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I really enjoy The Diplomat, which is also widely praised for the acting and writing. Aside that there are a number of great cooking and foodie shows on Netflix.

Add to this that double glazing and isolation are non-existent, then a lot of energy is wasted.

They are pretty to look at and help prevent soil erosion, so by all means, plant more trees, preferably native species, just don’t claim it will solve climate change.

I feel like the magnificent Frank Krueger’s recent effort to use ML for the purpose of translating cuneiform are relevant in this context. https://praeclarum.org/2023/06/09/cuneifo…

If you are doing flood control, given the somewhat swampy nature of the surroundings, then having a lot of trees would make sense to keep things dry. They would also help keep thin…

Knowing Apple, it is likely to only work on certain devices, especially if they are aiming to be on device, as is their preference for privacy and likely latency reasons, so it wil…

Both games are classics, Indy 4 is one of my favorite games of all time.

Absolutely, but precision was also a bit of a problem for the text based games. I remember Space Quest was the king of this, requiring frequent saving to make it past certain secti…

And that will teach me to proof read, if I recall correctly then this was Larry 3 and it accepted both putting an air sick bag inside a spray can and the can inside the bag, the la…

I learned English playing Leisure Suit Larry when I was about 6, with a dictionary next to me, painstakingly translating everything. This turned into a lifelong love of adventure g…

Something proudly declaring itself powered by Malwarize, that sounds comforting.

He had 99 problems, but an heir ain’t one?

Bird Bash QA engineering.

You magnificent beast, I nearly spewed my tea halfway across the room. That is just chef’s kiss perfection.

I feared the same thing but Panic assured me via Twitter that Coda for iOS isn’t dead. Of course this might not mean that they are not abandoning the old app rather than bringing t…

Upgrade to GNOME 3.32 which shipped fractional scaling https://help.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/3.32/

I’d be sad if Apple stopped selling their chargers, primarily because with their engineering I’m pretty sure I get a safe well engineered product, whereas 3rd parties can display b…

To the point of less wear. My iPhone 5’s Lightening port still works just fine but the phone itself needs replacing. My perfectly usable iPad Air however now has a Lightening port …

I rather enjoyed reading the adventure of hitting a problem in a large system, and then working towards narrowing down the specific bug or set of bugs. Such posts have in the past …

I suspect it’s more that Carmack isn’t one to reminisce to the same degree as Romero. Romero clearly makes games because he loves playing them, whereas Carmack does so as a technic…

People tend to be deeply attached to seeing their family and friends, so the mere hint that the reality of such laws could be purposely weaponizing those emotions is nothing shy of…

The husband of noted game developer Brenda Romero is doing fine. By all accounts, he is selling his old treasures mostly for nostalgia reasons. He has fond memories of those times …

In fairness to Apple they are these days quite the Open Source company. Their main language is fully open source in every sense the word. You can get large parts of their base OS u…

To be honest “eco friend” sounds a lot more like what I’d want my children to be involved with than “shotgun shooting”. According to the website the requirements for “Eco Friend” a…

I’d certainly not mind helping fund development in some form, if there is some discomfort with charging for the app I’d be happy to see an IAP tip jar.