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myrmepropagandist | 1 years ago (raw) | full thread | reply | flag 
 I have an old calculus book. The delightfully sexist title "A Calculus Refresher for Technical Me...
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73895313 | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @134318c2 It looks like there's an edition from 1944, so WW2 recycled for the post-Sputnik generation?
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Derek Caelin 🌱 | 1 years ago (raw) | full thread | reply | flag 
 My partner and I made lazing about the house and reading into "a thing" this weekened.

We introd...
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73895313 | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @0b58c1bf Is bookshelf envy a thing?
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Dan Gillmor | 1 years ago (raw) | full thread | reply | flag 
 A reminder that in Trump world, it's all corruption all the time -- and always has been. 



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73895313 | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @f8d9bc1c I wonder how many others in the 1% have done similar things....
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Bill Lamb | 1 years ago (raw) | full thread | reply | flag 
 Idle Vaccine Thought: Of the six COVID vaccine shot's I've received, two have left me sick as a d...
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73895313 | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @c6042f9b Yes! I had symptoms for a day after the latest shot -- I was proper sick for a week+ last year with the real thing.
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73895313 | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @0af6133c Is anyone contemplating rewriting libc in Rust?

I mean I get your point about memory-safe languages, but libc, like Rome, wasn't built in a day.