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To really enjoy the book, stop reading at the last chapter, and go back at the beginning. Then imagine yourself happy doing so.


Given that some far right public figures are using him more and more, I'd say they do. Same goes for Gramsci.


What a needlessly mean comment. Maybe you should watch a few of the Tati movies ? Start with playtime, you'll see what gp meant, which is richer than just interior design fashion.


Gnu guix will solve all your guile scheme packaging needs and then some.


> We all learned the lesson that mass-market IT tools almost always outperform in-house,

Funny, I learned the exact opposite lesson. Almost all software suck, and a good way for it not to suck is to know where the developer is and go tell them their shit is broken, in person.

If you want a large scale example, one of the two main law enforcement agency in france spun off libreoffice into their own legal writing software. Developped by LEOs that can take up to two weeks a year to work on that. Awesome software. Would cost litterally millions if bought on the market.


The scheme syntax gets a while to get used to if you are not familiar with it, and in the end having a real programming language is quite awesome, you can do lots of fun stuff like programmatically create a file or dir for every user of a certain group, etc.

Take a look at this

https://guix-hosting.com/docs/tuto/getting-started.html

To see how one can use macros to redefine the syntax to get an imperative-like syntax for defining services.

Disclaimer: i run guix-hosting.com


> programmatically create a file or dir for every user of a certain group

To be fair here, NixOS module system also makes this a breeze. Whether via `systemd.tmpfiles` or via generated scripts.

It might be nicer to have some more DSL capabilities in nix though.



Out of curiosity, do you know if these events get taught in history lessons in American schools? I'm by no means throwing shade here - I'm a Brit and our history lessons barely mentioned the unending list of atrocities Britain committed in the name of empire.


Yepper. Trail of Tears, German/Japanese internment are all primary education topics. Now interestingly, I don't think Bush has made it into the history books yet, but I don't have kids, so can't verify current day education materials.

What I find interesting is the bits we leave out. Like we touch on the Banana Republics, but the annex of Hawaii and how that was skulduggerously done is completely skimmed over.


> German/Japanese internment are all primary education topics.

There wasn't any German internment. White people got a pass.


> There wasn't any German internment

There was, in fact, but the proportion of German (and Italian, also) nationals and citizens of German (and Italian) descent interned was far lower compared to the population of such foreign nationals and citizens than was the case for Japanese nationals and citizens of Japanese descent.

> White people got a pass.

Relatively speaking, yes, but there still were internments, including of US citizens based on German and Italian descent. (But with more individualized review before internment or eviction from coastal areas than was true of citizens of Japanese descent.)



Remind me what the German equivalent of Japan's attack Pearl Harbor was on US soil.


A bit, but it varies some by state and most skip at least some things (do any cover labor struggles in the early 20th century?)

Ours stopped after (an extremely cursory coverage of) the ‘50s and ‘60 civil rights movement because there was no way to cover Vietnam and Nixon and such basically at all without greatly upsetting Republican parents. Anything newer than ~30 years (at the time) was treated as about as handsome-off as religion. Dunno if that’s changed.


TDLR: Very little.


No, because f is assumed to be computable from the start, which BB is not (otherwise it could be used as a subroutine in a program that solves the halting problem).


Don't forget teachers, and unemployed people.

This is true for every national muséum in France and it is awesome !


So, freemasonery with a different goon, and a bit of racism. Kkk-lite, in a way.

People who like to dress up can also join the order of Malta, which can actually boast continuous existence since 1099.


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