How ‘Stacks’ Went From Bodybuilding and Computing to Describing EverythingSciArtAug 131 min readThe 20th century was different from today in many, many ways, but let’s focus for now on a simple one: Back then, bodybuilding and computer science seemed like profoundly different worlds. Who among us imagined that they would soon start to feel culturally and intellectually adjacent? But maybe the end of the millennium offered one tiny hint: These were the two fields in which it was normal to ask what somebody’s “stack” was.
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