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All this brings up long subdued memory .... my HP-25 ,which had cost me one months work during school holidays.. I still remember when I got payment and the next day walked into th…

I compiled and run an ethereum beaconnode on a raspberry 4. How much is this helping the ecosystem ? Why is running a beaconnode which helps validators to find the next transaction…

It basically is a fraud with the leaseholder the victim. The system has failed. The government issued occupational permits. The fire services signed their ok. The cladding companie…

The time of the night trains in Europe was the seventies with all kinds of nice routes like Lisabon-Paris,Munich-Roma,Amsterdam-Vienna,Munich-Copenhagen,Vienna-Oostende,Helsinki-Ou…

You could also look into Firebird , there is an embedded server which provides you with more oomph , is easy to use and has a small footprint.

About 4 billion people will now ask themselves : Where is Germany and how can I immigrate ?

After looking through the lot we settled on Nim. Give it a try , it will grow on you.

Just try Nim. It is fast.

For the vim challenged: apt-get install cream takes care of most initial pain.

While I am being downvoted here happily , unfortunately I know it was a waste of money. On my extensive travels I met charitiy workers who were proud to discuss which of them agenc…

Reading this headline I remember my grandmother, who donated 10 bucks every month for years to this famine ravaged country via some church charity. She died poor living on minimum …

Well , there are 2 different kinds of learners. There are those who need grammar and those who do not. I can remember vocabulary but never remembered the grammar of the 4 languages…

Nim is used by leading data scientists. Eg.: https://github.com/mratsim/Arraymancer

I agree. I was forced to hitch-hike in Guatemala after missing the last bus . I also was picked up by a family and sat in the back of their truck for about 100km. When I got off at…

In a bus traveling south of Mazatlan I met a family and they invited me to stay at their home in Mexico City. This place, as it turned out, was right in the middle of the largest s…

... unless he or she already has enough money and enjoys to give things away freely to help out. This type of rational human does exist.

Depends where you live , there is no local farmer's market here, if we drive there the affordable part of the equation disappears. Some local grown things are available , like mush…

... and in the future you will look to this experience as having been VIP, because in the future you will check-in naked , shackled to the floor with a hole in it so that you do no…

We use PostgreSQL but also Firebird, which maybe is the great underdog in opensource databases.

With travel time that long , you have to consider technological advancement at home. Just imagine that you look out of your window after travelling for 70 years and there is this o…

When I finished engineering school the prof said : "The most important knowledge imparted to you here is how to look things up, how to verify your thoughts and get inspiration for …

Something for the long holiday evenings: Robert C. Ruark - Something of Value Frisco Hitt - A Coffin Full of Dreams Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn - The First Circle

I landed on the moon many times in 1975 using the HP-25 moonlander program. It achieved this in 49 lines of code and a few manualy supplied data points. Boulders were never a probl…