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Alvin Chang of The Pudding used hard data to examine how the tone of science fiction in books, films, television shows, and video has changed over the past 70 years.
In short, only one company—SpaceX—is thriving in NASA’s commercial space ecosystem. https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/07/spacex-just-stomped-the-competition-for-a-new-contract-thats-not-great/ There seems to be a whiff of regulatory capture…
So. I fell down a rabbit hole last month. I was writing python to talk to a motion control platform using raw TCP messages. I was doing this on Windows (don’t ask). My initial prototyping worked just fine, but as soon as I went to integrate the work into a PyQt app is started to…
I’m on record as a critic of Thiel. The way the NZ govt and rich “technologists” brainlessly gifted him citizenship makes me want to vomit. Having said that, there is no denying his capabilities… … and yet, here’s the question: What has he surrounded himself with weird dipshits? It’s a weird blind spot. Does he…
Many thanks to Prasanth Chaduvula for putting this down in writing: CSS units are used to style the HTML elements by specifying the size, position, and other properties of HTML elements. There are several types of CSS units like rem, em, px, vh, vw, percentage and each with its own specific use case. CSS units…
Here we go again… except for your mental health
What would it cost to bootstrap an art movement? There were unique conditions in place that allowed post-punk to manifest itself in the late 70s. This video essay on the fortuitous overlap of free education, social democracy and punk rock sensibilities calls the resulting attitude and period “popular modernism”, a term coined by the late…
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