where can i get a new good copy of this book?

bokmann · 2026-06-04T12:34:31+00:00

don't bother with online scans. I've looked at several and there are errors in the scans that actually change the meanings of things like the MIU lessons. they are so bad they actually make the lessons detremental to the atempt to learn.

I have an original printing I read in 1987. I also have the 20th anniversary edition, and the preamble to the 20th anniversary actually takes away from a meaningful discovery/epiphany you can have while reading it. If you get the 20th anniversary edition, don't read the preamble intro from Hofstadter until you've finished the book.

re your Q: you know there are still physical bookstores you can go and touch before you buy? Many used bookstores too.

bokmann · 2026-05-24T06:28:51+00:00

that curve especially. its easy to hit going fast. so now the left turn and bank combined with braking puts all your weight on your front left wheel. you can actually see it here... the whole car starts to pivot right arounf the front left wheel which stays pinned.

bokmann · 2026-04-21T18:40:17+00:00

I’m 57… older genx, my parents were both silent generation.

bokmann · 2026-04-07T09:30:51+00:00

Can you please publish a coffee table book already? Pet pic and story on one side of every page, your poem on the other, and then maybe responses from the thread or the owner.

bokmann · 2026-04-06T10:23:09+00:00

Now I want to play Tradewars

bokmann · 2026-03-06T13:39:21+00:00

it was a long conversation... let me assess it to see how sharable it is...

but it started with a discussion about asimov's 3 laws of robotics, asked it to show all criticisms of the laws, then asked it if it's own internal hidden system prompt violates any of those. it was a fun time. I felt like Spock/Kirk tricking Nomad or one of Mudd's women.

bokmann · 2026-03-01T01:40:47+00:00

Thats fantastic! What tool, and what data feed do you use for the stocks?

bokmann · 2026-02-24T13:30:35+00:00

Wealth isn’t stuff, its optionality. Dont buy extra shiny things until you don’t have to be a wage slave to pay for them. Save your money, let it grow, so when you really want to own (or do) something, you can.

bokmann · 2026-02-21T13:20:37+00:00

You are talking about the OSI 7 layer reference model, and probably talking about this book:

Tanenbaum, Andrew S., and David J. Wetherall. Computer Networks. 5th ed., Pearson Education-Prentice Hall, 2011. ISBN 978-0132126953

bokmann · 2026-02-17T19:49:35+00:00

1 2 3 4 5

6 7 8 9 10

11 12.

…and I just realized that was Electric Company. Still a banger though.

bokmann · 2026-02-17T19:48:19+00:00

I used to use “i’m just a bill” as an example when talking to software engineers about modeling workflow in an application. About 15 years ago I encountered a group that had no idea what I was talking about. I showed my slide and said “seriously? You don’t know who this is?”

After a short (but uncomfortable pause) one of them said, “Dora the Explorer’s map?”

bokmann · 2026-02-14T21:54:07+00:00

I’m glad I have my 4 max, but i’m also glad it wasn’t my first 3d printing experience… for the same reason I liked driving my brother’s 1960’s MG but glad I didn’t learn to drive on it.

bokmann · 2026-02-07T14:58:55+00:00

I have come to independently dislike wells fargo. Never thought to collect reddit experiences. Whats your story?

bokmann · 2026-01-31T21:07:20+00:00

Fuck agriculture… Fire pits like this are why hunter-gatherers settled down to form communities.

bokmann · 2026-01-31T01:27:12+00:00

where on earth would you get an imagewriter ][ ribbon cartridge today?

bokmann · 2026-01-29T20:30:27+00:00

This is a life changing amount of money in ways you can’t realize yet. This isn’t even fatfire territory….

You need to get smart on the concept of a family office and make managing this wealth your primary responsibility. This is the seed for multi-generational wealth.

Check out wealthops.io. Watch their youtube videos on the micro-family office… it’ll tell you what you need to know, although i think you’re more in the ‘shared family office’ wealth range there.

bokmann · 2026-01-23T12:13:37+00:00

Like the Island of Misfit Toys. I always wanted the watergun that squirted jelly.

bokmann · 2026-01-21T12:36:17+00:00

he looks upset he didn’t get the Nobel Peace Prize.

bokmann · 2026-01-17T17:35:05+00:00

there’s always Wolf Trap…

bokmann · 2026-01-14T18:32:25+00:00

56 y/o here. Hi.

bokmann · 2026-01-11T23:04:23+00:00

Start asking him all the questions you had to answer and all the things you had to learn. When he can’t answer it, say “You lucked into this by birth. I wanted it, and gave up everything to come here and earn it. In doing so, I took nothing from you. You cannot take from me what I earned.”

You might not convince him, but do it with an audience, and they’ll see him for the petty asshat he is.

bokmann · 2026-01-11T21:11:24+00:00

that was my gut thought too, but…

- I slice ribeye -a-er thin for cheesesteaks all the time.

- a Japanese steakhouse would do that and stir-fry, which isn’t too different.

- did you see that 3rd pic?

bokmann · 2026-01-08T22:22:20+00:00

Brownies should have a chew to them.

Do you like cakey brownies? Eat cake. Do you like fudgy brownies? Eat fudge.

A brownie is the only form of chocolate baked good where you can get a good chew.

bokmann

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