Some have said that it was fre and water which were initially responsible for bringing men together into communities, but we, considering how useful, even indispensable, a roof and walls are for men,…

this is about saving harddisk space, by reeconding videos (basically zipping videos to take up less space) takes a lot of CPU power… GPUs are way efficienter at this. no one would have guessed…

Replacing God With Followers Leo Braudy describes in *The Frenzy of Renown* something much older than Instagram. People want to be seen. Alexander the Great did not need followers. He had…

Blog post: https://www.davidrevoy.com/article1169/xppen-artist-12-3rd-review-on-gnulinux

What you see: A wrinkly mango. What it is: A mango that’s probably both overripe and dehydrated. Eat or toss: Peel, give it a taste and eat if it tastes good! Why do mangos get wrinkly and shriveled?…

Code quality and vibe coding.

Built on a 2 nanometer technology node, the processor’s design will contain 11 high-performance co... Continue reading →

Many of us learned early to care for others by abandoning ourselves. On learning that choosing my own well-being is not a betrayal.

Taking a deep dive into all the amazing music from horse racing media that AREN'T Umamusume!

A new generation of browser-based FT8 tools is changing how hams get on the air. WebFT8 packs signal decoding, radio control, and logging into a single web page, no software install required. Here's…

August 2026 introduction – (37)  Welcome to the 37th edition of my newsletter or as a bingo caller would say ‘more than eleven’. 37 in Chinese is largely considered positive as a number,…

It is that time again! As September begins, so does our fundraising campaign for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.We have been raising money every September since 2019 — as part of…

Viz Media released the first book in this three-volume series way back in 2006. Why am I just now picking it up? Well, last weekend, when flipping through some of the old manga on my bookshelf , I…

If you are into civilization-scale prepping, this paper is a must read: Jehn, Florian Ulrich, Maximilian Rössler, Luke Kemp, Mike Cassidy, Zachary Kallenborn, Juan Bartolomé García Martínez, Lara…

Produced by the talented Mark Ellis on behalf of the Leamington History Group. The filiming of this was done some years ago, […] The post Leamington History Group video on Henry Tandey VC DCM…

Every summer, I look forward to having the truck at home, so we can head north - across the border - to explore some of the most amazing landscapes in the entirety of North America. In all those…

Abxylute has officially unveiled its upcoming mobile controllers — the M5 and M6 — which look suspiciously like the MCON and upcoming MCON Slim. The Abxylute M6Details are light about...

When I saw “Past Present Future” by Geoffrey Clarke outside the Møller Institute at Churchill College, I immediately thought about Michael Brill’s proposal for nuclear waste markers…

Basic concepts of hashing such as chaining, linear probing and quadratic probing implemented in memory-safe C code.

A step-by-step walkthrough of breaking a substitution cipher using frequency analysis, pattern recognition, and contextual guessing.

There is a lot of legitimate concern over the net effects of students using AI to do their school work. If you let AI do your writing, then you will not learn how to write, for example. Or worse…

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... Etiquette, Vaccination, and More Twice yesterday, I encountered two of my favorite commentators urging a more self-interested discussion of two things America would do much better with more of:…

During my recent trip to China, I packed as light as I possibly could. We had 2 kids to manage, and I knew I'd be returning with a bike, so extra roller bags or check-in luggage were out of the…

Flock sells surveillance as safety, but even a Sith Lord can see through the marketing.

Big AI models like ChatGPT and Claude get all the attention, but the continually increasing amount of fast, low cost models means today's software can embed little bits of intelligence anywhere…

Until now, I had mounted my 70cm and 2m Yagis on the wall of the house extension using a telescoping mast. This worked well enough, and the antenna system was easy to maintain since I could access…

Jared, our new CEO, is in a meeting room right next to my desk, talking with the notably older and more experienced CFO, John, about how best to communicate to the board the change in leadership. It…

I'm excited to announce Route 53 Files, a new file system that seamlessly connects any AWS compute resource with Amazon's highest-availability database.

An interesting preprint showed up last week in the autonomous agent-driven experimentation space - an area I'm paid to be very interested in. This didn't run on our hardware, but we certainly could…

Many years ago a great city was built beside a river. Factories sprang forth, quickly growing from small buildings to the very backbone that kept the city wealthy and known. That power billowed over…

Wrapping-up my "Read Recently" series as I shift back to reading books and clear my podcast queue. Three podcast curiosities remain: Alex O'Connor's interview with Dallas Jenkins and two episodes of…

One advantage of having a Euro-Office container that is running on a server that is separate from my Nextcloud installation was that I could map the fonts directory to a directory on the host to have…

You push so hard for so long, and at some point you look up and wonder why you've been expending your energy.When this happens, you can decide to keep pushing for diminishing returns or pause,…

It is worth noting that none of the complexities below involve anything more sophisticated that pre-calculus study and logs and trig functions, and perhaps the early part of a first course in…

Constant Reinvesting Well. Wasn’t that a strange and grieving few days. Now we all re-commit to being as kind–and as weird–as possible. At least, I hope that’s where…

Local butterflies, bees, and birds.

So, we’re coming up to the end of summer! Let’s talk about summer reading as we move toward Labor Day. What are you reading these days? Here’s what I’m reading. Emily M.…

A company strategy deck is not a value-creation plan. Over the past year, I have worked with private equity firms, boards, MSSPs, MDR providers, and cybersecurity vendors on corporate strategy,…

A group of three men find a crashed plane buried in the snow out in the countryside. In it, 4 million dollars and a dead pilot. They decide to split it three ways but sleep on it until summer to see…

I was already working on a piece for this week about the multiple state and federal lawsuits claiming that Facebook and Instagram harm teens, cause addiction and depression etc. when I saw the…

A hymn to spontaneous days off, and second-hand bookstores.

It's been a while since I've messed around with my website. While Jekyll has served me very well, and until recently I had a workflow that worked very well for me. But then I went and messed around…

my nerves are root canals.

This is the second of two parts on media creation. You can find the first part over here: Creating media with an uncooperative mind Infinite negatives # In trying to figure out what I should write…

How the Empire's missile defenses are down

The is-there-really-another-in-week-Drop?! showcases MicroLighter, an innovative syntax highlighter that enhances code editing while preserving the DOM; HTML advancements including new attributes…

§ July 2025 The honeymoon is over. The first draft was a thrill. Now, it’s a tombstone in the ‘review’ folder. Here’s how you ship: 1. Slay the Enemy. Your enemy is fear. You feel it now. A tightness…

Staring into the Void - by Myles Marino