[TUHS] V9 shell [was Re: Warner's Early Unix Presentation]

Wesley Parish wobblygong at gmail.com
Mon Feb 17 07:34:33 AEST 2020


It's the stuff of SF - hopefully a lot better than the glorified
"one-man shooter action" DooM fictionalizations we've seen (or not) so
many of ... COFF's Harbour ...

Wesley Parish

On 2/12/20, Kurt H Maier <khm at sciops.net> wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 11, 2020 at 06:05:01PM +0100, Steffen Nurpmeso wrote:
>>
>> I cannot imagine any other real step forward but control-by-
>> thought, aka brain computer interfaces.
>
> I can't even trust computers to do the right thing with input specially
> crafted for the program I'm using.  There is no way in hell I'm turning
> it loose on a direct neural interface.  Software engineering, as a
> discipline, is going to require a lot more actual discipline before
> neural interfaces become anything but fuel for a dystopian hellscape.
>
> I'm not saying we can't get there.  I'm saying we're not headed in that
> direction so far.
>
> khm
>


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