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by pgtan 5y ago
I really would like to see a Gentoo equivalent based on Lisp/Scheme, but as far Guix seems to be not even near. I just looked for no-multilib option (only 64bit of libc), custom compile flags or similar, but didn't find anything.
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by pgtan 5y ago
well, Coupland preserved even that aspect of our gen in "Microservs" and "JPod".
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by pgtan 5y ago
this is a brilliant example how awful ugly python with its loops is (also compared to logo)
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by pgtan 6y ago
It's simply the distance, I suppose. Poaching in the backyard is much easier than going long distances and crossing streets.
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by pgtan 6y ago
I'm sure, cats and dogs owner will find thousand explanations why the ban of domestic dogs and cats on graveyards is not a relevant cause for the biodiversity.
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by pgtan 6y ago
reminds me of JPod (and jPod)
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by pgtan 6y ago
Good crafted monospaced (especially so called office-) fonts do not differ. There is no need for the term "uniwidth" at all.
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by pgtan 6y ago
Surprisingly for me, the passing of John D. Barrow went so unresonated. He has some great books about the idea of the mathematical universe and his lectures (on YT) are quite interesting.
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by pgtan 6y ago
This year discovery of Spinosaurus' tail changed significant the picture of that specie's look and behaviour. https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2020/04/first-spi...
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by pgtan 6y ago
Logo is such an elegant programming language!
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by pgtan 6y ago
in TeX: \def\a{mess}\def\b{age}\csname \a\b \endcsname {Hello there}\bye in (UCB)LOGO: ? run list word "pri "nt [Hello there]
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by pgtan 6y ago
My kid started playing with Lightbot[1]. It teaches recursion, loops, conditionals, and is fun. I would recommend LOGO as an elegant functional programming language, if you want something besides the usual ugly python for-loops; Berkeley lo
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by pgtan 6y ago
The problem was stated long ago[1] and also proved impossible[2]. [1] https://xkcd.com/135/ [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yii4se8mmPU
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by pgtan 6y ago
Thanks a lot! It annoys me extremely every time I have to read such mess.
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New fossil of a 5-m ichthyosaur contains remains of a 4-m thalattosaur(cell.com)
7 points by pgtan 6y ago|0 comments
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by pgtan 6y ago
The Black Sea is rich on hydrogen sulfide. Googling on cable bacteria and Black Sea showed this: Cable bacteria can limit sulfide release by promoting iron oxide formation in sediments.[1] [...] we used laboratory incubations to assess whet
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by pgtan 6y ago
Since I have to do lots of TeX editing in emacs, every "coding" font disqualifies, if it doesn't have at least polytonic greek and cyrillic glyphs. So, misc-fixed forever!
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by pgtan 6y ago
https://insidesap.com.au/sap-hec-to-run-on-ibm-power-system-...
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by pgtan 6y ago
I really like the gender duality of the russian and the other slavic languages: п_зда/п_здец, х_й/х_йня, etc. And so there is a masculine pendant of к_рва in them, AFAIK.
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by pgtan 6y ago
There are scanbd, scanbuttond, which poll the usb events and trigger a script, if a scanner button was pressed: https://sourceforge.net/projects/scanbd/ http://scanbuttond.sourceforge.net/ https:
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by pgtan 6y ago
this is because the Bulgarians, unlike the Germans for example, are capable of (social) self-criticism and self-irony.
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by pgtan 6y ago
Emigrant is not the right word. Most of the Bulgarians living abroad, including me, keep their property in Bulgaria and don't sell. They don't cut their connections in the home land, and many of them return at the end of the day.
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by pgtan 6y ago
This is because of the exported feedstocks. If you go to Bulgaria (or any other Balkan country) you will see the land drown in german goods.
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by pgtan 6y ago
Yeah, well, I don't think that mafia and corruption in a not so rich state are worse than (Euro-) socialism and redistribution on the current Western European scale.
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by pgtan 6y ago
Modern days Linux kernel requires a bootloader, as seen in the video. In the old days, you could dd the kernel to the floppy disk and use rdev to point to the root partition to start after loading the kernel.
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by pgtan 6y ago
Which reminds me of the riddles in Yerofeyev's Moscow—Petushki (sorry, only in russian, my russian and my english are too bad to translate) «Знаменитый ударник Алексей Стаханов два раза в день ходил по малой нужде и один раз в два дня
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by pgtan 6y ago
SAP offers similar technology on their Enterprise Cloud using POWER9 interconnected nodes: https://insidesap.com.au/sap-hec-to-run-on-ibm-power-system-... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djtqJ4P3OnU
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by pgtan 6y ago
"Uncle Petros and Goldbach's Conjecture" by Apostolos Doxiadis. Not a math book, but a really well written, full with math history novel about the value of mathematics in a human's life. It gives you the reason, why you
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by pgtan 6y ago
about more than 5 years now. I bought it used on ebay for 1 Euro.
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by pgtan 6y ago
My home NIS server is HP T5510 thin client running on Crusoe: $ lscpu Architecture: i586 CPU op-mode(s): 32-bit Byte Order: Little Endian CPU(s): 1 On-line CPU(s) list: 0 T

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