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Movie Review: Blackberry(reelviews.net)
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by akuchling 3y ago
Even in the 1990s, I saw the phrase "academic suicide by Usenet". Some people got so pulled into keeping up with newsgroups that they'd neglect their homework, thesis, or studies. A stream of anything engaging is addictive.
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by akuchling 3y ago
I don't see how this is the hospital's fault: they can't keep patients indefinitely. Today's Washington Post has an article on the increasing number of homeless seniors https://wapo.st/3q8Gzeb which inc
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by akuchling 3y ago
Another perception game is Dive ( https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/304324/dive ), which has a stack of translucent plastic sheets. Some of these sheets have silhouettes of sea creatures on them (fish, sharks, eve
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by akuchling 3y ago
"Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone." -- Jorge Luis Borges, somewhere.
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by akuchling 3y ago
You're correct! Rifftrax will still occasionally do an MP3-only riff that you need to sync with the movie, usually for popular movies like Twilight or Dune that they could never license. They have an app that's supposed to automat
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by akuchling 4y ago
Note that professional historians are not united on the Treaty of Versailles being too onerous and a cause of Ww2, though that's certainly the conventional vaguely-heard-about-it impression. https://en.wikipedia.org/wik
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by akuchling 4y ago
The web site https://fedi.tips/ collects a bunch of suggestions in this vein for improving your fediverse experience.
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by akuchling 4y ago
Also the novel "A Closed and Common Orbit" by Becky Chambers.
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by akuchling 4y ago
So, among the first people you give access to the search are some known harassers? Sharp thinking, there.
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by akuchling 4y ago
Editor, Sherlockian scholar, and lawyer Leslie Klinger took the Doyle estate to court about this idea, and got a judgement that it didn't hold. His blog about the case is at https://free-sherlock.com/ .
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by akuchling 4y ago
Also, Ford was once asked under oath what year the American Revolution was, and wasn't sure but thought it was 1812. He didn't have much book learning.
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by akuchling 4y ago
Note that the designer is now named Amabel Holland. I think the boxes for Irish Gauge all use her old name, though; they were printed a little too early!
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by akuchling 4y ago
This is the format used by the 'refer' bibliography tool, part of GNU groff.
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by akuchling 4y ago
< https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English-only_movement#Current_... > may expand your imagination a bit.
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by akuchling 4y ago
My employer, Aledade.com, runs ACOs and provides analytics and an app to help primary-care practices keep better track of their patient population. It's not necessarily revolutionary -- we're doing conventional things like reduci
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by akuchling 4y ago
In Billy Baker's book "We Need To Hang Out", which is about trying to fix his lack of social connection as a middle-aged guy, he eventually realizes (spoilers!) that he should stop trying to reconnect with his college friends
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by akuchling 4y ago
Rural hospitals are going bankrupt and closing. https://www.statnews.com/2019/02/21/lawmakers-act-prevent-ru... "21 percent of rural hospitals nationwide are currently at high risk of imminent closure. I
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by akuchling 5y ago
Some trolls use the functionality for harassment: "here's a list of SJWs you can tweet abuse at." https://www.cnbc.com/2019/06/07/how-trolls-use-twitter-lists...
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by akuchling 5y ago
Stories in the SF magazines have also pretty much disappeared from award-nominations like the Hugos and the Nebulas, replaced by publications that are free online like Uncanny or Tor.com. It makes sense: people are much more likely to read
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by akuchling 5y ago
There's also the NICER mission (Neutron Star Interior Composition Explorer; https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/nicer/nicer_about.html ) which is a payload on the ISS that's mapped pulsar surfaces: https:
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by akuchling 5y ago
LWN also has coverage of language runtimes and other projects. Recent stories include one about python-dev discussion of adding a literal syntax for frozensets ( https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/881599/ae07750ec86ed3c
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by akuchling 5y ago
With three detectors, it becomes possible to measure the polarization of gravitational waves. https://ligo.org/science/Publication-O1StochNonGR/index.php Some quantum-gravity theories predict additional polarizati
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by akuchling 5y ago
Is this page purely a Seinfeld reference?
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by akuchling 6y ago
It is in fact deliberate, though; the "Philosophy" section on https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/3.1/ref/templates/language... explains it: "If you have a background in programming, or if y
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by akuchling 6y ago
But most people are unhealthy, with one condition or another. It's misleading to throw out most of the population and then say "but look how small the numbers are for the sliver that's left!"
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by akuchling 6y ago
The Washington Post has a review of the book: https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/an-interstellar-accid... Two excerpts from the review: "While this exotic explanation of the object serves as the backbone of th
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by akuchling 6y ago
I don't think user 'nopcode' was disputing that OpenSSL has improved since Heartbleed; I think they're suspicious of the logic that "far more usage" implies "more security-relevant attention".
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by akuchling 6y ago
Siobhan Carroll's "For He Can Creep" < https://www.tor.com/2019/07/10/for-he-can-creep-siobhan-carr... > adapts the same story and was nominated for the 2019 Hugos in Best Novelette, but di
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by akuchling 6y ago
It does mean not being very careless about getting infected, and weighs against the idea of going for herd immunity without a vaccine. Here's a Twitter thread listing post-infection syndromes from other vital infections: https:/&

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