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> My problem with having many different choices that will actually have consequences for the game play is that I’m always worried I didn’t choose the best path through the game. Bu…

It's been a while since I've had to do this so I'd be very happy to hear if the process has become smoother since - does it no longer give you a big warning that you've got a dange…

In addition to the advantage of explicitly specified capabilities mentioned by others, I'd say a userscript is also much more durable and low-maintenance than a Chrome extension. T…

Very cool, I'll definitely be playing around with this some more! Two questions: - How difficult would it be to add many-valued functions to this? It would be really nice to be abl…

There's a story by a guy who did something similar when he was in 2nd grade, and successfully pitched an aardvark plush to a toy company! It always makes me smile whenever it pops …

This problem is usually known as regression dilution, discussed here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regression_dilution

My old smartwatch finally gave out. Usually when buying any new tech the main question I ask myself is "how likely is this to survive for practically forever?", so I've been eyeing…

If I understood the OP correctly, then the broadcasting would only be illegal in the US.

As others have pointed out, tkinter is just a wrapper around Tk, so the best way to learn more about it is to learn about Tk. The documentation for Tk [1] is fairly comprehensive: …

A better way to organise and find papers I've looked at before. For example, being able to ask an LLM "what was that paper again that tried using X to solve Y but ran into some iss…

There's a few projects that can package a python environment into a single executable (the main tradeoff is you end up including a copy of python with every single executable if yo…

Missing my favourite zero-word paper: "Can a good philosophical contribution be made just by asking a question?" https://doi.org/10.1111/meta.12599

Of all things, rowing. It's a way to force myself to keep a consistent exercise routine because others depend on me to show up for each session, and given that my club has active m…

I only gained an appreciation for ruler and compass constructions early in secondary school, at age 7 I'm not sure I could fully understand the beauty of deriving a huge system fro…

To my surprise I've been unable to find an email client that meets three requirements: - Works on Windows and Android - Unified inbox for multiple addresses - Does not take multipl…

Something about the way the text got more and more glitched while keeping the rhythm of the sentences intact made me want to keep reading. I think it managed to create the perfect …

For anyone who enjoyed that one, I can also recommend Public Service Broadcasting's The Race for Space [1] which does something similar. [1] https://publicservicebroadcasting.bandc…

I've found writing a temporary comment can be particularly useful when working with Unicode. For example, something similar to //insert a unicode dot between each character in the …

In the context of the difference between D# and Eb, 19-TET is very interesting to play around with. It adds an extra black key between every pair of white keys, and most songs inte…