484 points by sharjeelsayed 8 days ago | 128 comments
The 75 Best Sci-Fi Books of All Time(esquire.com) Since time immemorial, mankind has been looking up at the stars and dreaming, but it was only centuries ago that we started turning those dreams into fiction.
BFI 50 Best Films of 2024(bfi.org.uk) Our round-up of the best movies of the year, as voted by our contributors, finds a dazzling array of cinematic wonders from around the world, from the return of old masters to a rich trove of breakthroughs.
Best Books of the 21st Century(nytimes.com) As voted on by 503 novelists, nonfiction writers, poets, critics and other book lovers — with a little help from the staff of The New York Times Book Review.
List of Lists of Lists(wikipedia.org) This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources.
List of Common Misconceptions(wikipedia.org) This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources. It has been suggested that this article should be split into multiple articles. (discuss) (October 2024)
List of Unsolved Problems in Physics(wikipedia.org) This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources.
I watched 135 time loop movies(reddit.com) Comments are completely subjective, and based on what I enjoyed, which is often weird and obscure stuff. If you want a tl;dr I made some tier list infographics as well.
33 points by thunderbong 193 days ago | 9 comments
Know your Python container types(b-list.org) There are a lot of container types available in the Python standard library, and it can be confusing sometimes to keep track of them all. So since it’s Christmas Eve and time to wrap any last-minute gifts, I’d like to wrap up this “Advent calendar” series with a guide to the most common types of data containers and what kinds of things you might want to wrap in them.