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Seconded! Also, Adventure Time and its spin-offs are fantastic and deeply weird at times. Over the Garden Wall is another one.

Well, presumably he isn’t drunk after polishing off a few cartridges in a sitting.

Hmm, which one do more doctors use?

The documentary “Jodorowsky’s Dune” presents a fairly strong argument that the “Dune bible” that was assembled for that movie and shopped around to production studios strongly infl…

> Says the person with 120k fake points on a social media site. Wouldn’t that make GP even better qualified to comment on the harms of social media use? :p I certainly wouldn’t say…

Huh, surprised by this because the Hue app runs great for me, don’t think I’ve ever seen it lag as a daily user for a couple years. Honestly kind of blown away but how well it (and…

If we’re all automatons, there’s no _point_ in prison, but it also doesn’t matter. It’s just something we (automatically) place certain people in so they don’t (automatically) perf…

The author disagrees (and used “au revoir” accordingly): > Free-floating e-scooters have been around all of five years. Nothing has replaced them. Unlike the horses, I can't help f…

Since I haven't seen mention of it yet, let me recommend one of his (seemingly) lesser known works: The Sunset Limited. It's a play of 2 characters and 1 setting, and has an (IMO v…

Not really sure what this means. There certainly aren’t 4K assets included in Switch games, which run at max 1080p resolution normally. I know many games do drop frame rate at 1080…

There’s also the concept of anesthesia awareness [1], which does apply to general anesthesia. [1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anesthesia_awareness

The press-release [1] title that this mostly just rehashes is “Lockheed Martin Achieves First Light In Latest Laser Lab Demonstration”. After reading the linked article I couldn’t …

I’ve been curious about this as well, turns out these ads are classified by the FDA as “reminder ads” and aren’t legally required to list any risks since they don’t list uses [0]. …

Did the same search about a year ago, ended up ordering the CLP-775 after testing Kawai and Yamaha in stores. It _finally_ arrived last month, completely love it so far. On the som…

1080p is 1920x1080 ~= 2.1m pixels versus 1280x720 = 921,600 . So a little less than half but definitely not a quarter. And neither dimension is actually halved.

I’m confused about your edit. Taking the numbers from @gduffy you end up with (4.5 to 7.0) * 10lb = 45 to 70 Calories. So more like a half mile run for most people. Unless I’m miss…

From the article: > While fragile and brittle, they are also sharp. As tiny pieces of glass, they can become lodged in human skin and much worse, eyes. Caution around the fibers is…

Damn. Consider myself pretty into sound but have never heard COTS and Googling was less than successful :(

Highly recommend the episode about him from Mike Judge’s Tales from the Tour Bus. A lot of overlap with the Rolling Stone article but a little more dynamic!

Tidal Cycles! https://tidalcycles.org/ As layer8 mentioned, it is technically Haskell but more specifically a DSL and environment for live coding music. Pretty fun to play around w…

As He died to make men holy, let us die to make things cheap —- Leonard Cohen

20th Century is actually owned by Disney now though (as of 2019), so the link back to Murdoch ends there.