started learning French during the pandemic, first with some app but then switched to an 1-1 online course, one hour every week, and stayed with it. right now I’m somewhere at B1 level which might but be much, but suffices for reading (technical) books, newspapers, and everyday communication. i try to listen to a lot of French music (with lyrics on, to help me get into the rhythm if the language and maybe learn some new lingo), watch movies (Love Star Trek), listen to the radio, bla blub.

the things is to find something you care about in the other language/culture. then, learning the language will give you access to something which is already important to you and keeping up with your learning becomes more easy. my2c

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/article/chile-fashion-pollution

Euro currency is quite metric tbh

https://retractionwatch.com/2026/01/30/guest-post-ai-chatgpt-generated-paper-pregnancy-math/

in your second example the right most * casts src to a pointer, saying, the value 0xf0 is a memory address, the second * then attempts to get the value stored at that address.

i think the confusion is that a variable in c is not a pointer but a referrer to a memory location. it’s been a while so maybe I’m wrong (or was never right to begin with): you attempt to cast the value storred in, e.g., src to a pointer and then get the value the pointer points to. but who knows what’s stored at location 0xf0.

the example in the book seems right: & returns the address of the variable src, and * then gets the value stored at that address.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ichthyosis

There were arsenic eaters in Styria

From the English Wikipedia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arsenic_trioxide?wprov=sfla1

In Austria, there lived the so-called “arsenic eaters of Styria”, who ingested doses far beyond the lethal dose of arsenic trioxide without any apparent harm. Arsenic is thought to enable strenuous work at high altitudes, e.g. in the Alps."

(The German Wikipedia has a whole article on this: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arsenikesser?wprov=sfla1)

love the reference

well there’s prairie madness

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prairie_madness?wprov=sfla1

there is also “dingensbummens”, a thingy, or whatchamacallit

really interesting article. thanks a lot for sharing

i love andouillette but this is definitely something to cook leewards.

look for gastronorm container. cheap, sturdy, stackable, a life changer if you need to prepare lots of veggies

proper archiving is surprisingly difficult, esp the time capsule idea. maybe this gets you started

https://www.canada.ca/en/conservation-institute/services/conservation-preservation-publications/canadian-conservation-institute-notes/longevity-recordable-cds-dvds.html

well the book has been (rightfully, imo) criticized for including many unreliable findings, esp. in the psychology section. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thinking,_Fast_and_Slow

kenne noch Hahnenquelle

I’ve used rmarkdown back when i was in academia, having dabbled in jupyter years before. I think the main issue with literate programming is knowing your target audience. people differ wildly in their tech skills, and i guess that those people who use literate programming to its potential are the same who are happy to use org-mode.

others just copy paste their analysis scripts they cobbled together into whatever interface and copy the result into word and start formatting.

just a thought

hello wildcats

loved this game when i was a kid https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Baron_(1990_video_game)