Re:Ask HN: Digital Nomads: What's Your Setup?
by L_226 on Wednesday March 24, 2021 @01:33PM
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> one from 1944 on how to survive an atomic bomb which is also super old and has some funny advice/a picture on wearing a fedora to protect yourself from the heat flash
1944?
Re:Ask HN: Digital Nomads: What's Your Setup?
by jamal-kumar on Wednesday March 24, 2021 @03:32PM
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https://www.hyperorg.com/gifs/hat.gif heh this is way OT now but this cracks me up
Re:Ask HN: Digital Nomads: What's Your Setup?
by jamal-kumar on Wednesday March 24, 2021 @03:19PM
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man scratch that typo. definitely 1946. an older print of this title:
https://www.amazon.com/survive-atomic-bomb-Bantam-book/dp/B0...
Re:Ask HN: Digital Nomads: What's Your Setup?
by cyberpunk on Wednesday March 24, 2021 @12:26PM
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Oh, thanks for the seed recommendation, I was looking for something like this!
Re:Ask HN: Digital Nomads: What's Your Setup?
by qorrect on Wednesday March 24, 2021 @01:22PM
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That's weird, I was in Puerto Viejo when I found an original hard copy of "Where Wizards stay up late", something I couldn't find for sell in the US right before I left.
Re:Ask HN: Digital Nomads: What's Your Setup?
by jamal-kumar on Wednesday March 24, 2021 @03:14PM
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I think people take their favorite books and just forget them in places. I found a copy of robert anton wilson's 'prometheus rising' which was a fun read but old copies are pretty hard to find stolen from libraries and stuff
Re:Ask HN: Digital Nomads: What's Your Setup?
by jsjohnst on Thursday March 25, 2021 @09:34AM
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I bet you could get it at Powell’s Books in Portland OR.
Re:Ask HN: Digital Nomads: What's Your Setup?
by codewritinfool on Wednesday March 24, 2021 @01:04PM
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Mathematics for the Million is a really good book.
Re:Ask HN: Digital Nomads: What's Your Setup?
by jamal-kumar on Wednesday March 24, 2021 @03:17PM
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Right? I am sure some of the info in it is probably like archaic or apocryphal/historically inacurate in light of recent discoveries like a lot of this old stuff can be but as long as you take it with that grain of salt in mind it's pretty cool
I also got a couple of computer books. Concurrency in Go (oreilly) and this one thicc as heck tome which is the textbook for the SEED security labs which is also super good, because it comes with a bunch of virtual machines. Really nice source for levelling up your understanding of application vulnerabilities in C (and by extension other languages, but I was really glad to find something with these fundamental examples) https://www.handsonsecurity.net/