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It's simply the distance, I suppose. Poaching in the backyard is much easier than going long distances and crossing streets.

I'm sure, cats and dogs owner will find thousand explanations why the ban of domestic dogs and cats on graveyards is not a relevant cause for the biodiversity.

reminds me of JPod (and jPod)

Good crafted monospaced (especially so called office-) fonts do not differ. There is no need for the term "uniwidth" at all.

Surprisingly for me, the passing of John D. Barrow went so unresonated. He has some great books about the idea of the mathematical universe and his lectures (on YT) are quite interesting.

This year discovery of Spinosaurus' tail changed significant the picture of that specie's look and behaviour.

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2020/04/first-spi...

Logo is such an elegant programming language!

in TeX:

\def\a{mess}\def\b{age}\csname \a\b \endcsname {Hello there}\bye

in (UCB)LOGO:

? run list word "pri "nt [Hello there]

My kid started playing with Lightbot[1]. It teaches recursion, loops, conditionals, and is fun. I would recommend LOGO as an elegant functional programming language, if you want something besides the usual ugly python for-loops; Berkeley logo for quick REPL, NetLogo for more advanced concepts as agents for example.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZFK5yKQLdU&list=PLL6dgai5Nn...

The problem was stated long ago[1] and also proved impossible[2].

[1] https://xkcd.com/135/ [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yii4se8mmPU

Thanks a lot! It annoys me extremely every time I have to read such mess.

The Black Sea is rich on hydrogen sulfide. Googling on cable bacteria and Black Sea showed this:

Cable bacteria can limit sulfide release by promoting iron oxide formation in sediments.[1]

[...] we used laboratory incubations to assess whether cable bacteria can establish in iron (Fe) monosulphide-poor coastal Black Sea sediment and to determine the impact of their activity on the cycling of Fe, phosphorus (P) and sulphur (S). [...] we show that the enrichments in Fe oxides induced by cable bacteria are located in a thin subsurface layer of 0.3 mm. We show that similar subsurface layers enriched in Fe and P are also observed at field sites where cable bacteria were recently active and little bioturbation occurs.[2]

[1] https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.est.9b01665#

[2] https://bg.copernicus.org/preprints/bg-2020-292/

Since I have to do lots of TeX editing in emacs, every "coding" font disqualifies, if it doesn't have at least polytonic greek and cyrillic glyphs. So, misc-fixed forever!

I really like the gender duality of the russian and the other slavic languages: п_зда/п_здец, х_й/х_йня, etc. And so there is a masculine pendant of к_рва in them, AFAIK.

There are scanbd, scanbuttond, which poll the usb events and trigger a script, if a scanner button was pressed:

https://sourceforge.net/projects/scanbd/

http://scanbuttond.sourceforge.net/ https://github.com/jdam6431/scanbuttond

this is because the Bulgarians, unlike the Germans for example, are capable of (social) self-criticism and self-irony.

Emigrant is not the right word. Most of the Bulgarians living abroad, including me, keep their property in Bulgaria and don't sell. They don't cut their connections in the home land, and many of them return at the end of the day.

This is because of the exported feedstocks. If you go to Bulgaria (or any other Balkan country) you will see the land drown in german goods.

Yeah, well, I don't think that mafia and corruption in a not so rich state are worse than (Euro-) socialism and redistribution on the current Western European scale.

Modern days Linux kernel requires a bootloader, as seen in the video. In the old days, you could dd the kernel to the floppy disk and use rdev to point to the root partition to start after loading the kernel.

Which reminds me of the riddles in Yerofeyev's Moscow—Petushki (sorry, only in russian, my russian and my english are too bad to translate)

«Знаменитый ударник Алексей Стаханов два раза в день ходил по малой нужде и один раз в два дня – по большой. Когда же с ним случался запой, он четыре раза в день ходил по малой нужде и ни разу – по большой. Подсчитай, сколько раз в год ударник Алексей Стаханов сходил по малой нужде и сколько по большой нужде, если учесть, что у него триста двенадцать дней в году был запой».

«Когда корабли Седьмого американского флота пришвартовались к станции Петушки, партийных девиц там не было, но если комсомолок называть партийными, то каждая третья из них была блондинкой. По отбытии кораблей Седьмого американского флота обнаружилось следующее: каждая третья комсомолка была изнасилована; каждая четвертая изнасилованная оказалась комсомолкой; каждая пятая изнасилованная комсомолка оказалась блондинкой; каждая девятая изнасилованная блондинка оказалась комсомолкой. Если всех девиц в Петушках 428 – определи, сколько среди них осталось нетронутых беспартийных брюнеток?»

And my favorite:

«Как известно, в Петушках нет пунктов А. Пунктов Ц тем более нет. Есть одни только пункты Б. Так вот: Папанин, желая спасти Водопьянова, вышел из пункта Б1 в сторону пункта Б2. В то же мгновенье Водопьянов, желая спасти Папанина, вышел из пункта Б2 в пункт Б1. Неизвестно почему оба они оказались в пункте Б3, отстоящем от пункта Б1 на расстоянии 12-ти водопьяновских плевков, а от пункта Б2 – на расстоянии 16-ти плевков Папанина. Если учесть, что Папанин плевал на три метра семьдесят два сантиметра, а Водопьянов совсем не умел плевать, выходил ли Папанин спасать Водопьянова?»

SAP offers similar technology on their Enterprise Cloud using POWER9 interconnected nodes:

https://insidesap.com.au/sap-hec-to-run-on-ibm-power-system-...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djtqJ4P3OnU

"Uncle Petros and Goldbach's Conjecture" by Apostolos Doxiadis.

Not a math book, but a really well written, full with math history novel about the value of mathematics in a human's life. It gives you the reason, why you should know (higher) maths, even if you will won't become a mathematician.

about more than 5 years now. I bought it used on ebay for 1 Euro.

My home NIS server is HP T5510 thin client running on Crusoe:

   $ lscpu 
   Architecture:          i586
   CPU op-mode(s):        32-bit
   Byte Order:            Little Endian
   CPU(s):                1
   On-line CPU(s) list:   0
   Thread(s) per core:    1
   Core(s) per socket:    1
   Socket(s):             1
   Vendor ID:             GenuineTMx86
   CPU family:            5
   Model:                 4
   Model name:            Transmeta(tm) Crusoe(tm) Processor TM5700
   Stepping:              3
   CPU MHz:               798.025
   BogoMIPS:              1596.05
   

   t5510 ~ # longrun -p
   LongRun: enabled
   LongRun Thermal Extensions (LTX): active
   LTX setting: 75% reduction
   Current performance window: 0 to 100
   Current performance level: 0
   LongRun flags: economy

Berkeley Logo has higher order mapping functions like "cascade" and "crossmap" which I miss in modern Emacs Lisp with its countless packages for example.

If you want something more fancier, NetLogo provides agent based parallelism which is more suitable for games.

The only thing I miss in (Berkeley) Logo is a better fill function.

You lucky! My kid's school teaches Delphi/TurboPascal (8. grade, first programming language course), which they replaced with Lazarus unable to install Delphi on modern PCs.

Logo rules big times!

It's not GPU, it's called RIP - Raster Image Processor. And yes, one of the benefits of print is, that it is already pre-rendered. Waiting for a PDF reader/browser to show a complex vector image is just annoying.