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While the original circa 2004 Benelli M2 was a linear development of the M1/Super 90 line of semi-automatic shotguns, which were first introduced in 1986, the line has always used the Inertia style recoil-operation system as its heart....
Official caption: Army field artillerymen conduct reload training in the Middle East on a counter-air defense Land-based Phalanx Weapon System, which can eliminate threats with its rapid-fire 20 mm Gatling gun, Aug. 12, 2026. U.S. Army...
Creating a subset of Go that translates to C (which I named Solod) was never my end goal. I liked writing C code with Go, but without the standard library it felt pretty limited. So the next logical step was to port Go's stdlib. At some...
Popularized by Suzy Welch. When faced with some important decision, ask yourself: How am I going to feel about this in 10 minutes? How am I going to feel about this in 10 weeks? How am I going to feel about this in 10 years?
George Bellairs set a few of his mysteries on the Isle of Man such as Death of a Tin God (1961) and Half-Mast for the Deemster (1953). Today’s read is also another example of this setting in use.
Paul the Deacon assembled information from some of the greatest scholars and historians and his own observations to assemble his Historia Langobardorum. Written between 787 and 796CE, he recounts the mythical origins of the Lombards.In...
Tree on a Mound, John Chrome, etching, 13 x 12 in. ( 34 x 32 cm), in the collection fo the National Gallery of Art, DC. English landscape painter John Chrome, who was active in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, evokes a wooded...
RIP Frank Beard
TIL my Tumblog (which reposts my posts from here) turned 17 years old back in March. Tumblr was quite a place in its time. I remember starting The Watercolor Gallery there and it exploding in growth (did you know I’m slowly restoring...
I’m trying to finish up the OpenZFS Mastery chapter on disk space use today. Well, my part of it. I’m planning to dump–delegate, delegate–the section on deduplication to Allan. When you have a co-author expert, use them. Zstd offers...
Omniscient Reader's Viewpointby singNsongGenres: Fantasy, Horror, Light Novels Pages: 259 Series: Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint (light novel) #3 Rating: Synopsis: Dokja has been able to step one step ahead in the apocalypse thanks to his...
The final album by the Spanish war metal horde didn't diverge even to the slightest from delivering exactly what was expected, and exactly at the same manner: bestial chaos in reverb and echo. As daring this style inherently is,...
I like eggs. I like all sort of eggs. Hard-boiled, sunny-side-up-ed, poached, fried, omelette-d, scrambled, salted, steamed, benedicted, soft-boiled, and even centuried. I used to dislike century eggs, but as I get older, I get to...
This 404 report justly been getting considerable coverage.Amazon is buying massive quantities of books, scanning them for AI training data, and destroying them in the process. A 404 Media investigation was able to reveal Amazon’s book...
"And even if you found yourself in some prison, whose walls let in none of the world’s sounds – wouldn’t you still have your childhood, that jewel beyond all price, that treasure house of memories? Turn your attention to it." Rilke -...