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by vram22 6y ago
Yes, and there is an anniversary edition. The book is mentioned in Wikipedia.
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by vram22 6y ago
>Are there modern-day places like Bell Labs? Don't know the answer to your exact question. But I wouldn't be surprised if there are at least a few (meaning tens, if not a few hundred) of startups / small and medium compani
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by vram22 6y ago
There was also a book called Inside Windows NT by Helen Custer, IIRC. Had some good tech details. Had read it.
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by vram22 6y ago
Steven Levy's Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution is another interesting read (book-length) along the same lines. It is not only about the tech (which it covers over a wider period than the OP, from before Unix to after it), bu
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by vram22 6y ago
The list of tools I mentioned is not exact. Some may have been created later.
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by vram22 6y ago
Yes. What I read somewhere is that the early Unix team (some of whom had just come off the Multics project) got the full use of a spare minicomputer that was in the Labs, to build an early protototype of Unix (may or not be the first one),
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by vram22 6y ago
Could give this one a name. A couple of tries, off the top of my head: Unix founder number Bell Labs number
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by vram22 6y ago
Interestingly, many variants of that word in different European languages. See section Exonyms in: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romani_people
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by vram22 6y ago
Tough luck. Maybe some people are more prone to such issues. >sibo A typo? An acronym?
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by vram22 6y ago
No sophistry there. Just mild fun word play, of the hacker and Zen schools kind (which are kindred spirits). Check out Steven Levy's book Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution (the early chapters), ESR's compilations such as
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by vram22 6y ago
Mu. https://jugad2.blogspot.com/2017/03/m-unix-shell-utility-to-... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mu_(negative) Read both until end. Mind your head.
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by vram22 6y ago
Interesting points, thanks. Related to meal size, yoga (via a book by The Yoga Institute) says at the end of a meal, your stomach contents should be one half food, one quarter water and one quarter air, for good digestion, which seems to ma
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by vram22 6y ago
> Chickpeas aren't hard to make delicious. Ditto for lentils as well Yes. Check out my other comment about beans in this thread. All the dishes I mentioned there are pretty tasty. And so are lentils, if by that you meant masoor or m
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by vram22 6y ago
If by your [1] you mean flatulence, Indians (and some other Asians) eat many kinds of legumes (including many kinds of beans, like rajma, lobia, French beans, etc.), on a regular basis, and I, at least, have not heard of flatulence as a com
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by vram22 6y ago
Right: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vegetarianism
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by vram22 6y ago
Add paneer to that list. Pluses: - tasty even by itself; can even be eaten without cooking - fairly good in protein although has less per gram than milk, I think because some is lost in the whey that is discarded; but if you make it yoursel
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by vram22 6y ago
MathWorld may or not be what you are looking for, but it looks like a good reference site, for short takes on a large number of math topics. Good graphics too. Caveat: only viewed it briefly until now. Last I saw, it was part of Wolfram, th
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by vram22 6y ago
Good points. And there is also Tornado Alley: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tornado_Alley Excerpt: Although the official boundaries of Tornado Alley are not clearly defined, the main alley extends from northern Texa
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by vram22 6y ago
Thanks, will look at those.
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by vram22 6y ago
What obmelvin said in this subthread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25042243
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by vram22 6y ago
Ha ha, yes, wonder how many people know Escherichia coli is a bacterium found in feces. Often quoted in the context of polluted / unhygienic water sources. Source: a relative, who was a biologist / chemist dealing with public wat
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by vram22 6y ago
I thought I read, not too long ago, that he was kind of hell-bent on getting either the military or US govt. or NY state or some such, to be guided by him on adopting high tech for "their" benefit? Was I right, and if so, what hap
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by vram22 6y ago
Mostly agree. Didn't know Oberon was a single user OS, though I did read that Wirth was also involved with creating the Lilith workstation (he missed the chance to call it a Wirthstation :), so it could make sense that Oberon was singl
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by vram22 6y ago
For anyone interested, Richard Perkins has an annual Regenerative Agriculture Masterclass, which is coming up in the near future. Sign up here to be notified of details: https://regenerativeagricultureonlinecourse.com/ Just
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by vram22 6y ago
Yes, like make -n https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/make.1.html In fact, the above man page shows that one long form of the -n option is named --dry-run :)
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by vram22 6y ago
Interesting. Another thing I vaguely remember reading about Oberon was that any subroutine in the OS could be used from any program, or something like that, for high code reuse. I'm sketchy on the details. Read it quite a while ago, ma
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by vram22 6y ago
That can describe Unix command-line tools. No "are you sure y/n?" except if explicitly asked for via a flag, unlike DOS.
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by vram22 6y ago
>one of the 25 most influential farmers in the US. Correction, if the extract below is true (and emphasis mine): “Gabe Brown was just named one of the 25 most influential people in agriculture. In the entire world ,” says NRCS’ Ray Arch
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by vram22 6y ago
I think I read somewhere that he (Gabe Brown) is one of the 25 most influential farmers in the US (at least in the regen ag field, if not overall). Edit: Googled "Gabe Brown 25 influential". First hit: https://www.no-t
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by vram22 6y ago
Yes, somewhat at least. Gabe Brown's Dirt To Soil book (haven't read it, but seen some of his videos (~1 and 2 hours length), and my guess is the main points of the book should be roughly the same as the videos. You can see them

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