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Post by graposaymaname »

exo-cortex wrote: post #612
graposaymaname wrote: post #610

At the moment, I'm trying out comics after reading non-fiction for a long time. I started with Watchmen, a supremely cinematic experience so far. I've not found such joy from reading a book in a long time.

I highly recommend french comics - or "bande dessinée / BD" as they are called there. I believe France has the biggest and most interesting culture when it comes to comics - so many different kinds of genres, art styles and forms are alive there. Reading "L'Incal" as a very young and slightly unattended child in a french bookstore put some really freakish images in my mind.

Sure thing! Can you recommend a few with good english translations - if that works?

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Post by rrr83 »

Not sure if I am passionate enough but for 1 month have started studying option trading and my aim is to use it as a mode to get some daily income. Not expecting to be rich overnight but as a side income to pay my ever-increasing expenses. I know the risks in it and already in losses, but my idea is to limit myself and not to use at a gambling but keep a daily limit of Proft/loss. Anyone tried already or any suggestions?

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Post by dolajide »

biztos wrote: post #641
dolajide wrote: post #515

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No I do not come from a farming background. I don’t intend to live at the farm. I intend to recruit people to run it day to day (labor is still cheap in Africa). Learn and adjust along the way, and if it’s successful, scale it.

Cool, any online resources you’d recommend? Any “ag-tech” you’re interested in for a small farm?

Right now, I am speaking with local farmers and putting everything in MS Excel and will use that to set up a management system. I am watching a lot YouTube best practices videos on the crop am interested in. When I have lift off at the traditional level, then will I add tech. Some ideas I have are around moisture monitoring using soil sensors to do JIT micro irrigation as well as pesticides applications. But these are still far off.

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Post by ovebepari »

TheAngryCanuck wrote: post #585

I'm really passionate about learning Docker. I know it is probably super easy/familiar to a lot of you but it is phenomenal to me. I've been in technical sales for the last 10 years and while I really know my products really well I've let my actual technical skills lag. I've since switched roles and I'm now doing more hands on technical work with my products and less sales. I've had to start learning new stuff. In th…

Just making things more interesting, here's a brand new world of docker networking: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKFMS5C4CG0

This is crazy. I know, networking in the Virtual Machines would be kind of similar, but check this out.

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Post by ovebepari »

bayindirh wrote: post #512

I'm passionate about writing small, close to OS utilities for myself and writing high performance C++ programs. Particularly, extracting almost demoscene level of performance from computers seemingly lacking said performance. My Ph.D. thesis puts this passion to practical use, by developing a scientific application which uses every ooze of performance it can get from a system. The end result is "You shouldn't be able…

share some links so that we can follow your work!

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Post by thinkingemote »

seibelj wrote: post #572
thinkingemote wrote: post #519

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by "I mean, have you thought about this deeply? " I was asking if you had because I hadn't and was curious and am looking for someone who had. Hence the question. Sorry if I offended. I do not mean to imply that you have not. I have not encountered a Catholic tech individualist before (but am a Catholic). It's entirely possibly you are not an "individualist", sorry. Its also possibly that I'm combining two of your in…

We are social creatures and I absolutely believe in community and helping each other. My issue is that other people want to use the state to solve all of their favored issues, and fund this by stealing from citizens such as myself. It’s especially bad because the recent vintage of politicians exclusively attack the rich and pretend that purely by stealing from them all the money can be found, when instead they should…

Thanks. I also love the line about "peasants 1000 years ago or on a space ship 1000 years into the future" - we tend to get caught up in our present time and tools. I will try to remember that.

I can see where you are coming from regarding tax and the state, and agree with you on the attack on the rich as a kind of naive resentful class warfare.

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Post by MielPopssss »

lioeters wrote: post #633
MielPopssss wrote: post #450

Hello guys, it's my first time posting here ! Actually, I'm passionate about Lisp dialects, I always been fascinated by languages, when I was a kid, I used to try to learn new languages (Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, ...). When I was 15, I found out I had a leukemia, a severe form of blood cancer, I had so much free time that I decided to learn programming languages. It was really like a revival, the idea that you c…

> make my own toy programming language, probably a Lisp dialect I've learned a lot from the "Make a Lisp" project. If you haven't seen it, I'm sure you will enjoy studying it. https://github.com/kanaka/mal

Thanks for the link and the feedback on MAL.

I plan to do it, I also saw interesting projects like implementing a compiler in Lisp, on `build-your-own-x` repo : https://github.com/codecrafters-io/build-your-own-x

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Post by bayindirh »

ovebepari wrote: post #697
bayindirh wrote: post #512

I'm passionate about writing small, close to OS utilities for myself and writing high performance C++ programs. Particularly, extracting almost demoscene level of performance from computers seemingly lacking said performance. My Ph.D. thesis puts this passion to practical use, by developing a scientific application which uses every ooze of performance it can get from a system. The end result is "You shouldn't be able…

share some links so that we can follow your work!

My homepage is at https://www.bayindirh.io, and the code trove is at https://git.sr.ht/~bayindirh/

Hope that helps,

Cheers!

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