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by pgtan 8y ago
I wish there were also other attempts to create a paragraph breaking algorithms. For example one, which limits the total amount of white space on a line. Because, if you have a line with many short words on it, and all the glue is max stret
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by pgtan 8y ago
this sounds like a PRAWDA article during the Perestroyka. But of course, this socialism will be much more successful than the old one. Just need more state money and state initiatives and state regulations, and so on.
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by pgtan 8y ago
Finally, the new Euro-socialism "discovered" its old enemy on the other side of the ocean again. Just searching for "VW Steuern" reveals: https://www.google.com/search?q=vw+steuern&ie=utf-8&oe=utf
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by pgtan 8y ago
this is how they screwed the foreign companies on the insolvency of AirBerlin in favor of Lufthansa.
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by pgtan 8y ago
Harvey's lectures are more practical (impressive beautiful Scheme code), also cover some "new" concepts like map-reduce etc.
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by pgtan 8y ago
Brian Harvey's CS61a (SICP) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4leZ1Ca4f0g&list=PLhMnuBfGeC...
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by pgtan 8y ago
I completely agree with you. There is a screaming hypocrisy here.
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bc – an arbitrary precision calculator language(gnu.org)
1 points by pgtan 8y ago|1 comments
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by pgtan 8y ago
Obviously you don't stay everyday in a line for hours waiting for Germans to count their coins back and forth.
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by pgtan 8y ago
> This does not work if you want to speed up routes in rush hour, because people will demand stops at every block. Actually, this is exactly how Marshrutkas work, at least in Sofia/Bulgaria. They do not stop on "every block&quo
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by pgtan 8y ago
> You can't make it stop at every block a solution for this is kind of "stop on demand" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshrutka https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Share_taxi
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François Arago: the most interesting physicist in the world (2012)(skullsinthestars.com)
3 points by pgtan 8y ago|0 comments
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by pgtan 8y ago
Wondering, why there is still no GaaS (GIMP as a Sevice) Scheme/REST/Cloud-Functional offer.
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by pgtan 8y ago
"creamier" means almost always that this product has nothing to do with fermentation and work of microbial cultures, but was made thick by adding milk powder, gelatin and sugar substitutes. The opposite of healthy, not to mention
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by pgtan 8y ago
I don't know how it is in the US, but in Germany very few labels on the tub declare if there are any live cultures in the yogurt, and no one with the amount of that bacteria (like in BG). So one needs to develop a special taste to fin
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by pgtan 8y ago
If you are in Germany (guessing by the nickname), there is very good and inexpensive yoghurt based on live Lact. Bulg. I buy about 10 tubs every week. It's not that sour like in Bulgaria, but very tasty anyway. http://www.ha
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by pgtan 9y ago
FWIW TeX has \parshape
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by pgtan 9y ago
> If you do a website and target a different country, ignore emails about legal issues from citizens of that country for months, you should start to think about respecting the laws of that country. Surprisingly then, why Doitsche Welle
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by pgtan 9y ago
> why isn't there an open/libre alternative? see here: http://t3x.org/klong/
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by pgtan 9y ago
Yes, my kid was impressed about solving the problem just by describing it.
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by pgtan 9y ago
I try to introduce my boy (12) in programming trough Scratch but still no big success. However, we solved recently two math homework exercises with Prolog (logic) and MetaPost (geometry) which caused some effect, so I'm thinking to dee
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by pgtan 9y ago
~ $ dmesg | grep Beck 3c59x: Donald Becker and others. www.scyld.com/network/vortex.html
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by pgtan 9y ago
yes, Bold Monday, sorry for the mistake fonts/ibm $ otfinfo -i IBMPlexSans-Regular.ttf Family: IBM Plex Sans Subfamily: Regular Full name: IBM Plex Sans PostScript name: IBMPlexSans Version:
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by pgtan 9y ago
It's a licensed font from Blue Monday. No cyrillic, no greek, not to mention polytonic greek. And they took the true small caps out of the fonts ... MISC FIXED forever!
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by pgtan 9y ago
Wow, at least they included a license this time. I desperately tried years ago to get the license for the fonts shipped with the Symphony Suite, but in vain. No files, no declaration in the fonts, no answer from the IBM support.
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by pgtan 9y ago
Capitalism and AI bashing also. This book will become a hit in Germany.
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by pgtan 9y ago
> oxygen-free water layer below approximately 150 meters unfortunately the the oxygen level shrunk to 90m in 2015. https://www.sciencenews.org/article/oxygen-black-sea-has-dec...
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by pgtan 9y ago
the only "healthy" in the EU is the EU-Socialism
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by pgtan 9y ago
"shampoo planet" these days and he foresaw it. Amazing author. BTW he has a very inspiring column at FT https://www.ft.com/stream/authorsId/Q0ItMjI1YTIzZQ==-QXV0aG9...
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by pgtan 9y ago
Fludd by himself had a large confrontation with Kepler, and by his anti-science position brought Kepler to state that he hates all Cabbalists. https://thonyc.wordpress.com/2011/12/27/kepler-contra-fludd-...

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