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> You can render the game stereoscopically and see a different view in each eye... then I would call that "real 3d".

That’s exactly what the Virtual Boy does.

Caring about your job is not equal to caring about having a job.

My guess is that the GP is a native German speaker and got confused with the false friend to become ≠ bekommen (to get).

(2022)

There is no Japan Standard Institute but Japanese Industrial Standards (JIS) and Japanese Industrial Standards Commitee (JISC).

Tangentially related, these articles by Maciej Cegłowski:

* The Lunacy of Artemis – https://idlewords.com/2024/5/the_lunacy_of_artemis.htm

* Artemis II Is Not Safe to Fly – https://idlewords.com/2026/03/artemis_ii_is_not_safe_to_fly....

> It was much quicker and easier to get the agar to 90C temperature by putting it in a microwave for 40s at 900W

Agarose gels in molecular biology labs are prepared in a similar way. (Agarose is the main component of agar.)

No. In this case “Arctic Monkey” is just the pseudonym used by the guide writer.

Somewhat related: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-term_experiment

(2002)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letter_to_the_American_People

(2007)

They literally compose and print their letters in Excel.

> You can do horrifying and amazing things with Excel.

A friend of mine writes all of their correspondence in it.

Blog entries, alas, are not.

(2021)

All those publications describe the methodology and modelling process to generate genomes, without testing them experimentally. This article shows that their designed genomes actually work in the wetlab. Your last two links are both preprints.

> Based on my quick reading, the BBC article doesn't bring up a prior publication / release from 2025 called "AI-Designed Phages," https://www.asimov.press/p/ai-phages

That link is a commentary about the preprint of the article mentioned in the BBC article.

After your editing:

> Same team, prior publication / release from 2025 called "AI-Designed Phages," https://www.asimov.press/p/ai-phages

It is the same work, just not published in Science.

The publication: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aec2657

It is paywalled, but this seems to be the corresponding preprint: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.12.675911v1....

> The from-the-hip cameras typically have a waist-level viewfinder

That is the case with twin-lens reflex cameras, for example, which are not commonly used for street photography. What the GP meant was holding an SLR or rangefinder camera at hip level, forgoing the viewfinder completely and shooting blind.

It goes both ways, of course. There are Germans who do not take learning English seriously, and foreigners who stumble because many informal expressions (including jokes) are difficult to express in German since they rely on structures that the language does not have.

Thanks for this comment. I also arrived in Germany into a similar bubble, but shortly thereafter it burst. I was forced to relocate to a backwater shithole (trust me, I’m doing my best to be charitable here) where I had an extremely bad life experience due to the incompetence of my employer, the foreigners’ office, among others. I was able to rebuild my life and career somewhere else within the country, but after what I went through I have no plans to become a German citizen. I’d rather be dead.

Brings to mind Jeff Bridges’ homepage: https://www.jeffbridges.com/

For a bit of context, Party Cannon is a death metal band with this logo: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Party_Cannon#/media/File:Party...

According to the article metadata:

  "datePublished":"2026-07-16T08:18:37+09:00"

The Nintendo 64 Disk Drive (64DD) had the Randnet Browser.

> Mac Micro

Mac Nano, just like iPods!

> Yes, as supplementary information

Still part of the article.

Usually, journals require raw, unmodified data to be deposited as supplementary information.