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What is the origin of the word "mainframe"? Digging through archives, I traced it back to 1953. The IBM 701 computer was built from "frames": power frames, a storage frame, a drum frame, and the main frame. This 1953 drawing from the Installation Manual shows the dimensions of the "main frame". 1/n
February 1, 2025 at 6:54 PM
What is the origin of the word "mainframe"? Digging through archives, I traced it back to 1953. The IBM 701 computer was built from "frames": power frames, a storage frame, a drum frame, and the main frame. This 1953 drawing from the Installation Manual shows the dimensions of the "main frame". 1/n
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surprisingly deep quote
February 8, 2025 at 3:09 AM
surprisingly deep quote
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So, folks on here have probably caught a whole bunch of lawyers and law professors (correctly) lashing out at a law professor (Ilan Wurman) for suggesting there's some meaningful "literature" supporting Trump's attack on birthright citizenship that the courts didn't "engage with"
It's worth taking
It's worth taking
January 26, 2025 at 3:41 PM
So, folks on here have probably caught a whole bunch of lawyers and law professors (correctly) lashing out at a law professor (Ilan Wurman) for suggesting there's some meaningful "literature" supporting Trump's attack on birthright citizenship that the courts didn't "engage with"
It's worth taking
It's worth taking
Towns + Brunson = Messier + Leetch
January 24, 2025 at 2:55 AM
Towns + Brunson = Messier + Leetch
In the 2020’s, knowledge workers comprised half of the American workforce. Within a few decades, less than 5% of Americans used knowledge at work as information retention and retrieval became mechanized. Yet employment has remained robust as workers migrated to new occupations.
January 24, 2025 at 12:39 AM
In the 2020’s, knowledge workers comprised half of the American workforce. Within a few decades, less than 5% of Americans used knowledge at work as information retention and retrieval became mechanized. Yet employment has remained robust as workers migrated to new occupations.
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This chart from the Financial Times was really striking to me. Democrats take power in eras where unemployment is more salient and Republicans take over when inflation is more salient is a pretty good heuristic.
January 22, 2025 at 2:47 PM
This chart from the Financial Times was really striking to me. Democrats take power in eras where unemployment is more salient and Republicans take over when inflation is more salient is a pretty good heuristic.
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Americans are now one-third less likely to die from cancer at the same ages as Americans in 1990
December 9, 2024 at 10:02 AM
Americans are now one-third less likely to die from cancer at the same ages as Americans in 1990
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The usual suspects are out there yelling "There are 23 million government workers! Fire most of them!" No awareness that most work for local governments, and most of *them* are schoolteachers. Federal employment hasn't grown since the 1950s
November 24, 2024 at 12:27 AM