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by pimlottc 2y ago
It says he learned about it in the 90s, information about distant parts of the world was much harder to come by back then, particular regarding Soviet countries (at least for Westerners)
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by pimlottc 2y ago
Title should be (2024), the year of the ScummVM update, not the year of the original game.
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by pimlottc 2y ago
It definitely does not for Chicago
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by pimlottc 2y ago
I would love to have diagrams like this for Chicago’s CTA but I haven’t found any.
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by pimlottc 2y ago
Direct link to the article, starting on page 1086: https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-Electrical-Experim...
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by pimlottc 2y ago
There’s a similar facility called Iron Mountain in Boyers, PA that stores, among other things, millions of government records: https://www.pennlive.com/news/2021/01/inside-iron-mountain.h...
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by pimlottc 2y ago
I was confused why so many of the photos had a random fish it them until I realized that was the cursor…
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by pimlottc 2y ago
Can someone explain the title? I get that it's a reference to Churchill's famous "We shall fight on the beaches" speech [0], but why "buttery"? Does it have some particularly significance with regards to Oxfo
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by pimlottc 2y ago
“Lectures” in your blood pressure monitor?
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by pimlottc 2y ago
That it’s bad is indeed the authors point: > A common axiom about horror movies is that they become less scary when you see the monster, when it stops lurking and becomes a presence on the screen. This is so far beyond that. The Backroom
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by pimlottc 2y ago
> Also, everyone who claims imposter syndrome in software is just actually an imposter. Perhaps I misunderstand you here, but that is a frankly astounding claim. Anyone can have a crisis of confidence. It doesn’t mean you’re a fraud.
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by pimlottc 2y ago
> the apples, including a variety known in the fruit science lexicon as api piccola I wanted to learn more about this apple, but its name is basically ungooglable. All you get is info on APIs, wind instruments or both.
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by pimlottc 2y ago
It keeps telling me to allocate more resources to making paper clips
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by pimlottc 2y ago
This is the first time I’ve seen traditional golf referred to as “ball golf”, that’s hilarious
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by pimlottc 2y ago
Context?
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by pimlottc 2y ago
Yes, it’s an additional piece of information that is vital for some puzzles.
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by pimlottc 2y ago
Restricting to straight lines would be the most straightforward, I think. It follows the convention of only changing squares that you touch. Drawing rectangles introduces a new paradigm where you can fill in squares you don’t actually touch
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by pimlottc 2y ago
Tapping the numbers to fill in water is a nice feature, not very obvious though. I had no idea that was possible.
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by pimlottc 2y ago
+1 for undo, it’s very easy to tap the wrong squares by mistake on mobile (especially on larger grids) and hard to figure out what the previous state was.
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by pimlottc 2y ago
Does that disable the highlighting too or just the auto-scroll behavior?
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by pimlottc 2y ago
Yeah, fun idea, but the AI-generated animal caricature images are a real turn-off for me.
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by pimlottc 2y ago
The CTA (in Chicago) has a nice customizable “next train screen” web app that’s perfect for this: https://www.transitchicago.com/developers/diydisplay/
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by pimlottc 2y ago
Zed being kinda snarky is worse than billion dollar companies asking for free labor? Regardless of how you feel about his tone, what he’s complaining about does happen quite a lot. He has a valid point that’s worth debating.
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by pimlottc 2y ago
“Ami’s”?
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by pimlottc 2y ago
Please respect your users. It’s frustrating to spend your time on a puzzle that might not even be plausibly solveable. If you’re going to ask strangers to do free testing you should at least bother to do some basic proofreading first.
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by pimlottc 2y ago
It's not exactly a novel but it's not entirely non-fiction as well. There's a fair bit of liberty taken in the details of Holmes' activities. An excellent read, regardless.
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by pimlottc 2y ago
Is there a video of the offending ad somewhere? I couldn’t find it with some basically googling.
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by pimlottc 2y ago
The previous discussion was from before the full tests results were released.
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by pimlottc 2y ago
Ridiculous. I searched for information on the LA Times bombing of 1910 [0]. The first page of results includes the LA Times themselves, Library of Congress, Wikipedia, the Los Angeles Public Library, and San Diego State University. But n
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by pimlottc 2y ago
I suspect this referring to a recent post on jwz's blog about his digital signage solution for his nightclub, which spawned a lot of discussion on the comment (click through to the blog post itself): https://mastodon.social&

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