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Dune (the novel) was published in 1965.

I get nostalgic thinking about WC2 on the Mac. I was a teen then, and loved Blizzard for putting the effort into a Mac release. I don't remember how I found IRC and #macwarcraft, b…

I'm a huge critic of the mouse with the charger port on bottom, but that was the 2nd gen magic mouse released in 2015. Is there another mouse that had charger port on bottom? The 1…

I wonder if someone made a mistake with unit conversions... The next paragraph says: > The results: over half of the eggs broke when dropped vertically from an 8-millimeter (31-inc…

Can you clarify how it is easy to get out of a ticket afterwards? In my experience from sitting in a traffic court a couple times (in Washington state), the only people who get out…

I quit my job two years and four months ago. I'd worked non-stop for twenty years (10+ at the last company) and was getting three weeks of vacation time per year. I'm in my 40's an…

The server doesn't know what size the image will be displayed, but the browser does.

I worked for a small contracting company that did work for several larger (but not FAANG) companies for >10 years. I quit 1.5 years ago after being burned out for quite a while, an…

Why '98? Just curious. It seemed pretty young then. Most people on the internet in 98 had 28.8 or 56k modems. I feel like things were getting better until 2010-ish.

The reason why melting permafrost is considered a global catastrophe is that it's a feedback loop that will accelerate warming. There is massive carbon that has been frozen in the …

Buying discs doesn't protect you anymore. Almost everything requires a server connection and they can require you to upgrade to play. I have a physical copy of Overwatch 1. When Ov…

"Archers seem to 'get it'" is like saying "Mac users seem to 'get it'". There are good apples and bad apples in every user group. I've been hunting for 30 years. Some years I hunt …

Population tanked around 1900 due to no regulations and massive human population moving west and everyone shooting deer on the way. Conservation movements (mostly by sportsmen AKA …

Maybe not "depend on", but "adapted to" ... "Coast redwood are adapted to fire and other disturbance. Seeds germinate best on mineral soil as is exposed by flooding, fire, or wind …

I think it starts with - higher rates of bad/no parenting - schools with no ability to deal with bad behavior This leads to young adults who think they can get away with anything? …

Have you seen what modern plant farms look like? Massive water usage, lowering river levels drastically. Some don't even reach the ocean anymore (see the Colorado River, from Wikip…

Reminds me of something that happened to me... I take nature photos for fun and post them on my website and various photo websites over the years. A biologist for a National Park a…

Logging and converting the trees into lumber for building isn't free from a carbon perspective. A modern logging operation typically has several large diesel-powered heavy machines…

I started shopping pretty regularly at Home Depot after buying a house about eight years ago. I used to be surprised after paying when the alarm sounded as I walked out the door. I…

The book is not very good. It sounded interesting so I bought it – and it was the first book I've read where I was so disappointed that I wrote a one star review on Amazon. The rev…

It would be nice if this was an OS feature instead of implemented differently by every app developer. That way it could also be disabled system-wide with a single setting. The OS c…