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by ableal 11y ago
(edit: typo gone, thanks for the interesting write-up)
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by ableal 11y ago
I took a couple of minutes to chase the butterfly ... It's featured here: https://perl6.org/ "Hi, my name is Camelia. I'm the spokesbug for Perl 6, [...]" (image: https://perl6.org/came
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by ableal 11y ago
Another interesting page in the site: https://academo.org/demos/perlin-noise/ Made me look it up: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perlin_noise Smooth.
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by ableal 11y ago
It's kind of cruel to come later downvote an early commenter, who helped rescue a good article from oblivion and put their name to a quick recommendation.
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by ableal 11y ago
> damnum absque injuria Neat, but the definitions I found say that's "harm without a legal wrong" (such as reducing someone's income by opening a competing shop). To my untrained eye, the Linux kernel issue seems to b
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by ableal 11y ago
Thanks for the Ubuntu Mate heads up. Over the last 10+ years, and from Apple OS X to MS Windows, the Ubuntu Gnome 2 desktop was the most pleasant for me to use.
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by ableal 11y ago
> making pkg installation easier http://www.pyinstaller.org Best thing since bread. OK, sliced bread, but it's close ...
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On Coincidence and Fortune: Why So Many One-Eyed Generals?(wmbriggs.com)
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by ableal 11y ago
> GNU/Linux as a PC operating system for non-programmers is a lost cause. Engineering workstations. Lots of them.
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by ableal 11y ago
Well, that and what it says in your profile should make for a popular topic. (Although demanding audiences want 'two orders of magnitude', perhaps 25x can squeak by ;-)
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by ableal 11y ago
I like to read about the period, and appreciate the scholarship and fact digging (if any), but sometimes the articles have a musk of smugness that I find distasteful. Or, as the Romans afraid of a shade's retribution put it, "de m
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by ableal 11y ago
Clever, but probably some spoilsport judge would frown at families with 7 billion members.
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by ableal 11y ago
> film "Children of Men" From a P.D. James book, for those more print-oriented ( clicky https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children_of_Men )
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by ableal 11y ago
> (it sounds like "purse", not "pierce") There go a few brain cells I could have used to help with the grocery shopping list.
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by ableal 11y ago
"They also serve who only stand and wait."
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by ableal 11y ago
In my corner (Portugal), there have been noises to legislate lower salt in bread, etc. And the health professionals are definitely on board with that, they've been advising lower salt intake for blood pressure for many years.
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by ableal 11y ago
I've read somewhere before that the issue may be K vs. Na balance. Take that with a grain of ... nevermind.
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by ableal 11y ago
"Standing on the shoulders of giants."
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by ableal 11y ago
Amen. (Once upon a time asked for the purchase of the AT&T cfront tape, and got it ;-) To be fair, the author does mention this is not for civilians ...
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by ableal 11y ago
An under-appreciated little book. Although sometimes pushing its theses past the breaking point, it sports quite a few interesting insights.
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by ableal 11y ago
"Vindaloo first appeared in 1797 when Britain invaded Portuguese Goa; the dish is a mispronunciation of the Portuguese carne de vinho e alhos, or meat cooked with wine vinegar and garlic." Close. The Portuguese is "carne em
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by ableal 11y ago
There was plenty of Internet outside the U.S. by 1990, mostly in Europe, but also in other continents. The web was invented in 1989 and came out of Geneve in 1993, for instance.
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by ableal 11y ago
Obviously not, in 1990 it would have been published to Usenet group comp.sources, and all you would get would be source. OK, perhaps also a Makefile and a man page. (All packed in a .shar text file, a "shell archive" script that
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by ableal 11y ago
(A peculiar title ...) I'll leave aside the professional historians, but if we're tossing in story telling like Tom Holland's, I'd put in a good word for John Maddox Ford's (also named) SPQR series - a dozen or so s
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by ableal 11y ago
> aliza.aufri.ch/tig Devious. I don't think I've come across a personal URL like that before.
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by ableal 11y ago
If anyone else is curious about the second picture, I tineyed ( http://tineye.com/search/863a041e2607e3405d2dcec1fb148bce471... ;-) it and found two agreeing attributions. One from a 2010 piece by Terry Tao: https:&#x
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by ableal 11y ago
"Luckily Houbolt got to make his case, and when Wernher Von Braun changed his mind and endorsed this truly insane idea, the rest of NASA followed. We landed on the moon on July 20th 1969." 'Chapeau' (hats off). Been pa
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by ableal 11y ago
That makes more sense. Another SF writer (name escapes me) posited a Ministry of Sabotage, in charge of making government less omnipotent ...
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by ableal 11y ago
> someone who is illiterate implicitly know that "1" and "0" represent People are usually OK with small numbers. So: 1 - there is a thing. 0 - there isn't a thing. (I know that you went with 'O' and &#x
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by ableal 11y ago
That sounds OK, if a bit low. Perhaps the resistors are large, or you might be diverting some current through a low(ish) impedance voltmeter, but those should be rare nowadays. The trick with diodes is that the curve is exponential - so for

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