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Direct links for english have been provided (as stated in a sibling comment). Yet the catalog server (to download localized versions) seems to be under heavy load or otherwise hard to reach...

If you dive head-first into Python's string behaviour, you'll eventually learn the hard UnicodeDecodeError-way what the difference is between a stream of bytes/octets and a text made of unicode code points. Much the same as learning that a timestamp without a timezone is not worth much, a text as a stream of bytes is not much worth without the encoding it is in. PHP also has nice footguns in that area.

The superior OS that was eventually killed by the inferior Windows 95. OS/2 did a lot right. The integrated Windows-Environment was initially better than native Windows: better process isolation (remember Windows 3.1's cooperative multitasking aka "hangs one hangs all"?), more DOS freespace.

The next thing I liked and adopted was Windows 2000, the less-sucking NT. We have come a long way since then!

The whole installation was more like 20 floppies back then, though. Source: copied and installed dozens of internal use only betas of 2.0 up to Warp.

It is.

For two decades I've been waiting for popular support for a complete or at least Clipper-chip-style encryption ban in the "free world". It always was on the other far end of the spectrum, directly oppsite questions like IV/nonce choice, PRNG initialization flaws, RSA attack vectors. I have great fear for the freedom and living standard of my kids when I read these top-level news pieces. We stand a real test and we will have to argue against hatred, fear and terrorism. Let's just hope our leaders have no-nonsense advisors as well as those that inspire such news.

They do not know how to perfectly control it. Given the obviously huge scale at which they operate, it seems to work reasonably well. Yet the huge scale is exactly what scares the socks off of knowledgable people - even more than a fire here and there. Their PR problem is that the number of times they successfully work in the dark is somehow confidential...

So ordinary people may finally read my papers with reasonable effort? Sounds like an improvement. I am not in the academic content distribution industry though.

> Protip

That's the problem: We should not need to be "pro" to get software - even in an open world without walled gardens.

For most stuff that is very true. There is one bread that keeps me easily saturated on 6 slices for the whole work day (=manageable caloric intake) but I need to make that myself. Takes 10+5min prep/cleanup, no rise time or preheating. Just put in baking pan to the middle of cold oven and take out after 60min at 200°C. Remove from pan and let cool for the night. 300g whole grain spelt flour, 50g rye flour (for more gluten), 10g salt, 20g white wine vinegar, 0.5-1 cube yeast, 300g sunflower seeds. Pro: Good taste, no sugar or additives, easy to control nutritional content, cheap. Con: Doesn't bake itself.

I'll give you an actual scenario, maybe you can relate: One of your kids is sick and yells for attention. You shuffle in the next load of bedcovers into the washing machine while trying to remember to call the doctor for an appointment. The detergent box is near-empty. If you are like me, it could take days until you get the 20s of uninterrupted time to jot down the detergent to your shopping list. Fast forward 1 week. No detergent. You are out of bed covers. The other kid is sick. Someone hands you an Amazon Dash that orders your standard detergent. You break down and cry, thanking that someone for the act of kindness. OK, the last part is exaggerated.

Unison via SSH to a Raspberry-Pi-attached USB HDD. Upload to Flickr via cron-triggered python script from RasPi. Arq to S3. Hoping that "only to camlistore" will be the answer in 3-5 years.

You get annotated as well as original PPT-slides along with clear text transcripts of what he says in the videos. Can be a bit awkward as it is not a textbook text but it gets the job done. I honestly think it is hard to do a better course than what you get from Ng's Machine learning on Coursera.