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Definitely, and renting a video itself was often a communal activity. You'd be hanging out with your friends or family and get the hankering to see a movie, so you all pile in the car together and see what they had. You'd argue back and forth about this movie or that movie, and you had to be flexible since your first pick might not be in stock. Strangers would give you suggestions or you'd see what was recommended by the staff. Lots of times you'd end up taking up something completely different than what you had planned.

Places don't need to be curated to have value as civic spaces, although it certainly helps. Seniors hang out at the local McDonalds, car modding enthusiasts gather in strip mall parking lots, singles meet at the dog park...

Any place you have to physically go to provides a chance for social interaction. To debate your friends over what movie to pick, to comment on your neighbor's selections, to ask a clerk for a recommendation. Are these pretty slight? Sure, but life is made fuller by these minor brushes, and you never know which ones will unexpectedly bloom into something more.

Yeah, this tutorial is confusing with no context, where is the actual game?

Cleverly done.

The timeline is not readable on narrow desktop windows (e.g. when you have two windows tiled side-by-side, but not so narrow as to switch to the mobile layout). The labels for the years overlap each other so it's very hard to read.

Fun game, though!

They hardly even mention the software, but isn't that half the value of Garmin devices?

Because the start of the movie is where the hero does the things that lead to their victory

Because the author is making a reference to a song with the title "Colorblind", as explained in the footnote:

> The post title comes from “Colorblind” by Super Furry Animals, a B-side to their Do Or Die single.

Nothing in that article suggests that the actual stones come from Europe. It seems like it would be rather impractical to import that much heavy material.

This report [0] from the Historic Districts Council in NYC says:

> Despite the name Belgian block, it remains unclear to what extent, and during what era, paving stones imported from Belgium may have provided the raw materials for New York City’s streets.¹ It is known that the city’s early paving stones included a type of six- inch-square traprock commonly called “Belgian” block, and said to have first been used in Belgium.

>1. While it has often been reported that Belgian blocks were imported to New York as ship ballast, we have not found primary evidence to confirm this practice.

https://hdc.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/HDC_Historic-Stre...

There’s a good chance that the people writing it will probably forget what it does in six months too :P

Design is about limiting the actions available to guide the user towards a preferred set of outcomes. A good tool makes it easier to get good results and harder to get bad results.

Of course, what “good results” are depends entirely on what you’re trying to accomplish, which is why picking the right tool for the job is so important.

What, no BeOS?! :)

Unfortunately this makes it much harder to read on narrow-width screens (e.g. mobile), where the use must scroll horizontally

It’s can’t be any more difficult than getting people to agree on how many spaces to use for indentation…

That’s the first use, and in another language to boot. Usage changes over time.

The confusing title is caused by the omission of the word “On” in the original title:

“On the run for 20 years, most-wanted fugitive caught hiding as a biotech exec”

They’re all digital natives now, dontcha know

Is this anything more substantial than a weekend-coded public data scrape?

But why use two different axis (down/up, left/right) for the same thing when you could be consistently just use left/right?

The arrow length does not represent power accurately, There's a minimum arrow length even when power is nearly 0, which means when the arrow is twice as long, the power is actually almost 50 times higher! It should be directly proportional. Perhaps there should be different indicators for "power" and "direction" -- maybe a fixed-length dotted line arrow for direction? And/or a power bar that is not anchored to the player position?

The arrow for wind strength also seems to be a different scale, making it hard to judge how much to compensate.

Is this... intentionally growing and shrinking the page size to make the scroll bars animate

Not to get a spoiler, but the post-game definition given for today's word (rot13: ybatrfg) uses an obscure secondary verb form instead of the much more common usage...

Yeah, I don't really understand what it's showing me. If they are based on letter possibilities over the entire word, that's not very useful.

Similar issue, my first guess was "plaudit" and it was not accepted

The "up/down" arrows are a bit confusing, I don't think it's self-evident whether "later in the alphabet" would be considered "higher" or "lower".

"left" or "right" might be clearer, at least for English, and it would map directly to the range bar visualizations beneath each letter.

I'm a bit confused, how does it know when you've finished an exercise? There don't seem to be any inputs on the live activity when in the middle of a set, and the post just describes "glancing" at the lock screen.

Of course, the only reason AI knows about it is because one human posted it online because they wanted to share a good story with another human

What makes you say that? It did not jump out as obviously AI generated to me.

Which is to say, “perfectly efficient market” is not an end-goal in-and-of itself for most people

The page keeps “stuttering” and stuffing up or down by a small amount