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by xoxxala 2y ago
Linus Tech Tips just had a video on using adblockers, as part of their "how to de-Google your life" series, taken down by YT for posting "harmful or dangerous content". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apd
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by xoxxala 2y ago
The Twilight Zone episode, “I of Newton 666”, from 1985. Great ending. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0ZRKSoN7Vg
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by xoxxala 2y ago
YMMV, but $900 for no crapware is a price I would happily pay. We don't watch TV in our house, so haven't updated it in over a decade, but our next "TV" will be a monitor. We did purchase a Roku stick a couple years ago,
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by xoxxala 2y ago
I write little Python scripts (or use Excel) to simulate computer/video game mechanics and quickly iterate over them before passing them off to a real programmer. I also design boardgames, so often write die rollers to calculate probab
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The Numitron: An Obvious Idea That Wasn't Bright [video](youtube.com)
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by xoxxala 2y ago
Speaking about his famous Earthrise photograph, Anders said: "We came all this way to explore the Moon, and the most important thing that we discovered was the Earth."
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by xoxxala 2y ago
Absolutely. I still say the ad was fine and people overreacted. We'll never know, but if this ad had come out when the iPad launched, I suspect the reactions would have been completely different.
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by xoxxala 2y ago
Sadly, I'm no longer surprised by these kind of overreactions. We truly live in the Age of Being Offended.
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by xoxxala 3y ago
Magic has changed drastically the last few years. I tried to get back into it and the best set I found was Jump Start 2022. Alternatively, Star Wars Unlimited just released their first set. The starter set has two balanced decks (Vader vs L
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by xoxxala 3y ago
Event Horizon is the closest we’ll get to a Warhammer 40k film.
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by xoxxala 3y ago
The sound wouldn’t be noticeably louder at the source, but would travel faster (sound travels 4x faster in water than in air) and farther.
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by xoxxala 3y ago
“If you have comments, corrections or suggestions, please send me email at feedback{at}thinkpython{dot}com.“
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by xoxxala 3y ago
My grandfather wrote 75-80 books and I asked him that very question. He said it depended on the genre. His YA or thriller books, he did not plan the ending but discovered it along the way. For mystery books, he wrote the ending first and th
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by xoxxala 3y ago
"Bummer of a birthmark, Hal" has made its way into my everyday lexicon. Most of my coworkers immediately got the reference. There is something about Far Side humor that appeals to people in tech beyond all the science and nerd jok
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by xoxxala 3y ago
Mustard has a good video on the birth and death of commercial hovercraft, focusing on the Channel ferries. TLDW: the economics didn't work, hovercraft were too expensive to operate, were not reliable in bad weather and could not compet
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by xoxxala 3y ago
We watched Connections in High School science. I don't remember much about HS, but I will never forget James Burke.
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by xoxxala 3y ago
It's a chibi jet. Definitely cute.
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by xoxxala 3y ago
Docking was so incredibly difficult. I got so frustrated I hex-edited the save file to give myself enough money to buy the docking computer.
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by xoxxala 3y ago
A friend of mine just discovered book nook kits. He's jumped in pretty hard, with multiple kits and custom 3d printing various greebles for his new models/dioramas. Example book nook: https://boardgamegeek.com/imag
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by xoxxala 3y ago
I worked at Interplay at the time and can confirm the duck story.
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by xoxxala 3y ago
Tom Scott has a video at the NIST. https://youtu.be/jvJzi0BXcGI
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Official LEGO Dune Ornithopter [video](youtube.com)
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by xoxxala 3y ago
Corporations don’t want anyone to actually own anything anymore. And Ferrari has nothing on John Deere.
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by xoxxala 3y ago
Codebullet on youtube has been doing AI generated Rick & Morty episodes, complete with animation and voices. They aren’t great, but still pretty impressive.
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Star Trek's early CGI tests and drama [video](youtube.com)
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Rocket Scientist Combine a Rocket Engine with a Heat Shield [video](youtube.com)
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by xoxxala 3y ago
DC has responded: "The Fables comic books and graphic novels published by DC, and the storylines, characters and elements therein, are owned by DC and protected under the copyright laws of the United States and throughout the world in
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by xoxxala 3y ago
Clyde Bruckman’s Final Repose is a sublime episode. One of my favorites as well.
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by xoxxala 3y ago
We had a viewing party for the premiere. To be honest, we were more looking forward to Bruce Campbell’s “Adventures of Brisco County, Jr”, which premiered just before the “X-Files” (and is now sadly forgotten). The “X-Files” hooked us right
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by xoxxala 3y ago
Yep, two map expansions came out at GenCon and more expansions are planned for next year. Good time to be a Robo Rally fan!

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