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I recently did another round of "game tasting" where I played a bunch of games I have on Steam for 10-20 mins, minimum. I usually come away from these experiments with a couple games I'd like to play for longer... but this time I played...
One can't deny an assertion without a reasonable understanding of what's been asserted. To deny an assertion because "it sounds wrong" would be sheer intellectual arrogance, no? "It's wrong because it doesn't pass my smell test — and I...
Over the years I’ve occasionally noodled on what might be a better working fluid for supercritical turbines than Carbon Dioxide. It turns out the main fixed parameter is the critical temperature, because there’s a strong nonlinearity in...
by Tam Phan (Secret Asian Man) Brother John is a difficult film to classify. It arrives dressed as a small town mystery, carries the weight of a drama, and occasionally hints at something much larger and stranger. Released last month and...
Our second day in Vienna was destined to be all about art. We started appropriately with the oldest stuff before moving to the new, and to that end we gathered up the family and went off to visit the Kaiserliche Schatzkammer, which I too...
Today’s daily create #tdc5280 #ds106 #dailycreate #ShowYourStripes point toward the #ShowYourStripes webpage that very neatly shows visual representations of the change in temperature as measured in each country, region or city over the...
We live in a world where it’s very easy — and getting increasingly easier — to find information.You don’t understand something in a TV show? Go online, someone has already explained it. You’re stuck in a video game? YouTube has a...
Daily writing promptEmperor Palpatine has announced open elections for a new Emperor — and he’s nominated Darth Vader. You get to nominate one challenger.View all responses Even against his long career of deception, Sheev Palpatine...
Lisbon is a beautiful city but comes with its own peculiar dangers – as you are about to discover through the eyes of a pair of hapless German tourists. We can see that Helga is the one in charge – or certainly the one who is invested in...
Weird title. But it's true. I want a tail. I want a real tail that I can move and wag and all that good stuff. It's something I think about like daily, and I believe it's cruel that it's an impossibility for me. It's no secret I'm a dog....
We sometimes forget to pass along the classics. I posted this old word puzzle on a discord today and it got more of a reaction than I expected; I guess the kids today don't know: I think I first saw it back in the 1980s. Maybe clued with...
For the past year or so, I've made most of my coffee through a moka pot. It's a moka pot that I found in my fathers basement some time between ending school and starting university. The first time I had coffee brewed through a pot was...
“Open source software has always been a cornerstone in scientific applications. From supercomputers to CERN labs, handling some of the greatest discoveries of humankind and accelerating particles beyond imagination, open source software...
A capital pub ramble taking in a handful of SE venues from Lewisham to Blackheath: a backstreet gem, a brewpub, a SIBA award winner, and an unexpected pint of Bass to end the day.Despite living in London for thirteen years, this is a...
Iya Kiva is a contemporary Ukraine writer. How do you deal with the horrors of your situation? One way for Iya Kiva is sardonic humour. For more details, see https://www.poetryinternational.com/en/poets-poems/poets/poet/102-30516_Kiva...