Diary (November 7, 2020)

Online diary of Karl Jones for Saturday November 7, 2020.

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Diary

Learning to code

Teletype.

The primary point of learning to code is, as you say, a machine automation skill.

The intangible virtues include logical (or at least structured) thought.

Also, the ecstatic rush of me being 10 years old in 1971 and writing:

10 PRINT "KARL"
20 GOTO 10
RUN

• Post @ Twitter

How the past must not be altered

Killing Hitler is the classic. There must be countless millions of time travellers who obsess about Killing Hitler — and every one of those obsessive time-travellers *must be stopped*.

Don't get me started on people who try to save JFK's hairdo from getting restyled in Dallas.

Fiction cross-reference

• Gnomon algorithm
• Gnomon Chronicles