Genuinely a good whodunit in a space opera setting.
The procedure changes for the following two books (I’m on 3 of 6, so I can’t yet speak on the back half), but the overall theme of mystery twists revealed throughout the plot leading into the climax seems to hold.
That must be the compound they use to launch the expeditions to the Sun. I want to say it was Venus, but Mercury would be closer.
I’m reading the third book, The Uplift War, right now. Wild settings, all three.
That depends entirely on the specific application you are using, but I can’t remember ever coming across a messenger that did not disappear the dots if nothing has been typed in the past several moments.
Probably referencing this or something similar: https://www.reddit.com/r/Windows11/comments/1ctuz4w/the_recommended_section_in_start_menu_is_actually/
Wiser than Lembot, who asked.
That is, unfortunately, beyond my power.
“Counter-podcast podcast” is a hell of a mood
There was also Lilo & Stitch that has that whole sequence that needed to be redrawn with a spaceship-over-rural theme instead of a plane-over-urban theme.
He’s giving the people what they want.
Quicksilver is the same as mercury though
Amazing! That’s exactly it!
I would be confident just based on the summary, but I remember that minigame where you pilot the boat in the harbor.
Surely that will never become anachronistic.
Was this before actual hard disk drives became popular?
I remember as a child one of my friends has a very old computer, even for the nineties. All of the programs had to be loaded on with 3.5" floppy disks each time we wanted to run them. There was a cargo ship management game that we messed with that I was too young to understand. I was really interested in “ballast” as cargo because it was zero cost; no wonder I didn’t make any money.
If I stand on one side of a magic portal and there is a Nazi on the other side of the portal, that Nazi is in punching distance. Technology allows transmission of voices at the speed of light. Don’t be pedantic.
I’m still using Windows 11 just from inertia, but I’ve been putting my kids on Linux Mint and Bazzite depending.
I don’t think I can get away from Windows, as a professional .NET developer, but I won’t likely have more than the one Windows laptop at this point. My entire home lab and home infra is Linux of one variety or another. If we count VMs, then I overwhelmingly using Debian.
I mean, it’s labelled and everything. How silly of me.
That can’t even be the plumbing access because the fixture is on the other side of the tub. Is it some weird storage-maxxing cabinet?
I found this reference to some author origin more than a century old: https://ingeb.org/Lieder/thenight.html
Edit: I misread the heading. J. Mark Sugars is a contemporary source who put together this representative example of a century-old joke.
Each book has a compartmentalized story that concludes. Book 2 occurs a good number of decades after Book 1. Book 3 occurs at more-or-less the same time as Book 2, but elsewhere.
There are 3 more books I haven’t started, but so far I haven’t even had a character repeat across books: very disconnected.