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Davidman had a lot of influence on the writing of "Till We Have Faces," but it was published before her death. "A Grief Observed" is the book Lewis wrote about the grief that follo…

The 1918 influenza pandemic killed tens of millions, disproportionately affecting young and healthy adults. Does that not qualify as super-deadly?

As a datapoint, yesterday's lockout affected my Apple ID that is based on a ~25-year-old mac.com address.

The creator of this github repo is the same person who publicly called for the release of the infocom adventures after Microsoft acquired Activision. (HN discussion from a month ag…

Ah, yes-- but if you shop around, you can find a telescope of that aperture for less. Here's one for a mere $132k! https://explorescientificusa.com/collections/optiques-fullum...

Christchurch is the logistics hub and support base for the US presence in Antarctica, so I believe all US facilities on the continent conduct their work in that time zone.

Maybe this has been fixed in recent models, but ten years ago it was easy to experience baffling laptop sleep states if you happened to set a working macbook down on top of another…

The effort-to-results ratio is definitely better on the visible light side. Pictures are exciting, and much easier to explain. A lot of smart amateurs discuss all things astro at t…

Similar experience here. I went to a new dentist who had one of those machines and he told me I needed at least nine fillings. I declined and found someone else. Over 16 years and …

The detector is made of thousands of light sensors arranged in a a km-scale 3D grid. When a neutrino interaction causes a flash of light inside this volume, multiple sensors detect…

I recall reading about the craft using gasoline as an incompressible floatation fluid, but I hadn't realized the scale: 100 tons of gasoline, making up 2/3s of the craft's mass.

The timing and text of this announcement certainly suggest that they've been gearing up to be a launch title on Apple's headset. Which makes me wonder if Apple's been funding devel…

A local hobby shop sold a kit with ten bits, 1.0mm down to 0.1mm, which I bought on a lark several years ago. The middle sized bits are occasionally useful to (carefully!) finger-d…

Good news - you are describing a game that exists! It's called Overload and is the spiritual successor to the Descent series, written by the original creators of that series. There…

To make matters worse, university staff software engineering jobs usually pay 1/3 to 1/2 of comparable jobs in industry (even after excluding FAANG-level outlier salaries), and in …

Sunless Sea comes to mind.

I have a little experience with both the old and new Supermicro stuff. The new x10 IPMI experience is a lot like the old x9 java app experience, except you don't have to dig out an…

Double and triple chording is part of what makes the Descent-series games (as well as Overload) so interesting. Your ship moves freely in all directions, and your speed is proporti…

Alternative to escape in vi and vi-alikes: control-[ I recommend committing this to muscle memory. It takes two fingers, but is more comfortable than reaching for escape on most ke…

If you're interested, here's a thread of telescope nerds discussing that exact usage: https://www.cloudynights.com/topic/692954-how-black-is-the-b...

Lots of good suggestions in this thread. If you have a pair of binoculars already, get some kind of tripod for them, or improvise something with a reclining lawn chair -- anything …

It really adds a dimension to Eisenhower's famous speech: "Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who …