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A crescent wrench is a brand of adjustable wrench. I believe Gruber meant open-end wrench, or, because I’m Canadian a British etc roots, I call it a spanner. Either way, I agree the “artist” who drew this has never used such a device, and may not, in fact, qualify as an artist.
Who could know, in November 2014, that this phrase uttered ironically, would in 2022 (and 2023) become true, after Microsoft bought Github:
“You can’t just place a LISP book on top of an x86 chip and hope that the hardware learns about lambda calculus by osmosis.”
Saddest day indeed, maybe for more than just system programmers.
This is a very clear summation of the argument for faith. Thank you!
Interesting concept! I wonder if this is hackable based on demographic popularity of last names, by race. According to Wolfram Alpha, the most common last names are: Smith, Johnson, Williams, Brown, Jones, which don't share a common 1st letter. But maybe some ethnic names might: Rodriguez, Ramirez, Chan, Chen, Chang...
But ultimately, what political needs would a community of last-name-starts-with-C need?