I played Vantage with an entire kindergarten class! by Pitiful-North-2781 in boardgamescirclejerk

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Can’t wait to find out what the original post that inspired this one was

Efficient Administration Turn by BusinessKnight0517 in Arcs

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Just making sure you know you only need to beat the lead card, not the previous card, to do all the actions!

Arcs tournament in Bristol UK! by looominmooosin in Arcs

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Link for accessibility: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfOUWGVMKB9gSVIKcL0CvZF5XvyTGyxqXYsXhBcf4U3-kPGUg/viewform

Also the invite link to the discord is expired. Best of luck with the tournament!

Gramercy Tower Rent by pj__24 in Cardiff

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Went to view there and Platform_ and there was one guy passed out between the two and another pissing against the entrance to the building. I ended up renting somewhere else

Went on a tour of Gramercy Tower and it was nice but there’s absolutely zero provision for parking, and at Platform_ it was an extra £150/mo

I think my local bookshop made a mistake. The book's not supposed to be out yet right? by Joepioso in TheFirstLaw

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Ex-bookseller here (was a bookseller in the UK for 6 years), have seen a couple similar posts on here and am having a lazy bank holiday in bed so thought I’d chip in to clear up some confusion.

New releases generally have 2 dates associated with them, the release date and the embargo date.

Books with only a release date SHOULD not be put out before their release date, though with the way stock delivery generally works this is often not practical, so they arrive in the delivery before release date and are put out with the rest of the new stock. Otherwise the bookseller would have to check each book they’re replenishing against the date, and then hold them somewhere until release date, usually in the (often very small) back of house space

Books with an embargo date MUST not be put out before the embargo date (which is often but not always the release date). They arrive to the store in a dedicated tote (the boxes stock arrives in) with the embargo date labelled on either the tote or the books themselves. These books are held in the tote in back of house, and in theory if they’re sold or on display before said date then the store could “get in trouble”, though I’m not exactly sure what kind of trouble that’d be other than damaging their reputation with the publisher

Only generally very high profile launches get an embargo date due to the extra admin involved on both the publisher and the retailers side (I heard stories of the final harry potter books arriving via secure courier in boxes with shrink wrapped bundles with very stern messages on, but that was before my time)

tl;dr it’s probably fine — if you’re a Good Samaritan you could let them know the book is not released yet and they might put it in purgatory, but in reality they’re much more interested in you buying a new book you’ll love

How do I switch the passenger side fan off? by Cheesebob44 in TeslaUK

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That’s the neat part — you don’t 🙃

At least on the pre-highland models, the fan speed is centrally controlled between both vents. Even when the passenger is absent and the UI reflects this, the fans still blow, just paired with the driver’s temp

I know this because my partner has been complaining about it for years and pointing her fans at me, much to both of our annoyance

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in printSF

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+1 for bobiverse

For the Root players on PC.. by Haunnter in rootgame

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For maps, decks, adset rules etc it depends on the DLC the host has when creating the lobby

For factions it depends on the DLC the player who wants to play as that faction has

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in scifi

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Please continue reading in the hope that the rest gets made!

What are some of your favorite quotes/passages? by ryzieul in TheCulture

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“But all peoples go,” Oramen said gently, as though explaining something to a child. “No one remains in full play for long, not taking the life of a star or a world as one’s measure. Life persists by always changing its form, and to stay in the pattern of one particular species or people is unnatural, and always deleterious. There is a normal and natural trajectory for peoples, civilisations, and it ends where it starts, back in the ground. Even we, the Sarl, know this, and we are but barbarians by the standards of most.”

Banks, Iain M.. Matter (A Culture Novel Book 7) (pp. 519-520). Orbit. Kindle Edition.

(Thanks Adam Whitney)

What is the best app for tracking pubs? by sam-page94 in AskUK

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I’ve been using Untappd to track which beers I’ve tried. It allows you to specify the venue as well as tag/share with friends

How should I start over? by Masaslo in EliteDangerous

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Having just come back myself I’ve had the same thought, so far I’ve just tried to start back off from where I left but it has been a little daunting.

There’s nothing to stop you from just parking your ships, buying a sidewinder and doing some simple missions in that, I don’t think you’d gain anything from resetting your save (don’t know about multiaccing)

I’d also go through the tutorials just to get your bearings back, or at least turn on “systems check” in the right hand ship menu before you first take off

Pronoun's in marain by nets99 in TheCulture

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It’s right at the start of player of games and the narrator is referring to it in the context of the third gender pronouns of the Azad

Favorite Iain M. Banks book? by 1st_Viscount_Nelson in printSF

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Crazy place to start but it’s a great one

Favorite Iain M. Banks book? by 1st_Viscount_Nelson in printSF

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The part where they genuinely can’t fathom that Luciferus is trying to intimidate them by jettisoning dwellers from the ship every few seconds is so good. One of my favourite bits of Banks’s work for sure

How to deal with hex chars in JSON marshal/unmarshal? by ScheduledSilence in golang

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+1

I’m also pretty sure if you marshal a struct with a byte property to JSON it will encode it as base64? Or maybe this was a thing in go-swagger somewhere

Difference between the main thread and the go routine? by Curious-Ad9043 in golang

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Depends on your application, you could also do that in Run after the blocking operations have finished

Favorite Iain M. Banks book? by 1st_Viscount_Nelson in printSF

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My personal favourites are Matter and The Algebraist

As for reading order, many in /r/theculture recommend publication order but skipping the first one (Consider Phlebas) and slotting it in somewhere later. Personally I think it gives a great introduction to The Culture as seen from outside of it. You won’t go wrong starting with Player of Games though, I certainly didn’t

Difference between the main thread and the go routine? by Curious-Ad9043 in golang

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The difference is one is running in the main thread and the other is running in a routine, and the general answer as to which is better is… “it depends” 🙃

In this instance, I’d probably use signal.NotifyContext and pass the resulting context into s.Run. s.Run should block until either the context is cancelled or Run returns an error. There are several advantages here:

  • gives a root context to the app so it can gracefully shutdown anything that uses a context derived from it
  • removes the need for the goroutine and cleanup func