ehecatl42

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by ehecatl42 4y ago
Kernighan also wrote Pic, a *roff/*TeX preprocessor. He knows a thing or two about typesetting. And, obviously, he's the 'K' in AWK.
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by ehecatl42 4y ago
I think it was the popularity of Only Fools and Horses that gave rise to a pseudo-Cockney slang common in my time as an undergrad. Degrees were ranked: - Geoff (Hurst) -- Class I -- "first" - Simon (leBonn) -- Class II:1 - Desmond
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by ehecatl42 4y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ella_Minnow_Pea is a riot of a read. Starts with a full complement of letters and drops one letter chapter by chapter.
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by ehecatl42 4y ago
5g wet (fresh) of P. cubensis is totally doable. The same mass of dry *P. semilanceata* on the other hand...
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by ehecatl42 4y ago
The path to shit started with the `<blink>` GI.
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by ehecatl42 4y ago
It has crossed my mind to take such a loan, spend it on waygu and Château Lafite and that euthanasia place (Dignitas?) in Switzerland. Cheat the bank and the pain of dying. But then again, I am curious to see how things turn out, and that I
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by ehecatl42 4y ago
Not any more. They are a critically endangered species. I grew up in the 80s, mid-way along the length of the Severn, and have very strong memories of night "fishing" for eels with my father. IIRC, the preferred method was a tangl
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by ehecatl42 4y ago
> There were increases in the number of people who described themselves as “Muslim” (3.9 million, 6.5% in 2021, up from 2.7 million, 4.9% in 2011) and “Hindu” (1.0 million, 1.7% in 2021, up from 818,000, 1.5% in 2011). UK Census 2021 (En
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by ehecatl42 4y ago
Org mode + fountain + olivetti If you are writing a screen-play.
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by ehecatl42 4y ago
> TL;DR: Read the fucking article. I was waiting for this punchline; I was not disappointed. Now I can get back to figuring out mbsync has decided to stop fucking synching mailboxes.
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by ehecatl42 4y ago
Yes. And, SixDegrees, Delicio.us Digg, early Reddit where folk would just post links they thought interesting to their own profile (who uses reddit that way now? Can one, even?); folksonomies and social book-marking. Maybe there's a sw
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by ehecatl42 4y ago
> Gayle, who is a life coach… Of course she is. What did it for me was June 2016 (aah, Brexit), and two blokes from very different parts of my life— whom I both love for very different reasons— went to the most perverse ad hominem attack
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by ehecatl42 4y ago
This terrifies me, TBH. I'm almost 50 and a little bit technical (used to admin Solaris boxen), and I just know the day will come when I haven't a damned clue how any of this works any more. For the time being, I'm happy usin
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by ehecatl42 4y ago
> I named one of them Gregor. Not everyday you come across random Kafka references!
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by ehecatl42 4y ago
> animal spirits *mineral spirits But thanks! "Animal spirits" intrigued me, so I read the entire article. A clusterfuck from top to bottom, particularly the bit about the cracked glass patterns... something better explained by
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by ehecatl42 4y ago
That will kill you. Taxus baccata is highly toxic... “slips of yew, silvered in the moon's eclipse” and all that.
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by ehecatl42 4y ago
And how was GPT3's Attic Greek? Did you run it by classicists?
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by ehecatl42 4y ago
Aye. Our sensory apparatus, let alone our ability to process the totality of inputs from it, is pretty limited. WTF can comprehend even what fungi "feel"? And we're of the same origin. Maybe in 100 million years? Chump change
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by ehecatl42 4y ago
I second this recommendation. A real eye-opener for me was learning that France and England were at it on India's east coast (the Carnatic wars) at pretty much the same time they were messing about the Hudson drainage basin in North Am
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by ehecatl42 4y ago
¿ https://nyxt.atlas.engineer/ ?
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by ehecatl42 4y ago
> I think that consciousness (or rather the feeling of consciousness) is very related to continuous long-term memory storing. Are you my surgeon? About six years ago I was to undergo somewhat novel surgery and the chappie asked if he cou
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by ehecatl42 4y ago
Nick Naylor: Cigarettes in space? Jeff Megall: It's the final frontier, Nick. Nick Naylor: But wouldn't they blow up in an all oxygen environment? Jeff Megall: Probably. But it's an easy fix. One line of dialogue. 'Thank
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by ehecatl42 4y ago
> bacteria which live in our stomachs are the best adapted of all Mitochondria would like a word… I mean, almost all eukaryotes have 'em.
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by ehecatl42 4y ago
- Trackpad not centred on space - no symetry of bottom row modifiers (and those aren't speaker grills either; just aesthetic markings)
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by ehecatl42 5y ago
As a Kiwi, I am eagerly awaiting an editor written in Rust called Zid.
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by ehecatl42 5y ago
In a similar, though less wide ranging, vein is Peter Adamson (LMU, Munich/KCL) and Jonardon Ganeri (NYU/KCL): https://historyofphilosophy.net/series/classical-indian-phil...
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by ehecatl42 5y ago
Now there's a welcome break from The Sky is Falling political news. Cheers!
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by ehecatl42 5y ago
I am reminded here of verse 24 et seq. > The wisdom of a learned man cometh by opportunity of leisure: and he that hath little business shall become wise. ~ https://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/Ecclesiasticus-Chapter-..
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by ehecatl42 5y ago
If you use GNOME there is sushi: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/gnome-sushi-mac-quick-for-ubuntu