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by jrapdx3 11y ago
I'll add to the chorus of praise for Beej's work. I've often consulted this particular guide and the companion piece for networks as well. Helped me write web and other servers, a great way to learn about important technolog
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by jrapdx3 11y ago
Hey, I still have the Yggdrasil CD, ca. 1994, Linux 1.06 as I recall. (CD is at home in the "archives".) Walnut Creek was the big supplier in those days. In the mid-90's I used Red Hat, later other distros. At work still ha
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by jrapdx3 11y ago
The article takes on an interesting subject, and starts off informatively, holding my interest. Unfortunately, hit a glitch navigating from page 2 to 3. The article's text is missing on page 3, saying only "undefined". Pret
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by jrapdx3 11y ago
What an outstanding and moving article. When I lived in Germany years ago I visited Dachau and other sites. Despite the long interval since the camps were used, the aura of the atrocities committed there was still palpable. The doctor&#x2
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by jrapdx3 11y ago
There was a reference to this article about 2 months ago. I read though the original paper quickly at the time, intending to go back and try to understand it more thoroughly. Toward the end of the paper, I was startled to see the conclusi
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by jrapdx3 11y ago
After a few decades in field of ADHD treatment the big lesson is adult ADHD presents in numerous ways, it's risky to generalize and easy to misconstrue the impact of having the real, full-blown form of the condition. The article speaks
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by jrapdx3 12y ago
I'd agree Inkscape/Gimp have fallen behind, though I use both frequently. However, on Windows neither is very satisfactory. Lately I have been using Krita for digital photo editing, not exactly its best strength, but still quite
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by jrapdx3 12y ago
The Escher work used as illustration (re: Demons, et. al.) has a decidedly fractal look about it, which prompts the thought that the entanglement described in the article could be understood as a multidimensional fractal. Kind of like the w
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by jrapdx3 12y ago
Yes, armed vs unarmed were different, question is in what direction. IOW were those armed more likely to be killed than the unarmed? For armed "shootees", killed/not-killed == 2.43, whereas unarmed == 1.85. Looking at it the
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by jrapdx3 12y ago
Every year, usually in September, I spend 3-4 days in Ashland, OR, and take in a few plays at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. Truly world-class theater, I've enjoyed many superb productions there. It helps to read a Shakespeare pla
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by jrapdx3 12y ago
Of course the Socratic method is effective, but it is also subversive --it encourages people to think for themselves, an endless source of trouble for those preferring that we do not. It must have been the issue in ancient Greek times, re
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by jrapdx3 12y ago
FWIW I thought the article was quite informative and well-written enough to make the concepts easy to grasp. I'd agree with the opinion that Rust is breaking new ground in an interesting way, and over the next several years I wouldn&#
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by jrapdx3 12y ago
At least on an intuitive level, the propositions seem paradoxical because there's a piece missing. After all, we know that from a distance, it can be hard to tell if it's a raven or a crow. I'd put it this way: 1. Al
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by jrapdx3 12y ago
That's really quite funny--and has the glint of truth. Precisely why no prior comments, the Rubeness of our own inventions makes us uneasy and we are reluctant to admit it. Reflects easy observations amidst the hyped fervor of technol
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by jrapdx3 12y ago
Using web2a is a great idea. I'd written a Diceware-like password generator in Scheme. The word word list was derived from the web2 list (FreeBSD /usr/share/dict directory). Even after paring it down to ~151000 items,
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by jrapdx3 12y ago
z3 is something I didn't know about until encountering it here. Spent the last few hours playing with the solver, it's quite interesting especially since I've had a fair amount of exposure to Scheme. Felt right at home afte
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by jrapdx3 12y ago
The problem with this article are statements about value of "fermentable" fiber without giving any real info about the nature of such fiber. (Except it's not digested by gut enzymes, hence "leftovers" that colonic o
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by jrapdx3 12y ago
For my own use and amusement I wrote a Diceware-inspired program in Scheme. It produced random passwords like "luthier-beige-6139" or "unintimated-clamp-3529". The word-number pattern and separators could be varied. Li
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by jrapdx3 12y ago
Glad to see someone mention Fossil, a fine choice for small-medium sized projects. Fossil may not be ideal for huge projects, but easily running a Fossil repo on my own web server suits my purposes. It's probably even simpler to use t
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by jrapdx3 12y ago
This article provokes more questions than it answers. While I got the general idea about creating more Resistant Starch, the details about the transformation from digestible to resistant is kind of murky. Perhaps seeing the data in the so
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by jrapdx3 12y ago
When facing terminal illness, doctors probably differ little from comparably educated subsets of the population. I don't know of studies specific to physicians, but my guess is quality of life is a priority that shapes decisions about
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by jrapdx3 12y ago
Like others have commented, I've been running a small email service for several years. The key point here is "small" meaning serving a few users for mainly personal mail. It's a very low volume affair, no "mass
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by jrapdx3 12y ago
Actually, some work on this has been done for CHICKEN Scheme in extensions "ssql" and "ssql-postgresql"[0]. I'm not too familiar with these particular eggs, but the flavor might be conveyed by this example: (
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by jrapdx3 12y ago
Sure, open-source is a good thing. I strongly support OSS and as much as possible run systems at work using FreeBSD, Linux, etc. I've worked in medical practice (and research) for a long time. Considering the vital importance of transa
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by jrapdx3 12y ago
This is a good article. It presents a provocative idea, exploring the use of CSS in clever and not obvious ways. It's sort of but not really "hackish" because he uses perfectly legitimate, if relatively obscure features of C
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by jrapdx3 12y ago
By some definitions I'm "elderly", but I can read small print, operate tiny buttons on devices, and think abstractly just fine. I do my best, keeping up with technologies is hard, but doubt I'm alone in that respect. In
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by jrapdx3 12y ago
Writing is very hard. Despite the draft's "weaknesses", I thought it was well-written. Being one who has "enjoyed" numerous encounters with C pointers (and pointers to pointers, etc.), a lot of the explanation se
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by jrapdx3 12y ago
> Go find a good psychiatrist, ... who will give you a proper ADHD assessment and with whom you can work on medication if needed. ... As one who does the assessing, I'd endorse your advice. It is of utmost importance to rule out co
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by jrapdx3 12y ago
Tcl is still actively developed and has a sizable community interested in it. (see http://wiki.tcl.tk ) It doesn't show up much on Github since its main repositories are hosted on on Sourceforge and Fossil. That includes t
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by jrapdx3 12y ago
The "matching program" isn't new--goes back to the 60's if not further. Sounds like the idea hasn't changed even if the "algorithm" is machine-implemented in recent times, no surprise there. Used to be th

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