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J. B. Crawford
Personal blog · jbcrawford.us · on HN as jcrawfordorwritingphilosophyhistory
J. B. Crawford's personal blog at jbcrawford.us covers writing, philosophy and history. Since 2014, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 10 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
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Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog's history post on the Lear Siegler ADM-3A terminal. One commenter cites it as the source for the claim that termcap and vi were built for that terminal, not a DEC VT100.
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What Hacker News says?
Space flights don't really get a flight plan per se. Instead they just use various special use airspace - that is, in a sense, they fly uncontrolled but within an area reserved for that purpose. One of the appeals of Spaceport America is that it is already surrounded by restricted airspace for the White Sands Missile Range, but the Spaceport itself is located near the western edge of WSMR. The WSMR's main restricted…
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on “Virgin Galactic flights grounded over Branson spaceflight 'mishap'”Submitted I Ruined an Innocent Truck Stop Employee's Day (2013) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionThe funny thing is that termcap and vi were not created for a DEC terminal. They were created specifically for the Lear Siegler ADM-3A, which predates the VT100. The work was done entirely by Bill Joy, who later joined Sun Microsystems. https://jbcrawford.us/history/computers/adm3a
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on “ANSI escape codes (2019)”Submitted The Crawford Principles as a story · 1 points
HN discussionRio Communities was a project by the Horizon Land Corporation which left similar failed projects throughout the Southwest and has since often been accused of running an outright scam. In the meantime, Rio Rancho is a functioning suburb to the NW of Albuquerque but was originally planned to be much, much larger than it is today and has a road grid stretching far into the distance, not all of which is even in the mode…
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on “A California Dream”Submitted Obituary, for Ray Tomlinson and Email (2016) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Fifty Examples of Cisnormativity as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Obituary, for Ray Tomlinson and Email as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Nuclear Energy as Harm Reduction as a story · 1 points
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