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Two years ago, he used macOS on a 13" MacBook Air and an iMac, as per his conversation with Lex Fridman: https://youtu.be/O9upVbGSBFo?t=2523

I liked this interview with Brian with Lex Fridman: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9upVbGSBFo

⬐ neilpanchal

+1. Also, I like your username.

Relevant piece of history on timesharing in relation to cloud computing by the legend that is Brian Kernighan:

https://youtu.be/O9upVbGSBFo?t=340 (05:40 - 10:50)

Loved the episodes with Jim Keller [0] and Brian Kernighan [1] as well. Lex really does a great show and has amazing guests.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nb2tebYAaOA

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9upVbGSBFo

I heard it from Brian Kernighan's interview on Lex Fridman's channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9upVbGSBFo

Great interview with Brian on Lex Fridman's podcast - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9upVbGSBFo

⬐ mercer

I listened to that one last night, and then a few more. He's been in rotation for a while now.

I don't know how I ended up subscribing to Lex Fridman's podcast, but it's both wonderful and somewhat bizarre to me.

On the one hand, he comes across as the kind of character you'd expect in a horror film. Meticulous, well-dressed, friendly, but affectless in his speech and oddly emotionless and formal.

But then the actual questions he asks, and the observations he makes, are IMO a step above most interviewers. I can think of a number of 'greater' interviewers, but he's definitely well in the 'very good' range.

My apologies if Fridman reads this comment. I definitely don't want you to stop doing things the way you do :). It's just somewhat different, in a strangely 'boring' way, that I'm not used to from most good podcast hosts that I'm familiar with. Most are, sometimes to the point of irritation, exceedingly affable and chatty.

⬐ throw0101a

> On the one hand, he comes across as the kind of character you'd expect in a horror film. Meticulous, well-dressed, friendly, but affectless in his speech and oddly emotionless and formal.

Are you aware of the The Report Of The Week channel run by 'Review Brah'?

* https://www.youtube.com/user/TheReportOfTheWeek

Brian Kernighan is using one. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9upVbGSBFo?t=01h07m01s

⬐ 7thaccount

I didn't think I'd see AMPL (mathematical modeling language) mentioned alongside a scripting language and two systems languages.

⬐ AlexeyBrin

Kernighan coauthored a book about AMPL.

⬐ 7thaccount

I didn't know that, so thanks for pointing it out. I've never used AMPL, but have read plenty of code written in similar mathematical modeling languages (AIMMS, GAMS...etc).