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In Shakespeare's Macbeth, the witches prophecise to him that he will become King. Spoiler alert, he does, by killing the previous King in order to make the prophecy come true.

This has been around for a while and the benefits well understood. This video gives a good guide to why sails aren't more common: https://youtu.be/GYNKW_w95lA TL;DW, fitting sail…

Bojack Horseman used to be top of my list, but now enough has happened in my life I find it a struggle to watch certain episodes.

Perhaps there's a higher percentage among the HN readership, but the number of people who make it to 'just' a 1kSPM base is very small indeed as a fraction of the playerbase. Only 18% g…

I have several 'home-cooked' apps. One is our shopping list. I have a Pi with a touchscreen in the kitchen running it, and it's easy for us both to add to from there. I also built in fu…

Have you heard of Good Gym in the UK? https://www.goodgym.org/

In the UK there are probably very few 'true believers' left in the Church of England, including within the priesthood. The church has been dying for decades, which personally I feel is a sha…

It doesn't-and doesn't need to-make money.

Have you ever witnessed an animal being slaughtered? I have an innate disgust reaction to that too.

Could it be a large creature fell to the ocean floor and was digested. At some point its ribcage pierced into the sediment, making the holes, then once that too had been digested only the holes remain…

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I love watching Google's attempts to unify/create/destroy messaging platforms, seeing them compete as if they are competitors on an episode of Takeshi's Castle.

That's exactly where this meme originated, 17 years ago https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/piracy-its-a-crime …

Steal a website? You wouldn't download a car.

This is from the original radio play. The books were written later, and had quite a few details changed.

P.A. VOICE: Trans-Stellar Space Lines would like to apologise to passengers for the continuing delay for the departure of this flight. FORD: Hey, weird. P.A. VOICE: We are currently awaiting the loadi…

I'm surprised too. Built in + one external is what I've had most of my career. For a brief period I had two external and it was hell because OSX would switch them round on every wake from sl…

I remember the first time I assembled a PC (nineties), listening to motherboard beeps and comparing against the (printed) manual to work out what was wrong. https://www.pcmag.com/encyc…

Then it starts sounding even better!

Love this. A project I've had in mind for a while but realistically will never get around to building is an ambient/coding music generator that's hooked up to a metric, e.g. your projec…

There's a knack but one of the things I love about the Aeropress is it's completely mess free: unscrew, plunge out into compost bin and tap, rinse under tap, done!

I second this approach. I buy locally roasted beans, and have a reasonably nice grinder and an aeropress. For my palette, the coffee's as good as I can get anywhere.

I haven't otherwise, this was quite the experience. Quite soon after the first incident I started planning my exit. Attrition was very high at that company...

I used to work with someone who would frequently explode on group video calls, usually with the anger directed at a single victim. I worked out that if it happened to me, I could use the OSX link cond…