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"His most lauded book, 'The Soul of a New Machine,' introduced readers to the physical parts and electronic bits that go into creating a business computer. The book arrived just as the PC revolution was gearing up.

When he took on the project, he told a reporter for The New York Times, he was not familiar with the field and relied on his subjects at Data General Corporation to teach him.

While he had to get the technology right, it was not what he most cared about. 'It was the people themselves,' he said, 'their incredible passion for this thing.'"

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/25/books/tracy-kidder-dead.html

Tracy Kidder, Author of ‘The Soul of a New Machine,’ Dies at 80

A Pulitzer Prize-winning narrative journalist, he wrote deeply reported books that often focused on heroic goodness in people.

The New York Times

AN/CRM-114 1h ago

Craig K6KH 10h ago

After 34 years as KD6NFD I have a new vanity call sign - K6KH. I’m excited to start using it and have started making a list of stuff I need to go update. What am I missing?

LOTW, local log book, QRZ (updated automatically), new QSL cards, digital software -WSJTX, SSTV etc, new email, Mastodon account, ARRL, radio power on displays, club badge and docs

#hamradio

AN/CRM-114 10h ago

Alda Vigdís 15h ago

The men who wouldn't document, lint and format their code so they themselves and their coworkers could maintain it 5 years ago, even to save their lives would totally do it nowadays to "help the AI".

AN/CRM-114 2d ago

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artemist 2d ago

"united states bans wifi routers" is a funny way to describe the order, but i suspect it's more like "united states requires bribe for new models of wifi router".

AN/CRM-114 2d ago

Was Jensen Huang’s personal stylist going for “villain from a PlayStation 3 game”? Because they nailed it

AN/CRM-114 2d ago

WOPR Junior

AN/CRM-114 2d ago

If you are of a certain age and spent any amount of time playing StarCraft, you know that if you:

- find an enemy base early on
- grab whatever units you have on the map and send them straight at it
- just keep making more units instead of building your base and send them over as soon as they’re done

You are gonna get your ass handed to you

[puffs cigar]

Congratulations, you know more about strategy than the US Secretary of Defense

AN/CRM-114 3d ago

[object Object]3d ago

the thing you must understand now is that regardless of their stated views, liars like Bryan Lunduke, Lennart Poettering, and Dylan M Taylor have demonstrated by their actions that they all have the same goal: a fascist software ecosystem that operates against our interests and exploits but does not empower our labor. it is the destruction of FOSS as we know it.

AN/CRM-114 3d ago

The thing that bothers me about this year being special because of the Declaration of Infependence is that it anchors the identity of the residents of the United States to the American Revolution and the political class that came out of it on top

Setting aside the 300-odd years of fuckery in North America preceding the US Constitution…

[puffs cigar]

The idea that the US Government and the, for lack of a better term, American people are one and the same is a fiction that had for a long time served both well. Every day it becomes harder to ignore that the relationship has become much more unequal in whom it benefits

AN/CRM-114 3d ago

Trump just announced the time and target of an upcoming airstrike: biggest power plant, 48 hours

[puffs cigar]

Of course, the whole point of a stealth strike aircraft is lost, if you announce where and when it is coming!

If you want to know what a determined and observant enemy can do to a stealth aircraft with advance warning, I have you covered:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1999_F-117A_shootdown

ACAB includes	- Marty Crane - CoPilot
Preferred Bowie	The Thin White Duke
Preferred Frequencies	223.500 MHz WFM / 5825 MHz 256-QAM
My other computer is a	TIS-100P

Tracy Kidder, Author of ‘The Soul of a New Machine,’ Dies at 80

1999 F-117A shootdown - Wikipedia