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PSA: The excellent series by Martha Wells is available as a Humble Bundle right now, all 7 books in the series + 7 short stories and other novels. DRM-free epub files. Highly recommended.

https://www.humblebundle.com/books/martha-wells-murderbot-and-more-tor-books

"Despite being a powerful and lethal security unit, Murderbot is an extreme introvert. Its primary goal is to be left alone so it can spend its time watching hours of its favorite soap operas and other media. It's highly cynical, sarcastic, and finds human interaction to be awkward and tedious. However, it also finds itself unexpectedly forming bonds with the humans it's supposed to protect, which leads to a lot of internal conflict and reluctant heroism."

Book cover for "The Murderbot Diaries," showing an astronaut (actually a SecUnit, a human-like cyborg) with a in a spacesuit floating in front of a spaceship in deep space.

Time to thin the library of software engineering books that I no longer need or, in the case of the C++ ones, no longer (and never did) bring me joy. I doubt any charity shop will take these and I can’t just put them in recycling. If you would like any of these for the cost of postage (which for some will be sizeable), DM me. UK only, and I am in East Sussex if you wished to collect. Titles and weights in alt text. Please boost for reach and reuse!

Books for disposal. Weights given for postage purposes. “The C++ Programming Language,” 1.8 kg. “The C++ Standard Library,” 1.5 kg. “C++ Coding Standards,” 0.5 kg. “Exceptional C++ Style,” 0.6 kg. “The Design and Evolution of C++,” 0.6 kg. “Design Patterns,” 1.0 kg. “Programming Perl,” 1.1 kg. “Perl Cookbook,” 1.2 kg. “The Standard C Library,” 0.8 kg. “Building Embedded Linux Systems,” 0.7 kg. “Linux Security Cookbook,” 0.6 kg. “SSH: The Secure Shell,” 1.2 kg. “Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment,” 2.2 kg. “TCP/IP Illustrated Volume 1: The Protocols,” 1.3 kg. “UNIX Network Programming,” 1.7 kg.

Albert Einstein’s 1915 Letter to His Son Reveals the Key To Learning

In 1915, the young physicist had been working on his revolutionary theory for about 8 years, and he had finally condensed it into a mere 2 pages. Only a few days later, he would send a poignant letter to his son Hans Albert, who was living with Einstein’s estranged wife and his other son, Eduard “Tete,” in Zurich.

By Eva Baron

https://mymodernmet.com/albert-einstein-letters-key-to-learning/

Einstein at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/1630

Albert Einstein writes a density formula of the Milky Way on January 14, 1931 on the board of the Carnegie Institute of the Mt. Wilson Observatory in Pasadena, California. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Albert_Einstein_writing_on_a_blackboard_in_Pasadena_(1931).jpg

Trovato in una cabina telefonica a Portoferraio. La prima volta che ho letto Van Vogt è stato più o meno 40 anni fa, in piena adolescenza, quando ho divorato tutti i volumi dell'Editrice Nord. Non ricordavo che la fantascienza USA (lui era canadese...) degli anni '50 potesse essere così innovativa e originale. E le edizioni Libra hanno sempre queste copertine deliziosamente vintage. Perfetto per il mare.

Copertina libro A.E Van Vogt "Le armi di Isher"

Fuck DRM. I will never buy another eBook again. Just accidentally authorised my laptop without an Adobe account for Adobe Digital Editions, forgetting that i wouldnt be able to upload it to my eReader.

I erased my authorisation thinking I could just sign in with my shitty adobe account, and now its locked me out of my book entirely.

I'm pirating every single book I read from now on, and I'll buy a physical fucking copy from a local book store as compensation. FUCK.