Adrian HonRIP to a real one.
The Soul of a New Machine may be the best technology book written, but House was a beautifully-crafted and deeply humanist book. Funny too!
Dec [{(
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There's a wonderful quote from SoaNM that sums up the frustration of working with smaller units of time:
"no unit of time shorter than a season"
I quoted most of it here in March 2025:
https://mastodon.ie/@dec23k/114174646972936925
Dec [{(:no_ai:)}] (@[email protected])
@[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] "Now, one day back at Data General, his weariness focused on the logic analyzer and the small catastrophes that come from trying to build a machine that operates in billionths of a second. On this occasion, he went away from his basement and left this note on his terminal:" "I'm going to a commune in Vermont and will deal with no unit of time shorter than a season." -- Tracy Kidder, The Soul of a New Machine