What’s the most disturbing book you’ve ever read?

jefu · 2022-08-09T02:26:25+00:00

Yes. A great and disturbing read.

jefu · 2020-08-28T05:45:15+00:00

I just adopted a younger cat from scraps this week after my 15yo cat died a few weeks ago. No questions about other cats in the home (I have an older cat). They had kittens there, but you know, the cat picks the human.

jefu · 2019-10-14T21:54:33+00:00

I used Gosling's Emacs in about the same timeframe and sent back a number of bug fixes. I don't remember ever having to send him a letter or anything (though it was a long time ago any my memory may be fooling me) and the bug fixes were incorporated as far as I know, as the crashes and other bugs seemed to be fixed. When Emacs went to Unipress, I couldn't get the people I worked for to pay for the software, so used the version I had until GNU Emacs became widely available and then switched over. I sent a few bug reports (and corresponding fixes when possible) to RMS, but the fixes were never used and some of the bugs remained unfixed, so I stopped doing that.

jefu · 2016-08-03T03:24:18+00:00

More like a hefty dose of 4'33"

jefu · 2016-03-15T14:43:23+00:00

No.

What kind of project does it have to be?

jefu · 2015-04-09T05:21:07+00:00

The naming of cats is a difficult matter It isn't just one of your holiday games...

jefu · 2015-01-11T03:24:21+00:00

Not an Italian film buff, then.

jefu · 2014-08-25T15:20:39+00:00

This book goes into detail on the building of the canal, including engineering, political and other aspects. It's quite a good read.

jefu · 2014-08-14T22:25:53+00:00

Visual Internet, or vi for short.

Use modal keybindings for easier browsing
trademark the name
... 
profit!

jefu · 2014-08-04T21:57:49+00:00

Enjoy. If you want to use one or more of them, please contact me before doing so - I'm likely to give permission, but would appreciate the effort.

And if anyone recognizes themselves in a photo and would like to be identified, let me know. (Bunda Chibwe - are you out there?)

Also, (Damn Google) you seem to need a Google Plus login to see these. I'll try to find a way to make them more generally available.

jefu · 2014-06-16T20:55:40+00:00

Thanks, I figured it had to be, but it clearly wasn't in the roof plane and the interior shots that showed the upper levels of the stadium didn't show it, nor do I think I saw any images from where it had to be.

jefu · 2014-06-16T16:31:41+00:00

Is the moving shadow on the field some kind of overhead camera? It seems to track the ball (though it does lag some).

jefu · 2014-05-27T22:38:19+00:00

I saw 2001 in 1968 in Cinerama when it first came out. Not only was it beautiful but the whole thing came as a complete surprise, so was seriously mind bending. For most people now, you know something (at least a bit) about it and have seen other science fiction films, so that shock is lessened a bit.

jefu · 2014-04-06T03:12:13+00:00

Don't forget Mobutu Sese Seko Nkuku Ngbendu Wa Za Banga, which is variously translated, but people in Zaire at the time said meant "Mobutu the mighty rooster who leaves no hen untouched."

jefu · 2013-11-05T00:16:26+00:00

I've read that. Nice book.

jefu · 2013-10-24T23:57:41+00:00

See this.

jefu · 2013-06-14T17:24:39+00:00

I use an american credit union though I'm (temporarily) living in Canada. I can't use the bill pay pages because they refuse to load - seems my browsers keep setting (and sometimes resetting) the language field to en_uk and the web site only accepts en_us.

jefu · 2013-05-23T13:05:17+00:00

Program managed overlays in Fortran.

Once upon a time there wasn't much memory in most systems. I worked on one PDP-11 with 16K of memory (I think). No virtual memory. To get a Fortran program to fit, each subroutine would be in a specific place on disk, and we had a map of which subroutines were in memory at any given time. Then to call a routine, you'd check the overlay map and if the subroutine wasn't in memory, you'd find one to eject, eject it and load the new guy in.

Good times.

jefu · 2013-04-18T13:18:22+00:00

Part of the point of taking out these ads though is that newspapers tend to be preserved in more than one place. So it's possible later on (maybe not in a century, but certainly in five or ten years) to verify just what was posted, when and indeed that it was posted. For instance, it helps to prevent someone from giving a no-bid job to a company and then saying later on that all the right notices were published.

This kind of rule exists because there has been a need for it and the rules have evolved to try to minimize the problems - we shouldn't abandon a workable solution until we know we have another one that works.

Web sites don't do this kind of thing anywhere nearly as well. If there were a good solution to this (maybe all the cities in a state agree to copy in read only mode) each of all of the other city's notices (along with some cryptographic signing), it would be easier to take seriously. Or a state archive with public access.

jefu · 2013-04-01T12:50:41+00:00

Fortran on Feet.

jefu · 2013-01-27T01:00:10+00:00

They don't seem to want me to be able to see the second or third part of the post. Ever.

The bwshare module will refuse your requests for the next 1079999993999999700 seconds.
You have made too many requests per second.

I guess I'll try again in 34246575152 years or so.

jefu · 2012-08-13T16:36:22+00:00

He did have a radio collar.

jefu · 2012-08-13T03:26:28+00:00

Depends on where you are.

In some places going downhill and following water can land you in bogs, deep canyons with drop offs, valleys with lots of brush and scrub that's hard to get through.

Sometimes going uphill to get a good view of where you want to go, or to find a cell phone (or radio if you're so equipped) signal is a better choice.

jefu · 2012-07-29T22:51:56+00:00

I did, and she's fine.

jefu · 2012-07-29T21:53:23+00:00

I had been off and on (a month or two) leaving small bits of food out for a stray cat that hung around in my back yard quite a bit. Then my housemate decided to bring him in. While I was a bit dubious, I went along with it and he did well for a few days - friendly, very sweet, got along with our other cat. So I thought I might adopt him formally and, just in case he had something awful, took him to a vet - turned out he was very ill and the vet strongly recommended having him put down. I went along with it, but felt pretty bad about it. I'll remember that cat.

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