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jjr8

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    Comment #49221797

    Not a co-op game but you could try Shattered Pixel Dungeon. A rogue-like in the classic vein but with graphics and rules that make it approachable. My kids could handle it at 10 ye…

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    There is also https://www.rplumber.io/ , which lets you turn R functions into REST APIs. Calling R from Python this way will not be as flexible as using rpy2, but it keeps R in its…

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    Well, Mack the Finger said to Louie the King "I got forty red-white-and-blue shoestrings And a thousand telephones that don't ring Do you know where I can get rid of these things?"…

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    It appears that this expansion of the Amazon Prime music benefit comes with a major drawback: you can no longer play individual tracks, in some cases even if you have purchased the…

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    Comment #33208648

    Climate change (warming waters) has been directly implicated in this (edit: Gulf of Maine cod) situation. https://doi.org/10.1126%2Fscience.aac9819

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    Comment #28678193

    Annie Dillard: Pilgrim at Tinker Creek. Won the 1975 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-fiction.

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    Comment #23992555

    "The flesh surrenders itself," he thought. "Eternity takes back its own. Our bodies stirred these waters briefly, danced with a certain intoxication before the love of life and sel…

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    Comment #16580309

    Hmm, interesting. Assuming resurrecting you was easier than picking your brain, there would be the problem of you lying, both when you died and after you were brought back to life.…

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    As I understand it, this type of scrolling map visualization is something designed and implemented by Esri specifically for arcgis.com. See https://storymaps.arcgis.com/en/ for mor…

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    It depends on what you're interested in. Admittedly, if you want, say, a global map of all hydrothermal vents, 500-2000m is not going to cut it. But the time and cost required to m…

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    The article makes it sound as though the seafloor is virtually unknown outside of areas surveyed with multibeam sonar, which is a relatively small fraction of the seafloor. In fact…

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