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Wow never thought I would see an article mention Shinryu Suzuki, very cool. I read Zen Mind Beginner’s Mind as a kid and I still remember practicing the sitting and breathing like …

> If cobalt never existed in DRC, what exactly would they be doing for work and subsistence? Is this horribly unsafe and in-humane form of work a step up from whatever alternatives…

As a history enjoyer I have actually heard of this: > The Black Legend (Spanish: leyenda negra) or the Spanish Black Legend (Spanish: leyenda negra española) is a purported histori…

I learned by making a paracord sling and flinging marshmallows. I like to believe it’s so fun because I’m tapping into some primordial fascination with spinning objects, like a dog…

What a stunningly myopic conclusion. I hope one day you are able to acknowledge all the people in this world that live for purpose instead of for making Lumberg’s stock go up half …

> they sent a 30 day notice to license the product or they’d sue This tracks with what I saw, one day there was an email sent out to make sure you don’t have docker desktop install…

As someone who thought they used obsidian somewhat well, I feel like a caveman/casual after reading that. I mean that as praise, it reeled me in as both a puzzle (what am I even re…

For what it’s worth that tracks with me experience in video games. When I sat with 30 other testers for 6 days per week I achieved mastery I did not believe possible. Eventually I …

Thanks for the paper. It starts boldly by redefining the “american dream” into “line must go up” which ironically sounds like boomer logic being projected onto millennials. I don’t…

> something as simple as a parking ticket is borderline life threatening I always lived in fear of being pulled over and getting busted for not having the insurance I couldn’t affo…

I lived in the UK briefly and this episode broke my brain Series 3 Episode 53: > Host Forbes Robertson, the only man in the group, is Ayr's answer to Donald Trump, and his menu pla…

This isn’t about eyewitnesses, it’s about looking at historical pictures of the sky before the advent of space flight. > Villarroel and her team used the digitized scans to study t…

In the recent UAP hearing, whistleblower Borland talked about how financial ruin is the real fear holding whistleblowers back: > Are you scared for your safety? > … I am not scared…

Very cool and fun toy. I thought it would be a few trivial steps to reach the Emperor Maurice from Belle’s dad Maurice, but the best I could do was 5 torturous hops between List of…

> I don't live in the US, but there is nothing in the Constitution, nor in federal law, guaranteeing that you have the right to use cash. They have the right to use cash, even if t…

> commoditizing their complements Feels like a modern euphemism for “subjugate their neighbors”.

You seem so certain on the betrayal of the content-creators. > Read up on vid.me, which broke YouTube's "monopoly" back in 2016-2017 Okay, sounds interesting. > May 21 (Reuters) - …

> In my estimation, all nations are lagging in the definition of what constitutes a public utility. In a decade we will be facepalming why advertisements were even needed for this …

Luckily it is immortalized in GTA5, when playing as Trevor at least. I found it the easiest phone to use in that game.

> As a fast measure, Google created "Android Go" as a stripped-down Android variant for lower-spec hardware, exactly to respond to Firefox-OS. > After the threat was gone, "Android…

Read to the end and did a double-take: that's the game programming patterns guy! He has a voice I enjoy and I'm glad I got the chance to read this.

> how do companies... > Do you need... > Will work scope down... Sounds to me like a list of problems for market forces to solve.

Wow amazing work. I tried parsing wiktionary once and gave up in frustration. I open up your code to see the magic and this instantly caught my eye. > import mwparserfromhell as mw…

Thanks for the nudge, a well told story well worth the read.

Back at THQ we published this. The story goes that there’s some language in the deals between Pixar and Apple that forced Disney to publish a Mac version of all Pixar-based games. …