amongwhales

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by amongwhales 5y ago
Love Myself When I Am Real and Black Saint. But I had trouble finding other songs as enjoyable. Is there anything else similar in his catalog?
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by amongwhales 6y ago
I had never seen polyominoes used professionally for mathematics. However, I was reminded of seeing them in the teen novel Chasing Vermeer [0]. [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentomino#Literature
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by amongwhales 6y ago
Love Douglas Adams as well. I've always seen Vonnegut as using Satire as a veil for optimism. He makes the world so absurd and yet there is still room for optimism. Adams always seemed to have a bit more British cynicism/reality t
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by amongwhales 6y ago
Thanks! Had never heard of him. Looks very interesting.
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by amongwhales 6y ago
A high school English teacher spoiled me by having us read Cat's Cradle instead of the more common/historical Slaughterhouse Five. Great kickoff to a lifelong love of his satire. Cat's Cradle shows both the horror and absurdi
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by amongwhales 7y ago
Funny, I was just thinking how helpful these tips are compared to a lot of the advice on cooking which is repetitive. Was not aware of the differences in veggie storage. You do have a lot more seasoning control not in a shaker and that&#x27
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by amongwhales 8y ago
>in Europe nobody fantasizes about roadtrips Even besides the German brands (VW, Mercedes, BMW), there are a huge number of European car manufacturers (Skoda, Peugeot, citroen) > showing ability and demand for cars in Europe. Also, th
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by amongwhales 8y ago
It seems like a mid sized Midwestern city could fit the bill. Grand Rapids, MI or Des Moines, IA both seem like good fits to me. (Colleges, low unemployment, spacious to support growth, ripe for more tech companies) I base this off the thou
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by amongwhales 8y ago
This is interesting. I feel like they could play a role like Boise with Micron and the population boom. And support from the University as well.
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by amongwhales 9y ago
When a previous article on RenTec/Jim Simons was posted, I saw a comment thread about how Renaissance couldn't possibly be making such consistent money from Machine learning and quantitative analysis, but instead the reason they a
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by amongwhales 9y ago
Linux runs great on Thinkpads
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by amongwhales 9y ago
I meant what does Ubuntu Server come with. Is it Unity too?
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by amongwhales 9y ago
fyi: Advantages is misspelled as advanta(d)ges in Paragraph ~6 under "A website stored in IPFS" Thanks! This is a great read
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by amongwhales 9y ago
Where do you usually buy them from? Alibaba?
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by amongwhales 9y ago
That's what I was thinking. Arch switched to all x86_64 a few months ago (announced the phase-out) but, Arch would probably be just as lightweight. I'm not sure what DE it comes with