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http://cristal.inria.fr/~weis/info/commandline.html
See also Stiff.
Thursday, July 11, 2019
Tuesday, February 1, 2022
Lurching Into the Lexicon
See as well a 2019 Neal Stephenson novel —
From a New York Times review of that novel:
"Early choices, or sometimes relatively arbitrary initial conditions,
end up shaping future events and technologies. In this case,
the cosmology, topography and even the theology of an entire
universe — Bitworld — affect Meatspace, and the two realms
are linked in a feedback loop of cause and effect, resources and
outcomes (dollars, computing power)."
— Charles Yu, June 14, 2019
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Saturday, November 9, 2019
Hello, Mr. Chips
A geometric diagram by the late Andrew Jobbings (1951-2019) —
From a book review quoted here on the date of Jobbings's death —
"Dodge is eventually brought back to life, or a kind of virtual afterlife,
in the 'Bitworld' where he exists as ones and zeros. Initially inchoate,
Dodge’s mind evolves, along with the digital environment he creates
around him, a kind of information-age Genesis story that Stephenson
describes evocatively."
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