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by jjr8 2mo ago
Not a co-op game but you could try Shattered Pixel Dungeon. A rogue-like in the classic vein but with graphics and rules that make it approachable. My kids could handle it at 10 years old, but they did consider it "hard" then, and
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by jjr8 1y ago
There is also https://www.rplumber.io/ , which lets you turn R functions into REST APIs. Calling R from Python this way will not be as flexible as using rpy2, but it keeps R in its own process, which can be advantageous if y
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by jjr8 3y ago
Well, Mack the Finger said to Louie the King "I got forty red-white-and-blue shoestrings And a thousand telephones that don't ring Do you know where I can get rid of these things?" And Louie the King said, "
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by jjr8 4y ago
It appears that this expansion of the Amazon Prime music benefit comes with a major drawback: you can no longer play individual tracks, in some cases even if you have purchased them from Amazon. I discovered this trying to play my purchased
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by jjr8 4y ago
Climate change (warming waters) has been directly implicated in this (edit: Gulf of Maine cod) situation. https://doi.org/10.1126%2Fscience.aac9819
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by jjr8 5y ago
Annie Dillard: Pilgrim at Tinker Creek. Won the 1975 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-fiction.
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Ocean Regime Shift Is Driving Collapse of the N. Atlantic Right Whale Population(tos.org)
6 points by jjr8 5y ago|0 comments
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by jjr8 6y ago
"The flesh surrenders itself," he thought. "Eternity takes back its own. Our bodies stirred these waters briefly, danced with a certain intoxication before the love of life and self, dealt with a few strange ideas, then submi
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by jjr8 9y ago
Hmm, interesting. Assuming resurrecting you was easier than picking your brain, there would be the problem of you lying, both when you died and after you were brought back to life. How would they deal with that? I guess they could just kill
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by jjr8 9y ago
As I understand it, this type of scrolling map visualization is something designed and implemented by Esri specifically for arcgis.com. See https://storymaps.arcgis.com/en/ for more examples and details. It may be that
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by jjr8 9y ago
It depends on what you're interested in. Admittedly, if you want, say, a global map of all hydrothermal vents, 500-2000m is not going to cut it. But the time and cost required to map the entire ocean with multibeam sonar is huge, on th
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by jjr8 9y ago
The article makes it sound as though the seafloor is virtually unknown outside of areas surveyed with multibeam sonar, which is a relatively small fraction of the seafloor. In fact, other technologies have been used to map the entire planet