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If you liked Children of Men and especially the latter part, you might like Afterland by Lauren Beukes; it has been described as being a sort of Children of Men meet Handmaid's Tale (I sort of :) agree )

I have consumed the freshly published Piranesi by Susanne Clark in an afternoon, with much pleasure. It's beautifully done and spoke to my inner hillbilly hylozoism in rich velvety tones.

I'll chime in slightly sideways. Me growing up in USSR kinda turned me off heroes as a concept, even before an idea of philosophy being something else than a fanciful name even started to begin to cross my mind. Because in that late stage of USSR …

And if you are feeling DIY-ish, a quick search shows quite a number of 3D-printable designs :)

I ate some of the BeyondMeat products and they were decent and tasty as far as similar grub goes (although I wouldn't start comparing them with equivalent animal meat products taste-wise). However I have some beef (pun intended) with the …

Thanks for the tag. I don't really have anything to add here - while the economy naturally wants to reopen, general happy-go-lucky attitude and some decidedly medieval approaches within orthodox communities have indeed resulted in an unpleasant 2nd …

Ever since some friends pulled me into hosting and managing a Minecraft server for extended friends and family during the quarantine, I have been watching an unhealthy amount of Minecraft-related content :) besides that, some off-the-beaten-track …

> As many would know, Lawrence was a big fan of the brand and was killed riding his. And one of the neurosurgeons trying to treat his head injury, Sir Hugh Cairns, went on to make a motorcycle helmet a reality.

There's a certain conundrum around the philosophical discussions, namely, in a certain portion of and direction of these the further you go, the less there is to say, or at least the less motivation to talk :) "Tao is older than God" and such.

Also, can't help but share this bit of some exquisite geekery (read the poster's follow-ups too) - https://twitter.com/BrianRoemmele/status/1257832168455208963?s=19

I agree in principle, even though I disagree on some particulars :) as in a) I would never consider changing from Fortran to C++ for any number crunching (the former is so much better at it than the latter, in all aspects including gigantic amount …

With the caveat that not every profession or position is suitable for working from home, I'm quite certain that it should be totally normal. I have worked remotely, including from home, for many years, and have always advocated for it. In my line …

I'm afraid most of my customers and/or jobs are pretty modern, sometimes on the leading edge of it. However, in the background I do see a certain resurgence of interest in dialects and rethought applications of LISP (think Clojure or, to a lesser …

My take here is that, first and foremost, there are two problems to solve, not one. One is the actual storage. You want it to be redundant and reliable and accessible in various ways. The second one is the exhibition and publishing of the media. …

I try to distance myself from American politics for multiple reasons, which boil down to not having enough skin in the game and the futility of worrying about things I have no control about whatsoever. But I'll try to chip into this discussion just …

Apologies for a delay, I dived into my photo archives and it took me a while to select something relatively interesting. I shall endeavour to make several posts with music-related photos; I do suffer from a sort of an impostor syndrome here since …

> ... and I was wondering if we could get more stories and concert photos from his archives. I'll be delighted and thank you for the kind invitation! Would you like me to post some in this thread or extend the original one?

Yeah I'm totally with you on this, it goes both ways, as most good things do! :)

> We found the famous black beaches of Costa Rica! They’re like Iceland’s but warm. The kids wanted to know what happened to the ocean. Why is it warm? if you like the Iceland comparison, your next stop should be Azores!

I would also advocate for smartphone as alarm clock - I leave it to charge at the bed stand anyway, and with do-not-disturb settings there is no way anything can get to me when I do not want to (not sure about iPhones, but Android 10 is even …