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If you like fantasy, "The Eye of the World" by Robert Jordan. A new narration by Rosamund Pike was recently released corresponding to Amazon's release of their live-action series o…

Location: Knoxville Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No (family is more important than a job) Technologies: Shell, Python, C++, Fortran, Linux Résumé/CV: bwayne.sdf.org Email: theb…

Aion - Carl Jung

Aion by Carl Jung

The Dune series is so rich in ideas and imagery. I've read it (print and audio) more than 20 times.

Yeah, there's so much great content here, sometimes I too seem to not get to the purely tech stuff. You may be interested in lobste.rs. I've found that they have nearly the same te…

This is, of course, why we will use a Heisenburg compensator when transporting. http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Heisenberg_compensator

I receive monthly Table of Contents [ToC] alert emails from specific journals in which I'm interested, mainly chemistry and physics. This typically involves simply creating an acco…

Death seems like the best way out of an unbearable position. You're intelligent; you've analyzed the options the best you can; you can't find anything else. I've been there. I'm bi…

Install the bash-completion package. [1] You'll then find a directory /etc/bash_completion.d/ which has all of the commands the package knows about. The number of commands can be e…

if only romeo and juliet had cell phones.

If I understand your problem with bash correctly, it can be remedied using `shopt -s cmdhist` and `shopt -s lithist`. I commonly write long for loops in the shell and hitting the u…

I think there are actually two forces at play, according to the article: gravity and degeneracy pressure. One the one hand, the neutrons are stable and not decomposing into protons…