thelibrarian

The Luddites did not resort to violence (unless you count sabotage of machinery as violence), and they were not protesting against better technology. They were protesting against the exploitation of the workers that these machines enabled. Formerly, weaving textiles was a relatively well paid and highly skilled profession, then these machines largely automated the process. This lead to the means of production being owned by the wealthy, employing badly paid and overworked people, to make themselves even richer.

Oh, interesting, I didn’t know that, but it makes sense given the influence of Hokkien cuisine on Malaysia.

My personal theory based on nothing more than the vibe of the thing is that it comes from the Malay/Indonesian word ‘kecap’ (which is pronounced almost identically to “ketchup”), the word for sweet soy sauce. This is soy sauce that is thickened and sweetened with palm sugar, and I could see European cooks attempting to replicate it based on the vague descriptions given by sailors, and ending up with ketchup.

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But can your Linux run calculator?

If you don’t give them a license to display the works you give them to display, how can they legally display it?

Colin Percival (cperciva), upon being dismissed due to never having won a prestigious mathematical award such as a Putnam fellowship, revealing that he had in fact won a Putnam fellowship in 1999.

Considering the James Van Der Beek of Dawson's Creek fame is having to hold a fundraising auction of his memorabilia to fund his cancer treatment, cancer is expensive in the US.

Going by the second graph, since about 2.5 billion years ago.

Thanks for that, it works well, and I like the font choice! Though personally I found the font-weight a bit light and changed it to 400.

Litestream gives you point in time recovery - you can restore to any snapshot time, not just have a current replica.

I see someone else here also listens to Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff...