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You might enjoy Beckey Chamber's Galactic Commons series. She does a great job of creating all kinds of interesting characters and exploring them and what makes them unique. The Sp…

The Bob series by Dennis E. Taylor is amazing, and I highly recommend it. Very positive, very creative.

SpaceX is reusing spaceships, landing them, catching rockets in chopstick contraptions. But a spaceship that lands near its launchpad can also land anywhere in the world. In an hou…

In my friend group - those with a Commodore 64 were at the top. The Vic-20 was the middle and the Sinclair the bottom. My one friend with a Tandy Color Computer had no idea what he…

I'm the same - I call it "pseudoambidextrous". I lived in Europe for 10 years and that was nice as far as eating goes. Here in the USA I always try to grab a left corner so I'm not…

I enjoy the camera for backing up.

I was surprised at how many athletes for other nations live and train the ihe US I think it would be interesting to see all medals grouped this way, regardless of the country the a…

I think point 3 of the grand parent indicates admins were not given an opportunity to test this. My company had a lot of Azure vms impacted by this and I'm not sure who the admin w…

I wouldn't say almost nothing. But the more domain specific things get the less I can track. My big takeaway has been when that happens, I remind myself I'm not fit to judge if a c…

I had a discussion with an engineer from John Deer, I'm not a farmer and don't have direct experience with it so I am taking his word but he told me in most cases the person in the…

The Bourbaki dangerous bend symbol is also a part of the lore and symbology for the band. I think that the use of the name is a 'clue' to the meaning of the symbol. The recent new …

I never thought about this - I'm aware of Bacon and the mathematicians - but not other famous people. This is cool - my Winston Churchill number is 3.

Number 3 makes it worth it alone. If I buy something I want to be able to back it up and own it. Number 2 is awesome because when people publish without DRM, effectively I don't ne…

I don't usually photograph places and stuff but I do take pictures of people I care about in places and in front of stuff. That I enjoy. But the really cool buildings and things I …

You keep equating killing an industry with killing people - this is a false comparison. Ending the use of coal saves human lives and does not take any human lives. The batman compa…

Getting rid of an industry that literally is killing people world wide is not the same as killing a person. It's the opposite, it is saving lives.

thank you - I appreciate it.

I've seen a couple of these keyboards that I assume are mechanical in the last couple days or weeks here. Serious question - do they not have function keys because that's just the …

Almost anything one can do, of value to their fellow humans, is a crime somewhere.

I've tried 3 times. Haven't made it through yet. Tolstoy on the other hand, Anna Karenina I binged and had done in like a week (on vacation, reading a good portion of my time)

"I don’t know if there were any sites displaying cumulative karma for people." Slashdot did for a long time - though there were caps on it. I used to see if I could get it to the t…

The first time I saw a personal computer was at the home of a friend. His father was an engineer for Ping and they had a computer at their house. We weren't allowed to touch it but…

I had a five year period where I wrote book reviews for fun - and to get more book reviews posted to Slashdot, so I could post Amazon affiliate links there. It was an interesting c…

I thought it was super interesting that they had a wog day with all the civilians and press on board and it looks like they allowed the non-sailors to become shell backs. I didn't …

I grew up reading a lot of Heinlein. I always really got a kick out of reading about people flying around the solar system (and beyond) in nuclear powered ships, using slide rules …