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Science Fiction titles from Banned Books Week Spotlight List: The Handmaids Tale by Margaret Atwood

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  • Margaret Atwood with a flamethrower is, by far, the best thing I have ever seen.

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  • I've just got to 11kyu. If you're on online-go long enough, it turns out you can advance pretty far just by opponents timing out on games.

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  • Reading these comments, there sure aren't a lot of R programmers out there.

    RStudio for R, Spyder for Python, Emacs for either of the above when I want to be cool.

    • You can have any B-tier superpower you like. What do you choose?

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  • As someone who's spent a lot of time working in a lab, the ability to control static electricity would be a godsend! There's really nothing like spending weeks preparing a new material as a fine powder, carrying it over to the weighing scales, placing a glass sample vial onto the scales, taring it, then a scooping up some of your powder with a spatula, careful not to lose a single particle, then carefully, CAREFULLY carrying the scoop of power to the sample vial -- then seeing the static blast your powder out of the spatula to coat the OUTSIDE of the sample vial, plus the scales, plus your nitrile glove...

    I have trauma.

    • Street in Brussels. Technical pen, 2023.

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  • Thanks! I'm actually not that happy with it to be honest. The windows don't line up, the balcony isn't really anywhere... the more I look at it the more it annoys me. Still, it took a good few hours to draw, so it's staying up!

    • Work in progress: Cowley Road, Oxford.

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  • Thank you!

    • Puddle. Technical pen, 2023.

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  • Thanks!

    • Puddle. Technical pen, 2023.

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  • Thanks! It turns out my happy place is spending endless hours drawing closely spaced parallel lines.

    • Puddle. Technical pen, 2023.

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    • Software engineering for data scientists

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  • This looks really interesting! I'll give it a go. Thanks!

    • Sci-fi books which don't involve too much space travels and massive world builds?

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  • Check out Ted Chiang as well -- his two short story collections (Story of Your Life and Others; Exhalation) are some of the best I've ever read. He wrote the story upon which the film Arrival was based. Lots of things about time, consciousness, free will, humanity, all beautifully done.

    • Software engineering for data scientists

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  • Thanks, I'll have a look!

    • Software engineering for data scientists

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  • Not exactly managing a team -- it's more a question of best practices around pull requests, version control, testing, code reviews, pair programming etc. I'm not interested in management, but I do I want to know what a well managed team ought to be doing!

    • Daddy longlegs

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  • I like that! Oddly, the name "daddy longlegs" applies to craneflies like this in the UK, and to a kind of spider in the US.