relatedly, https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Report_on_Grand_Central_Termi...

I think metafilter had a similar system and it was definitely one of the higher quality forums

stross's "accelerando" has a bit about this. fun book.

the game dorfromantik is a fun twist on this idea - the game generates random tiles and you have to fit them in with matching edges. you produce some beautiful pastoral landscapes while playing a pretty fun and challenging game.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorfromantik

this is my go to as well, I find the red one has a harsh taste to it

"a fall of moondust" would translate extremely well to screen, and "the martian" has shown that it's the kind of movie that would do well enough in terms of reception.

The first Clarke I read as a kid and still one of my favourites. It hasn’t aged well, not least because it was written before we landed on the moon and now know its surface isn’t like that.

I remember 3001 mainly for the bit about deism vs theism, which is one of my favourite throwaway passages in all of sf.

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"You said that all the old religions have been discredited. So what do people believe nowadays?"

"As little as possible. We’re all either Deists or Theists."

"You’ve lost me. Definitions, please."

"They were slightly different in your time, but here are the latest versions. Theists believe there’s not more than one God; Deists that there is not less than one God."

"I’m afraid the distinction’s too subtle for me."

"Not for everyone; you’d be amazed at the bitter controversies it’s aroused. Five centuries ago, someone used what’s known as surreal mathematics to prove there’s an infinite number of grades between Theists and Deists. Of course, like most dabblers with infinity, he went insane."

All I remember from 3001 was a bit about velociraptors being used as gardeners and babysitters.

Nothing in this thread makes me feel I should change my mind but de gustibus and all that.

> if you have any family members relying on these services, you have to kill them all every time you reboot your workstation

yikes!

Yeah I can't imagine killing my family members every time I'm shutting down my computer

It's better than having to hear them complain every time plex goes down

And yet sometimes you just need to pull the plug.

at least on linux you can map caps lock to esc if tapped and ctrl if held

natively ? how ?

https://www.dannyguo.com/blog/remap-caps-lock-to-escape-and-... has a good run down of the ways to do this.

But you do have to install and configure xcape. By native I meant something that would either be an gui option on your DE or a simple command from something that is already installed on a linux distro like `setxkbmap`

this post on union types versus sum types is worth a read (the tl;dr is that they both have their uses and one is not strictly better) https://viralinstruction.com/posts/uniontypes/