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Alan Kay's answer to “Did the ENIAC have a BIOS”?(quora.com)

176 points by midnightfish 29 days ago | 61 comments

A Quora answer by Alan Kay to the question of whether the ENIAC computer had a BIOS; the capture shows a Cloudflare verification page.

When we die do we still have any of the original cells from our birth? (2020)(quora.com)

36 points by RyanShook 1 year ago | 9 comments

Did pizza exist in the Soviet Union?(quora.com)

50 points by vinnyvichy 2 years ago | 42 comments

What is a coder's worst nightmare? (2016)(quora.com)

17 points by tosh 2 years ago | 27 comments

What does Alan Kay think about LLMs?(quora.com)

140 points by agomez314 2 years ago | 95 comments

Why are GPUs well-suited for deep learning?(quora.com)

22 points by Tomte 3 years ago | 9 comments

How did Stripe come up with its name? (2015)(quora.com)

168 points by mellosouls 3 years ago | 116 comments

Can you just move into an abandoned house?(quora.com)

108 points by RyanShook 3 years ago | 161 comments

What were the worst jobs for poor Romans in Ancient Rome?(quora.com)

76 points by BerislavLopac 3 years ago | 64 comments