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Tense, emotional climate science-fiction that doesn’t quite come together by Kevin Fox, Jr. This piece was written during the 2023 SAG-AFTRA strike. Without the labor of the actors currently on strike, the film being covered here wouldn’t exist. Foe is a psychological thriller that relies on one of speculative fiction’s most familiar anxieties: humanity being replaced. The film is climate fiction, taking place in a world that’s finally experiencing the …

The examples used here are from the weekly challenge problem statement and demonstrate the working solution. Part 1 You are given two array of languages and its popularity. Write a script to sort the language based on popularity. Solution make_pairs(K, V, K-V). sort_language(Languages, Popularity, SortedLanguages):- maplist(make_pairs, Popularity, Languages, PopularityLanguages), keysort(PopularityLanguages, SortedPopularityLanguages), findall(Language, member(_-Language, SortedPopularityLanguages), SortedLanguages). Sample Run % gprolog --consult-file prolog/ch-1.p | ?- sort_language([2, 1, 3], [perl, c, python], SortedLanguages). …

The law of conservation of energy says that, within a closed system, energy cannot be created or destroyed: only converted from one form of energy to another. In 2023 - a year filled with personal loss - I’ve come to find some comfort in this fact. If a relationship between 2 people is a closed system, then the law of conservation says that the energy that existed between them endures, …

The St. Pieter catholic church in Vught, the Netherlands, was built between 1881 and 1884 to replace a straw-roofed 14th century chapel. Carl Weber, a prolific Dutch architect with German origins, departed from the Neo-Gothic churches he had designed so far to give St. Pieter a combination of Neo-Romanesque and Rheinland Gothic elements. DePetrus combines the public library, local museum, community centre (complete with pool tables), a café and a …

A (hopefully) fun festive idea – an Advent Calendar Dungeon (‘Advent(ure) Calendar’). Open a door each day to see what’s behind the door. See if you survive to Christmas. Simply scan the QR code on each door to see what lies behind … I originally wrote this in 2022, doing one day each day – like a precursor to #Dungeon23, but only for 24 days >> PDF << Idea inspired …

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Berlin is cold and dark, there’s snow on the ground and the supermarkets are full of Lebkuchen and testy shoppers, so … it must be time for Secret Satan! Here we go with our annual serving of books with boho/queer/decadent/surreal/occult themes, and hopefully some surprises. I’ve been doing this since 2017 and while I enjoy selecting the titles, it’s an idea that has grown out of all proportion; something once …

No 4 Denmark Street could be the most important single address on Tin Pan Alley. It’s housed Regent Sound, the studio where the Rolling Stones recorded their debut album, the Helter Skelter bookshop that specialised in books about music, and is now home to Regent Sounds, London’s best guitar shop. Other residents include Johnny Dankworth and Essex Music, publishers of the Rolling Stones among others. There might even be a …

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ESPN National Hockey Night North American release in March 2001 Never released in Japan Never released in Europe Published by Konami Developed by Konami Scott Gomez! Twice! No wait there’s a faint picture of him holding the cup, so that’s three! Wow! That’s terrible. Best of the Worst I’m Québécois, so I have been surrounded by hockey during all my formative years. For all intent and purposes, I should be …

Last month, I analyzed the programming languages and UI frameworks used to create iOS 17. This month, let’s analyze macOS from OS X El Capitan 10.11 to the latest macOS Sonoma 14 and answer a few questions: What is the total count of binaries within macOS Sonoma? Which programming languages are used to develop these apps? How many apps are written with Swift? How many apps are using Mac Catalyst …

Hayes Valley is one of the neighborhoods that’s gentrified most since I first moved to San Francisco. What was a collapsed freeway encircled by shabby Victorians and empty lots is now a bougie strip of bars and glossy retail. Strapping young people fill the plaza. Dives have turned into destinations. The main street, meanwhile, is stacked with retail outlets for stores you probably heard about first on the internet. Allbirds, …

China After Mao by Frank Dikötter, 2022 Chinese Primer Zhou Enlai died in January 1976, and the Great Helmsman followed eight months later. After a brief tussle between factions, the Gang of Four was disbanded, and the era of China after Mao began. Putting it in extremely rough terms, the two principle actors after Mao were Deng Xiaoping, who was responsible new directions in economic development, although he was also …

You used to have to muscle your way into stores and stand in long lines to take advantage of Black Friday promotions. Nowadays, everything is online, so you can shop from the comfort of your own home. The difficulty, of course, is that you’re then swamped with possibilities, making it impossible to know what to [...] Read More... The post A Dozen Great Black Friday Sales appeared first on Die, …