thelibrarian

Oh, interesting, I didn’t know that, but it makes sense given the influence of Hokkien cuisine on Malaysia.

My personal theory based on nothing more than the vibe of the thing is that it comes from the Malay/Indonesian word ‘kecap’ (which is pronounced almost identically to “ketchup”), the word for sweet soy sauce. This is soy sauce that is thickened and sweetened with palm sugar, and I could see European cooks attempting to replicate it based on the vague descriptions given by sailors, and ending up with ketchup.

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But can your Linux run calculator?

If you don’t give them a license to display the works you give them to display, how can they legally display it?

Colin Percival (cperciva), upon being dismissed due to never having won a prestigious mathematical award such as a Putnam fellowship, revealing that he had in fact won a Putnam fellowship in 1999.

Considering the James Van Der Beek of Dawson's Creek fame is having to hold a fundraising auction of his memorabilia to fund his cancer treatment, cancer is expensive in the US.

Going by the second graph, since about 2.5 billion years ago.

Thanks for that, it works well, and I like the font choice! Though personally I found the font-weight a bit light and changed it to 400.

Litestream gives you point in time recovery - you can restore to any snapshot time, not just have a current replica.

I see someone else here also listens to Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff...

While the orientation is interesting, the coloring is very poor. With no key, it would seem that the colors are used to differentiate countries, but they have too many adjacent countries colored the same default beige. This makes Canada, Greenland and Iceland all appear to be the same country, likewise with Australia, New Zealand, and Papua New Guinea. Also Mexico and most of the Caribbean (except Haiti).

Argentina has tried to prove this both by legal means and by force, and has conclusively failed at both, so I think it's well past time to give up.

> The president?

The incumbent has certainly found many creative ways to make it extremely profitable for himself.

Basically his whole "return of magic" premise seems to be rooted in his listening to "The Telepathy Tapes" and it confirming/supporting some of his latent beliefs. But the Telepathy Tapes is utter nonsense and self delusion based on wishful thinking and the "Autism Parent" movement.

https://www.theamericansaga.com/p/the-telepathy-tapes-is-tak...

Don't bother with this one - the latest post (The Return of Magic) is promoting a load of unscientific woo (The Telepathy Tapes). The author seems to seriously mean the title of the post literally.

I guess if you prefer emoji over Nerd Font icons?

My house rule to fix Settlers of Catan is to play other, better games.

Splendour Duel and 7 Wonders Duel are actually better than their originals.

Patchwork is a great older game for 2.

Bill Maher is way too confident(ly incorrect).

Non-standards? They all implement the WebAuthN standard.

I think you may just be used to Python still relying on functions for string processing, where Ruby has methods on the String class for manipulating strings.

It seems to me that Python still has these holdovers from when it was not fully object-oriented, where a lot of string and data structure manipulation is done with language-level functions rather than methods on the objects, which can be quite confusing.

No, blocks are lambdas.

Not just high heels, but also many boots have sharp protrusions (e.g. lace hooks on some hiking boots and work boots, metal decorations on goth and cowboy boots)

Many shoes have hard, sharp parts that could damage the slide, even to the point of complete deflation. There is no time to assess whose shoes would be safe and whose not, so the blanket rule is "no shoes".

More like “strikes again” - Ea-nāṣir was the dodgy copper seller.

For a name, how about LambdaROOM? Adds an 'R' for Rust, and is also a reference to the concepts of rooms in these games.

7 Wonders Duel is great, and even better than the very good original.

Patchwork is a very good space-filling tiling game. Its theme and premise may sound boring, but it is fun and very competitive.

The small city-based Ticket to Ride variants play two players very well, and are also good with 3 or 4 players.

Tak is a great abstract strategy game for two players.

Concordia is an excellent game, and plays very well with two players on small maps (e.g. Cyprus or Egypt).

Favourite game from this year: John Company 2nd ed. Very complex, but in an interesting, understandable, and thematic way.

Favourite old game discovered this year: The King is Dead. An area control game with restrictions that interact in very interesting ways.

Perennial favourites:

Orleans - the most played game at my weekly board game group. Worker placement and deck building combined.

Concordia - a great resource collection game, plays well from 2-5 players with no rules changes

Hansa Teutonica - brilliant worker placement game. Looks bland, plays well, and now comes in a well-priced box with all expansions.

So, should the quip be “go anti-woke, go broke” then?