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I think there is a tendency for them to have their PE out to one side and the AP out to the other giving a fairly obvious pattern indicating another larger object is shepherding the others into their orbits.
Space above and beyond in comparison looks pretty terrible from what I have seen. It’s not even wide screen.
I think X files was shot on film perhaps?
I’m not sure if what we have now on say Disney plus for example is a remastered version but certainly it holds up very well.
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3bNyZYHcRSUhUXUt51W6nKvx...
Obviously it won’t have anything post 2021 but for some subjects it’s fine.
How is the data encrypted at rest? Who’s master password is used to store that data?
One of many great ideas in that book.
I’ve asked it to generate python code and then format it with black. It reproduced the original code and then what was supposed to be the formatted code, but it was identical.
When told of this it admitted it had made a mistake and this time correctly outputted the formatted code.
Package management and a virtual env manager in one.
It’s actually useful they perform this or else some of that content would never appear in Google’s search results.
Part of the fear of updating though is the time sink.
Even if I attempt to update one mac laptop to the new version (of which I believe there is a new one just released, doesn’t seem long since I last updated…) knowing that I have a safe backup, I dread the thought of spending hours knowing something _should_ be working but is now broken. It can be infuriating. Especially when it’s a pattern/way of working you have become so accustomed to.
Take Offa's Dyke for instance, very little is known about its purpose from historical records (though we can guess). A structure which ran the length of what is now the English and Welsh border.
This comes to us via the epic of Gilgamesh[0], perhaps written around 2100 BCE.
Small extract:
“ Ea commanded Utnapishtim to demolish his house and build a boat, regardless of the cost, to keep living beings alive.
The boat must have equal dimensions with corresponding width and length and be covered over like Apsu boats.”
There is an excellent in our time episode which covers this epic, the Sumerian language and translation which I found one of the most interesting episodes they have made [1].
I’m sure many know but the idea of having the mundane industrial theme transferred to space was supposed to have come from a student film called Dark Star[0].
Alien Isolation is also fantastic though hard to fully enjoy the atmosphere for the most part as it’s fairly terrifying.
There was a piece on hacker news a while back where a programmer talked through how he was asked to code up the graphics for the landing sequence.(3D terrain wireframe).
[0] https://lewtonbus.net/editorials/dark-star-chest-alien-burst...
Slavery was unfortunately very much a thing in Anglo Saxon England.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_Britain#2
Pre the migration of the Saxons into England (not long after the Romans left leaving the inhabitants unprotected) they would raid coastal areas and carry off slaves back across the sea. Later, Viking raiders would do the same…
Those two tools have been around for a while and you’ll find plenty of documentation and other people looking for help online.