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  1. Comment on These snakes can cartwheel away from danger. Scientists just uncovered how the slithering creatures perform their acrobatic rolls. in ~science

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    ...clicked through hoping for hoop snakes, left disappointed by a one-legged run...

    ...clicked through hoping for hoop snakes, left disappointed by a one-legged run...

    1 vote

  2. Comment on I survived the certificate expiration of October 19th 2026 and all I got was to make a silly shitpost in ~tildes

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    ...yeah, i just clicked through the warning and kept accessing the site as usual; browsers which don't allow that are kicked to the curb...

    ...yeah, i just clicked through the warning and kept accessing the site as usual; browsers which don't allow that are kicked to the curb...

  3. Comment on Maybe there was an egg cartel after all in ~food

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    ...i do not; the hobby-chicken-farmer i most recently worked with left our firm a couple of months ago... ...when my grandparents kept chickens, they'd raise the roosters for meat and always said...

    ...i do not; the hobby-chicken-farmer i most recently worked with left our firm a couple of months ago...

    ...when my grandparents kept chickens, they'd raise the roosters for meat and always said it was a challenge to keep them from killing each other...

    6 votes

  4. Comment on Inside the Intel 8087 chip: floating-point addition and subtraction in ~comp

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    ...you might enjoy jon stokes' inside the machine while you're at it...

    ...you might enjoy jon stokes' inside the machine while you're at it...

    2 votes

  5. Comment on Squadron 42 | Official wishlist trailer in ~games

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    ...i supported the project back in the summer of 2012 (before it was publicly announced), just after my main machine died, and resolved to wait until the single-player game goes beta before...

    ...i supported the project back in the summer of 2012 (before it was publicly announced), just after my main machine died, and resolved to wait until the single-player game goes beta before building a replacement...

    ...fourteen years later i've learned to meet most of my personal computing needs with just an ipad, but i was fairly engaged in its early development cycle before backing off about twelve years ago to await a mature flight model with the beta release, which i've loosely followed real progress since: it's very, very close, i'm still skeptical of a full retail release next spring but i'm finally making plans to build my machine...

    ...i warned them early-on that building the project around a massively-multiplayer engine would drag down everything in its wake, and it has, but to their credit cloud imperium leveraged novel technical innovations to address those seemingly-insurmountable back-end challenges and it's finally borne fruit on the single-player side...

  6. Comment on Maybe there was an egg cartel after all in ~food

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    ...i don't use eggs, but i work with folks who raise their own and also engage local cooperatives, so i know respectfully-farmed eggs are out there, although i have no idea about commercial...

    ...i don't use eggs, but i work with folks who raise their own and also engage local cooperatives, so i know respectfully-farmed eggs are out there, although i have no idea about commercial distribution beyond small-scale natural food stores...

    26 votes

  7. Comment on Summer Eternal presents: Red Rooster, an incendiary RPG in ~games

  8. Comment on Recommend me music similar to that of Tool? in ~music

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    ... are stunning but i can't associate the impressionistic smear of their analog soundscapes with the likes of tool's technical virtuosity, not even anthem for no state part III which is about as...

    ...godspeed are stunning but i can't associate the impressionistic smear of their analog soundscapes with the likes of tool's technical virtuosity, not even anthem for no state part III which is about as rock as godspeed you! black emperor gets...

    (contender for the best concert i've ever witnessed, though)

    1 vote

  9. Comment on Summer Eternal presents: Red Rooster, an incendiary RPG in ~games

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    ...criminal-justice narrative fetishes are something i just can't abide anymore, enough to turn me off disco elysium despite its laudable reputation, so i'm disappointed to read them leaning into...

    ...criminal-justice narrative fetishes are something i just can't abide anymore, enough to turn me off disco elysium despite its laudable reputation, so i'm disappointed to read them leaning into the trope again...

    1 vote

  10. Comment on Exploring Appendix N in ~games.tabletop

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    ...you're in for a rare treat: he's an exceptionally gifted poet, and i don't use the term metaphorically...

    ...you're in for a rare treat: he's an exceptionally gifted poet, and i don't use the term metaphorically...

    1 vote

  11. Comment on The dock on Mac, from OS 10 to macOS 27 in ~comp

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    ...classic had accumulated a lot of cruft by the time it was put to pasture, but its core user interface and filesystem paradigms were demonstrably superior to NeXTstep, which has never really...

    ...classic had accumulated a lot of cruft by the time it was put to pasture, but its core user interface and filesystem paradigms were demonstrably superior to NeXTstep, which has never really caught up...

    1 vote

  12. Comment on The dock on Mac, from OS 10 to macOS 27 in ~comp

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    ...i actually started with NeXTstep and didn't jump over to the macintosh until system 7.5, which was a huge paradigm shift akin to jumping from my //e to the cube...

    ...i actually started with NeXTstep and didn't jump over to the macintosh until system 7.5, which was a huge paradigm shift akin to jumping from my //e to the cube...

    1 vote

  13. Comment on Exploring Appendix N in ~games.tabletop

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    ...this is a good guide to navigating his major fantasy cycles, which generally share a common continuity but are separated by vast sweeps of geological time: hyperborea, poseidonis, averoigne,...

    ...this is a good guide to navigating his major fantasy cycles, which generally share a common continuity but are separated by vast sweeps of geological time: hyperborea, poseidonis, averoigne, mars, xiccarph, and zothique, in roughly that sequence...

    http://www.eldritchdark.com/articles/criticism/67/cycles-of-clark-ashton-smith

    2 votes

  14. Comment on Exploring Appendix N in ~games.tabletop

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    ...i've really gotten into appendix N (and genre-adjacent) material over the past couple of years; currently working my way through clark ashton smith's oeuvre at eldritchdark.com, one story cycle...

    ...i've really gotten into appendix N (and genre-adjacent) material over the past couple of years; currently working my way through clark ashton smith's oeuvre at eldritchdark.com, one story cycle at a time...

    3 votes

  15. Comment on What foods are better after a day or two? in ~food

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    refried pizza > fresh pizza

    refried pizza > fresh pizza

    1 vote

  16. Comment on Recommend me music similar to that of Tool? in ~music

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    ...at the risk of stating the obvious, have you listened to puscifer?.. ...they're not quite as squalid as tool, but you may enjoy the likes of OSI or dream theatre; someone mentioned porcupine...

    ...at the risk of stating the obvious, have you listened to puscifer?..

    ...they're not quite as squalid as tool, but you may enjoy the likes of OSI or dream theatre; someone mentioned porcupine tree upthread but be sure to check out steven wilson's solo oeuvre as well...

    ...for that matter, if you have access to siriusXM, steven wilson hosts a great progressive music program each month which really surveys the breadth of the genre and offers a fantasic mechansim for discovering new music...

  17. Comment on A map of every lighthouse on the planet in ~travel

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    ...i zoomed in close to follow the course i crossed the gulf twenty-five years ago and recognised a lot of smaller navigation buoys, enough to confirm that they're not all lighthouses even though...

    ...i zoomed in close to follow the course i crossed the gulf twenty-five years ago and recognised a lot of smaller navigation buoys, enough to confirm that they're not all lighthouses even though they're represented as such...

    ...i'm also confident that the sweeping beams don't accurately represent visibility distance nor beam focus; they're strictly symbolic...

    3 votes

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  19. Comment on A map of every lighthouse on the planet in ~travel

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    ...howso; what's the tell?..

    obviously vibe coded

    ...howso; what's the tell?..

    1 vote

  20. Comment on A map of every lighthouse on the planet in ~travel

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    ...as you zoom in new lights pop up with the scaling level of detail; it's really fun to explore!..

    ...as you zoom in new lights pop up with the scaling level of detail; it's really fun to explore!..