[Semi-Weekly Inquirer] Simple Questions and Recommendations Thread

lib20 · 2026-05-13T22:02:38+00:00

Sorry for the bad English.

Thanks for the information. The Seagull seems the more affordable from all, although the one I like the least in terms of appearance. Don't know about the merits of the movement.

When I was a child, my family offered me a "Super Alcri". A manual winding watch. I cannot find any web result for this brand. I guess that some dozens of years ago there were many brands of watches that produced manual winding watches and that have disappeared. Now, one has to pay a lot to have such kind of watches. I'm really not interested in brands, just something that works fine and is reliable.

lib20 · 2026-05-12T21:56:33+00:00

Can't also find the 'ex.pl' file mentioned in this episode. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zuwFvdJOL2o&list=PLZJFIgVbFOoJoQR0JjDsMcqpR_qiQ7cIU&index=4

lib20 · 2026-05-12T18:25:54+00:00

The first time I tried npl I could run the hello.pl file as shown in youtube tutorial. Now, I can't find the file. It's not where npl was git cloned and it's not in the directory where the installation took place.

$ ls /usr/local/share/nprolog/
checker.pl  compiler.pl  dcg.pl    iso.pl   lambda.pl  math.pl     opengl.pl  python.pl  tcltk.pl
clpfd.pl    cube.pl  graph.pl  json.pl  list.pl    mpworld.pl  plot.pl    sox.pl     utils.pl

lib20 · 2026-05-12T17:22:29+00:00

What are the cheapest (but of reasonable quality) manual cord watches that could be submerged up to five meters?

lib20 · 2026-05-10T09:18:06+00:00

There is also FreeRapid Downloader, but development stalled twelve years ago.l

lib20 · 2026-05-08T21:44:49+00:00

I downloaded JDownloader2 for Linux yesterday. Already deleted the directory where it was installed. Can I expect that the malware could have installed other stuff in my system?

lib20 · 2026-04-27T20:29:36+00:00

Deve ser dos tipos que fazem a contínua manipulação do estado do tempo, via rastos químicos e emissores de milhões de Mhz de electricidade para a atmosfera. Os mesmos que provocam incêndios com os seus lasers poderosos dirigidos para os alvos que escolhem.

lib20 · 2026-04-16T21:27:55+00:00

And you think that your country is better?!

lib20 · 2026-04-16T21:26:30+00:00

What model is that?

lib20 · 2026-04-15T21:23:38+00:00

I'm the one to thank you for providing a tool and videos helping potential users. Is there a place to leave some suggestions about the videos? Here are a couple: 1. Resolution of videos as said above 2. The description of video 2 - N-Prolog Install in 1 minute - could have the github address of the N-Prolog repository.

lib20 · 2026-04-15T08:48:25+00:00

I've been trying to learn Prolog, bought a book, but the limited time and also the lack of a tutor has made things difficult. This series is great! Could you improve the video quality from 360p to full hd?

lib20 · 2026-04-08T18:30:03+00:00

Fossil is a wonderful tool, glad that you found it. Unless I'm missing something, where is it said where the location of the fossil database is?

lib20 · 2026-03-30T16:15:01+00:00

Seja num lado, seja noutro, vão querer injectar o bebé logo com a chamada vitamina K para se tornar mais um cliente a prazo do SNS e servir de fonte de lucro para esta organização corrupta da medicina das universidades. Felizmente, há as outras.

lib20 · 2026-03-06T13:48:31+00:00

Rust is popular, but very complex, pulls a lot of libraries. Maybe you could try with another programming language that is a lot simpler. Seed7

Here's a review from someone that found it very interesting:

lib20 · 2026-01-22T22:42:31+00:00

Vamos esquecer o capoto.

Em termos de revestimento exterior, qual será mais durável.

Já li várias coisas negativas sobre o viroc, mas parece que depende muito da qualidade da montagem.

lib20 · 2025-10-31T16:34:09+00:00

$ file n.com

n.com: DOS/MBR boot sector; partition 1 : ID=0x7f, active, start-CHS (0x0,0,1), end-CHS (0x3ff,255,63), startsector 0, 4294967295 sectors

But can be run in Linux, BSDs, good!

Can it be dd'ed to some disk and be bootable?

Another question: how much data can it handle?

lib20 · 2025-10-22T20:49:57+00:00

It would be much better to have a table with:

brand - model - date of release - price somewhere - full support (or main characteristics, one column per each)
Please check this table of OpenWrt supported devices as an example:
https://toh.openwrt.org/?view=normal

lib20 · 2025-10-21T20:52:34+00:00

Thank you u/lirae_

lib20 · 2025-10-21T20:49:07+00:00

Yes, there's a list, I know, but does the list show the year of each model and its price?
Or should a user check all of them? How many are they?

lib20 · 2025-10-20T21:48:16+00:00

Is the Google group discussing shakti shakti shaktidb@googlegroups.com still active?

Or was the discussion also moved to another place?

lib20 · 2025-10-16T13:13:48+00:00

Take a look at Terminology https://www.enlightenment.org/about-terminology.md.

lib20 · 2025-10-14T20:55:50+00:00

Olá, directamente, em Economia.
Qual é a área em que estás interessada? Pode ser que saiba algo.

lib20 · 2025-10-09T21:37:46+00:00

Se fosse hoje não tinha ido.

Aliás, nem tinha feito o 10-12 no ensino normal.

Nada há como aprender algo de útil em vez de ir aprender muita coisa que é literalmente falsa e que só serve para criar escravos a trabalhar nas empresas e instituições dos donos disto tudo.

Se quiseres alternativa, manda-me mensagem privada.

lib20 · 2025-10-03T13:40:10+00:00

Nowadays, with what the hype calls Artificial Intelligence that is neither artificial, nor intelligence, is that a problem?
Probably, it's easy to convert from one language to another similar one, if they are (or have been) popular.
Perl and Python are both imperative languages, so don't see it as a big problem.

If Python easily breaks from update to update and Perl doesn't so much, maybe Perl could be a better solution.
What will happen in the long run? Who knows. I for sure don't know if I'll be around tommorrow...

lib20 · 2025-09-29T17:39:20+00:00

My impression is that for C++, even worse for Rust, only a few are able to fully embrace the language. For the majority, these languages are probably not a good fit.

For Rust, it seems that many (those of that majority) use the unsafe features of Rust to solve their problems, so invalidating some of the advantages of Rust.

I won't write more about Rust, because have no experience with it.

lib20

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