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Same here. When I see these ads (x speakers, Dolby whatever for cars) I always think that's for people without a decent home. I use cars to drive and listen to hifi at home ...
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Asus motherboards mostly offer ECC support with AMD CPUs: https://rog.asus.com/forum/showthread.php?112750-List-Asus-M... I just built a desktop machine with such a board, a matching Ryzen and 128GB Kingston ECC memory
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Overfishing? Remember sardines and Cannery Row in Monterey? Today it doesn't look much better, it seems: https://www.montereyherald.com/2020/11/03/the-sardine-war-hi...
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Hete's Svante Pääbo (recent nobel prize winner) on "The Neandertal in Us" https://www.mpg.de/914714/Neandertal
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This Perl module can read and modify PDFs: https://metacpan.org/pod/PDF::API2
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I 100% agree, Termux shows, what a useful tool a smartphone can be. Do I need an app to look at the EXIF of a photo? No, I just use Phil Harvey's excellent exiftool[1] in the shell. Resize or rotate an image? Or even a number of images
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If it's sitting in your browser's cache, how do you determine wether it's there unsolicited or not? That's the problem already with real-time ad brokering. And it's easy to set any images to "display: none&quot
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I can execute Termux scripts at boot time (via a secondary app Termux:Boot), which would execute files in ~/.termux/boot/so yes. And you have your standard shell init files, so just opening Termux allows you to implement acti
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Ok, nice idea with the qrcode, but (as far I can tell from a quick view into the source) it uses plain http? On Android I'm happy with the apps I use anyway, e.g. Termux which offers ssh (both client and server), rsync, … or sftp via S
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Besides ripping them off, a spray can might do "wonders" to the video quality. Yes, you might have a video clip of the spraying, but if a cloaked perpetrator does it …
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The streamlined version is what "screen -d …" does, so it's some kind of standard feature, isnt it?. The only "drawback" I see is that you have to plan ahead to use screen. When I start long running jobs, I try do s
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I see black text on white background in Firefox (and Chrome) here. So this might be a problem on your side? But otherwise, yes the font is way to small.
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Peter Müller (i.e. Peter Miller) would be a good generic one.
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Lisp does have "syntax" but it doesn't have syntactic sugar. But yes, it's very minimalistic syntactically and the "sugar" might be what people are missing on first contact. And the dreaded parenthesis? That&#x
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Lisp was my first real programming language many years ago and the superior environment of Lisp machines (which I had the chance to use from the mid-80s until the mid-90s) is what I still miss today. I dabbled with Fortran IV and Pascal too
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No personal attack intended, but what I always find funny: the complaints about Lisp's syntax. Lisp's syntax is regular prefix notation all over and one of the defining features of the language. Algol languages on the other hand,
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Hmm, depends on the receptor, where the molecule or the hard drive docks to? So USB hard drives might be keyboard like (for USB keyboards), but hard drives which dock to the SATA connector aren't … Anyway, such comparisons sometimes li
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On Android devices, you can use Termux (Debian style Linux as an app) and install a complete emacs inside. I use it on a tablet and sync files (incl. *.org) over ssh with my "real" computers. The tablet can be used with a bluetoot
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My experience was similar. There where some nifty tools like Expect, but for more complicated tasks I preferred Perl, which had a package system and one of the packages was Perl::Tk so I could build graphical interfaces too, if Curses wasn&
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Correct, just updated the title to reflect this!
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Where Tcl and Tk Went Wrong (2010)(journal.dedasys.com)
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The recent posting about "Lua, the Misunderstood Language" here ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33022031 ) brought up memories of another "misunderstood" language, namely Tcl and it's useful gr
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Yes, validation is a good suggestion. And there's http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/ too, both can be linked to from inside a web page via http://validator.w3.org/check/referer and http:&#x
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I have a state of the art Macbook too, and a good monitor, but I still find light grey text hard to read. Because I have old eyes with suboptimal eyesight. Anyway, it would be reasonable if designers tested their designs with other people o
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Similar to what happens in Germany. But there are somewhat technical details to consider, which drive this tendency: Both German and French have longer words statistically, so a translation of e.g. a 500 page English book might result in 65
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If you want to have a simple web presence, you might want to look at some "elder self-hosting sites" (i.e pre f*book) like https://www.dreamwidth.org where you could easily set up your personal site, as I already menti
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You might want to look at some "elder self-hosting sites" (i.e pre f*book) like https://www.dreamwidth.org where you could easily set up an internet presence without fluff.
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No need to cheat, just make a french "Tarte Tatin" with pears. Or apples, or prunes. Delicious either way.
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My choice would be a red Boskoop[1] and, if I can find it (rarely) a Glockenapfel would be fine. [1] https://www.orangepippin.com/varieties/apples/belle-de-bosko... [2] https://www.orangepippin.com&#x2
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BTW, there's a Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library in Indianapolis which does (or did) digitize Vonnegut's work: http://www.thedigitalshift.com/2011/12/digital-libraries/kur...

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