Interesting Links for 23-05-2025
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andrewducker- 1. Why are Scotland's councils so short of cash when tax is going up?
- (tags:scotland tax )
- 2. Greenland Signs Lucrative Minerals Deal with Europe in Blow to Trump
- (tags:Europe USA materials Greenland trade )
- 3. How I Beat NES Mario in 0.000005 Seconds (the nerdiest video I have ever watched. If you've seen something nerdier then do let me know)
- (tags:video games programming technology mario )
- 4. Trump's image of dead 'white farmers' came from Reuters footage in Congo, not South Africa
- (tags:USA politics Africa southafrica )
- 5. Programmers spend 5% of their time editing code, the rest is mostly understanding it/the issue they're trying to solve..
- (tags:programming research )
- 6. Which word made you old? (Mine was GOAT)
- (tags:language age change comic )
- 7. Explaining "what a species is" turns out to be very very tricky
- (tags:video ontology life )
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Date: 2025-05-23 12:21 pm (UTC)For about the last 30 years, I have played it (and/or the unix implementation xdemineur) without using the flags, so my scores are much lower.
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Date: 2025-05-23 01:34 pm (UTC)I also played it without flags. I found it both easier and more fun this way, plus it was neat seeing all the flags suddenly appearing when I won the game.