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Posted October 20, 2024
Read recently a German edition of "Animal Farm" by George Orwell and now I'm reading Bram Stoker's "Dracula", also in German.
Posted October 20, 2024
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viperfdl: now I'm reading Bram Stoker's "Dracula"
If you like the book, I strongly recommend the movie by Francis Ford Coppola. This is one of the few movies based on books that are in my opinion a better experience than the original book.
Posted October 20, 2024
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vv221: If you like the book, I strongly recommend the movie by Francis Ford Coppola. This is one of the few movies based on books that are in my opinion a better experience than the original book.
Thanks for the recommendation. That's the one with Gary Oldman, right?
Posted October 21, 2024
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vv221: If you like the book, I strongly recommend the movie by Francis Ford Coppola. This is one of the few movies based on books that are in my opinion a better experience than the original book.
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viperfdl: Thanks for the recommendation. That's the one with Gary Oldman, right?
Yes. Its a favorite of mine as well. Plus Keanu Reaves...as unlikely as it seems. I hate to point out how odd he speaks in the film, but it does stand out. The one good thing about Keanu speaking strange, lends to the character being rather dumb and naive enough to be in the situations his characters finds himself in.

Go figure.

On a side note about the book. A british collaboration with american PBS stations, made a book version of Dracula into live action.Which is funny. Mainly because the production was decent for very low budget. It seems so lack luster when you see something closer to the original content. It has almost no appeal to a modern audience, well accustom to debauchery and horrible things far worse than was written in the book.

So when modern people look at the story, we ask "sooo.....why is this horrifying?". lol
Posted October 21, 2024
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Shmacky-McNuts: Yes. Its a favorite of mine as well. Plus Keanu Reaves...as unlikely as it seems. I hate to point out how odd he speaks in the film, but it does stand out. The one good thing about Keanu speaking strange, lends to the character being rather dumb and naive enough to be in the situations his characters finds himself in.
I would watch the movie in German so I wouldn't know whether he speaks strange or not.

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Shmacky-McNuts: On a side note about the book. A british collaboration with american PBS stations, made a book version of Dracula into live action.Which is funny. Mainly because the production was decent for very low budget. It seems so lack luster when you see something closer to the original content. It has almost no appeal to a modern audience, well accustom to debauchery and horrible things far worse than was written in the book.

So when modern people look at the story, we ask "sooo.....why is this horrifying?". lol
I'm more concerned whether a translation is accurate and not modernised. I don't need modern sensibilities or interpretations injected into books written before modern bullshit ideologies.
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Posted October 21, 2024
UNIX: A History and a Memoir
by Brian Kernighan
Posted October 26, 2024
Siever, Ellen, Aaron Weber, Stephen Figgins, Robert Love, & Arnold Robbins. (2005). Linux in a Nutshell: a Desktop Quick Reference. O’Reilly. 5th Edition.




Kahneman, Daniel, Olivier Sibony, Cass R. Sunstein. (2021). Noise: a Flaw in Human Judgment.

[…] Bias and noise — systematic deviation and random scatter — are different components of error. […] [Intro, p.4.]
[…] As any defence lawyer will tell you, judges have reputations […]. We refer to these deviations as level errors. (Again: error is defined as a deviation from the average; an error may in fact correct an injustice, if the average judge is wrong.) […] [Part II, chp. 6, pp.73f.]
Judges Differ: Pattern Noise […] judge × case interaction […] Pattern noise is pervasive. […] [Ibidem, pp.74f.]
System Noise² = Level Noise² + Pattern Noise² [Ibid., p.76.]
[…] Occasion Noise […] test-restest reliability, or reliability […] [Ibid., pp.81f.]
Sullivan, Jeff. (2014). Scrum: the Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time.

[…] the Agile Manifesto.
It declared the following values: people over processes; products that actually work over documenting what that product is supposed to do; collaborating with customers over negotiating with them; and responding to change over following a plan. Scrum is the framework I built to put those values into practice. There is no methodology.
Chapter 1: The Way the World Works Is Broken, p.13.





Bernstein, Peter L. (1996). Against the Gods: the Remarkable Story of Risk. John Wiley & Sons.

[…] Without a command of probability theory and other instruments of risk management, engineers could never have designed the great bridges that span our widest rivers, homes would still be heated by fireplaces or parlour stoves, electric power utilities would not exist, polio would still be maiming children, no aeroplanes would fly, and space travel would be just a dream.* […]


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* The scientist who developed the Saturn 5 rocket that launched the first Apollo mission to the moon put it this way: “You want a valve that doesn’t leak and you try everything possible to develop one. But the real world provides you with a leaky valve. You have to determine how much leaking you can tolerate.”
(Obituary of Arthur Rudolph, in The New York Times, 3 January, 1996.)


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The word “risk” derives from the early Italian risicare, which means “to dare”. In this sense, risk is a choice rather than a fate. The actions we dare to take, which depend on how free we are to make choices, are what the story of risk is all about. And that story helps to define what it means to be a human being.
Intro, pp.2 & 8.







Årnes, Andre, et al. (2018). Digital Forensics. Norwegian University of Science & Technology (NTNU) Information Security Laboratory (NisLab).
Legal procedure demands complete documentation of the actions of digital forensics analysts:

“[…] the material issue is, first and foremost, whether the steps of the forensic procedure exactly as they were actually carried out have been documented in the case file and disclosed to the defendant […]
*edit Added Scrum, Against the Gods, and Digital Forensics, with an indicative quote from each. And then added the whitespace back in that the editor seems intent on squeezing out.
Post edited October 27, 2024 by scientiae
Posted November 14, 2024
Now reading Todos sabrán mi nombre (Everybody will know my name) by Tony Gratacós, a novel set in New Spain during the 16th century.
Post edited November 14, 2024 by ConsulCaesar
Posted November 16, 2024
Dictionaries.
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