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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 …

A kukri?

I'm only so very slightly allergic to rearrangements (if done tastefully which is, IMHO, not the case here), but my biggest gripe is that they lost the whole spirit of the book(s) and made it into a syrupy FX action flick, where even the cultural …

> That's not a kitten.. There is a great little poem on that topic by none other but J.R.R.Tolkien - http://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Cat_(poem)

In good hands they are pretty much not very destructible, and I believe you can still buy some for very reasonable sums, and often very much farkled including suspension swapouts etc. I hope to get to use mine this summer if all goes well, it's …

Don't quote me on this, but I think SWM bought the Italian factory that was making the oddball Husqvarna 650s that were made in the couple years when BMW owned the brand and befire it got sold to KTM. I own TR-650 Terra and am very happy with it …