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I'll just add... Being able to eat pork without cooking it to death for fear of trichinosis is a recent development. Also, the old movies where someone tries to commit suicide by s…

Here's a fun one, Benson and Hedges commissioned some classic 80's CGI, it got played at one of the art-house animation festivals that was a thing for nerds to do in the 80's. Look…

A lot to unpack here. He espoused a worldview where human beings are "star stuff", a way for the Universe to be self-aware. And this worldview does not exclude spiritual thinking, …

Sagan made solid contributions to Planetary Science in the 60's and 70's. His role as PBS educator, SF author, etc. needs to be considered as a separate thing. I also loved James B…

> Sorry pal, you're alone on that hill. No, he's absolutely not.

It's done that way because of pre-visualization or Previs, which has been the norm for over a decade now. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxTNhNe6Fbc

I used to work in my mom and dad's print shop when I was a kid. 6 picas in an inch, 12 points in a pica, and by the time you go home your hands smell like hypo. That should give yo…

Emacs user. And the fonts I use have to work with anti-aliasing turned off. Right now I'm using a Dell/Alienware AW3225DM and it's perfect for my needs (work + occasional gaming, a…

It's debatable whether it was first recorded in '63 or '64. The genesis of Guaraldi's involvement was a 1963 documentary "A Boy Named Charlie Brown" which has nothing to do with th…

https://youtu.be/fs9Wyuub3jY Once you develop an awareness of how SF screenplay writers do this, you can't unsee it. Babylon 5 was particularly egregious, I was never a fan but I w…

If you go back and watch the first two seasons of HBO's Westworld, you will see Anthony Hopkins' character repeatedly doing exposition dumps out of his mouth. The difference is in …

More likely to get hit with a Zero Tolerance punishment for a single isolated incident, which derails your entire trajectory through the school system. https://www.reddit.com/r/lan…

If you don't like the word Genocide you can call it Demographic Engineering, but the fact that it is happening is beyond debate. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c15npnzpd08o

I've always felt like tech workers view themselves as a modern-day petite-bourgeoisie, and this is why the industry has been so successful at keeping out the unions. As an aside, I…

If you're talking about the ones who drove supply trucks during the war years, the hardest working men were women. https://vietnamnews.vn/sunday/features/947180/female-drivers...

Ironically, I would far prefer the Douglas Adams idea of "Genuine People Personalities" over the current status quo. If the self checkout scanner at the supermarket started bickeri…

Begging the Question. Step 1: Assume your claim is already true, e.g. "Microsoft is a still good corporate actor in spite of doing X". Step 2: Manufacture circular logic to support…

Thanks but no, everyone who came up in that era knew about K&P (K&R was the C book). The main publishers back then were O'Reilly, SAMS, QUE and a few others. I think it was a SAMS …

OK I have a question. I've been trying to track down a Unix book that was similar from that time period, covering command-line tools and shell programming. It had some funny cartoo…

It's turned into a generic term that usually means the ability to remove all corporate branding from the UI. A lot of it is in the ability to apply themes. For example the Icon sty…

I went through the same process as a former Pixel 5 user. Ended up with Galaxy S25 which weighs around 165g. I pretty much hate Samsung for the One UI interface taking away the sto…

Monty Python did a skit about it, along with a Terry Gilliam animated bit. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DlN4Sh06po

It's very close to Apollo 11 but the match is not precise. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUQgBPjGmAQ#t=35 AFIAK no one has ever done an exhaustive analysis of the provenance of a…

NY Times did a similar piece in 2019. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8bMLcCxxAA I'm not into Hip-Hop as a cultural thing but I love the way Mona aka "Sad Girl" does her linguisti…

The recent PBS Frontline on the Jack Teixeira / Discord leaks provides an excellent primer on how classified systems work these days. https://youtu.be/AkgkBEuEHwU