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If anyone’s interested about this period of time (and the Anabaptist revolution) a great novel: Q by Luther Blisset https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q_(novel)

+1 to Ascension, one of the most fine piece of filmmaking that tries to explain the world of today

I went back to his website [1] and spent almost an hour of a boring zoom call playing Coin Counter [2]. [1] https://jacklance.github.io/games.html [2] https://www.puzzlescript.net/…

This interplay between different worlds reminded me of Enigmash, by Jack Lance [1] [1] https://jacklance.github.io/PuzzleScript/play.html?p=cfdcc6e...

I agree the ramp up is a bit slow, but I love the concept, and the interface. I am stuck at level 26 edit: found a way to solve it in 6, but not in 4

This automatic word censorship reminds me eerily of the short story "The City of Silence" by Ma Boyong. part 1 https://web.archive.org/web/20120118104342/http://worldsf.wo... part …

Garbage collect module (cfr. Neuköllner for the past 12 years)

Chris Nolan famously drives all his production designers insane! No one has made more then one film with him. Apparently he also only shoots 3 or 4 takes per shot, and goes ballist…

I don’t know what language you speak, but GEB it’s been translated into multiple languages during the years. I read it in Italian as a teen, the Italian edition is beautiful, and i…

?? Dunkirk is imo the best one of his non-linear narratives, with 3 storylines intertwining: one taking place in the span of one week, one in one day and the last one (the plane) i…

Wow. They only agree with “Mongolia “ and the number 80

But it is named after its characteristic, albeit in German

Not really, yes some interpolation is done automatically, but most character animation, especially for high budget films like Pixar is hyper finely tuned to the frame level, manual…

I remember reading that the end credits of Red Dead Redemption 2 was something like 7000 people

And this is the ultimate HN answer. Even in a thread about coffee, it must mention ThinkPads But I also have the same moka. It’s good

The number of people who believe that Moore’s Law is dead doubles every 18 months -Jim Keller

Thank you! Long Day’s Journey into the Night was the first movie I watch at the cinema after they reopened in 2020. I knew nothing about it. I was very confused by the first part, …

Don’t forget vacuum welding https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_welding https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vacuum_cementing The first time it happened it must have been puzzling

I think Quanta magazine is directly funded by Jim Simons, the billionaire mathematician who founded Renaissance Technology.

Super nit-picky comment, but it’s Elo rating, not ELO. It’s not an acronym, it’s named after the physicist Arpad Elo

I think Ken Liu is a writer on his own right first, and a translator second. that might be part of the reason https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Liu

Ops...my bad. I was wondering this morning why there seams to be a tradition at Apple to hire French engineers and executives.

Sadly, he then was at the center of a non competitive fight between Apple and Google. After he left Apple, Google tried to hire him but was forced not to do it by Steve Jobs https:…

The daily shout is the humor section of the New Yorker. I wouldn’t take it too seriously