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nantucketebooks, 2 months ago to random

My basement setup is working out well. I picked up a docking station for my Dell laptop at a thrift store last year, and I've set it all up as a kind of desktop. I've bought card tables at thrift stores to help organize the basement, too. Plus I can have my office phone on my desk.

hugo, 2 months ago to random

boy oh boy. there goes peer review.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2468023024002402

nantucketebooks, 2 months ago to random

New blog post: tonight's update to the site generator will create author pages, and lists of all the books that author has written. https://nantucketebooks.com/blog/2024/03/2024-03-02_list_of_titles_on_author_pages.html

paul, 2 months ago to random

Across the nation, right-wing lawmakers aim to ban lab-grown "meat", some intend to criminalize the selling, manufacturing or distributing cultured protein

Sixteen states--Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas and Wyoming have already targeted it with laws, so far

Why? They see it as a "war on ranching" and a need to protect the agriculture industry

https://insideclimatenews.org/news/12032024/lawmakers-aim-to-ban-lab-grown-meat/

nantucketebooks, 2 months ago to random

I'm glad people enjoy my video about St. Elmo's Fire. Even people who like the movie can have a sense of humor about it. https://www.yewtu.be/watch?v=PosRxA34scA&lc=UgyUAY2B8ikYLHPQQPx4AaABAg

nixCraft, 2 months ago to random

Compliance is the root of all evil. So, you want to destroy the SSD? Drill all SSDs. Destroyed finally. All data is safe. Let’s go home.

The SSDs:

nantucketebooks, 2 months ago to random

BASIC is a tough programming language to search for.

"Uh, 'BASIC programming tutorials.' No. 'BASIC programming'. 'Beginner BASIC'.

troublewithwords, 2 months ago to random

Idea: An “Up-Goer Five” of scientific papers. Folks summarize high impact papers in dead simple, non-specialized language. Help folks learn stuff without the shade of sensational journalism.

nantucketebooks, 2 months ago to random

Wow, !important in CSS feels like it could get out of hand REAL quick.

nantucketebooks, 2 months ago to random

AI loves those forehead ridges, doesn't it?

lowqualityfacts, 2 months ago to random

I believe the Mordor scenes were shot in the subway.
https://patreon.com/lowqualityfacts

emmalbriant, 2 months ago to random

#Boeing #whistleblower found dead in US https://www.bbc.com/news/business-68534703

MyBeansAreBaked, 2 months ago to random

Why the hell is nicotine so socially acceptable

nantucketebooks, 2 months ago to random

I'd note, as one can note every year, that the writer is rarely thanked in Oscar acceptance speeches. There would be no movie without the writer.

nantucketebooks, 2 months ago to random

Some personal writing: this is the script for my part of a video I did with @atgonzalez last year. He asked people to write about the video game moments that scared us.

https://www.ndhfilms.com/blog/2024/03/2024-03-10_riding_the_dark_highway_with_samus_aran.html

This was my story. It's called Riding the Dark Highway With Samus Aran.

Sleep tight. ;-)

nantucketebooks, 2 months ago to random

The characters in Longmire must be responsible for half of Wyoming's car pollution.

nantucketebooks, 2 months ago to random

I finished reading The Breathing Method last night. A very nice ghost story by Stephen King, and probably the overlooked story from his book Different Seasons.

As I was reading, I tried to imagine the story as a movie. While the ending is haunting on the page, it would come across as hokey on the screen, unless handled with great care by the right filmmakers.

nantucketebooks, 2 months ago to random

The Last Deadloss Visions, an essay by Christopher Priest (author of The Prestige). It chronicles the history of The Last Dangerous Visions, a short story anthology that has been yet to be published after a half-century. Since the print edition is absurdly expensive, I was glad to re-discover this plain-text online copy. https://web.archive.org/web/20000902203835/http://sf.www.lysator.liu.se/sf_archive/sf-texts/Ansible/Last_Deadloss_Visions,Chris_Priest

nantucketebooks, 2 months ago to random

If .9999 equals 1, why doesn't the image load when the progress bar is stuck at 99.999%? >:-\

nantucketebooks, 2 months ago to random

My DreamHost server stopped generating daily access logs. It's still writing to the access log file, so I've written a node script to extract a daily report from it.

I use the access logs to track views of the e-books on my site.

nantucketebooks, 2 months ago to random

The famous 'Animal Crossing' comic, from a simpler age of the web. https://i.imgur.com/1PA8D.jpg

nantucketebooks, 2 months ago to random

I was thinking about how many Star Trek episodes have the cast being possessed, cloned, or copied. I'm pretty sure this was to cut down costs. The very first episode of the original series was about a shape-shifter.