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Penrose tiling with kites and darts would be neat!

Strict Vegetarians don’t eat eggs. No D vitamin fortified milk in his days. Many vegetarians don’t eat mushrooms, the only plant based source of vitamin D.

Darker skinned people in northern latitudes. Made worse for vegetarians like Ramanujan in England.

https://sccld.org/nyt-online/ It used to be 3 days until some time last year.

It’s now one day only, at least through my library.

forums.freebsd.org may be a good place to discuss these sort of questions.

I just want a terminal that can also run fully graphical interfaces and that scroll as more lines are typed or a later command outputs text! Next level up from sixels or escape seq…

Poul, have you looked at the Mill Architecture? It doesn't provide capabilities but provides "turfs". A turf is a set of [base..limit) regions in a single address space. Threads wi…

May be you need to have "scheduled downtime" when your undergirding system is down for "maintenance" and they will notice! [Half joking... Probably not possible but better to have …

Something like this? https://github.com/magiblot/turbo

The default serial build of V (tcc backend) takes 0.6 (with production compiler) to 1.3 seconds (with tcc backend compiler). The production (clang backend) parallel build of V lang…

I have used both Go (extensively) and V (not so much). Go's cross compilation, concurrency support, GC & stability are much better than V's. V compiles much much faster in spite of…

Read the author’s “Raja Yoga Revisited”.

I found one map that may be interest: https://araingang.medium.com/cousin-marriage-in-south-asia-f... But note that the article is really talking about first-degree incest/pedophil…

I has asked friends who would know more about South India. If you have any references about statistics and causes please share. Thanks!

AFAIK this is far more common in muslims but not in hindus, jains etc. While growing up I had heard/read that as per the Vedas you can not marry someone with whom you have a common…

Pascal had range types such as 0..9 (as of 1970). Subranges could also be defined for any scalar type. Further, array index types were such ranges.

I've read them both and Naipaul is the much better writer. Perhaps that always rankled. Anyway they "buried the hatchet" in 2011. https://bookertalk.com/poison-pens-when-writers-fr…

I used the rand editor in early 80s & loved its “infinite” quarter plane model. Dave Yost enhanced it quite a bit and called it the Grand editor. But it was hard to maintain as it …

from the above post: > April 1, 1999 > > FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Forward to the past?

She was on a tourist visa. She should have gotten a J-1 visa who can do 20 hours/week part time work with some constraints. Some details about this visa: https://yfuusa.org/2024/05…

Thanks. I got interested in this topic as people are talking about writing OS kernel code in Rust but a) it only helps new code and b) very hard to justify rewriting millions of li…

> The solution for C I proposed is backwards compatible, and does not make existing code slower. Where can I read about it? The only way to make ptrs to array elements also safe th…

The law of unintended consequences…

Back in the day many of us switched to automatic mechanical watches that didn't require manually winding.