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Ask your doc about Osmoprep, which are pills you take with 8 oz water periodically. No weird concoctions to drink.

A pull request?

My doc. said he always uses the pills with water to prep for his own colonoscopies. I did the same (I believe the pills were named OsmoPrep) - 4 pills every 15 min with 8 oz of lukewarm water. Not pleasant but quite tolerable for me, and I will again ask for pills the next time.

I just tried opening a large (11 MB) log file on a 2008 netbook and, except for the unexpected "File is large, really open?" question, the load time seemed instantaneous (Emacs 26.3, Lubuntu 16.04).

I was surprised to see a git repo consisting of one zip file. And that zip file itself contains a zip file.

The talk begins at 4:45

I find eww to be slow on my netbook (20 or 30 sec to return ddg.gg search results vs. 1 second for links).

The effect of the 8-bit bus and prefetch queue are described in detail here:

http://www.jagregory.com/abrash-black-book/#the-8-bit-bus-cy...

I enjoyed reading your translation of the excerpt from Nachtzug nach Lissabon. It got me interested in the book.

When I read the perldocs much of it looks write-only. But in keeping with Perl's spirit of "there's more than one way to do it", one can actually write straightforward Perl code that is as understandable as Python.

That is one of Heinrich Dorrie's 100 Great Problems of Elementary Mathematics:

https://www2.washjeff.edu/users/mwoltermann/Dorrie/MaxMinPro...

In the US the only milk my grandparents would drink was buttermilk (they called it "milk") that they made by culturing overnight on the kitchen counter. They called ordinary milk "sweet milk".

s/the abomination/what/

IMHO a very well-written article with great attention to detail. I especially liked the section on paredit with its step-by-step explanation.

IMO Lisp is interesting, and worth learning even if you never use it for any serious project. It falls squarely in the HN guidelines as to what is suitable to post.

On Linux you can use the evim command to start up in insert mode, or to stay in insert mode in gvim, :set im

The author says as much in the introduction:

"I should close with a disclaimer. Music is not mathematics."

The article links to another about Mary Arnold-Forster, considered a pioneer in lucid dreaming. She wrote a book titled "Studies in dreams", available on archive.org:

https://archive.org/details/studiesindreams00arnogoog

Recently finished an interesting survey of bird intelligence (speech, navigation, social order, etc.): https://www.jenniferackermanauthor.com/genius-ofbirds

I had this situation in the '90s and called the city, and a fire marshall picked it up. Now my city has a hazardous waste center that handles all sorts of things including mercury.

Ah, of course - thanks for clarifying

Compared to C's ternary operator [1] it seems the Python version operates on 5 items.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ternary_operation

In the '90s there was a case of corporate espionage (theft of integrated circuit IP) where the guy had copied the design databases into a unix directory named '..^A' (control-A at the end) such that a 'ls -a' would show two '..' entries.