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4k for me since my primary use case is programming, and I want to be able to get a lot of sharply-rendered text on the screen at once. I managed to get a 2160 ultrawide that does 72 Hz at least. But I do miss 120 Hz.

From the paper,

Launching a dart via an atlatl ‘normally’ requires that force is applied by hand to the short arm of a lever, moving the dart at the long arm of the lever [...] a downward launch of an atlatl dart may partially hinder or entirely deactivate the biomechanics required for the atlatl to work optimally. [...] [Additionally] the atlatl dart’s light weight may result in it more easily rotating in mid-air such that it is no longer perpendicular to the ground.

My guess is that the dart falls out of the launcher fast enough to miss some of the push from the launcher.

No one is saying mountains aren't real - that's an example to show the absurdity of denying facts. The person referenced is a "creationist", and probably doesn't reference one specific person. The biggest thing with creationists is denying evolution.

For TNG I'd suggest Identity Crisis. That one freaked me out more than any Trek I can recall.

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I'd rather listen to Raditude than Pinkerton...

I lived in Grenada for a couple of years. It's a chill, safe place. I had my family there and we always felt safe, as long as we kept an eye out for speeding buses when crossing the street. It certainly checks the boxes you specified. Night life is limited. I'm planning to go back for a vacation in February.

As I recall there is a time of year that gets very windy. I think that's in winter, but my memory is fuzzy. The internet says February is the windiest, and that matches some of my memories. In any case it's always warm. I wouldn't worry about rain. That's tapered off by December. If it does rain it's a warm rain, and it's likely to come in short showers so I don't think you'd be stuck inside all day.

If you want to be in walking distance to amenities I'd recommend staying near Grand Anse. You can also get public buses there. (They are actually vans.) There are resorts close to the airport, but in those places you'd be dependent on taxis to get away from the resort - which might be fine if you want to be somewhere quieter.

It looks like there is a playlist here: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-cwa6ZvflaDvviwm8JqO6hZ9W-fhG48c&si=SLCAv2EqJ_jRC9fj

When I researched this previously I concluded that there are two very good options for regular backups: Borg and Restic. These are especially efficient at backing up a diff of what has changed since the last backup. So you get snapshots of your filesystem state at each backup point without using a huge amount of space. You can mount any snapshot as a virtual directory. After the initial backup, incremental backups take a minute or two.

I use Borg, and I back up to cloud storage on Borgbase. I use Vorta as a GUI for Borg. I have Vorta start automatically when I start my window manager, and I have it set up for daily backups. I set up the same thing on my kid's computer.

I back up my home directory. I have some excluded directories like ~/.cache, and Steam's data directory. I use Baobab to find large directories that I don't want backed up.

I use the "exclude caches" option in the Borg "create archive" settings. That automatically excludes Rust target/ directories because they follow the Cache Directory Tagging Specification. Not all programming languages' tooling follows that spec so I also use directory name pattern excludes. For example I have an exclude pattern for .*/node_modules/.*

I use NixOS, and I keep my system config in a git repo so I don't need backups for anything outside my home directory.

What I'm hearing is shepherds' pie, but spherical

According to the theory of quantum immortality, everyone gets their own main-character timeline.

I made a rendering of a lighthouse on the Dark Ocean in 3D Studio Max. Or I guess it would be better called a darkhouse. Unfortunately that image is lost to time.