billfruit

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by billfruit 8mo ago
How are you approaching the development of your single file html apps, is there any examples publicly available, sounds very interesting.
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by billfruit 8mo ago
Are there any recent books that cover this topic of design in the abstract.
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by billfruit 8mo ago
Prolog Programming for Artificial Intelligence" by Ivan Bratko, is a reasonable text book on Prolog.
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by billfruit 9mo ago
This calculation does not apply to modern ,"inktank" printers, which are replenished by buying ink bottles and pouring the liquid ink into the reservoir in the printer. They print considerably more than cartridge based inkjets.
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by billfruit 10mo ago
I have a completely opposite perspective to you on this. I find the peanuts very poignantly captures the frailities of the human condition in a humorous manner.
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by billfruit 10mo ago
Both Billy Bud and Bartleby are very focused on the human drama. If you are more interested in the sea rather, I'd suggest Typee and its follow up Omoo.
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by billfruit 10mo ago
It doesn't seem to be that widely known, any reason why?
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by billfruit 10mo ago
Do you mean John Betjeman?
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by billfruit 10mo ago
"The Book of Unix Games" by Janice Winsor is the book. Seems hard to find now.
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by billfruit 10mo ago
There use to be a set of games which were available for SunOS and may be Solaris, including a flight simulator with wired frame graphics, and Sun even had released a book about these games at that time(may be early 1990's). Are they al
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by billfruit 10mo ago
I feel much of the knowledge and experience in the industry is simply lost because it isn't widely documented and studied. There needs to be detailed histories of major software development projects from the industry, in book form for
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by billfruit 10mo ago
I feel that the last added book in one's list seem to have more influence on the recommendations, which results in a rather similar type of recommendations.
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by billfruit 11mo ago
But many features, even obscure ones are packaged by default in modern emacs, including I think a pdf viewer.
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by billfruit 11mo ago
Once we get a modern IDE like PyCharm or Intellij Idea, the auto complete is essentially built in, without needing to deal with installing LSP servers, clients, and their dependencies. Out of the box, project and context aware auto complete
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by billfruit 11mo ago
While I still use emacs, I find that that despite the "batteries included" narrative about emacs, the things which are not included are causes of major frustration. Such essential functionality like grep-find and LSP servers which
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by billfruit 11mo ago
From the article : "Czech conservation authorities praised the beavers for their unexpected yet effective environmental work. Bohumil Fišer, head of the Brdy Protected Landscape Area, stated that the beavers "built the dams withou
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by billfruit 11mo ago
Is it possible we see the diagram as an svg? I am seeing it only as embedded in the pdf, and really difficult to read .
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by billfruit 1y ago
As some not into modern c++, how would you get all functionality? Is there any guide or documentation yout could point to?. It is fascinating if all that could be done with just the struct defenition.
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by billfruit 1y ago
What about library support/APIs if you want to embedd gis functionality in other applications? Does QGIS provide widgets etc?
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by billfruit 1y ago
Can in it do interactive 3d diagrams.
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by billfruit 1y ago
Does not ranked matchmaking make for more competitive matches, a bit like if you play ranked in lichess it matches with someone of your own level, and you have a real chance of improving your own level over a period of time. There is seems
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by billfruit 1y ago
I think using org mode is way overkill. If someone wants to do pros tastination dressed up as emacs-gardening, it may be a good option. The best todo app ideally should be a smartphone app, which you'd have always with you. I think Mic
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by billfruit 1y ago
Can it do interactive 3d plots?
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by billfruit 1y ago
Daniel Mendelsohn's new translation of Odyssey came out in April this year. He claims to have taken a more litteral approach following on the footsteps of Lattimore. Did anyone here read it?
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by billfruit 1y ago
On some YouTube video related to Jurassic Park, I read a youtube comment, from a teacher, they said they shown the film to their class of 10 year olds and they were in such an awe of the secene where all the sea the Brontosaurus in the open
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by billfruit 1y ago
What do you mean by re-hydrate?
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by billfruit 1y ago
One exact quote comes to my mind, "While Fairfax suppressed the risings in the neighborhood of the capital, Oliver routed the Welsh insurgents, and, leaving their castles in ruins, marched against the Scots. His troops were few, when c
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by billfruit 1y ago
Like if your read Macaulay's History of England, he does say very much on the King's and Queens, but he's not heaping praise on them, he is very critical of them, sometimes very entertainingly so. Most of English history as
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by billfruit 1y ago
I prefer to add huge amounts of comments, explaining in as much detail as I can, sometimes it will be a mini-essay in there. I write most of it before I write the code. It helps me formulate the code better. Later it serves as explanatory t
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by billfruit 1y ago
Montaigne also wrote much about random every day things, about food, rest, sleep, etc. Statecraft was also a common theme in his essays.

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