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A book store near us has an amazing January sale, so: Entertainment: Babel - An Arcane History by RF Kuang, Time Out of Joint by Philip K. Dick, and my usual r
by shever73 4y ago
A book store near us has an amazing January sale, so:
Entertainment: Babel - An Arcane History by RF Kuang, Time Out of Joint by Philip K. Dick, and my usual re-read of Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
Non-fiction: Code (second edition), The Myth of Normal by Gabor & Daniel Mate
- DanHulton 4y agoCode (second edition) is excellent, just excellent. I read the first edition when it came out and it helped me contextualize the entire chain of how computers work. I've gotten rusty on that over the years, and I'm really enjoying going back through that and freshening up.
- BruceEel 4y agoI didn't know there was a 2nd edition, thanks! Petzold is a hero, this talk (2014) is on that same 'back to basics' wavelength and it's just brilliant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=srWQdTGlnVg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=srWQdTGlnVg