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But can your Linux run calculator?

If you don’t give them a license to display the works you give them to display, how can they legally display it?

Colin Percival (cperciva), upon being dismissed due to never having won a prestigious mathematical award such as a Putnam fellowship, revealing that he had in fact won a Putnam fel…

Considering the James Van Der Beek of Dawson's Creek fame is having to hold a fundraising auction of his memorabilia to fund his cancer treatment, cancer is expensive in the US.

Going by the second graph, since about 2.5 billion years ago.

Thanks for that, it works well, and I like the font choice! Though personally I found the font-weight a bit light and changed it to 400.

Litestream gives you point in time recovery - you can restore to any snapshot time, not just have a current replica.

I see someone else here also listens to Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff...

While the orientation is interesting, the coloring is very poor. With no key, it would seem that the colors are used to differentiate countries, but they have too many adjacent cou…

Argentina has tried to prove this both by legal means and by force, and has conclusively failed at both, so I think it's well past time to give up.

> The president? The incumbent has certainly found many creative ways to make it extremely profitable for himself.

Basically his whole "return of magic" premise seems to be rooted in his listening to "The Telepathy Tapes" and it confirming/supporting some of his latent beliefs. But the Telepath…

Don't bother with this one - the latest post (The Return of Magic) is promoting a load of unscientific woo (The Telepathy Tapes). The author seems to seriously mean the title of th…

I guess if you prefer emoji over Nerd Font icons?

My house rule to fix Settlers of Catan is to play other, better games.

Splendour Duel and 7 Wonders Duel are actually better than their originals. Patchwork is a great older game for 2.

Bill Maher is way too confident(ly incorrect).

Non-standards? They all implement the WebAuthN standard.

I think you may just be used to Python still relying on functions for string processing, where Ruby has methods on the String class for manipulating strings. It seems to me that Py…

No, blocks are lambdas.

Not just high heels, but also many boots have sharp protrusions (e.g. lace hooks on some hiking boots and work boots, metal decorations on goth and cowboy boots)

Many shoes have hard, sharp parts that could damage the slide, even to the point of complete deflation. There is no time to assess whose shoes would be safe and whose not, so the b…

More like “strikes again” - Ea-nāṣir was the dodgy copper seller.

For a name, how about LambdaROOM? Adds an 'R' for Rust, and is also a reference to the concepts of rooms in these games.