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Longtime Second Glance History readers no doubt remember what happens when Americans go abroad. (Reminder: They get accused of being German spies.) But what does the rest of the world think of Americans back home? …

A new collection from Gary Lovisi is out from Ramble House: Weird Stories: Shudder Pulp, Horror, & Lovecraft! It contains over 20 stories, most reprints from various small publications from the 1980s on, along with …

This is a video from San Francisco of a Waymo self-driving taxi encountering an open fire hydrant and being unable to assess the situation. It doesn’t want to drive through the water, but it doesn’t …

Hey. Thanks for reading this. And, more so, thanks for reading and commenting on everything else before this on TV-VCR. But, I’m sorry to say, this is all there will be to read. This is …

🔦 Loop Gear SK-05 Helm Flashlight Review on ZeroAir Reviews 🔦The Loop Gear SK-05 Helm flashlight offers so many things. Throw and triple flood and side RGB as well as USB-C charging and a Pro …

Watches and the military have a long, intertwined history dating to at least the 19th century, when deck watches adorned the wrist of naval officers. The associations more commonly drawn… The post Prevail Onward Future …

Notes for season 5, episode 13, “return 0“ 08:26 Even with HR removed, it’s apparently not hard to find a bunch of cops at the precinct that would execute fellow officers for “a nice fat …

I’m re-watching True Romance, one of my all-time favorite movies. From Wikipedia:True Romance is a 1993 American romantic crime film directed by Tony Scott and written by Quentin Tarantino. It features an ensemble cast led …

One was at Subway. Call her Kelly, which may actually.have been her name. She was at least 15 years older than the rest of us. Raspy voice, smoked. Chatty, but fun, not annoying. Slightly broken …

Earlier today I got a surprise invitation to Google Foobar,1 a series of coding tests presented as a text adventure. You’re presented with a normal terminal interface, and a few familiar commands like ls, cd, …

I believe that the client-side code includes a Block class. I further believe that we have no use for it. Even further, I suspect there are tests that use it, which should not. Let's sort …

My father turned seventy recently. He used his scooter to get around the neighborhood—at most, about 40 km in a day and not more than 10 km one way. Scooter allowed him to visit his …

A recent paper of mine performs an intersection test in a ray tracing shader. To this end, I had to compute all real roots of a polynomial of moderately high degree (10 to 26). Overall, …

Album of the Week, October 19, 2024 What comes after a career arc like the one Herbie Hancock had from the early 1960s through 1976? We’ve talked about many of his Blue Note Records albums …