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One thing you can do with the LLMs is ask them to make up quick quizzes for you one a subject. That can help a bit.

I'm not an American but FIFA certainly care about the US and Mexico. The US is a vast market. It's played a lot in the US as well. The MLS also not a tiny league. Football is also …

Community radio is still alive and well in Australia too. RRR and PBS in Melbourne are still excellent and seem to still be a fairly big deal if bumper stickers are anything to go …

A Kindle really helps me. I don't do anything else other than read with it. As does Goodreads and reviewing, for myself, every book I read. Logging out of social media on phones is…

OK. It does have a real time spell checker. But it doesn't seem to have the squiggly line. The screen blinks at you when you type a word it can't find. I've just run Prowrite 2 and…

The 'check continuously' is the thing. I'm going to run it and have a look in a bit and get back to you. It looks like 1st Word on the Atari ST also have a continuous spell checker…

Prowrite on the Amiga had a real time spell checker before Word did. Possibly there were other programs that did as well prior to that. But Prowrite did it and had a red squiggly l…

If you look at US share of energy consumption by source you can see that solar is 2.83% of energy used in the US. Natural gas is 34.2% . https://ourworldindata.org/profile/energy/u…

The average house in the UK now has 1.3 laptops. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/apr/09/online-al... A windows laptop from today is vastly easier to code on that a C64 …

Check out 'Coding for Beginners Using Python' by Osborne. Also have a look at 'Coding Projects in Python' by DK books. Both these books are excellent and would enable a smart and d…

Metafilter and Something Awful both do this. Both sites have survived and continue to work well for their users. A small cost does definitely work for some sites.

Thanks for recommending this book. I'm now about half way through. It's really good.

A copy for people who want to read the article : https://archive.md/Q0DYu

Yep. Creating a good story, getting good actors and getting it all to come together is hard and still costs millions. At the end you may also not get your money back Take 'I Swear'…

Yep. It's a very good book and well worth a read. It's interesting to see how upset people are on Goodreads about that book: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/145624737-not-the-e…

In Australia it's 'Street Library' https://streetlibrary.org.au/ Do they have other names in different countries?

Fascinating. It appears to be the world's second busiest checkpoint now though if you count the Macau to China checkpoint. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Border_checkpoint#Busiest_c…

Yeah. It's a remarkable problem. There is a clear solution that is happily used for men. You tell people what to measure then have the clothes sized for the various dimensions. Cha…