Tbere are two types of people: people who divide people into categories and people who don't. https://mysteryreadersinc.blogspot.com/2016/02/cartoon-of-da...

US Prohibition was from 1920 to 1933. The Revenue Act of 1913 already put income tax into effect before that. And early 1900s import tariffs added up to more than the alcohol tax. But yes, we collected a lot from whiskey in the 1800s.

It has always been the case that large companies who can afford to throw a 50-person team at a project, can out-develop a guy sitting at home in his bunny slippers.

Smokey Stover, the 1935 "Where there's foo, there's fire" guy, was a TV cartoon in the 1970s. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smokey_Stover#Animation Influenced by german furchtbar/foobar/fubar, MIT used fu() and bar() in the late '30s.

The paper goes deeper

Related: the stage0/stage1 series of hex-to-c compiler bootstrapping tools https://github.com/oriansj/stage0?tab=readme-ov-file and OTCC https://bellard.org/otcc/

An sf classic, with a bit in the middle involving AI generation of scholarly tomes. (1965)

(1958) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brave_New_World#Brave_New_Worl...

Herding cats is an honorable profession. [EDS herding cats video] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTwJzTsb2QQ

Spread the word: "The guinea worm is on its last legs."

_"a lie has no legs *_ the guinea worm neither..

There are also people who need to convert Microsoft Reader .LIT files but are unable to find the right utility.

sudo apt-get install clit

My 6502 Apple ][ FORTH based on FIG FORTH had a "Character Literal" CLIT, that saved one byte compared LIT.

With a quick google I was able to find CLIT:

https://github.com/wa1tnr/figforth-local/blob/main/fig6502.t...

  ;    CLIT pushes the next inline byte to data stack
  ;
  L35:      .BYTE $84,"CLI",$D4
            .WORD L22      ; Link to LIT
  CLIT:     .WORD *+2
            LDA (IP),Y
            PHA
            TYA
            BEQ L31        ; a forced branch into LIT

I was also able to find COLON, which is threaded code instead of assembly:

https://github.com/wa1tnr/figforth-local/blob/main/fig6502.t...

  L823:     .BYTE $C1,$BA
            .WORD L813     ; link to C!
  COLON:    .WORD DOCOL
            .WORD QEXEC
            .WORD SCSP
            .WORD CURR
            .WORD AT
            .WORD CON
            .WORD STORE
            .WORD CREAT
            .WORD RBRAC
            .WORD PSCOD

user is male, couldn't find clit in repository, would you prefer a package?