I like to think that if Cormac and Hemingway ever met in a bar, they'd take turns sliding a pistol at one another across the table, for entirely different reasons.
tetris11
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GRR Martin knows how to write people. I think I learned a great deal of humanism just by reading his works alone
Second to David Mitchell. Bone Clocks was amazing
JIA CHEONG TAN
TEACHING JOAN
Boostrapping a full distribution from a 357-byte seed file is possible in GUIX:
If that seed is compromised, then the whole software stack just won't build.
It's an answer to the "Trusting Trust" problem outlined by Ken Thompson in 1984.
Yeah. I definitely said "multi-story" didn't I? Curse my selective amnesia.
I guess it's completely inconceivable that our tool wielding ancestors felled trees and built huts raised from the forest floor. Inconceivable.
I mean, yeah? Early homo (erectus, habilis) were known for building things with natural materials, so it's not inconcievable that they built huts and had decks for their huts.
"I see" said the woman, staring at the ceiling, realizing the frozen ice rink was more slippery than she thought.
I imagine there's a racoon hiding underneath the boards, just lying there with its mouth open, waiting
I know... it's pretty much written into marriage vows, "till death do us part or one of us stops pissing from the deck". She needs to fulfill her duties and start joining him at night on the deck
Scalzi - the first few books yes, afterwards I just lost interest and read them for the sake of reading them.