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I kid. But QBasic Gorillas was the first time I ever edited code. When the the banana takes out half a city block the pressure really amps up.

Game of Life but no Gorillas?

I hate to be that guy but literally dying? I guess, in some sense, we all are all the time? "Literally slipped through the cracks of time" is still my favorite though.

Sweet. I gotta get me one of those Worf sex chairs.

Remind me of The Onion's Apple Wheel: https://youtu.be/9BnLbv6QYcA

I put it on desserts and on to of cocktails. Just make sure you're using 24K.

I recommend Ursula K. Le Guin's "Lao Tzu: Tao Te Ching: A Book about the Way and the Power of the Way." Then go back and reread The Dispossessed and you'll see a lot of the Tao in …

*alchemical

When dinking around in Ipython you need to use a fork for the "multiprocessing" library called "multiprocess." Parallelism in a Notebook isn't for everyone, but how would thes…

Newton's obsession with counterfeiters never made sense to me until I read Neal Stephenson Baroque Cycle. He makes a good case for tying it with Newton's prior alemetical pursuits.

Greatest counterfeiter... we know of!

I've never been a fan of Apple, but the Macbook trackpad keeps me from switching. Whose is second best?

Can I submit Suzerain? That'll civic ya real good.

Great points. It still seems odd to me that she left Lattimore out when he's so often praised (on HN anyway).

In Emily Wilson's article comparing her excerpt with other famous translators, she conveniently leaves Lattimore out: https://web.archive.org/web/20230629122951/https:&#…

I couldn't make head or tails of that link but the textbook his here: https://inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/~cs61a/sp12/book/index.html Looks awesome but I still wish the…

I bought a Pilot Vanishing Point on a whim just assuming I'd love it. (No wait, it was after some HN thread around five years ago, I think.) Anyway, it's so amazing that I've never cons…

Another instance of the fat cats in Washington doing the bidding of Big Fig!

Not to mention healthy fats. Protein is way over valued.

It's a fish. New meaning of clickbait.

It's a Columbus Day miracle!

Appropriately.

In the absence of data do something drastic. Got it.

You can't A/B test a lot of things without a time machine so you need to be good at assessing risks and tradeoffs.

Ender's Game games.

We cannot allow a mineshaft gap.

In his last keynote, John Carmack mentioned the possibility of the Metaverse being something like a Unity Plugin that federated platforms could tie into.

I can't be the only one to use :x instead of :wq but I never see it in tutorials. It's 50% fewer keys!

Cute!

It's weird how matter-of-fact people were about smallpox in some memoirs. Casanova's descriptions are revolting but everyone just went on with their lives. 14-day quarantines when traveling …