Eh, maybe? It’s part of the fantasy-world-is-real trope. A spiritual successor to Narnia, but with adult characters. Or a predecessor to something like The Magicians. If you like these sorts of books, where the real world is part of the setting, then it may appeal. It’s almost Isekai.

Honestly though, I’ve forgotten most of it. It’s a “read once” book.

Read “Fred the Vampire Accountant” instead ;)

Hey now, I actually loved the back third of that book ;)

Cat doesn’t do ebooks ;)

Create a TV Tropes page for it and it’ll live forever as Canadian Warehouse Sci-Fi.

Could sort of just go through this list and see what fits haha. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_science_fiction_TV_and_radio_shows_produced_in_Canada#Live_action_science_fiction_television_drama_series

Cleopatra 2525 is just something

Funny story.

Two decades years ago, when I first started working in arctic exploration, we were limited to how much weight we could take with us to our exploration camps. Most of us would decided on a couple of books to bring with us. But I didn’t want to bring books I wouldn’t like, because then I’ve wasted my weight allowance. So I brought that gold-coloured LotR copy with me and read it over and over, year over year. Probably read it at least once a summer for seven consecutive years. Sometimes in environments even more desolate than Mordor. Imagine reading it here.

Later, I got a kindle and the weight problem sort of went away.

I’ve watched about half of that list. Well, when I run out of Grand Star episodes, I guess I have more warehouses to explore then haha.

To contrast this, see Vancouver sci fi, like the X Files, SG1, Smallville, The 100, Dark Angel, BSG, etc…

Or Halifax with… Lexx ;)

I really loved things like Eros station docks in The Expanse. So yeah it fits this vibe haha. :)

Forward slash doesn’t throw a mental syntax error? ;)

What is the plural of mail? ;)

https://numerical.recipes/

The current version is in C++

But if you check the link above, the older C and Fortran editions are free to read. This is the gold standard for numerical algorithms and scientific computing, without getting into things like GPUs and such.

Exactly

That’s a good idea. Better than my other ideas. Cereal box full of cereal and the modem.

For a moment I considered putting in a bucket with resin and letting it solidify, then removing the bucket and just shipping them a modem encased in resin. But they’d probably charge me for the modem they’re just going to send to the landfill anyway. Maybe I should do that and turn it into a modem bowl on the lathe…

Electron for physics apps? Yuck! that’s basically just web dev with local hosting. Like, try six million datapoints and plotting them in electron.

Making a web app is a mistake 9 times out of 10, particularly when dealing with larger datasets. Because you’re in physics, you probably want to skills you’re learning to be transferable into physics and data science in general.

I recommend starting with python (if you know it already, awesome), then checking out pyqtgraph – there’s a bunch of demo apps that come with the package and you can use those as launch points. This will be your gateway into pyqt/pyside and legit desktop application development. Later, if you learn C++, you can transition into Qt (and still use all the power of the toolkit and the skills are transferable), or into raw C++ which is amazing for numerical computing.

Well, you kind of can actually. It just replaces KWin

Does links count? ;)

links --gui

Or old school Konqueror.

I use Firefox on my phone, and Chrome on my work computer.

This sounds like the sort of infrastructure project the Linux Foundation should be supporting.

I don’t think fishing was the activity that the game was missing. But sure, why not haha 😂

No problem. We will solve our housing crisis by building everything out of concrete then – an even higher emitter.