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Well put. The book has pride of place on my ‘wonderful bullshit’ shelf - while not particularly believable, it’s still intellectually compelling.


Good question. It’s been a while since I read it, but iirc things like hunger or fear he says they attributed to specific organs (and provides bits of ancient text to support the idea) - personified voices he reserved for reasoning or inspiration beyond bodily sensation.


This article’s main purpose seems to be to fill the gap you observe:

“ Perhaps you might have also picked up on one of the more discreet but omnipresent characteristics of Schuiten’s work (and thus the Solarpunk aesthetic), which is his undeniable appreciation for Art Nouveau.”


There’s a fixed layout version of the ePub standard too, allowing PDF quality if that’s what you’re after.


Friends of mine used to camp in this cave!


Hey it’s Arthur the c++ blogging pumpkin guy


No. It just means Nvidia need to give some kickbacks to the fantastically corrupt ruling party.

Really hard to see this as anything other than a shakedown attempt by people who don’t understand that you can’t keep an ip licensing company inside national borders for long.


You may be right about the reason. Or maybe it’s something to do with positioning between US and EU.

The correct move would be to nationalise ARM and build a fab, but the Tories are very unlikely to do that.


Because even if it was successful from a national security standpoint (semicon independence) it would look like a total boondoggle. It would cost billions of government money, and then overrun those billions in cost. Chips would still be slower than their competitors, and the new British fabbed chips would be even slower. No matter which party pulled the trigger, the other would ruthlessly tear the project down in the eyes of the public as corrupt and expensive, terrible for the environment, huge water and land usage, etc.

I'm not trying to say that ARM is incompetent, but it takes years for an institution to learn how to do this. ARM doesn't currently operate fabs.


It would be a separate effort from ARM itself, merely complimentary. It wouldn't have to be too expensive either, if it avoided private profit-seeking suppliers and instead attempted to vertically integrate by nationalising related industries.

You're correct that neither main party would do this, partly because of the inadequacies of the liberal election cycle. Only direct worker democracy could reliably centrally plan for use rather than profit.


I found the source of the Cal3d library quite readable, taught me a lot about basic blending and sparse key frames back in the day


Thanks, I always thought saag was any sauce made primarily from leafy greens


I'm Indian and for me saag is "leafy greens" too. Spinach to be more particular.

The thing is that in India some meanings change with geography and location. For example, for me bhujia meant this [1] for the longest time. However, when I moved to a different part of the country, bhujia also meant potato fritters. Then, there is bhaji which means fried veggies. But some people also call potato fritters as bhaji.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bikaneri_bhujia


Aha that makes sense, thanks

In the U.K. (at least while I was growing up) we had ‘Bombay mix’[1] which included your version of bhujia.

Bhaji and Pakora seem to be interchangeable in British-Indian cuisine. If the bulk is onion it’s called a bhaji, otherwise pakora.

Halwa is another one that can be wildly different, it seems. Though most parts of the world have their own version I guess, all irresistible but very different.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombay_mix?wprov=sfti1


Auto playing video with audio underneath your GDPR trap?

Sorry Indy, that’s the last click you get from me.


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