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by sherr 2y ago
This is an interview from 2010 and covers Crumb's illustration of the Book of Genesis. I don't own Crumb's book but have seen it reviewed (RIP Ed Piskor) and it looked wonderful. I can't read the article unfortunately du
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by sherr 3y ago
A good book on semiconductors is "Chip War" by Chris Miller. It talks at length about TSMC and Morris Chang. Great book. [1] https://www.simonandschuster.co.uk/books/Chip-War/Chris-Mill...
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by sherr 3y ago
In addition to cars, I'm a cyclist and have noticed that LED cycle lights, both front and back, can also be far too bright sometimes. Blinding in fact. A few years ago, I was behind a bike which had such a high powered rear (red) LED l
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by sherr 3y ago
Noah Smith (Noahpinion) had a decent post up a few weeks ago about this aspect of war - war production. He titled it "People are realizing that the Arsenal of Democracy is gone" [1]. It was quite a sobering read. The thought that
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by sherr 3y ago
I don't really use social media (no Facebook, twitter etc.) and have not kept up well with the various new technologies and terms in the field (e.g. mastodon etc.). But I use Firefox and like Mozilla so I am interested in what this is.
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by sherr 3y ago
Both James and Pragmatic Philosophy have had their own program on the BBC's In Our Time radio show. Very good. https://www.braggoscope.com/2010/05/13/william-jamess-the-va... https://www.bragg
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by sherr 3y ago
I wonder why you get this? I also use Firefox and I don't think I've ever seen this. I am on Linux. Is this a Windows thing?
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by sherr 3y ago
No idea. I've been using Firefox and Sync for years, currently on 5 devices (one android). Never had a problem. Firefox 121.0 (64-bit). This is the "release" channel. Maybe you're beta testing?
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by sherr 3y ago
I think you sometimes need to be in the right frame of mind to tackle some books, especially the more "literary" or complicated novels. "Possession" was like that. It's one of the great books I've read and perh
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by sherr 3y ago
I have the Fagels translations and found the Bernard Knox introductions excellent as well. Especially the ruminations on the possible "deep history" of the story and events depicted in the books. Overall though, The Illiad is so r
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by sherr 3y ago
The Waterstones bookshop on Tottenham Court Road, London, has a coffee shop and bar in the basement. It's very comfortable and pleasant, although I haven't been in for about five years now.
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by sherr 3y ago
It means "rubbish" (or "trash").
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by sherr 3y ago
I live in Edinburgh and one of the first things I noticed when I first came here was how many Tesla's there are. I put some of it down to a dealership in a central swanky street with rich footfall (gone now). Things snowball. We get a
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by sherr 3y ago
Yes, I agree. Something that has been increasingly bothering me: how hard it is often getting to see the scrollbar, or grab it if you can find it. It's being hidden and minimised. Firefox is quite bad here, and some GTK apps. Frustrati
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by sherr 3y ago
"It was kind of inevitable that after VC-funded terminals, mail clients, launchers sooner or later there would be file explorer." Well, Nautilus [1] (nw "Gnome Files" apparently) was created for Gnome quite a long time a
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by sherr 3y ago
Subscribers only.
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by sherr 3y ago
I use Virgin Bank and Firefox works OK for me.
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by sherr 3y ago
I've recently read Josephine Tey's novel "The Daughter of Time" and enjoyed it immensely. It has a fictional detective, laid up in hospital, investigating how true the terrible tales and crimes of Richard III were and co
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by sherr 3y ago
LXD is now supported in the latest Debian stable release "bookworm". There should be no confusion on LXD vs LXC commands.
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by sherr 3y ago
Why is xterm as good as it is? Some good people programming it and in particular Thomas E. Dickey, who's been working on xterm for a long time. https://invisible-island.net/xterm/xterm.log.html
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by sherr 4y ago
All verses and illustrations are linked at the bottom of the page.
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by sherr 4y ago
It was a bit of a shock when I upgraded my Debian systems to Bullseye (11) from Buster (10) a year or so ago. I discovered that the wiki I've been using for years, Moin Moin, was removed because it didn't support Python 3. I'
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by sherr 4y ago
Not my main bank so this did not affect me badly but their online (web based) banking portal is still glitchy and not very good.
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by sherr 4y ago
Modern film making technology can probably do much better justice to a book like Neuromancer but the technology isn't the most important part. The BBC did a radio adaptation almost 20 years ago and you can find it on YouTube and other
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by sherr 4y ago
I thought "A Place of Greater Safety" (her first work) was good in part but too long. My favourite book of hers, other thann the Wolf Hall trilogy is "Beyond Black".
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by sherr 4y ago
I read Wolf Hall when it came out, seeing it had such good reviews. By the end of the first chapter I knew it was going to be a great book. She was such a good writer in a world full of very badly written books. I'm very sad she's
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by sherr 4y ago
Where is that quote from? I could not see it in the (interesting) linked article.
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by sherr 4y ago
Also covered in the Smithsonian Magazine site : Drought in Iraq Reveals 3,400-Year-Old City [1] [1] https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/drought-in-iraq-re...
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by sherr 4y ago
The .org link seems to be a rick-roll.
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by sherr 5y ago
In the mid-nineties I worked for Parallax Graphics in London, doing support for their SGI based paint and compositing software. One application, Matador, was heavily used in the video and film industry - also for TV and things like weather

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