My first Linux install, best I can recall, was from a Slackware CD circa 1995? So I guess, me too. I've not used Linux as my desktop since Mac OS X in maybe 2002 but I've always had a Linux box running somewhere or being responsible for Linux boxes since then. It's only in the last few years I've gotten fed up with RPM-based distros and preferred Debian or Ubuntu. My intro to Unix was probably SunOS though.
Yeah, what happens to me is I need a thing, go to Amazon to order it, see that I already bought it 4 years ago, spend 30 minutes trying to find it, then let out a big sigh and order it again.
The 13 is the last generation of the mini and I still have mine. Good to know I'm not missing anything. Battery capacity isn't even below 80% so I can't replace it under Applecare yet.
I've always assumed his inclusion in the story was just to make the story more interesting. I wonder if anybody ever asked him about it at all.
After researching a bit, the story actually is from 1977, I found a PDF from the magazine and it does mention him, even though he wasn't famous except for those tech enthusiast circles. Maybe the story is embellished a bit, but at least it wasn't made up in internet times.
I first got interested in and learned to cook from cooking shows (Alton Brown, Emeril Lagasse). Of course I had to do my own cooking, but watching them made me realize it wasn't so hard. I'm a shade tree mechanic, but without the service manual, it's helpful to find a video replacing whatever part I'm about to deal with for the first time (Chilton manuals are crap). A few years ago I needed to pull the double-oven out of my cabinet to replace the heating element... I'm sure glad there was a video for that too. What's the right form for a kettlebell swing or a push up? How do I tie that knot again?
Yeah, there's lot of junk on YouTube. You might even say 90% of it. But there's tons of useful content too if you go searching for it.
This is a really cool story. Joan Birman is 99 now and her apprentice Vasudha Bharathram, a 15 y/o high school student at the time, is now a graduate student at Princeton, originally accepted on a recommendation letter from Birman. And it all started with an email sent by Bharathram on a whim and Birman's unusual decision to reply.
> Ms. Bharathram sat down, tapping her silver rings on the oak table. Looking back, she’s not sure if the girl who sent that email could have articulated why she did it. She just did it. It is easy to imagine a version of herself, she said, who had never found math. Perhaps if Dr. Birman had not responded, or even if they had not turned out to be neighbors. She hadn’t felt any nerves that first day in the lobby, because there were no stakes that she was aware of.
The just publisher paper ("The Burau representation of the braid group is faithful for n = 4"):
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