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Wait(ress), There’s More

Read Wait(ress), There’s More It's not particularly crowded, so we get seated right away. It's probably another five minutes before the waitress comes and takes our drink orders. My uncle needs tim...

Georgia’s Constitutional Court Weighs Ruling Party’s Bid to Ban Main Opposition Parties

Giorgi Menabde

Tamawashi is an Anime Voice Actor

Yesterday, I wrote about how Tamawashi became the oldest sumo wrestler (41, turning 42 on November 16) to make his return to the top division (see my post). While looking for links to include in my...

Investigating whether Zener Diodes work for ESD Protection

Sometimes the naming of parts in electronics can contribute to confusion about what they are good for, with the topic of Zener diodes in the context of fast surges like …read more

Do Not Tread Lightly

Our society avoids confronting the reality of death, and reflection on life, by mandating forgetting of those that pass away through the rapid and ever less ceremonial disposal of their bodies. The...

OpenShot 4.1 brings native text editing, smarter exports, and ARM64 builds for Linux

OpenShot has released version 4.1 of its popular open-source video editor, introducing native text editing and intelligent optimization features designed to streamline production workflows. The upd...

Daily News Stuff 2 November 2026

Main Character Syndrome Edition Top Story Binance is back online. (CNBC) The company saw net outflows of $3.64 billion (not $3.64 as Slashdot claimed) due to loss of trust, but has $170 billion in ...

I Came for This New Linux Distro’s Aesthetic Looks and Stayed for its Window Tiling

It's still early in development, but it shows promise with what it offers.

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Milk Thistle and Cancer: Why the Warning Label Exists

Why does milk thistle carry a cancer warning? Learn what the Prop 65 label means, plus estrogen concerns for hormone-sensitive cancers and chemo interactions.

Japan ends tax-free shopping system for foreign tourists, new refund request system now in effect

What to be aware of as Japan tightens the rules for tourists saving 10 percent on their purchases. As of November 1, Japan has ended its tax-free shopping system for foreign tourists. Up until now,...

Movies / TV - September & October 2026

Movies Not a lot of movies during this period, I basically skipped all of September. I am likely to end up with a much lower total number of movies watched this year compared to the last year and I...

Tried Over His Wife’s Death, a Roman Tycoon Kept Two Colossal Trojan War Statues in His Garden — They Could Be Proof of His Guilt

In 1806, the British traveler William Martin Leake was exploring Arcadia, in the Peloponnese peninsula of Greece, convinced he had found the ruins of the ancient city of Thyrea. He was mistaken. Bu...

Euhemerism

I said yesterday that I was going to talk about the writings of Ælfric of Eynsham, and I will, but I want to explain the term Euhemerism first. Euhemerism is an an attempt to shed light on mytholog...

The Case of the Rapidly Disappearing Disk Space - Fatbobman's Swift Weekly #160

My MacBook contains almost nothing but development tools and related data, and I’ve long maintained at least 500–600 GB of free space. For quite some time, I assumed its internal storage was more t...

Nightside Confessions

Autobiography is the ultimate example of the unreliable narrator in purported non-fiction. The only particularly compelling reason to read any autobiography is because you consider the author inter...

How to find out who owns a property in Texas

An appraisal account supplies the starting name. Matching its legal description to a county deed connects that name to the land.

On stretched Kubernetes clusters

During conversations at work, and outside it, Kubernetes high availability comes up. And every time that happens, the idea of stretched clusters comes up. The idea is appealing, since stretching cl...

Weekly Robotics #383

Today in the Weekly Robotics newsletter: gearboxes vs robot hands, an open-source robot library with 450+ robots, vision-language-delta-action models, and more!

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