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by sherr 5y ago
Yes, a real disaster for us now. He didn't just "dig" through, but bulldoze to where he thought Homer's Troy should be. Doing this destroyed a lot of the evidence of the actual Troy he was looking for. Some of this has b
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by sherr 5y ago
Thank you Raymond and all others involved with uBlock Origin. It makes the internet bearable for me and other family members. Every time I use the "YouTube" app on my elderly relatives TV and see how often it is interrupted with a
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by sherr 5y ago
There are a lot of these carved stone balls around but mainly in Scotland. They are very mysterious: no one really knows what they are or why they were created. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carved_stone_balls
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by sherr 5y ago
Will Astley ever get old?
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by sherr 5y ago
I believe it is still quite a hard thing to be truly certain of but there are some indications around. Harmonia Mundi produced an album a few years ago that included some ancient Greek music [1]. [1] La Musique De L'Antiquité https:&#
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by sherr 5y ago
Thanks for the Kaseya reminder - it had vanished from my memory. For a period, these attacks seemed to be coming thick and fast. According to wikipedia [1] : 9 July 2021 - phone call between Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin. ... Biden later add
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by sherr 5y ago
When Thomas E. Dickey [1] stops taking care of Xterm (and much else), it will be the end of an era. [1] https://invisible-island.net/
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by sherr 5y ago
Some typos : "paramaters"
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by sherr 6y ago
This looks good and I'll bookmark and return to it as well. Well done. The Economist might also be worth adding as a source on your next iteration (assuming that's possible).
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by sherr 6y ago
Dentists (ones I have) usually recommend brushing your tongue as part of your tooth brushing routine. This helps prevent bad breath I think, which is correlated with oral hygiene.
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by sherr 6y ago
In 2010 I slipped on ice in London and broke my leg. I was out of action for a few weeks. Because it was hard living alone and being on crutches, I moved in with my Mum for quite a while. I was lucky it was just a leg but it definitely chan
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by sherr 6y ago
A very good writer. I only read my first le Carré about three years ago: The Spy Who Came in From The Cold. A great book and I saw why he was so highly rated. Since then I've read a lot of them and came to see, once again, how there ar
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by sherr 6y ago
Don't blame Linux for it. A web server and telnet are not part of Linux. If extra "server" software is included, it should also be secured.
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by sherr 6y ago
See also last week's Economist article "Decapitating America’s state-funded media" [1] : "To those who rely on the American news agencies, it all seemed dismally familiar. In Romania, Bulgaria, Hungary or Russia, the seq
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by sherr 6y ago
> the issue is that humans simply do not care about the future. I think that's overstated. Many only look to their /own/ future, not the species/collective. Maybe the family unit, so humans with children may have a lo
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by sherr 6y ago
Back in the 90's, early 2000's, I did not think highly of Microsoft or Bill Gates. I didn't like their business practices or what they were wanting to do to free software (and Linux in particular). Gates would always make sur
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by sherr 6y ago
This seems like a welcome report and the executive summary is straightforward. "What we need to do is much bigger than most people realize. We need to massively scale-up testing, contact tracing, isolation, and quarantine—together with
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by sherr 6y ago
It's the same with almost every creative endeavour. Painting as well as poetry and programming. Practice makes you better, even if the result is sometimes poor in isolation.
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by sherr 7y ago
There's a tremendous amount of bureaucratic infighting and cluelessness in many countries just now (I'm in the UK). There have been debates for many years about streamlining the chain of command and responsibility in the USA; just
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by sherr 7y ago
I'm in the UK and I don't think that's generally true. You usually have to wait quite a while for the paperback to be released after the hardback is out. Sometimes a year. A pain sometimes but usually something I don't
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by sherr 7y ago
The History Blog [1] (a great read daily) has a post today (coincidentally) on a recently unearthed Viking era "hnefatafl" piece, probably a king. Dug up on Lindisfarne, a holy island site off the coast of Northumbria in England.
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by sherr 7y ago
Not only some Spartans. Socrates did not write anything down (Plato did that for him), thinking that writing was a poor way at finding out about the world e.g. https://newlearningonline.com/literacies/chapter-1/soc
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by sherr 7y ago
There was some hype around something called "Freedom Box" [1] a while ago, but it seemed to have gone quiet. Things like this pop up every now and then, and then tend to disappear. [1] https://freedombox.org/
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by sherr 7y ago
Not Estonia, but Lithuania has a process to combat "fake news". Per last week's Economist [0] : "Demaskuok, which means “debunk” in Lithuanian, is a piece of software that searches for the patient zeros of fake news. It
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by sherr 7y ago
A useful addition to that page would be a short summary of what "photogrammetry" is and a description of what this software does. It need only be a couple of sentences. Otherwise, looks very interesting.
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by sherr 8y ago
Where you mention the book : The Forgotten Revolution by Lucio Russo The Kindle version of this is being sold on Amazon UK for £52.24! Not much cheaper than the paperback.
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by sherr 8y ago
Probably a lot of slaves as well. One has to consider how a large band of soldiers survives "in country". A lot of pillaging, ravaging and general nastiness. Slaves were a fact of life back then.
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by sherr 8y ago
Please explain. In what way? Both men, both leaders at the top of revolutionary regimes. What else?
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by sherr 8y ago
Also on the BBC Booktalk a week or so ago : https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0bvxl31/booktalk-diar...
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by sherr 8y ago
I like Mantel too but I thought this novel (her first I think) was too long. Better in my mind are "Beyond Black" and "A Year in Ghazzah Street".

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