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This is more than a simple sequel, this game positions itself as a direct continuation of the first, to the …
Memo to self: you really should start making a note about where you’ve heard about a particular book as it’s rare that the information remains in your head!! The book I want to share my thoughts about today is one I picked as long ago as...
In the late 1920s, May Lamberton Becker hosted a column in The Saturday Review of Literature (NY). The column was called "The Reader's Guide," and readers were invited to send in questions related to books. In the 22 December 1928 issue...
[You may notice a minor text rendering bug in some of my screenshots, some words showing up all black rather …
Have you ever wondered what really happens between the moment you press the power button and the moment your login screen shows up? That gap—usually some seconds—hides one of the most intricate initialization sequences in computing....
Matthew Haughey, who has a masters degree in soil chemistry, writes about why some farms plant red clover in the spring. Haughey jokingly swears he’s fun at parties, but people with specialized science knowledge are precisely the folks I...
I've written a Swift script that uses the FSEvents API to get notified of file changes, then I'm using stdout as a bridge to forward those notifications to Python.
Washington wrote a $700 million check for the American rancher. Not a bailout. Not a disaster payment assembled in a scramble after a hurricane. A proactive, structured, forward-looking investment in the way American ranchers manage...
One of the common challenges I face as a teacher is getting developers to move forward by putting one sure foot in front of the other, instead of trying to do it in risky leaps and bounds. One activity in particular where this friction...
외국인들이 한국어를 배울 이유는 어느 때보다도 많다. 외국인들은 K팝 노래의 가사를 알아듣고 싶어 하고, K드라마나 영화의 대사를 더 깊이 있게 이해하고 싶어 한다. K문학을 번역본을 넘어 원문으로 읽고 싶어 한다. 여행지로 인기를 끌고 있는 한국을 방문하는 꿈을 꾸는 외국인들도 적지 않다. 하지만 예전부터 문화적 영향력이 컸던 일본의 언어와 정치적·경제적 영향력이 날로 커지는 중국어가 아닌, 특별히 […]
On the entire opposite side of the planet from England, in the jungles of Northeastern Australia, the Mbabaram people independently invented the word “dog” for our canine companions by sheer linguistic coincidence.
Two cracking paragraphs here from Carl Trueman:Today we live in an oddly neo-Donatist age where there is still a tendency to conceptualize ministry in terms of personal qualities and experiences, although these are now determined by the...