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by vram22 4y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34215278
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I had seen this version: In a world without walls, who needs Gates?
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Oh no, it's company policy you see. [Sign it, or else we'll sic our AI robot dogs onto your throat!!!] ;)
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Congrats, Andy. I have been reading Andy's blog for some years now. Though the main focus is on his own products and his product development experiments and experiences, many of the posts have good advice for those wanting to create t
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>In those examples you start with an object, call a method on the object returning a new object, then call a method on that and so on. I like this kind of chaining in OOP. Then this post from my blog might be of interest: Examples of met
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Old, but may be of interest: Speech synthesis in Python with pyttsx https://jugad2.blogspot.com/2014/03/speech-synthesis-in-pyth...
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Didn't know, cool.
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A sailor must have invented it.
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And the main texts about Advaita are the Prasthana Trayi: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prasthanatrayi
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There should be but I don't have the name handy right now. Check out translations of Advaita and other Hinduism scriptural books by the Ramakrishna Math.
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Also check out Drg Dryshya Viveka (Discrimination between the Seer and the Seen), another fundamental Sanskrit text about Advaita. English translations should be available for both it and the Mandukya.
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>Such people nowadays would be called delusional though. Not necessarily, at all. Advaita is supposed to be very rational and logical, and not require faith. Faith belongs to the path of Bhakti Yoga (faith/devotion to God), while A
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>Ashtavakra Gita It is about Advaita (Vedanta). Another good introduction to it is the Mandukya Upanishad: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandukya_Upanishad which, in just 12 verses, shows that we are neither bod
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>we had 'civilization' Can't resist this apocryphal Gandhi quote: Reporter: What do you think of civilization? Gandhi: I think it is a good idea.
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Forgot to say that I had given it a rating of 4 out of 5.
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It's a good book. I had done a review of it as a blog post under the O'Reilly Bloggers program which existed some years ago. But it and other such book reviews disappeared after a reorg of the site. So only a stub remains: https:
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>It may be a fantasy wrought by the ending of Robinson Crusoe (which bugged me that he didn't make a sequel) But check out The Swiss Family Robinson. Read both Crusoe and the latter as a kid.
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Google vegan bodybuilders and see Bill Pearl. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Pearl Okay, eggs and milk are from animals, but they are not meat, at least.
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The ads and content were both good, and so were the free PC utilities in it.
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Do you eat lunch?
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I read somewhere recently that Sweden or Norway or both has/have moose.
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by vram22 4y ago
Wonder if the word fondue is related to fond. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fondue I first read about fondue in Asterix in Switzerland (IIRC). Good fon(due)! #PunIntended
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I had read about this sometime ago: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pot-au-feu
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>Some other common ones are: line feed/^J, backspace/^H, tab/^I, and end-of-transmission/^D. If you ever type “exit<enter>” to end a shell session you can do the same with ^D. Yes. Also line feed/^J, form f
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Another small BASIC story, mine (partial, because I also programmed in BASIC on other personal conputers, apart from the IBM PC Jr. mentioned in the posts below): https://jugad2.blogspot.com/2012/09/lissajous-hipp
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https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu... levenez.com has been posted multiple times before in this context. There is a /unix and a /lang page under it.
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I used to use xterm -fn r24 & to get a larger font on some Unix and IIRC Linux systems a while ago. Good memories of doing a lot of fun command-line stuff, including Unix command usage, writing shell scripts a la the examples in The Un
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Yes, the turtle graphics module has been in the Python standard library for some time. Here are a couple of small programs using it, that I wrote a while ago: Simple drawing program with Python turtle graphics: https://jugad2.blo
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Lissajous curves have some interesting mathematical properties [1] as well some practical applications in the physical world (as many other mathematical concepts do). I just looked at the Wikipedia article about them again, after some time,
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In India people soak dry beans (and other legumes, such as chana, rajma, etc.) for a few hours or even overnight, even if using a pressure cooker to cook them. And they usually get done in 30 minutes, max.

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