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I've seen people (non IT) do similar things (i.e. develop small applications) with Excel. I created my bibliographic database with HyperCard. And I still miss it. HyperCard's attra…

Hmm, that gives me an idea: dithering (of generally "mogrifying") my images might make them less palatable for those pesky AIs roaming my web server …

How about Cormac McCarthy?

StreetComplete is cool, fun and useful, yes. And there is its companion app StreetMeasure which makes it easy to add measurements like the width of a narrow street, for example.

Fascinating! Now I need to check if there are "dog resitant" examples, because our juvenile Border Collie surely will shred most materials rather fast …

I can sympathise with you, but how could a "quantum" effect" doesn't make this easier? Maybe "Turing machine" is too abstract or simplistic as a concept? Both for real computers an…

Quantum field effects? You don't need these, IMHO, if you look at how highly parallel things seem to work in brains. Marvin Minsky's theory of a "Society of Mind" describes a (high…

> Currently reading a web novel called The Years of Apocalypse. Thanks for mentioning it. I'm now at Chapter 7 of it and it seems to be a well written story. Still need to arrive a…

> Your coffee mug isn't naturally brown and warm: it is a cloud of atoms made of 99.9999% empty space, with no color, no texture, and no intrinsic smell. A tiger too is "just a clo…

Hmm, the review makes me rather curious. While in the movies "Groundhog Day" and "12:01 P.M." the protagonists awake at the same place and time each day. How do these book explain …

Various apps for (primarily) photographers offer views of the sun's (and moon's) path, even with live view through the camera. For example https://www.sunsurveyor.com/ or https://w…

But both i.e. and e.g. might be more easily understood by non-native speakers of English (IMHO ;-)

> But I find it a little extreme to say "it's faster to build your own than to install an existing alternative". Installing an existing alternative might be easy ... once you found…

Not just deer, but a number of insects will thank you for your generosity. And you will have to learn when and how to fight them in order to get a decent harvest.

NAC taken before consuming alcohol has a positive effect apparently, but taken afterwards it's detrimental as mentioned here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acetylcysteine

You'll find a detailed description oft potential effects and uses here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acetylcysteine (aka NAC)

> Didn't git pioneer this sub-command style? No, various other tools used it before git, e.g. openssl.

Try Peter Cawdron's book "The Anatomy of Courage" which is a sci-fi retelling of a ww1 report. Here's a revview: https://www.zeppjamiesonfiction.com/a-remarque-able-read-a-r...

Nice, and I like the idea that the past is fixed, but ... is there a way to define the point of rollover to the next day? My "days" sometimes end at 0:50 for example and not at 23:…

ImageMagick is a wonderful command line tool, IMO. You could use it to extract various information, e.g. the 5 most used colors of an image, as in convert $IMG -colors 5 -depth 8 -…

My first thought: a rather strange copy of the en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pillsbury_Doughboy Google's Android robot has a much better design, IMHO. And I remember the Amazon box version…

And the eye's periphery, while it isn't sharp, is highly sensitive to movement. Which is "obvious" if you ponder the question where dangerous things appear first. Thus things dangl…

Ah, yes, After Dark, with the "Lunatic Fringe" module, which was fun (and was a time sink ;-0). And what I would like to see again is the "Stained Glass" module which produced phan…

Wikipedia lists them by country, and with pictures, for example French: [Boîte à livres]( https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bo%C3%AEte_%C3%A0_livres?wprov... ) German: [Öffentlicher Bü…

We heat up unskimmed milk, add oatmeal, let them soak for at least 10 minutes. Then serve them and pour a little bit of cold milk over the cooked oatmeal. Plain, or add some fresh …