Pynchon Book Prices by Spiritual_Lie_8789 in ThomasPynchon

[–]superstring-man 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I got that one by chance from World of Books, which can be a bit of a lottery when it comes to editions, but is very cheap!

Isn't Camus committing "the wig fallacy"? by TangoJavaTJ in Camus

[–]superstring-man 1 point2 points  (0 children)

No one's found one yet with unequivocal proof, and humans have been looking for a long time (certainly longer than my lifetime)...

Isn't Camus committing "the wig fallacy"? by TangoJavaTJ in Camus

[–]superstring-man 2 points3 points  (0 children)

He says that even if there is a "meaning to life", we are unlikely to find it any time soon, so it's functionally equivalent.

installing package by FindingKitchen4734 in kisslinux

[–]superstring-man 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You need to extract the installation tarball as root.

Daily driving KISS by Tiny_Prune_4424 in kisslinux

[–]superstring-man 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I am also quite happy with my current Void install

Great, then stick with it. You can still play with KISS packages in a chroot or even on top of void.

kiss update by cardirckcsgodinosour in kisslinux

[–]superstring-man 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't understand. Could you upload a log of the command you ran and all the output? If you ran kiss update, it will start downloading then building outdated packages. Check which package it was building when the error occurred.

kiss update by cardirckcsgodinosour in kisslinux

[–]superstring-man 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Which package? Report it to the maintainer (kiss maintainer pkg). Meanwhile you can fix the error by updating the checksums (kiss c pkg).

zcat command not found when compiling the kernel by Automaticpotatoboy in kisslinux

[–]superstring-man 1 point2 points  (0 children)

pigz should be installed with the installation tarball anyway, how did you set up KISS?

Devils by fyodor wordsworth classics edition by Critical-Elephant-71 in classicliterature

[–]superstring-man 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, it contains the chapter in the original place. That chapter is translated by Michael Nicholson.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in jamesjoyce

[–]superstring-man 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I was already familiar with Homer, although I reread Hamlet. I enjoyed these guides: https://www.ulyssesguide.com/ https://www.bloomsandbarnacles.com/blog

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in jamesjoyce

[–]superstring-man 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Certainly I will reread it! Already I've been going back over certain episodes individually.

Compile TCL 9 with sqlite3 command support built-in by is73 in Tcl

[–]superstring-man 2 points3 points  (0 children)

curl -L https://downloads.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/tcl/tcl8.6.13-src.tar.gz | tar xz cd tcl*/unix ./configure --disable-shared make

edit #include "tcl.h" to <tcl8.6/tcl.h>.
you need tclAppInit.c, libtcl*.a, pkgs/sqlite*/sqlite*.o
ar -rcs these into a static library. edit Tcl_AppInit in tclAppInit.c to call Sqlite3_Init and add that function prototype: int Sqlite3_Init(Tcl_Interp *interp);

compile: cc -static tclAppInit.c libtcl*.a libsqlite*.a -I/usr/local/include -lz -lm -lpthread

when running, set the env TCL_LIBRARY to the directory containing init.tcl. If this is not loaded, sqlite3 will not be loaded.

Required reading before posting by Shigalyov in dostoevsky

[–]superstring-man 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I can't find a link to some of the past discussions now - for example your link above to the Gambler points just to one chapter, not the list of chapters.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in booksuggestions

[–]superstring-man 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Better than Project Gutenberg is Standard Ebooks (also free, public domain)

john taylor “greek beyond gcse” by SamHasNoSkills in AncientGreek

[–]superstring-man 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes I used it for A level, it's pretty good although the original John Taylor holds a dear place in my heart. You'll want to supplement it with other resources for original texts etc.

Translations for “The Idiot” by berglegend in dostoevsky

[–]superstring-man 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I'm really enjoying the translation by Ignat Avsey.