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Thanks for sharing this gem.

Probably the best cover.

To each his own, I suppose. I particularly like Bradbury's style. It reads very prose poetic. One of my favourite is Dandelion Wine, which you will probably hate.

An emphatic yes. It's a strange coincidence that I wanted to name KEXP too in my previous comment. London Grammar @ KEXP ranks pretty high.

Does Tiny Desk have the best sound engineers or what ?

> Yeah, because the USA pulled out. Is that and act of victory or defeat ?

I relate strongly with The Pedestrian. I love going for long walks at odd hours. In the United State police's defence once I was walking all by myself at 3 in the morning in Mountain View, peeki…

Very interesting. Thanks for sharing. I haven't looked at the pointed site yet but will do once I get some time on my hands. Maps end up nerd-sniping me. The offset to prevent tears is a nice tou…

The author of Flexify is https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=lloydb

You are indeed correct. The options are to be found here https://foldingglobes.com/pricing For those who want some more, try making a globe by hand. It is instructive and a lot of fun…

Try interrupted sinusoidal, ot will be less edgy. https://www.jasondavies.com/maps/interrupted-sinusoidal/ This is a beautiful site. Don't miss it if you haven't b…

It might be worth reading this in concert with https://hn.algolia.com/?q=flow+based+programming+ …

Not to forget Letters from Iwo Jima Flags of our Fathers. He certainly took me by surprise by the depth of his offerings, given that I used to know him as blondie with no name and for dirty harry. h…

Thanks for posting this.

Yes absolutely. I spent much of my childhood under dark skies (minimal light pollution). In the city that I live I miss the sky of my childhood. My wife and I do visit less light polluted areas every …

Ah that "with me or against me" dichotomy again.

I cannot comment on whether Dantesque awareness of the night sky was common or not, I was, however, quite taken by surprise by Chaucer when and where I least expected it. I only know of Chaucer becaus…

It depends entirely on the circumstances. If someone is doing it because of the arm twisting done by the economy and personal financial circumstances then of course it will not land well. I will feel …

It has less to do with age and more to do with mental state. If you are happy, in the flushes of love, feeling safe, many things, even ordinary things will feel amusing, funny, worthy of a belly laugh…

It's a good book on what it is about but Foundations of Data Science it is not. It is very narrowly focused on the authors' research interest around theoretical results on spectral approxima…

> This is just one small corpus of Sanskrit linguistic traditions. That was just what her dissertation was on, not the sum total of her expertise. I was responding to your question about familiarit…

Prof of Sanskrit with dissertation on historical changes in Sanskrit used in the Vedas. > not far fetched to imagine Indians speaking Sanskrit and Prakrits fluently and switching them based on cont…

> Sanskrit was widely spoken and understood just like Latin or Avestan Is that so ? I am not knowledgeable myself but some of my family members are (professor s in Sanskrit) and from what I have ab…

> That is not what's going on here though When the government is absent in its role people/communities do self-organize. As long as local defacto controllers do not resort to things like …

As an Indian and an avid traveller I would welcome such a step. So many places in India have been reduced to a shit show of filth because of not drawing a line. Many places use an adaptive system of t…

Thanks. Did not know about it. Looks a little FiShy. In a good way [0]. [0] https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s100090050037 …

That's a very orthogonal issue. Sparse arrays are supported on C libraries too. I have done my time with CSC and CSR even inside Python that called out to C libraries.

Honestly, I quite like Python most of the time. The times when I don't, argghh type errors. The worst I have had in a while is when I was dealing with a sparse array data type and getting some p…