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Love Myself When I Am Real and Black Saint. But I had trouble finding other songs as enjoyable. Is there anything else similar in his catalog?

I had never seen polyominoes used professionally for mathematics. However, I was reminded of seeing them in the teen novel Chasing Vermeer [0]. [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/…

Love Douglas Adams as well. I've always seen Vonnegut as using Satire as a veil for optimism. He makes the world so absurd and yet there is still room for optimism. Adams always se…

Thanks! Had never heard of him. Looks very interesting.

A high school English teacher spoiled me by having us read Cat's Cradle instead of the more common/historical Slaughterhouse Five. Great kickoff to a lifelong love of his satire. C…

Funny, I was just thinking how helpful these tips are compared to a lot of the advice on cooking which is repetitive. Was not aware of the differences in veggie storage. You do hav…

>in Europe nobody fantasizes about roadtrips Even besides the German brands (VW, Mercedes, BMW), there are a huge number of European car manufacturers (Skoda, Peugeot, citroen) > s…

It seems like a mid sized Midwestern city could fit the bill. Grand Rapids, MI or Des Moines, IA both seem like good fits to me. (Colleges, low unemployment, spacious to support gr…

This is interesting. I feel like they could play a role like Boise with Micron and the population boom. And support from the University as well.

When a previous article on RenTec/Jim Simons was posted, I saw a comment thread about how Renaissance couldn't possibly be making such consistent money from Machine learning and qu…

Linux runs great on Thinkpads

I meant what does Ubuntu Server come with. Is it Unity too?

fyi: Advantages is misspelled as advanta(d)ges in Paragraph ~6 under "A website stored in IPFS" Thanks! This is a great read

Where do you usually buy them from? Alibaba?

That's what I was thinking. Arch switched to all x86_64 a few months ago (announced the phase-out) but, Arch would probably be just as lightweight. I'm not sure what DE it comes wi…