To succeed in this racket one has to have at least one favorable genetic trait or predisposition. I have none of those. I am prone to an adult ADHD-like conditions, have very narrow attention window…

A terrific book. I've been carrying this around on my kindle unread for 10 years. Beautifully written, superb characters, exciting story. Don't wait 10 years to read it like I did.

As I sat down to read board papers on Saturday night, I had a quick scan of the news headlines and the first article I came to was about a young police officer who was critically injured in the…

Photo by Kym MacKinnon on Unsplash The site has had one look since I built it. Warm off-white, near-black text, a single blue. I liked it when I launched it. I still like it today. But I am often…

ColecoJam is a Colecovision emulator running on the Adafruit Fruit Jam. The ColecoVision was a second-generation home video game console released by Coleco Industries in 1982. It became one of the…

Welcome to Trans Tuesday! We fight and we struggle to do the work to accept... The post THE IMPERFECT TRANS ALLEGORY OF KPOP DEMON HUNTERS, part 3 first appeared on Tilly's Trans Tuesdays.

I've searched with little success for ideas about how we can handle AI so that it benefits rather than harms society. Here is a suggestion from Jaron Lanier. It was published by the New Yorker in…

Full transcript Page 1 Panel 1: A nerdy woman, jan Takata, is walking down a pathway. Panel 2: jan Takata: "n..." Panel 3: A second, more attractive, woman, named jan Sakulapa, speaks to jan Takata,…

An HOA title doesn’t create a leader. Character does. If you’ve lived in an HOA long enough, you quickly learn that there is a tremendous difference between someone who serves in a leadership…

I was almost a vtuber. I figure if I'm going to publicly degrade myself, I may as well get that out of the way early. The world of vtubing is a loaded subject, so strap yourselves in because this is…

I'm gonna tell a story. It's not a story where I'm the hero and it's not a story where someone else is the villain. It is, however, a story about how bad it can feel to carry something for a long…

<Aside label="Note" It's only an agent if it comes from the region of San Francisco in California, otherwise it's sparkling AI ... 🤮 </Aside Like many people, AI is now a significant part of my job…

One of my long-term goals is to remove self-doubt from my life. I know. A big goal that I'm sure that a lot of people can sympathize with, but little know exactly how to do it. Do I know how to go…

Bibio &#038; Dorian Concept &#8211; &#8220;Shame&#8221; Jason Calhoun &#8211; &#8220;what we deserve&#8221; Eric Angelo Bessel &#8211; &#8220;Pathways&#8221; The post Visual Velcro 58 first appeared…

It's been a while oops \ castle idler Half incremental/idler, half tower defense game It was an alright game. There's a bit of strategic thinking with the unit placement, but I felt like the two…

The southwestern U.S. after the Civil War. White settlers are encroaching on Indian lands in the Mojave and Sonoran deserts in search of gold and silver. Mexican bandits from the south are a constant…

As with any potential toxic exposure, the dose and duration of exposure of asbestos matter. And these factors matter varyingly in connection to specific outcomes of interest. By 1930, virtually…

As I mentioned in my recent post, I&rsquo;ve turned a corner with AI. Maybe not the corner, but my perspective has certainly changed. I used to see AI mostly as a tool to do basic Q&amp;A and help me…

I may not have the guts to share this, but I now have an…inconvenient medical condition. At first it was a “watch and wait” issue, but now it's a “need to see a doctor” one. Thankfully it's not…

The Philips CDI 310 EMC/EMI Testing Unit is a transportable CD-i player with an integrated floppy disk drive, showing multiple signs of being a pre-production unit built for EMC/EMI…

1. Have a setting, as to write the rules around it. Do not be as lame as to make a generic ruleset and then put a setting over it. 2. Evoke the setting. Make it as tangible as possible through…

A mystery! While this thing has the appearance and size of a fish decoy, it’s metal of some sort with a circular copper “medal” or sign on the side. A gun turrent atop! It even has fins and a lead…

Another book I've read.

I spend a fair bit of my life reviewing code. Even if you discount the increase in code review that comes from increased usage of the output from Large Language Models, I'm still doing a lot of code…

I aim to walk at least 5 kilometres a day without my earbuds in to allow myself to be alone with my thoughts and just listen to nature. But being alone with my thoughts is a terrifying experience so…

Small one today. No big announcement, no build I've been sitting on for weeks, just a thing that happened in the homelab that I want written down somewhere because it made me stupidly happy for about…

You&apos;ve worked your heart out building your startup. You&#x2019;ve convinced the smartest investors to pour millions into your vision. You&#x2019;ve recruited a dedicated, world-class team. Your…

I run a Claude &#8220;chat&#8221; project I mostly use from the Claude mobile app, and it needs to keep certain files up to date. I&#8217;d already run into this same problem with mail and calendar,…

Fun story today about that time I tried to make my company's program comply with the Vista requirements. Spoiler alert: it's literally not possible to comply with Vista requirements. At the time I…

We still don&#8217;t have a decision on whether the Scottish judicial review of Palestine Action can proceed. Lord Young is thinking about it. Last Thursday&#8217;s hearing went about as well as it…

A few days after posting Getting lethal with things , I did follow my own advice. I had written Getting lethal after a petty bank transfer of 186€ from my account with online bank A to my account…

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We can see several mountains from our backyard deck, and the highest one is Table Mountain, 10,223 feet sea level. It&apos;s the highest point in the Highland Mountains, and also the highest point in…

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📓 have survived work, barely. 💤 took 3 very much needed naps. I’ve been having some weird anxiety dreams and nightmares this last week; it means interrupted sleep at night and having to catch up…

A gap between data and question

Last Friday I ran a session of Frydheld sector that was just kind of frustrating and didn't really match the expectations I have for myself. It's been some time since the session so I wanted to write…

Some security issues, Steam as a monopoly, and some blog posts.

I started writing a piece about &quot;5 lukewarm programming takes&quot;, but I started to really hone in on this particular topic, and realized it might in fact be a hot take, and not belong in my…

A method in Go is a function attached to a type. A generic method is a method that declares its own type parameters, allowing it to work with types that are not fixed by its receiver. Consider a…

Mandla J. Radebe, The Lost Prince of the ANC: The Life and Times of Jabulani Nobleman &#8216;Mzala&#8217; Nxumalo, 1955-1991 (Johannesburg: [&#8230;]

Coalplating

18 trains. 100 hours and 9 minutes. If it all goes to plan for the trip from Kemijärvi to Lagos. But what happens if it doesn&#8217;t go to plan and something doesn&#8217;t work? Re-plan and…

Rust "Crate" Libraries compromised with malicious code. Unknown number of programs / systems security compromised as almost all Rust programs pull in some "crates". Continue reading &#8594;

My wife and I switched from Facebook Messenger and RCS to Signal almost a year ago for all our messaging needs. We have no plans to stop using Signal , but to be honest, Signal kind of sucks as a…

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The means used by people who can't code to accrue their cognitive debt and their impostor feeling. The latest means used by companies to accrue technical debt and to create online popup stores.

Jude 1:20 But ye, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost, Jude 1:21 Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto…