While I was in one of my classes today, my friend texted me to let me know that Tim Curry had passed away. I am distraught by the news. We had actually been talking about him the night before (August…

Scottie Scheffler to WIN (+345) – After obliterating the field in Memphis, the world number one played through hand, foot and mouth disease at the BMW and remarkably still finished T-12th. He said…

Magnetic Core Assembly, IBM Plant, Poughkeepsie, by Ansel Adams, 1955, from the Weston Gallery, via 1stDibs.

Part Three Quote While the critic held sway ... art degenerated to entertainment ... Never has so much talk, and so little thought, been devoted to art. Notes 🔥 Apollo and Dionysus represent two…

bladespark:cherryjams:‘Hands weaving magnetic-core memory, IBM, Poughkeepsie, New York,’ 1956. Photograph by Ansel Adams.My mother used to make computer cores as a “work from home” side…

North Sun, or The Voyage of the Whaleship Esther, was entirely off my radar in the first year from its release. But one of the questions I ask annually in my Hugo Readalong is which books from the…

I think, in the coming decades, we’re doing to see a huge push to put technology in the background. We’re not going to give up any tech we’ve already or will develop, we’re…

I recently went for a walk, as I often do, when I encountered one of the neighborhood cats sitting on the side of the road. Usually, local cats are shifty and cautious around strangers, going out of…

How the AI build-out became a credit structure, and who now has claims on its future cash flows

"I have said, Ye are gods; and all of you are children of the most High. But ye shall die like men, and fall like one of the princes." --Psalm 82 Folk here talk to things, and they become real. If…

I started astronomy more than ten years ago, stopped about five years ago because … well life, and picked up the hobby again recently. I had sold my first telescope back then, and had to go…

weather: 🌥️ i wish you'd rain critters: crows i just didn't like outline very much and i DNF'd parade. i'm annoyed by cusk's avowed distaste for the devices of fiction while continuing, for reasons i…

Our school district started 2 weeks earlier than last year. It’s been about 99℉ / 37℃ all week. My elementary kids had to eat lunch inside, and school pickup traffic is at rainy day levels. My fourth…

Back in April I joined my first Homebrew Website Club meeting and since then I’ve made a habit of reading the blogs from everyone there that day. The first post I read this Wednesday is from Thomas…

v0.1 was a singular machine. One userspace, booting on two kernels, at one console, on the board it was tuned for. Everything difficult about it was internal — the spawn-from-disk deadlock, the libc…

Rockstar are about to drop the long-awaited Netflix extended look at GTA 6. For the nine days leading into it, a group calling itself Cyber Leek has been leaking unreleased gameplay on a daily…

In January 2013 I posted a note on the BillBlog to say that I had decided that I’d no longer sit on men-only panels at conferences. Because I was working at the BBC I acknowledged that there…

El 21 y 22 de agosto participé junto a Javier en Flyleaf festival, un evento de autoedición organizado por WIRWIR y Falschrum books que se celebra en el barrio de Neukölln, Berlín. La muestra se…

A brief update about where I've been and what I've been dealing with..

Hello everyone! I had some trouble with Gitlab these days, after I upgraded it to 19.3 together with my Alma Linux dependencies the SSH push/pull stopped working, and the cause was a drift in the…

I turned from the kitchen counter, iPhone and MeshCore tracker in hand 1 . “Okay,” I told my best friend, all geared up to infodump, “look at this.” I extended my phone toward her. “That’s the public…

Some info about recent changes to LisaGUI, and a slight peek behind the curtain.

It’s Not Me, It’s You — Mhairi McFarlane A re-read of the second McFarlane book I read. I liked it a lot back then, but was only gradually coming to terms with the fact that a…

Iran decided to take out AWS regions Ukraine decided to take out fulfillment centers of Russia’s largest on-line retailer Moscow is iching to start shit. eu-central-1 is about 2000km from…

In February 2026, I filed a petition asking EPA to evaluate the South Bay in Boston for the Superfund program — the federal program for the country's most contaminated sites. The South Bay is…

A data lakehouse architecture stores data in open table formats (like Apache Iceberg or Delta Lake) on object storage (like S3). Broadly, open table formats make object storage behave less like a…

Ben Nadel discusses his transition from programming as a four-way win to programing as a hobby....

Last time: the MMU reads a PTE, and the valid bit is 0. The hardware cannot proceed, so it stops and hands the whole mess to the kernel. That's a page fault. (The TLB) The name ? A page fault…

I started this blog before Facebook, Instagram and Twitter were founded. In those days, if people wanted to find out what you were up to they went to your blog. I had a small readership of friends…

Far be it from me to encourage you to buy any other book this summer, but I feel obliged to draw your attention to a flurry of notable books, made by mates, that have come out recently or are…

When folks talk to me, I often get a sense that they want advice or maybe an opinion. They seldom ask. I often give an advice or an opinion before...

Last time we translated 0x03d4 with a table lookup and a concatenate. That has to run on every load and store, so it has to be nearly free. Except the table lives in memory. To read one byte you…

Read the report on the VAGO website here . This found that the SRL was likely to run over budget and had a high chance of running over time. The government also had problems funding it. As for the…

When games start feeling more like work than fun - complexity, grinding, multiplayer, and just messing around.

What is Dave wearing today? In spirit, Dave is wearing a coat of many colors. In reality, he is wearing an off-white polo shirt and red shorts. How does Dave feel today? Dave is reflective. What are…

It’s the first day after a long summer holiday. I’m on my bicycle again. I never clock my rides. I know that it takes me between 40 and 50 minutes to commute. It depends on traffic lights, wind, and…

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Normal (2025) • View trailer 3.5 stars (out of five); rated R, for profanity and relentless strong, bloody violence Available via: HBO MAX and other VOD options By Derrick Bang <span sty

The more I think about Dan Wang&rsquo;s book Breakneck the less I think of it. Wang presents America as a country of lawyers — orderly, slow, nothing gets done — and China as a country of engineers,…

旅と日々, Tabi to Hibi, lit. 'Journeys and Days' A calm, and in parts even funny movie, about the struggle to be creative. A struggling screenwriter takes a vacation in the snowy mountains, where the…

This is one piece of a whole video chapbook, SWALLOW, that I issued in 2021. You can see more videos from that series on YouTube .

Today I&#x2019;m reviewing Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab&#x2019;s new edition of Television&#x2019;s 1977 debut, Marquee Moon, which underwent Mobile Fidelity&#x2019;s UltraDisc One-Step process and…

Intro & Why Did I Move I am really enjoying the ease of use of Bear Blog for my blogging. Setting up and maintaining a blog on Bear Blog is so easy and frees up time for other activities like writing…

Sometimes I kvetch about how boring I find fantasy pantheons that are just Greek gods with a bad coat of paint. Sometimes I've blogged about it. Guys do you want to hear about my setting's unique…

Hey MAGA, a quick word&#8230; I see you out here today, trying to claim Dolly Parton as your own, as if she were one of you, as if you and she were kindred spirits, as if your heart and hers were…

The What NGS Triangulation Station BEAUTIFUL Survey marks or monuments are objects used to mark a precise location and/or elevation on the earth. The markers most survey mark hunters look for most…

Agencies Agencies that establish survey markers Adirondack Surveys Aquatrak Army Corps of Engineers AT&amp;T AZDOT Boston Museum of Science Bureau of Land Management Central Railroad of New Jersey…

Fixed ’em. Fixed ’em all. Well, almost all — down to 10 bugs on the NetNewsWire bug tracker. (See the Mac 7.1.3 release notes and iOS for the big list of just-fixed bugs.) This means I’ve gotten the…