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by jaco8 5y ago
All this brings up long subdued memory .... my HP-25 ,which had cost me one months work during school holidays.. I still remember when I got payment and the next day walked into the shop and told the perplexed salesperson : I want this! He
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by jaco8 5y ago
I compiled and run an ethereum beaconnode on a raspberry 4. How much is this helping the ecosystem ? Why is running a beaconnode which helps validators to find the next transaction faster not being supported by fees (however tiny they may b
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by jaco8 6y ago
It basically is a fraud with the leaseholder the victim. The system has failed. The government issued occupational permits. The fire services signed their ok. The cladding companies used false reports to get approval. The construction compa
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by jaco8 6y ago
The time of the night trains in Europe was the seventies with all kinds of nice routes like Lisabon-Paris,Munich-Roma,Amsterdam-Vienna,Munich-Copenhagen,Vienna-Oostende,Helsinki-Oulu-Narvik,Bodo-Oslo and many more come to mind. Hopefully th
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by jaco8 6y ago
You could also look into Firebird , there is an embedded server which provides you with more oomph , is easy to use and has a small footprint.
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by jaco8 6y ago
About 4 billion people will now ask themselves : Where is Germany and how can I immigrate ?
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by jaco8 6y ago
After looking through the lot we settled on Nim. Give it a try , it will grow on you.
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by jaco8 6y ago
Just try Nim. It is fast.
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by jaco8 6y ago
For the vim challenged: apt-get install cream takes care of most initial pain.
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by jaco8 7y ago
Well , there are 2 different kinds of learners. There are those who need grammar and those who do not. I can remember vocabulary but never remembered the grammar of the 4 languages I learnt over the years.
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by jaco8 7y ago
Nim is used by leading data scientists. Eg.: https://github.com/mratsim/Arraymancer
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by jaco8 7y ago
I agree. I was forced to hitch-hike in Guatemala after missing the last bus . I also was picked up by a family and sat in the back of their truck for about 100km. When I got off at 9pm they advised to only continue to hitch on mining trucks
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by jaco8 7y ago
In a bus traveling south of Mazatlan I met a family and they invited me to stay at their home in Mexico City. This place, as it turned out, was right in the middle of the largest slum and consisted of a metal frame with roofing and side wal
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by jaco8 7y ago
... unless he or she already has enough money and enjoys to give things away freely to help out. This type of rational human does exist.
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by jaco8 7y ago
Depends where you live , there is no local farmer's market here, if we drive there the affordable part of the equation disappears. Some local grown things are available , like mushrooms and they seem to be in season all year. The best
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by jaco8 7y ago
... and in the future you will look to this experience as having been VIP, because in the future you will check-in naked , shackled to the floor with a hole in it so that you do not do anything untoward to others and the robot crew. The hol
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by jaco8 7y ago
We use PostgreSQL but also Firebird, which maybe is the great underdog in opensource databases.
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by jaco8 7y ago
With travel time that long , you have to consider technological advancement at home. Just imagine that you look out of your window after travelling for 70 years and there is this other ship overtaking yours with ease.
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by jaco8 7y ago
When I finished engineering school the prof said : "The most important knowledge imparted to you here is how to look things up, how to verify your thoughts and get inspiration for new ones to make products faster , better and more effi
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by jaco8 7y ago
Something for the long holiday evenings: Robert C. Ruark - Something of Value Frisco Hitt - A Coffin Full of Dreams Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn - The First Circle
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by jaco8 7y ago
I landed on the moon many times in 1975 using the HP-25 moonlander program. It achieved this in 49 lines of code and a few manualy supplied data points. Boulders were never a problem.
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by jaco8 7y ago
Hmmm , cannot agree with you here: syntax is great and easy to learn, complexity crockable in a day or two, documentation looks good and actively being worked on , community is very welcoming and knowledgeable, package manager nimble is ea
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by jaco8 7y ago
They even might find books by Otto Corvin ....
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by jaco8 7y ago
Well , besides Rust currently I would consider Nim , the core team there is getting many things right .
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by jaco8 7y ago
Our real estate agent summed it up: A Dream Home is any property my client buys as long as I make money.
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by jaco8 8y ago
I agree. Recently I was asked for the best time to visit Lombok. I said in 1979 , I had the whole beach in Kuta for me alone for a week. Ok, discounting the family of rats in the hut I rented, but they were friendly, too.
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by jaco8 8y ago
You also can use lots of python functions directly in nim too. Do this in nim: import nimpy; let datetime = pyImport("datetime"); echo datetime.datetime.now(); let pysys = pyImport("sys") ; echo pysys.version; It is re
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by jaco8 8y ago
When I was ten years old I was proud to have memorized lots of odd things like the name of the highest peak in Sri Lanka or the capital of Honduras . Now 50+ years on I still remember them because I wanted to remember, but I honestly can sa
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by jaco8 8y ago
Yep ,I still met some last disoriented hippies in 79 in Bali and Lombok. There were about 5 travellers in the whole of Lombok and the long beach in Kuta belonged to me alone for five days.
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by jaco8 8y ago
Exactly my thought too. Trust,however, is a weakness. This weakness is overcome by the average web surfer due to knowledge and time constraints or unintended clicks on links and ads. The future hopefully will have security audited browsers

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