I've always thought he just kind of slurred over the "a", like you'd do in casual speech, it came out like "f'r'a man". In the recording there's a tiny slight bit of a vowel after the "r" sound. I don't think he blew the line, just didn't speak it clearly.
Not a lot of people know that after his famous lines as he descended the ladder, Armstrong quietly muttered "and good luck Mr. Lansky". The few people who have heard the audio asked him about over the years, and he was never willing to explain ... until one day. "Well, you see" said Armstrong at a NASA publicity event, "when I was a kid growing up one of my neighbors were Mr & Mrs Lansky. I was playing on the street one day, maybe 8 or 9 years old, it was a hot summer's day and everyone had their windows open. Mr & Mrs Lansky were having some sort of argument inside their house - I couldn't hear much of what they were saying. But then Mrs Lansky must have moved closer to the window, because I heard her very clearly say "Oral sex? You'll get oral sex from me the day that kid next door walks on the moon!"".
Second the comment re the day the universe changed, and found the episode on how Islamic Spain influenced the world quite surprising. Think it was the 2nd one, starting with two competing views of the world from African Roman scholars/clerics.
Many of these older docu’s wanted you to stop and think.
I didn’t see ages mentioned, but in the past, parents were probably 16-22 while today’s parents could be as old as 40+. The pieces work way better at those earlier ages, and aside from nutrition the ancient times let to more physically fit individuals. Hell, the average age of parents today might be the average lifespan of people back then.
Mothers in the ancient past started at age 16-22 (note that fathers' ages at first child were extremely variable depending on the ancient culture in question) but then kept going giving birth every few years until age 40+. (Or until they died from childbirth complications, famine, disease, etc.)
They didnt have to deal with negligence laws. Modern parents probably spend most of their time eliminating small tail end risk. Kids need way less supervision if you're not trying to six sigma survival rates.
I’m only ancient to the young, but I was out of the house with friends most summer days. Any of the moms, if home, could help us out with door or drink and I’m sure they watched a bit. There were a lot of kids 9n the row house blocks…
I consider that “good mental hygiene”. There was a boundary violation (of self), the recognition of it (awareness), discernment (my mistake), and planting a little of the idea to change future behavior (“sorry” to myself).
In this era of (more) Conservative governments, who's going to subsidize construction of lower-rent/cost housing? And where are they going to put it, given that work-from-home isn't something companies or governments are interested in doing?
Betteridge's law of headlines. Training in a technical discipline will remain a mixture of theory and practice so as to be able to function "at the bench" (or wherever). If you have to get replies from prompts for all actions, they'll just use a robot.
Trade wars will force more of these kinds of decisions... Cheap stuff to buy vs. employed natives. My gut says to take the options that protect the local tax base, but my gut also says people don't want to pay any money for such protection.
The problem is that if the local tax base needs protecting, it is doomed long term anyway.
Take a look at the (no longer that big) auto makers. Decades of protectionism has just lead to companies producing shit cars nobody wants to buy. Canada dumps money into GM, Ford, and Stellantis and they produce a minority of the cars made in Canada now.
Wasn't referring to any particular industry. Pharmaceuticals, tech, ... China is big enough to make anything. But aside from food, how will other countries pay for stuff?
I've never liked habits that must be shared by those who just happen to be nearby. It seems to suggest that my wishes < those of whomever is (in this case) fouling the air.
> I've never liked habits that must be shared by those who just happen to be nearby
That encompasses most things people do, though. Part of living in a society is having to put up with the annoying things others do, and in exchange they put up with the annoying things you do.
I would not have stated that the skill set to be a “great engineer” are those to be a “great manager”. Looking back, there was a “do” portion and a “talk about doing” portion of my career, and engineer wea certainly the former. Any form of management, of course, was the latter.
And as basically a hacker, my career choices were easy although the location was damn near uncontrollable.
The most important skill is good rigorous critical thinking which engineering does a great job of developing. You can learn this in other ways - a liberal arts degree can as well, but many of them don't develop it in enough depth.
Management also requires people skills which engineers stereotypical don't have - but many of them do.
SPI does not exist anymore, but there are other publishers still doing it, although the market is much smaller now. The biggest one is probably GMT games.
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