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The original article is https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2026/03/metropolitan-museum-o... Not sure why that is not linked, instead we have an AI generated SEO spam page.

OpenCulture's been around for a long time and has been a pretty good aggregator for interesting things in art and culture.

You have no basis to claim that this is AI generated content

For what it's worth I thought the modal dialog on the original was worse than the pop-over ad on the copy.

Article explains how quick and easy it is to fire the missiles, with no information to identify friend from foe.

Then it jumps to incredulity that it could happen 3 times.

I don't know why it's so hard to imagine someone pulling a trigger 3 times.


The first could have been a mistake. It happening three times is crazy because ground control should have been in the pilots ear the entire time trying to de-conflict.

I wouldn't be surprised if the Kuwaiti Air Force switches to ground controlled intercept only after this.


It has a step counter in it that gives you loyalty points. So people are walking around all day with the app running to get a free pair of shoes.

Space needs maritime salvage law. If China could salvage it, then the US would have a reason to service it. Science was never enough; its always been about geopolitics.


"Almost no CS program teaches proper version control"

This is just false. In the UK, you would learn version control in the first week, then submit all work through version control for the whole course.

I find it hard to believe that Americans just don't use version control at school. It doesn't make any sense.


> It doesn't make any sense.

Exactly. But that is sadly the state of things.


It's not just Hetzner cloud; got an email about increase prices on my dedicated server.


the answer given in the article is "sustained exposure, interaction, feedback, and social use over many months or years"


Hmm yeah I guess it could be that they see this sound byte (quoting one scientist's opinion, not a study's results) as having answered the question. It's not reported to be the best way though, just what "Achieving fluency in the real world requires" (any at all?)

The article speaks of so much research but, if this is indeed the 'answer', uses nothing of it in answering the question. Could have just put that sound byte up top and saved themselves and us the further trouble...

Also, what's feedback even supposed to mean? Like Anki? Like having a speaker correct your grammar from the get-go as you speak, or do you speak a bunch first and learn by stumbling and do they correct major mistakes at first only? There's a million ways to fill meaning into these words. Sustained exposure is obvious, but none of the other words are any guide


Thank you!


"In the end, the console wars of the late 1990s were won by Nintendo"

The facts/numbers do not match the author's conclusion. Playstation won, even if it did not in the author's memory.


N64 vs PS1 no contest. But I don’t think they misspoke (even if the author didn’t really mention this explicitly in the article)

The Gameboy (plus color and pocket) outsold the PS1, and was more of a phenomenon. Also, the 90s saw the rise of Pokémon, which is the highest grossing media franchise of all time.


There was no disputing it. Sony won the 5th and 6th.


Much of this not relevant to how modern games work. It is talking about DirectX 9/10, both 20+ year old APIs that are not used anymore.


It sounds like religion; it only works if people believe in it.


Maybe Reformation religions require belief, but the paganism was a set of rituals known to work (by virtue of having worked before), sort of a like a spiritual experimental science. Belief was not required.

Religions don't necessarily work because people believe in it, either. There are a number of religious sects that started with end of the world prophecies.

I think that religions work the opposite way: people believe in them because they work. Since the purpose of religion is generally to explain the nature of reality and how to flourish in it, it needs to work for you. If it doesn't, you either just go through the motions, or quit and find a different religion (or swear off religion, which is sort of the same thing).


Reminds me of Julius Caesar describing the druids. Part of his political career meant precisely performing important orthopraxy. He probably didn’t meet a druid, but amazingly described them playing the same role he did as Pontifex Maximus.

The orthopraxy requiring those precision rituals, take Rome and Greece, had little or maybe no mandatory beliefs. City-state-sized gods in Mesopotamia probably functioned the same way. Traditions still have precise orthopraxy today. But we talk about differences in belief whereas Caesar doesn’t even acknowledge any.


Would you mind expanding on the scientific-ness of paganism? That sounds really interesting!


Charitable read, would suggest slight touch of tongue in a cheek.

A bit of spelling it out

Point-1. People just interpreted that paganism works.

E.g. Somebody made offering to gods, and year later won a war - proof.

Point-2 paganism had this transactional notion with gods giving and taking based on your offerings.

While christianity on the other hand does not promise anything good in this life (the only promise being: bear all the bad things in this life, you will be rewarded in the afterlife), so there can’t be proof.


Or like currency.


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