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And also a board game that I'm looking forward to coming in Fall 2026 by Liz Davidson and David Thompson (art by Ian O'Toole): https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/388558/night-witches

My fish had a highlight. It looked like rays of light emanating from the fish

It's definitely not the hobby of choice for young boys any more, but it feels like it is having a golden age of kit quality aiming at an older audience with disposal income. Manufacturers like Tamiya, and also Eduard or Meng (those are my favs anyway) are producing extremely high quality kits.

There is always consternation amongst modelers about where the next generation will come from, but the Gundam/Gunpla scene is supposedly very large in Japan and growing in the West.

I’ve found scale modeling to be a very rewarding (and screen-free) hobby since Covid times, and I’ve built more Tamiya kits than any other manufacturer.

I’ve heard that Mr Tamiya was very hands-on in choosing their topics for kits so it will be interesting to see how things change. But what a company he built!

Edit: here is the official Tamiya announcement https://www.tamiya.com/english/pressrelease/20250722/index.h...

If I'm feeling grumpy I don't respond, but if I have some patience left in the tank I'll use, "Hi, what's up?" which usually short-circuits the salutations.

I bought version 10 recently enough that I was emailed this week with a free upgrade to version 11 which I appreciated!

I mainly only use it for text expansion, but it has served me well for years.

I'd start with gastroenterologists. I've started having some GI issues recently so I've been seeing one, but there was a 4+ week wait time to see anyone in my area.

I started an exercise habit on the Concept2 rower (which I already had but wasn’t using).

The big factors for me were:

- accountability/competitiveness with a friend where we texted after each row

- a plan to follow. Namely https://thepeteplan.wordpress.com/beginner-training/

I grew up in the UK so never had anything other than fire drills, but I’m in the US now it’s pretty sad when your kindergartner tells you they had to pretend there was a lion in the corridor and the teacher locked the door and asked them to hide in the corner of the classroom.

I really like doing this kind of search on Twitter and seeing what comes up.

One of my favs is searching “stunning x” to see the sad responses to attractive people posting selfies (NSFW if you choose to do it)

I searched for “SIP” as RFC3261 is my favorite, but there were hundreds of results in reverse numerical order, so RFC3261 which defines SIP was right at the bottom.

Maybe just reversing the result order would give more useful results?

I just saw last night that one of the plastic modeling/hobby shop owners I follow on YouTube had a container on board: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAR7UZ_6L3o

His comments about Matthew Yglesias ("Yglesias, turn off the TV! Write more books instead! Heck, write more tweets, if you prefer!") made me think of Neil Gaiman's blog post [1] about George RR Martin:

George R.R. Martin is not your bitch.

This is a useful thing to know, perhaps a useful thing to point out when you find yourself thinking that possibly George is, indeed, your bitch, and should be out there typing what you want to read right now.

People are not machines. Writers and artists aren't machines.

You're complaining about George doing other things than writing the books you want to read as if your buying the first book in the series was a contract with him: that you would pay over your ten dollars, and George for his part would spend every waking hour until the series was done, writing the rest of the books for you.

[1] https://journal.neilgaiman.com/2009/05/entitlement-issues.ht...

The article has multiple pages. You can find the conclusion here: https://www.anandtech.com/show/16252/mac-mini-apple-m1-teste...

They are separate items in the horizontal list: https://wiki.js.org/img/linux.3297c180.svg https://wiki.js.org/img/macos.96f6d85a.svg

O'Reilly-published books often have an animal on the cover. I don't think they are picked for relevance to the topic (even most of the Python books don't have pythons!)

https://www.oreilly.com/content/a-short-history-of-the-oreil...

I've just got back from doing an HEB shop about 10 minutes ago, our first shop since the crisis full hit the USA. It was surprisingly pleasant!

There was a short queue to get in (~5 people stood 6 feet apart), but once inside there were very few customers compared to any other time I've been in the store. I got everything that was on my shopping list.

Of the things that I saw labelled as limited to a certain number per transaction, toilet paper was the only one that was completely out of stock (I didn't check hand sanitizer, but assume it was too). I got eggs, milk etc with no problems.

I spoke to the cashier and they said toilet paper sells out by 10am most days.

I first heard about this on the Omnibus Project podcast (Ken Jennings & John Roderick).

Here's the link if anyone would like to listen to some light-hearted discussion on the topic: https://www.omnibusproject.com/podcasts/the-d-day-crosswords...

I recently heard a segment on the radio which discussed suicide, and it ended with the host giving the common "If you are in crisis, then resources are available..." statement.

The contact details were a 10-digit phone number which wasn't easy to remember, or to text a 5-digit number to a different 5-digit number. The specifics went in one ear and out the other. I was driving at the time, but I would have struggled to remember them long enough to find a pen if I was at home!

If instead, it was to call or text 988, then that would have been much more memorable! I hope this saves lives!

Same here, it was the only way we could get my daughter (now 3 years old) to go to sleep. I spent many a long evening lying on the floor (so she couldn't see me over the edge), rocking it with my foot.

Ours had mesh sides which I think would allow breathing even if the baby managed to roll, so I'm not 100% what the dangerous scenario that triggered the recall could be.

I have a 3yo and it definitely does feel like a shame on Christmas and birthdays to make her put down something exciting she's just received to open another present.

Part of the problem is that my extended family are all overseas, and they want to see picture messages of her with the gifts they sent! They are understandably sad to missing out on these events themselves, so use gifts as a way to show their love.

My wife and I end up figuring out who would be least offended and putting those gifts aside for the next day. We have to make sure we don't forget though! We recently found some books on top of the fridge that were hastily hidden on Christmas day!

Too late to edit my original comment but this may work better: https://play.google.com/store/apps/developer?id=Apple+Inc%2E

Not quite: https://play.google.com/store/apps/developer?id=Apple+Inc.

Real money for cosmetic items that give no advantage in-game is the only IAP/freemium model that I will support. I’ve bought Fortnite skins, and likewise on Starcraft II.

Other than being a little pricey, I don’t see any problem with Epic’s monetization strategy with Fortnite.

Relevant Numberphile on generating prime pictures: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQQ8IiTWHhg

Yes, custom games between friends are already free with the Starter Edition. This latest announcement will add the first campaign, multiplayer ladder, and much of the co-op mode to the selection of free modes.

SC2 does not support LAN games so it’s all via Battle.net

I've set it up to monitor an "out-of-stock" string on a product I'd like to buy, but is going to be hard to get in the run up to Christmas, so I guess that's one.

If I was very keen, I guess I might pay a little to check more often than daily (although I haven't done that in this case).

This Reddit thread also has an interesting analysis of slow PS4 downloads: https://www.reddit.com/r/PS4/comments/522ttn/ps4_downloads_a...

Nice to see another St Andrews person on HN - I took that course too! I only wrote two essays during my four year degree, one for this class! (I wrote about Alexander Aitken, a gifted mental arithmetician)

The game I play most is Starcraft 2.

It's really hard to get "good" (I've played on and off for 2-3 years and still don't feel competent!) but the matchmaking is good enough that you win about 50% of games.

I like that it's 1v1, so when you win or lose, it's usually completely your own doing.

I also like that you pay once and are on a level playing field with everyone else. All of the in-game purchases are purely cosmetic. I played Hearthstone for quite a while but eventually totaled up the amount I spent on it and promptly quit!