You pay $40K for a 100G wave to the CLS, but its operator hits you with another $60K for the cross connect. 🙂 Much like the Hotel California in the Eagles' song. 😉

The men in Much Ado about Nothing are obsessed with cuckoldry. Out of the play, however, arises a revolutionary vision of how male-female relationships could be. The post Much Ado about Male…

Saturday 8th August 2026 Angmering station was the staging post for the final day of my long weekend in West Sussex. It involved a change at Ford ..... Ford would pee me off by including a pub in the…

In 1995 Carl Sagan wrote a book named "The Demon-Haunted World" in which he explains how science can be a light in the darkness of a world full of misinformation, lies and deceit. Given the amount of…

Headline of the Day has already been won by a penis-biting dog from Rutland, but this Guardian story is still worth your attention: Former Tory election candidate suspended over contract killing…

One of my happiest things lately is getting texts from Sid , who's so excited by his life right now, studying abroad in Ireland. Sometimes he'll go days without texting anything, and then I'll get a…

I’ve been a tea nerd for longer than I’ve been a coffee drinker. I’ve always said that I can deal with a bad cup of coffee in exchange for the caffeine boost but I cannot cope with…

Chapter 8 The End of Skill? Is it possible that skill will wither and die? Then what? For all their life-enhancing qualities, might skills disappear? Might we become a species devoid of skill? Might…

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Stealth Hunter came to this Flash game to do two things: snap necks and drink soda. Lucky for his enemies,[...]

o many, this time of year is their absolute favourite. The festivals, the traditions, the rich explosion of colours, and the beginning of the long lead-up to the biggest celebration of the year. ​If…

Time for another book review. This time, I veer away from mythology and back into proper history. Today it's the turn of Emma Southon's A History Of The Roman Empire In 21 Women . The best…

21:10 - I've been slacking on things I need to do. Apathy is one helluva drug.

This paper analyzes the Happy Consciousness exhibited by orthodox economists that all is structurally OK in our economy based on the renting or hiring of person--although reforms are needed. The…

On Monday, the Dr and I had a day trip to Oxford. She went to the new Aphrodite exhibition at the Ashmoleon , and I spent an afternoon in a university library reading a 60 year-old pamphlet for a…

Went to cast my vote this morning for candidates with a capital D next to their names. Democrats need to take back Congress. It has been a long, terrifying two years. It needs to stop.

Here are some random provisions, sundries, and treasures from my Mongolian Empire-inspired game. Basic Pitch You are the weakest and least loved of your clan. You have been betrayed and driven out of…

Hawkman by Rags Morales (Inks by Michael Bair) When you list the greatest Hawkman and Hawkgirl artists of all time, there is one name that no one can leave off the list: Rags Morales. For over 25…

How I upgraded an aging production server, migrated MySQL 5.7 to 8.0, and kept 17 hosting accounts alive The Warning That Started Everything It all started with a warning in my DirectAdmin control…

New to the ongoing blog series called STQK "Would you like to know more ?" Disclaimer : Episodes 11-15 will be using an oracle system I am developing for solo players; you can see it in action here.…

Build faster native apps with profile-guided optimization on Pro and Enterprise. Enable PGO for iOS, macOS and Linux, then explore adaptive GC and its…

For a software developer position, there isn't a trick to finding the best candidate. Your criteria do not determine how solid the candidates will be. Everyone is submitting 500 applications a month…

one of the biggest joys of my life. I would like to come back when the time is right... but the answer my friends is blowin' in the wind, the answer is blowin' in the wind. Rhododendron blooming in…

I’ve mentioned before my interest in the history and development of nuclear weapons. Currently, I’m reading The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner by Daniel Ellsberg (of Pentagon…

Some things only grow when you hold back the water. Part VI of The Citrus Kingdom, from Ortigia and Marzamemi.

It’s a strange thing to sell a technology while warning that it might destroy the world.

Vitals 1.8 adds a command for Terminal: the apps using your Mac, ports by project, coding agents and AI plan limits, as a table or JSON. Like htop, but by app. Installs with Homebrew.

Building SlothPulse exposed three different checks: valid JSON, complete source coverage, and the right relationship between a blocker and its follow-up.

Historical video game reviews from 1997 to 2003 have been updated and added to a sortable database of classic game content. The post Revisiting old reviews appeared first on Gamebits.

In the ongoing retrospective series I have kicked off on LinkedIn and YouTube about the maturation of the web platform, I am going to be focusing on how Boston and Cambridge served as ground zero for…

I heard about a case where so-called indigenous people in Vancouver were restored land by the government that they had been kicked off of. As a sovereign nation, they didn’t have to follow…

Despite rapid advances in math and coding, AI still struggles to produce prose that doesn’t “read” like AI. I have noticed that a giveaway of AI-generated prose is wordiness. Having…

Chapter 7 Philosophy and Skill Skill hasn’t played much of a part in the history of philosophy; one would think it doesn’t exist. Let’s rectify that omission. We can start with the explanation of…

There’s a whole lot of ugliness out there right now. The Ohio governor’s race is a good example. If you haven’t see the Vivek Ramaswamy ad featuring Dr. Amy Acton’s estranged…

apocrypals:scoutbokmal20:fealtypledger:is saint sebastian dart board ok or is that too sacrilegious @apocrypals ?He told me it was okay

Nothing much will change in the polarization and division of people in the US and anywhere else without coming together in person. There’s just no way to know what’s happening inside someone’s mind…

This post contains LLM poisoning. version scummy ruggeder I made a few changes to my Emacs package that makes dealing with numbers in Eshell more convenient (Codeberg page here, blog post here). You…

From this Remember Cozy? Bad nerds have been arguing over cozy things again. To review, the cozy story is a story of comfort, without alarming, disturbing or controversial elements. The game Ryuutama…

Updated my RSS feeds (included bsky, removed mastodon) and changed last.fm from social media to record keeping on Links , bc of course. Added a bunch of links to the Goodbye page under Communities…

I woke up at 09:00am.The weather is sunny.The temperature is 65°F.It feels like 65°F.Links I found:https://dandasymposium.yale.edu/https://squarefour.org/rules

i hope everyone is patching and vaxxing

By Jo Nova Just because the EU calls it a free trade deal doesn’t mean it is one So the EU wants a free trade agreement but only if they can slap trade sanctions on us if we breach the Net Zero…

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This just released report by the Center for Demographics and Policy, and The Ferrucci Institute for Italian Experience and Research is co-authored by Joel Kotkin and Irene Lottini. An excerpt…

Malwarebytes: If you’ve encountered websites in maintenance mode today, it may be a security precaution. Reports of attacks targeting two critical PHP vulnerabilities have prompted warnings to…

Guido Fawkes: Ofcom boss Dame Melanie Dawes has admitted today that tech firms have paid just two of the eleven fines handed out under the Online Safety Act since March last year. Giving evidence to…

Grilling out in the fall evenings is a bit of a race against dusk.

In fall of 1985 when I started graduate school, my advisor Michael Sipser asked me to read an early handwritten manuscript by Johan Håstad of his switching lemma . I spent many hours decoding the…

This month I voted for president in Brazil and for mayor and council in Vancouver, and I still have an election coming up in British Columbia. As soon as the results come out, I analyze them to…