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Can never go wrong with medium-rare
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Pretty sure it's terraform
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Can never go wrong with medium-rare
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Pretty sure it's terraform
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How do I identify someone who has deleted their post?
You can tag users, and that tag will then appear next to their username on all their posts and comments.
Of course that won't help retrospectively, but if a user keeps posting and deleting the same thing you can tag them when you notice, and then when they do it again you can see the tag you gave them previously.
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Happy Manjaro Certificate expiration day! To all who celebrate!
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Dunno... Lack of collaboration skills in a Linux distro seems a lot like incompetence to me...
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Help me choose my 150th book!
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Help me choose my 150th book!
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The Discworld is a weird series in that regard... It doesn't really make sense for a new person to read it in release order... unless you really want to explore how Terry Pratchett evolved as an author over his career. Even Terry Pratchett himself doesn't recommend that people start with The Colour of Magic...
The odd thing is that the "Discworld series" is more of a "universe" than a series, and it then consists of several sub-series. In the chart in my previous comment, you can better see the actual series.
"Guards! Guards!" is the first book in the "Watch" series, a series about the city watch of Ankh-Morpork. The actual sequel would be "Men at Arms", and then "Feet of Clay" and so on. These books continue following the Watch, and Vimes, and still has a bit of the "detective novel" vibe.
I myself started reading from "Colour of Magic" (The first of the "Rincewind" series), and I liked it quite a lot, but I'm fairly certain that the reason I found it funny and interesting was due to me playing a lot of pen-and-paper role playing games as a wizard, and having a lot more experience with all of the tropes and themes of old-school fantasy. If I didn't have that background, I'm fairly certain I would have bounced-off, hard...
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If I were you, I would really continue with the Watch series, it has some great characters and storylines, and it will make you fall in love with the Discworld universe.
Once you have either read all the watch books, or feel like you need something different, then I would probably try out the Witches series. (or possibly the "Death" series, eventhough the first book "Mort" is a bit rough.
And only then would I circle back and take on the Rincewind series. The Rincewind series starts out rather rough, compared to most of the other books (but they were also the first), and there's a number of details and characters that are not consistent with the rest of the books as Terry Pratchett was still figuring things out at that point, and while the Rincewind series becomes very very enjoyable as it develops, I will say that the first two books are a bit harder to get into than the rest of the Discworld series.
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Help me choose my 150th book!
Since OP has already read "Guards! Guards!" by Terry Pratchett, I instead want to recommend
"Men at Arms" by Terry Pratchett, the direct sequel to "Guards! Guards!".
And again, as it's so handy to find your way around the Discworld, this chart shows how the books relate to each other.
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8 player PC games
Rag Doll Kung Fu
It definitely supports up to 8 players but I think it requires 8 mice, not controllers.
We had a lot of fun with this back in high school.
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Game developer claims Gemini served up data only available in their private Google Doc
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Yes of course, never reuse passwords. Because then your password is only as strong at the weakest link
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Your Engineers Aren't Lazy, Your Codebase Is Punishing Them
"Codebase drag" formerly known as "technical debt".
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Raspberry Pi gets eye-watering price rises, new 3GB RAM model
I realised a while ago that it's way cheaper to hunt for second-hand intel NUCs, and the resulting machine is way more powerful... And the RAM and storage is upgradeable, if the NUC didn't come with plenty of storage or RAM already...
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What is the coolest website you’ve visited that no one knows about?
Learn how a computer works by building your own from scratch.
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Hey we solved software development, no need to learn programming anymore (Claude's source code leak)
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I think the important bit to understand here is that LLMs are never not hallucinating. But they sometimes happens to hallucinate something correct.
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Which game do I get that's under 20GB?
Outer Wilds is 8GB, and the best puzzle/mystery game I have ever played. The less you know about the game up front, the better.
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Future
If I remember correctly the OP of this network traffic graph figured out that their network equipment were accidentally misattributing the traffic to the washer, and it was actually some other device that had caused the traffic.
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I am at a loss...
https://minerva-archive.org/ is working on archiving all the data from Myrient. Unfortunately their main page is down right now. But they have a client that volunteers are running to coordinate the archival efforts. Last I heard they already had >80% of all the content archived
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A security researcher says Microsoft secretly built a backdoor into BitLocker, releases an exploit to prove it
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Dunno... Somehow that seems like a feature to me 😉
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made my own OS compass :3
Shouldn't Ubuntu be more "mainstream" than debian?
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When the Open Social Web Hybridizes: Raccoon for Friendica is a new app... Mastodon. And it even has a little Lemmy in it! That's why the Free Software + Fediverse duo is such a valuable resource.
That's quite a wall of text...
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I would frankly prefer a thick accent, and some subtitles... Even AI generated subtitles with a quick proofread pass, is vastly superior to AI voices IMO