, at least so far as my efforts. Each issue was a unique 'deep-dive' into topics only scratched by the articles in Scientific American's 'Mathematical Recreations' and, later, 'Computer Recreations'.

Does anyone else have issues? We need to group any extant copies together and digitize them for www.archive.org. Please contact me if you have any issues.

I contacted the University of Waterloo's CS department back in 2016, and they stated they had contacted Dr. Dewdney himself about it but I never heard back so I think it's up to us, the internet at large, to preserve this unique snapshot of the hobbyist/enthusiast computer scientist era.

Will do, thank you.

But if the reload is triggered by a form submit to an iframe (thus staying on the page) with a timed call to window.reload(), the page resets to the top. Not so in Firefox.

OP here. It doesn't go to 'the same location on the page', that's the problem. It always jumps to the top of the page, as if the anchor didn't exist.

Note there is, in my case, a form submit action to a hidden iframe with the reload but the page location stays put in Firefox.

Remember, Go is MIT-licensed. If things become too bound to Google, it can and will be forked. People thought it was the end of the world when multiple Java SDKs arose didn't they? (Not to say that didn't hurt Java, but the language survived).

I selfhost gogs and like it. And the releases link is at the top like many ppl wish here :)

Only thing I really miss vs. github is there's no code review built-in.

Yes, yes it is. That will force open hardware specs, right-to-repair, limit damaging DRM, and encourage competitive software and hardware markets. And even multiple software stores, if that's what the market wants.

For what it's worth from the Peanut Gallery™, I find the proposed syntax quite readable and am happy there are no angle brackets <> stabbing my eyes.

It seems powerful enough to cover most cases of generics. Architecture astronauts will never be happy, but tough.

warehouse23.com/basement and its higher levels was a great timesink... SJgames put a minimal version back online recently, but it no longer allows new box submissions and seems to have lost a lot of the old content.

Consider self-hosting via gogs.io or gitea, and use them to mirror your key repo dependencies ...

That headline, geez... remove the last four words and I guess it could be much, much worse :o

Our economy, educational system, heck our entire society is basically structured (ideally, from the ruling/moneyed class's perspective) to keep the great masses just happy enough not to revolt, keep the machines working, and no more. Many people literally cannot afford to make every life choice based only on their ethics.

An alternative to avoid electronic systems entirely: https://www.tindie.com/stores/russtopia/

Atari ST's TOS had it's own mascot, J.R. "Bob" Dobbs, in the high ASCII range of its system font: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._R._%22Bob%22_Dobbs

At this point it should be considered unethical to have more than 1 child per household. I don't care if that's politically incorrect, it's basic math. The entire species needs to drop to below-replacement reproduction. No eugenics, genocide or war required, just stop acting like horndogs or get snipped for Pete's sake.

This is what is frustrating about the cryptographic community. People should not be discouraged to try new algos and techniques otherwise how is anyone new that isn't already 'in the club' to gain knowledge? Of course new developments need to be audited and peer-reviewed but this sort of immediate dismissal is not constructive.