Fahrenheit 451 anyone?

speaking of which, what became of it?

Acquired by a patent monetization business...

the state of Austria usually buys its police cars from Porsche (the dealer not the carmaker) guess, that doesn't count. but Austria had Porsches (some of them 911) in the 60s

try to build it with make clean first

It's actually faster than I remembered:

  {0}[calvinow@sousa ~/git/linux] git describe
  v7.1
  {0}[calvinow@sousa ~/git/linux] git clean -dffxq
  {0}[calvinow@sousa ~/git/linux] zcat /proc/config.gz > .config
  {0}[calvinow@sousa ~/git/linux] time make -skj32 tar-pkg
  './System.map' -> 'tar-install/boot/System.map-7.1.0'
  '.config' -> 'tar-install/boot/config-7.1.0'
  './vmlinux' -> 'tar-install/boot/vmlinux-7.1.0'
  'arch/x86/boot/bzImage' -> 'tar-install/boot/vmlinuz-7.1.0'
  
  real    0m56.539s
  user    18m41.863s
  sys     2m8.754s

I miss the days when my 486 took about 12 hours to compile a kernel

Or it took >15 minutes to generate PGP 2.x private keys due to entropy generation and prime calculations/tests.

150kkm - wouldn't that be 150 Mm?

Yes, you are correct. As the SI brochure states: "Compound prefix symbols, i.e. prefix symbols formed by the juxtaposition of two or more prefix symbols, are not permitted."

Unfortunately, almost no one uses SI units and/or prefixes correctly.

I have another alternative: you could simply prefix the km with ,000

Meh, units should be used at the convenience of us, they are all arbitrarily defined to start with. We still use lots of non-si units, like AUs, minutes seconds and hours, degrees and arc units, or whatever else. Conversion is easier than ever today so I think units should be adapted to the application and use more fractional units when appropriate.

Sure, also 1 mAU and 0.5 light seconds, but treating km as a base unit and prefixing it with another k isn't too uncommon a misuse.

it's also 150 000 000 meters

if I were to write a new TeX system I would use the attempts from the beginning of the 2000s, where they tried to use java und modularize the system, the systems being NTS [0] and ExTeX [1] [0] https://github.com/jamespfennell/new-typesetting-system [1] https://github.com/tex-other/extex

but it's not simple html, it's a npm-package

"Simple HTML" in 2024 means HTML generated by a tool built on a tool that installs 300 node_modules. We've come full circle.

why shouldn't AI then replace the CEOs?

if you take the spectral theorem, for example, there is a direct connection between linear algebra and functional analysis, basically it's linear algebra in infinite dimensions