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by thelibrarian 4y ago
7 Wonders Duel is great, and even better than the very good original. Patchwork is a very good space-filling tiling game. Its theme and premise may sound boring, but it is fun and very competitive. The small city-based Ticket to Ride varian
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by thelibrarian 4y ago
Favourite game from this year: John Company 2nd ed. Very complex, but in an interesting, understandable, and thematic way. Favourite old game discovered this year: The King is Dead. An area control game with restrictions that interact in ve
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by thelibrarian 4y ago
So, should the quip be “go anti-woke, go broke” then?
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by thelibrarian 4y ago
This was an upstream change in OpenSSH, not an arbitrary change by Apple. Also, scp was in fact broken, and they fixed it by changing it to use the SFTP protocol under the hood.
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by thelibrarian 4y ago
Totally anecdotal, but I have found ripgrep orders of magnitude faster than grep when searching a large corpus of data (in my case, many multi-hundred megabyte to gigabyte XML files). As in, ripgrep completed the search in seconds, grep too
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by thelibrarian 4y ago
The 8 Plus was the first to have extra camera capabilities on the Plus/Max model.
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by thelibrarian 4y ago
For many years the max models did have better cameras, but for the 13 and 14 both pro models have identical cameras.
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by thelibrarian 4y ago
And https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rent-seeking
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by thelibrarian 4y ago
So the opponents' position is something like this? Supreme Court: rules marriage equality is constitutional Bigots: damned activist judges shouldn't legislate from the bench Congress: legislates marriage equality Bigots: damned ac
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by thelibrarian 4y ago
Here's a fun, short alt-history novel set in a world where that plan was actually implemented: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31445891-river-of-teeth
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by thelibrarian 4y ago
If you want to host it on a service that hosts Docker images, such as fly.io or AWS Fargate.
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by thelibrarian 4y ago
Treating a symptom rather than the disease always works so well.
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by thelibrarian 5y ago
A lack of fulfilment in their lives, which leads them to compensating with displays of conspicuous consumption.
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by thelibrarian 5y ago
His followers called him Mahasamatman and said he was a god. He preferred to drop the Maha- and the -atman, however, and called himself Sam. He never claimed to be a god. But then, he never claimed not to be a god. Circumstances being what
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by thelibrarian 5y ago
I think you would have less risk if you were selling life insurance policies to Soviet soldiers in Stalingrad in 1942.
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by thelibrarian 5y ago
The cholesterol change is easily explained - meat and dairy are two of the main sources of LDLs (“bad” cholesterol) in the western diet. The diabetes one is harder to explain/link, as there are too many variables. One possibility is th
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by thelibrarian 5y ago
I have a friend who says using the word “octopi” displays ignorance of three languages at once - English, Latin, and (ancient) Greek.
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by thelibrarian 5y ago
…and nothing of value was lost.
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by thelibrarian 5y ago
As long as you ignore the antisemitism…
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by thelibrarian 5y ago
No, it is not. Apple does encourage setting up/associating an Apple ID account, it is not a requirement.
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Chia Cryptocurrency Engaging in Obnoxiously Bogus Trademark Bullying(techdirt.com)
2 points by thelibrarian 5y ago|1 comments
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by thelibrarian 6y ago
The best example of this is Torpenhow Hill in Cumbria, England. Torr, penn, and howe all mean “hill” in different languages.
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by thelibrarian 6y ago
Interesting...though they are talking about replacing the MPD with something ("a new transformative model") at least, not leaving the lot empty, to continue the metaphor.
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by thelibrarian 6y ago
If an apartment block were riddled with termites, asbestos, and concrete cancer, the people saying that it should be demolished aren't proposing that the residents revert to sleeping under the stars in the empty lot left behind. Likewi
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by thelibrarian 6y ago
Being previously unfamiliar both with the black phosphorus allotrope, and with newatlas.com, I clicked on the link wondering if this would be the new “red mercury”. I was pleasantly surprised that it is much more interesting (and scientific
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by thelibrarian 6y ago
And this is the equivalent for Ruby: https://github.com/faker-ruby/faker
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by thelibrarian 6y ago
Diatoms are a type of phytoplankton (one of the most common).
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by thelibrarian 6y ago
FYI, Fastmail has just launched Gmail-alike tagging in public beta.
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by thelibrarian 6y ago
It is trying to troubleshoot a machine learning algorithm. Google is quite proud of the fact that most of their support is handled by machines.
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by thelibrarian 6y ago
My point exactly.

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