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All this brings up long subdued memory .... my HP-25 ,which had cost me one months work during school holidays.. I still remember when I got payment and the next day walked into the shop and told the perplexed salesperson : I want this! He thought nobody in his right mind would buy a calculator without an equal sign button. Anyway I used it from 1975 to abt 1993 when the battery leaked .

I compiled and run an ethereum beaconnode on a raspberry 4. How much is this helping the ecosystem ? Why is running a beaconnode which helps validators to find the next transaction faster not being supported by fees (however tiny they may be). There seems to be no incentive to run this at all ... or am I missing something ?

It basically is a fraud with the leaseholder the victim. The system has failed. The government issued occupational permits. The fire services signed their ok. The cladding companies used false reports to get approval. The construction companies made a mess. The solicitors approved the title deeds for signing without checking realities. Now everything is false and needs to be renewed with costs beyond belief. The leaseholder is the consumer and must be protected by consumer protection law and also will need to be compensated for any loss. The government will need to foot the bill and then can claw the costs back from their own departments,cladding and construction companies as well as other parties who failed the leaseholder. The waking watch is another fraud forced upon leaseholders. Two guys walking about with their smartphones playing games or sitting somewhere catching up on study books will not cut it. The freeholder getting kickbacks from the building insurance company , which is saying that anything can be insured at a price , is also laughing on the way to the bank.

The time of the night trains in Europe was the seventies with all kinds of nice routes like Lisabon-Paris,Munich-Roma,Amsterdam-Vienna,Munich-Copenhagen,Vienna-Oostende,Helsinki-Oulu-Narvik,Bodo-Oslo and many more come to mind. Hopefully these kind of trips will be possible again.

You could also look into Firebird , there is an embedded server which provides you with more oomph , is easy to use and has a small footprint.

About 4 billion people will now ask themselves : Where is Germany and how can I immigrate ?

After looking through the lot we settled on Nim. Give it a try , it will grow on you.

Just try Nim. It is fast.

For the vim challenged:

apt-get install cream

takes care of most initial pain.

Well , there are 2 different kinds of learners. There are those who need grammar and those who do not. I can remember vocabulary but never remembered the grammar of the 4 languages I learnt over the years.

Nim is used by leading data scientists. Eg.: https://github.com/mratsim/Arraymancer

I agree. I was forced to hitch-hike in Guatemala after missing the last bus . I also was picked up by a family and sat in the back of their truck for about 100km. When I got off at 9pm they advised to only continue to hitch on mining trucks or oil tankers during the night. I still remember sitting under a huge banana leaf during torrential rain waiting for hours for a truck to stop. The driver later dropped me off in the middle of no where and said a bus would stop there by 5.30am and indeed it did stop, but it was full so I was sitting on the roof of the bus for the next three hours together with 10 other souls.

In a bus traveling south of Mazatlan I met a family and they invited me to stay at their home in Mexico City. This place, as it turned out, was right in the middle of the largest slum and consisted of a metal frame with roofing and side walls made of tarpauline and a mud floor . The first few days there was a queue of people outside just to oogle the foreigner, but it was all good with lots of smiles. The morning teeth brushing and face washing ritual by young and old was fascinating to watch, with everyone awaiting their turn at the single faucet for hundreds of people.Food was simple, mostly made on small kerosene stoves. I stayed for 8 days and at no time did I feel unsafe , despite my host explaining about many pickpockets , expert thieves and robbers living in this area who went to work the tourist spots during the day , like other people would go to an office , but this was home. My host had a real job in the forestry department of the city government , but he said he could not afford to live else where.

... unless he or she already has enough money and enjoys to give things away freely to help out. This type of rational human does exist.

Depends where you live , there is no local farmer's market here, if we drive there the affordable part of the equation disappears. Some local grown things are available , like mushrooms and they seem to be in season all year. The best and freshest tomatoes have flown a minimum of 10 hours from where they happen to be in season. So , while I agree with your proper flow , the reality is you eat whatever is available near you nevermind where it comes from.

... and in the future you will look to this experience as having been VIP, because in the future you will check-in naked , shackled to the floor with a hole in it so that you do not do anything untoward to others and the robot crew. The hole is to avoid the constant toilet trips necessitated by the crappy food . If you travel cattle-class you will get your cloth back in a basket , mixed together with the cloth of similar classed passengers. You will be allowed to re-dress once getting thru airport security , which involves getting taken apart and put together again by the intern of the day.

We use PostgreSQL but also Firebird, which maybe is the great underdog in opensource databases.

With travel time that long , you have to consider technological advancement at home. Just imagine that you look out of your window after travelling for 70 years and there is this other ship overtaking yours with ease.

When I finished engineering school the prof said : "The most important knowledge imparted to you here is how to look things up, how to verify your thoughts and get inspiration for new ones to make products faster , better and more efficient." That was at a time when the latest slide-rule model was state of the art in calculatory equipment. So, yes, do google something before you reinvent the wheel .

Something for the long holiday evenings:

Robert C. Ruark - Something of Value

Frisco Hitt - A Coffin Full of Dreams

Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn - The First Circle

I landed on the moon many times in 1975 using the HP-25 moonlander program. It achieved this in 49 lines of code and a few manualy supplied data points. Boulders were never a problem.

Hmmm , cannot agree with you here: syntax is great and easy to learn, complexity crockable in a day or two, documentation looks good and actively being worked on , community is very welcoming and knowledgeable, package manager nimble is easy to use. Have you actually tried yet ?

They even might find books by Otto Corvin ....

Well , besides Rust currently I would consider Nim , the core team there is getting many things right .

Our real estate agent summed it up: A Dream Home is any property my client buys as long as I make money.

I agree. Recently I was asked for the best time to visit Lombok. I said in 1979 , I had the whole beach in Kuta for me alone for a week. Ok, discounting the family of rats in the hut I rented, but they were friendly, too.

You also can use lots of python functions directly in nim too. Do this in nim:

import nimpy; let datetime = pyImport("datetime"); echo datetime.datetime.now(); let pysys = pyImport("sys") ; echo pysys.version;

It is really cool.

When I was ten years old I was proud to have memorized lots of odd things like the name of the highest peak in Sri Lanka or the capital of Honduras . Now 50+ years on I still remember them because I wanted to remember, but I honestly can say nobody ever has asked me for it . I also learnt 5 languages , because I wanted to be able to communicate or just understand what was written there. I never used mnemonics , I always forget them.

Yep ,I still met some last disoriented hippies in 79 in Bali and Lombok. There were about 5 travellers in the whole of Lombok and the long beach in Kuta belonged to me alone for five days.

Exactly my thought too. Trust,however, is a weakness. This weakness is overcome by the average web surfer due to knowledge and time constraints or unintended clicks on links and ads. The future hopefully will have security audited browsers which increasingly minimize dangers arising from these actions.