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“Storm of Steel” by Ernst Jünger, for one view from the German side. It has been variously perceived as pro- and anti-war.

I’ve occasionally found myself wanting a comments filter with an account-creation date cutoff. A -3dB cutoff might be >= 01/01/2020, to pick a round figure. Yet I never browse http…

> “The hypothesis is that estrogen can be protective, so that women may develop risk for heart disease later, by about 10 years, but then after menopause, it catches up,” Khan said…

The tarsier appears on the cover of some versions of a DJ Shadow album… https://www.discogs.com/release/324160-DJ-Shadow-The-Private...

Similar-length hiking options exist in the EU, like Via Alpina. Adjacent suggestions for long-distance and/or solo tourism are worth considering. With the luxury of time, investing…

I have occasionally dipped into this book for instruction and consider it a freely accessible reference: Unix Text Processing , Dougherty and O'Reilly, 1987 https://www.oreilly.com…

On pg 38: Field Gate Programmable Array (FPGA) Surely: Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) ?

I have seen the term "tenderpreneur" applied to those who become enriched through favourable access to government contracts, as in... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenderpreneur ..…

10 KV? I think it's max about 400 V, depending on region.

Another suggestion, if you haven't ruled it out. I enjoy using console vimdiff in PuTTY, because my configuration allows quick navigation without too much thought. The accumulated …

For the curious: When the HN-posting bookmarklet limited the length of the article title, I lifted the title of the BBC News story.

I noticed that UTILITY.txt and QUICK.txt in v20source refer to an FGREP command which is missing. Perhaps it exists as the familiar FIND command (FIND.ASM and FIND.EXE).

An economic angle, summarised in: Lowenberg, Anton D. "Why South Africa’s Apartheid Economy Failed", 1997 http://www.freepatentsonline.com/article/Contemporary-Econom... TLDR:- 1. …

Another song for Mandela, though released in 1989 as a B-side single: Simple Minds - Mandela Day... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandela_Day_(song)

Did your father experience a cross-over period of using OpenOffice (rather than MS Office) on Windows?

I've recently installed RCS on a Windows host for versioning my .emacs file, and I rely on Emacs VC to drive the tool. On Solaris hosts, including locked-down "production", I use S…

A piece of trivia: "Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities" is listed as a well-known example of a sell-side dealer (the publishing date is 2002). Understandably, some other firms…

I encounter vi on a production Solaris 10 box at my current consulting gig. I can access the box from other hosts with tramp. I believe that firewall rules will be changed to restr…