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[Description]

In this episode of The Standup, Casey Muratori joins us to look at the fascinating parallels between 1968 tech and today. We examine the original context of "premature optimization is the root of all evil" and flip through the pages of Datamation from over 50 years ago. It’s a wild trip through early ray tracing, the birth of firmware, and the first mentions of virtual machines.

[Chapters]

00:00:00 - Intro

00:02:59 - The origin of Premature optimization is the root of all evil

00:07:30 - The effort involved in a long talk

00:13:16 - The Root of The Root of All Evil Presentation LITE Start

00:15:52 - Datamation Issues

00:18:23 - New 4k Display in 1968

00:18:51 - 1968 Comp Sci Salaries

00:19:18 - AI taking over the world since 1968

00:20:27 - The Cope .45

00:21:18 - 1968 Datamining Concerns

00:23:02 - 1968 SAAS

00:23:32 - Software patent bill

00:23:56 - Conway's law in print

00:26:03 - UEFI BIOS

00:27:06 - Virtual Machines

00:28:54 - THE END OF OS

00:29:55 - LBJ Stamped ASCII

00:31:55 - COBOL Ad

00:32:19 - Computers to win Elections

00:32:57 - AI Lawyers

00:33:38 - To Err Is Agentic

00:35:53 - Flock Cameras in 1968

00:37:48 - Dont eat in the computer room

00:38:10 - 1.5cents per bit

00:39:18 - A Hexadecimal Pronunciation Guide

00:41:23 - Privacy and Freedom

00:42:17 - How do you gruntle

00:43:13 - Computer Technology in communist China

00:43:44 - The First Raytraced Image

00:45:27 - The Root of The Root of All Evil Presentation LITE End

00:47:38 - Outro

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[Sources]

Dax Fraud Tweet: https://x.com/thdxr/status/2092238606...

Stripes Fraud Pricing Update: https://support.stripe.com/questions/...)

Caseys BSC 2025 Talk:    • Casey Muratori – The Big OOPs: Anatomy of ...

Caseys BSC 2026 Talk: http://computerenhance.com/theroot (lots more sources here too)

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