pschw

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by pschw 4mo ago
See if you can find a copy of Michael Sall's book, it's pricey but it's the definitive guide to the game
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by pschw 3y ago
> Can you think of one movie or TV show which models a realistically happy working adult marriage which isn't either sentimental and idealised, or doesn't end in drama, tragedy, and betrayal? Friday Night Lights
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by pschw 3y ago
There's a massive scholarly debate about when exactly the Final Solution took shape, with one school of thought being that it wasn't until after the invasion of the USSR that extermination became the goal. Christopher Browning&#x2
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by pschw 3y ago
In the case of the LIRR: https://gothamist.com/news/lirr-riders-still-miffed-over-jam... https://nypost.com/2023/03/06/hell-on-wheels-bklyn-shuttles-...
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by pschw 4y ago
lsp-java mode should handle most of that: https://emacs-lsp.github.io/lsp-java/
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by pschw 4y ago
From his bio: > I'd started off with Beej's Guide to Network Programming back in 1995 or so
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by pschw 4y ago
IIRC they were the basis of the routines in Arnold's _Education of a Body Builder_... doesn't get any more classic than that.
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by pschw 4y ago
> The author seems to have little understanding of how much this was true of World War 1... Fussell wrote _The Great War and Modern Memory_, so I'd say he was pretty well-versed on how WW1 was portrayed.
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by pschw 5y ago
From what I remember (I did a masters in history about a decade ago), Eran Shalev's _Rome Reborn on Western Shores_ was the main book on the subject (edit: the subject being Rome / the classics and early American political cultur
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by pschw 5y ago
Anecdote: When I was in a history graduate program, part of our training was a "written exam" based on a list of 200+ required books (and several hundred more recommended ones). There literally was not time to read every book, so
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by pschw 6y ago
> If you like Zoom you should be ok with Webex. Webex lacks a native Linux client, and the browser-based version has limited features and in my experience has had some recurring issues with audio and screensharing. So, purely from a user
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by pschw 6y ago
> Read a book about Lisp games programming Any recommendations?
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by pschw 6y ago
Nit: the first issue of Marat's "L'Ami du peuple" wasn't published until several months after the fall of the Bastille and thus played no role in radicalizing the populace prior to the Revolution. But the broader po
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by pschw 6y ago
It is definitely doable. _Scarne on Dice_ (1945) details a number of methods for controlling dice throws. And Steve Forte's "Gambling Protection Series" videos show what the moves look like in action. Mind you, none of these