'The Beach at Hastings.' (c1930s) A technically gifted artist Philip Naviasky established his reputation in his native Yorkshire without exhibiting much in London thanks to a body of enlightened patrons, notably Sir Michael Sadler, a former Vice-Chancellor of Leeds University.

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Do you guys remember when Linus denied C++ because it's used by "substandard programmers" and "it's much much easier to generate a total and utter crap with it"?

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Reminder that GPUs can do software rendering (and can do it much faster than CPUs). Just don't use the fixed-function parts! (Not to pick on the the author of this post, and I always appreciate a Quake mention.) www.jamesfmackenzie.com/2026/10/13/i...

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The federal investigation into Rep. Ilhan Omar aims to build a case to strip her of her U.S. citizenship and ultimately deport her, according to U.S. officials and others familiar with the probe on.wsj.com/4zBOcZ9

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The announcement page is bragging about how much faster the new one is, but this presumably isn't because the new has clever human or AI coding, it's because the old launcher used Unreal Engine 4, basically the least fit-for-purpose software codebase used for any project ever.

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