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by marttt 3y ago
In my Former Soviet Country, this is a fairly common thing that (sensible) older generation intellectuals remind to Gen Y/Gen Z lefties. There was a short period of "dude, communism is quite hip" in some circles roughly a dec
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by marttt 3y ago
There is a truly wonderful children's book about Erdos, "The Boy Who Loved Math: The Improbable Life of Paul Erdos" by Deborah Heiligman and LeUyen Pham: https://www.amazon.com/Boy-Who-Loved-Math-Improbable&#x
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by marttt 3y ago
Estonian log house builders building a smoke sauna with hand tools. 58 minutes of beauty and true craftsmanship: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aN47VMnRc-U
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by marttt 3y ago
Another one is Teeline: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teeline_Shorthand I used to be a journalist and tried to adapt it for my language (Estonian) years ago, but eventually gave up. Possibly tried it with Gregg also, w
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by marttt 3y ago
I like to guess the "timeless-ness" factor of a book. If a book seems to have it, I'm likely to shelve it to build a library for my kids. Filter question: will this book have any value in 10 or 20 years from today? A late the
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by marttt 3y ago
After having read some of the comments on Pascal here -- fellow HNers, what's your view on Pascal as a teaching/introductory language in 2023, for children aged 10+? Mostly thinking of FreePascal, but TurboPascal in DOSBox/Fr
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by marttt 3y ago
This is beautiful phrasing, very much how I think about life myself. Let's hope the last days of Mr Wirth were free from physical pain. Thinking of my grandpa who died all of a sudden, apparently without serious physical impairments or
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by marttt 3y ago
Thanks very much for this! Dillo used to be more or less my main browser for quite a while, mostly with all images and CSS turned off. Its combination of quick GUI element toggling + config file for fine-tuning is excellent. A very versatil
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by marttt 3y ago
Reminds me of this excerpt in Douglas Adams' "The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy": "Ford!" Ford looked up from where he was sitting in a corner humming to himself. He always found the actual travelling-through-s
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Setting Transatlantic Defence Up for Success: A Strategy for Ukraine's Victory [pdf](kaitseministeerium.ee)
5 points by marttt 3y ago|1 comments
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This is exactly what happened to our son (10yo) as he went through the chapters. He would start seeing everything around him (and, particularly, in his Minecraft environment) in if-else statements, etc. It was quite fun to observe.
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by marttt 3y ago
Is the FreePascal IDE essentially a clone of the TurboPascal IDE, or does it have any shortcomings?
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Oh, I don't recall anybody ever explicitly saying something like this to me. Makes me happy for sure, especially considering that I actually did not learn the English language at school back in the day; we had German. Many thanks! Thos
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by marttt 3y ago
Thanks very much for this book reference. Our son (10yo) is learning to code and after quite a bit of research (and to my own huge surprise), I've pointed him to QBASIC (via DosBOX). I'm just a hobbyist, and approaching 40, so may
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by marttt 3y ago
Yeah, I had a similar script of my own, utilizing the fact that EPUBs are essentially zip files. Thanks for sharing yours. I'm a great fan of your scripts for text-only browsing etc.
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by marttt 3y ago
I have done the same, very probably with the same browser you're using (links). Just curious, do you handle images (or graphs) in EPUB files in some specific way? Mostly, ebooks are perfectly fine to use without images, but not 100% of
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by marttt 3y ago
Another version, IIRC true story, from a small European country. A legendary artist and book illustrator (real person) meets a client in a cafeteria. The client says, I want a drawing with this, this and this, and it should carry a feeling
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by marttt 3y ago
Because this is a Hacker's forum -- I hope Eric S. Raymond would not mind me quoting an old comment he made in the Slate Star Codex blog [1]: "I have a habit of meditation and mysticism going back to the 1970s. The most basic skil
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by marttt 3y ago
As a former meditator (currently struggling to get back on track), I can confirm that when I practiced daily, I was definitely able to make better ethical decisions. There really was more compassion, foresight, honesty and less selfishness
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New York Times intolerant of half the US, former opinion editor says(thetimes.co.uk)
4 points by marttt 3y ago|0 comments
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by marttt 3y ago
Priit Pärn, a legendary cartoonist and animation director from Estonia [1], has used an excellent term, "mileage of the line". I DeepL-translated (with rough editing) a couple of excerpts from interviews he has given. First excerp
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by marttt 3y ago
As a former Vipassana practicioner, I bought and enjoyed the Mental Development book. Short and to the point; helped me to start meditating again after several years of hesitation or a "dead end" of sorts. The tone and style of yo
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by marttt 3y ago
Interestingly, in my country, people seem to be also migrating from Facebook et al to Reddit. Our main local, country-specific subreddit is clearly gaining users these days. (FB has been heavily used by the entire society here.) I haven&#x2
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by marttt 3y ago
Definitely bookmarking this, many thanks! I wonder how it compares to https://www.bookfinder.com . Also, any chance of adding shipping information (e.g. the prices shown would also include shipping cost to a predefined location)?
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For me, 500 on first try, but worked with refresh.
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Interestingly, in Some Smaller Democratic Countries, Facebook may function as the essential platform for society-level political discussion. In my Small Country, government members have made relevant statements first via their social media
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In 2008, an Estoian artist and indie theatre house made a spinoff of sorts from this: a play and book entitled "Homefucking is killing prostitution": http://krismoor.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10&#x
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Time to Use the Latest Gmail(mail.google.com)
3 points by marttt 3y ago|2 comments
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by marttt 3y ago
Yep, me and my son are currently daily users of QB1.1 in DOSBox. Works nicely, but you might need trial and error to figure out the [Break] key when you're on a laptop. Haven't tested, but QB1.1 or 4.5 should also work with vDosPl
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The Elements of Dynamic Symmetry (1919) [pdf](archive.org)
14 points by marttt 3y ago|1 comments

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