CS folks: I have a bit of extra professional development funds and am looking to buy some good books.

What are some of your all-time favorite books related to CS, programming, and so on? (For me, I might mention "On Lisp", and "Algorithms to Live By")

I'm especially interested in books on CS and philosophy, or CS and art. (Those should "keep" longer than, say, your bog-standard O'Reilly-style book on programming Rust, since that language will keep evolving. But, if there is one of those that's really good, do recommend it.)

Feel free to spill over in to more math-y topics -- discrete math, combinatorics, and such.

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March 22, 2026

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March 21, 2026

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Hey #AskFedi / #HiveMind,

Anyone got any pointers for setting up #VisualVoicemail on #Android #AOSP or #LineageOS-derived dialers with #MintMobile, or #TMobile or other T-mobile #MVNOs?

I called the number, set up my PIN and greeting, but I just keep getting "Can't activate visual voicemail" in the dialer, even after going to Voicemail in the settings, turning off Visual voicemail, and turning it on again.

When I was on AT&T, it would occasionally be able to fetch the VMs, but often fail. I'm hoping it might work better with Mint/Tmo. XD

I'm on #IodéOS (based on Lineage).

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March 20, 2026

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March 19, 2026

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