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It’s either this fairy tale, or its flip side, the myth that ‘private vices’ somehow add up to ‘public virtues’.

some website where you can type the classics instead of just reading them

Is it this one: https://www.typelit.io/ ?

Funny thing is that when the creators of the language told H.C.'s widow about it, she said he never really was fond of his name.

I was intrigued by the top bar, but the *fetch screen says ‘Unity X11’ for DE.

What’s “Mordor Intelligence” – is that a real thing, or a parody of the surveillance/‘defense’ industry companies that are coming up with names nicked from LotR? (‘Anduril’, ‘Palantir’)

Michael W. Lucas’s “Networking for System Administrators” is a great resource: https://mwl.io/nonfiction/networking#n4sa

There’s a linux port for the SGI file browser featured in the movie: https://fsv.sourceforge.net/ ---- haven’t run it in ages, though; I don’t know if it’s still functional.

Yes, just as GNOME stands for GNOME has NO MErcy.

Yeah, I mean all vertebrates are A digit creatures in their front set of limbs.

Where’s the ‘PtrSc’ key? On Peter’s keyboard presumably.

Chromium has been running on a fork of WebKit called ‘blink’ for a while now; ‘bare’ WebKit is closer to Safari.

Another vote for Tesseract – just to clarify the terminology, though: PDF is a fragile format best used read-only; so you really don’t want to edit a pdf, but make a new one using the same (or cleaned-up) bitmaps and a new ocr text layer.

Now, tesseract is excellent at recognizing glyphs; but especially if the scanned image is a little fuzzy, the layout detection falters; and when it falters, you get redundant line breaks, & chunks of text in the wrong order – all of which gets incredibly annoying for searching & copying purposes. So if you can spare the time, and the text requires it, you may need to mark regions (paragraphs & titles mainly) on the bitmap image manually. There exist a few frontends to Tesseract that help with a task like that; check out, e.g., https://github.com/manisandro/gImageReader - inside single paragraph blocks of text, Tesseract doesn’t get as easily confused; and the text output is in the correct reading order, & w/o redundant breaks.

OK, but are they taking into account the energy expenditure of the programmer’s brain while writing the program? The amount of calories his/her brain has to burn in order to produce & debug the code?

NAND and XOR aren’t equivalent, though

| X | Y | X NAND Y |
| 0 | 0 | 1        |
| 1 | 0 | 1        |
| 0 | 1 | 1        |
| 1 | 1 | 0        |

| X | Y | X XOR Y |
| 0 | 0 | 0       |
| 1 | 0 | 1       |
| 0 | 1 | 1       |
| 1 | 1 | 0       |

& XOR can be reduced to NAND; not sure if NAND can be reduced to XOR

You mean NAND gates?

(Trick NAND Trick) NAND (Treat NAND Treat) <-> Trick or Treat

Recently I became aware of ‘StarLite’ tablets – the prices are pretty steep, but the specs look really good, esp. wrt the screen.

I mean, this is cringe AF.

Kotlin ‘built by communism’? Because the founders of JB are Russian? Is that it?

Swift is ‘greed’ how? It’s open source since 2015 or so; & available on Linux. Apple’s graphical toolkits are ‘closed down’; & obviously restrict users’ freedoms; though not sure how that implies ‘monopoly’. ‘Monopoly’ would be trying to dominate all toolkits, not have one’s own.

Vague word associations are cool, I guess.

007 is a pretty ideal permission scheme for a spy, though: Deny access to owner & group; let some 3rd party do whatever he likes.

Finland is in an extended sense ‘Scandinavian’; though I’m not sure that they consider themselves descended from ‘the Vikings’.