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I also liked St Yoree and really like Rozana for a few glasses a day. I always bring a six pack home when I’m in France.

Are the fractions ongoing efforts or did you drop it? re-reads for me: Diamond Age (4) (I'm an educator), Cryptonomicon (2), Baroc cycle (2) However i plan to re-read Anathem in pa…

My context for "learning" Imperial is solely based on measurements of length. I've "learned" it b/c i listen to a lot of US-Centric carpentry podcasts. I've just memorized 1 inch ~…

For educators i always suggest "The Diamond Age". In the last few years, AI has just catched up enough for non-tech people to take it serious. I really liked the first half of Fall…

> It’s possible Chris is buying SEO and marketing, but given his self-described anti-corporate anarchism, I sort of doubt it. I mean you never know. But i think there's another exp…

I'm not good at nautics, but in my understanding currents slowly stop and later turn around. Most tide charts are more or less a sine wave, with different highs and lows. So it's i…

> Or, hear me out, devise a concrete that reacted with atmospheric co2 to produce something more benign. That way it changes from an emitter to being a passive remover Good propert…

Sadly the machines from the repairable / upgradable era are getting to the end of their lifespan; at least with normal MacOS and standart software. I'm writingh this on a 2010 mbp …

the switch from ppc to intel definetly contributed to the fact that my powerbook only held up ~8 years

ACK. I switched from google reader to feedly to newsboat. One cloud service less. While i like the idea to be able to read my feeds from multiple computers, i don't actually need i…

What did you get out of it? I read "His Master's Voice" as a teenager and was deeply touched by it. Every other Lem Book was downhill from then.

> On Android, OSMAnd is really good and there's also Maps.me. Imo if you're a outdoor user on Android you should try out Locus Maps. I've used them with the downloads from openandr…

Palm really had the PIM suite down. A lot of other parts of WebOS were great, too. Too bad the hardware was so mediocre.

Living next to a low elevation resort this makes me quite sad. Climate Change will also impact other snow sports: The future of backcountry skiing (at least in the alps) will be to…

Not really, because Glue is quite specific. And just because Glue X can be substituted with glue Y if you glue A and B together, doesn't mean Y is a good glue to bond A and C

> A mail server is hard. yeah, but compared with other services like WWW mail is IMO harder. You deal with two main Protocols and a lot of software. While mail takes 11 components …

I've been running a mailserver for ~15 Years. I found it to be very time consuming and complicated, mainly because of the trouble of outgoing mail.

> you were going to buy a collection of Linux distributions + the Sunsite archive on a 5-cd set that was released quarterly and available at computer stores. I ordered debian potat…

that was one of my biggest problems ~8 years ago. keeping the macports and the debian versions in sync was too tiresom, someday i just switched to rsync which worked well enough fo…

> He’s lived a long and fulfilling life, a life I want my daughter to have. I've only worked with three students with spina bifida in my career in special-ed but everyone of them w…

it's about half as expensive.

they are very not precise. Most give a 80% confidence interval of +- 8 Points (or 1/2 STD). Also the different tests measure slightly different types of intelligence/put emphasis o…

It's probably a reference to https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Considered_harmful

> The trick (as with almost any other field)? > Practice, practice, practice. That's it. There is no magic sauce there. Practice isn't the only ingredient to the magic sauce. The l…

And TUNIX has the double-meaning w/ unix and do nothing (nix is nothing in german slang)