No mention of Imperial College's psychedelic programme and it's recent findings re neuroplasticity.

Could you share a link?

Flat plane or cross plane? Cross plane cranks necessitate an asymmetric firing order, which produces the wonderful burble from US V8s. Flat plane is more common in Europe - think Ferrari - and has a symmetric firing order that produces a toneless metallic howl.

I was talking about the Chrome kind of v8.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V8_(JavaScript_engine)

Yep; nothing genuinely new since Xerox Alto in 73. Mouse, GUI, TCP/IP, Smalltalk 72.

Allusive and romantic. My view is to see data as geometry, not poetry. Rectilinear data is cache friendly.

Love the Freak Brothers references; two US counter cultures that do cross pollinate. Z80MC RAM & ROM seem v generous compared to the ZX81 I used to cut my asm teeth, wobbly RAM pack and all...

Looks like the caption to the image references a "Creative Computing" cover from 1979—so an indirect FFFBrothers reference.

In the 19th Century British Foreign Office the Napoleon Technique was called "masterly inactivity". For instance "the Russians are threating Afghanistan, so we must move troops up to the NW Frontier". No! Not every action merits a reaction.

Also useful for cache locality, a more recent trend. But I guess that's just another slighlty diff case of tight mem; this time in the cache rather than RAM generally.

Neat summary of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Riding!

Also UK style outsourcing eg Capita, Serco and recently Tata Consultancy Services fubaring JLRs infra.

Sounds positively monastic, in the best way. Your magnum opus rendered as glorious coding codex is surely preordained. I'm reminded off Cyril Connolly's Pram in the Hallway. We are all prisoners of our brain chemistry.