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Man, rationality is such a meme. I think rationality is important when you have something tangible you're dealing with, like a problem at work or figuring out what you need to say; but when it's just you, alone with nowhere to go and...
Me, at 5:48am in Chalfont St Peter Community Centre, having just finished the 2026 London Wales London bike ride. All week I watched the weather in anticipation of the London Wales London Audax ride at the weekend. I’m fortunate to have...
One World Trade Center deserves it’s own post. It really dominates the skyline.
This Saturday (9th May) EDGEWAYS presents "Acid Renaissance: Albion’s True Standard Advanced" with me talking about my artwork on Zoom from 20:00 BST. Attendance is free, but places are limited so you’ll need to register beforehand....
La historia es sencilla. Al día de hoy los pcs no suelen llevar unidad de cdrom/dvd y para poder explorar el contenido de un dispositivo de almacenamiento de ese tipo se necesita una unidad externa usb (por ejemplo). La cosa es que...
Most iPhone and iPad users know you can adjust font size globally by going to Settings > Display & Brightness > Text Size. But you can also change it for a single app without touching anything else. Here's how: 1. Open the app you want...
本月摘要 去女朋友的学校赏了樱花，虽然没有野餐，但能在气温适宜的春日下午一起散步就已经很幸福了。 半裸考了 FE，没过，但很有希望，打算上半年学学再去考。 右手中指关节肿胀，只稽古了三次。但是每次都很有收获，感觉自己也算是找到了节奏吧。但是剑道形要快点练起来了！ 虽然转职方面进展不太顺利，但是这个月对于我来说是调整心态的一个月，也调整了接下来的行动方针。 本月输入 书 Wonder - 读完了奇迹男孩原著，很暖心的故事，多视角的写法很喜欢。 『鉄道銀河の夜』...
Emily Rolfe Grosholz, professor emerita of philosophy, English, and African American studies at Penn State, has died. Professor Grosholz‘s philosophical work ranged across topics in philosophy of math, philosophy of science, logic, and...
Verdant green mountains in Arashiyama, south of the Katsura River. So green, I had to turn down the color saturation to make it believable.😉 桂川の南側にある嵐山の、青々とした緑の山々。あまりにも緑が鮮やかだったので、信じてもらえるように彩度を下げざるを得なかった。😉
Write small Rust scripts 05 March 2026 Recently I was working on a Rust PR to reduce unreachable_code lint churn after todo!() calls, that basically removes lint messages from unreachable_code after todo!() and instead adds a...
There it goes... Welp, RIP the 6 killmark hookbill. You will be missed. https://zkillboard.com/kill/135293342/ I fought an artillery thrasher, but I did bunch of mistakes while flying, so I couldn't keep my transversal velocity high...
Recopilación y traducción del boletín mensual de noticias relacionadas con el software libre publicado por la Free Software Foundation. ¡El boletín de noticias de la FSF está aquí! La Free Software Foundation (FSF) es una organización...
Quick post with some life updates!
Almost ten years after its initial release, here are my thoughts on the movie “Hidden Figures”. Beware: I rant–about racism, sexism, and the problem with white saviors. If you want the tl;dr: it’s a good movie, deserves the accolades,...
Caring about Software, Caring about People mtift Wed, 05/06/2026 - 08:36 What if caring about software is one way to care about people?The most thought-provoking talk I attended at Minnebar on Saturday was Paul Cantrell’s “What tech...
A touchingly human reminder of our capacity for ecstasy, transcendence, and collective felicity. Imagine what life would be like if lived, in May Sarton’s lovely phrase, with “joy instead of will.” That is what Beethoven imagined, and...
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In the wake of copy.fail, there are more vulnerabilities that have been announced: Copy Fail 2: Electric Boogaloo Dirty Frag Right now would be one of the best times for a supply chain attack via NPM to hit hard. Outside of Linux kernel...
I have a growing sense of impending doom. As the year goes on, I find myself reluctantly inching closer and closer to my 31st birthday, and I can’t help but look around and wonder at what age one feels less lost in life. At what point do...
I guess in a week and change we will be going to the big city. Phnom Penh is some hours away and I want to visit Aeon Mall there for both walking shoes and their wonderful food court. It’s to walk as well. Phnom Penh I’ll take you all...
IntroIf you're active at all when it comes to language model research these days, you almost certainly have an implicit mental model for what kinds of training have been useful for capability improvement in the post-o1 era. The...
Well, that was pretty quick. This morning it was in the packaged state and, checking just now: When I've bought hardware from Valve before, I'm pretty sure it's taken around 3 days to get here, coming from the Netherlands. I can see this...
So we announced it a little while back, but I'm excited to say that the first print collection of Peregrine Lake is now officially on sale! That's right, all of Ethan's gorgeous artwork (and my acceptable writing) could be in your hands...
I missed publishing daily Pook-Emu Bee links yesterday due to a work deadline. But we are back today with nine new links from around the world wide web. 1. Famed Atheist Richard Dawkins — Author of ‘The God Delusion’ — Believes AI Is...
I've been watching the reruns of Simon Schama's A History of Britain, a sweeping 15-part series that dates back to a time long before Schama became an annoying metroliberal pantomime dame – and to a time when the BBC would put good money...
Guvernul britanic vrea să introducă un sistem prin care utilizatorii să-și verifice vârsta înainte de a accesa anumite servicii online, și nu vorbim doar de conținut pentru adulți - vorbim de o gamă mult mai largă de platforme și...
For a couple weeks now, I had the itch to get into cycling again. Not as a sport or a hobby, but as a tool, to commute and go to places nearby. Around 10 years ago I used to have a pretty neat bike, it was a bit big for me but I could...
The tenth novel by the Tasmania based author, and previous winner of the Miles Franklin literary award, was published last week: James Mather is a psychiatrist in his sixties. He is invited to take on a new group of patients. All he...
Heya! So, for the past couple days, it's been basically impossible to escape this hypothetical question: "Everyone in the world has to take a private vote by pressing a red or blue button. If more than 50% of people press the blue...
A loose review of an album that was released in 1994. Currently Listening: Milla “The Divine Comedy”Reply via email
I really like The Devil Wears Prada. I saw it in the cinema when it came out, and I've rewatched it two or three years ago with my wife, who had missed out on it and the cultural impact it had. It surprised me so much when the second...
I wasn’t able to watch the California gubernatorial candidates’ debate on CNN last night, and looked for it online this morning. I’m shocked to find that it’s not available anywhere that I can see. No outlet should be allowed to host it...
Seeing a listing for a MacBook at the price of $25 AUD triggers a certain thought in the demented mind of a creature such as myself. Sure, the listing title might open with ‘FOR PARTS’ and the description might have the cursed words...
what I've understood from my reading of Speculum of the other woman thus far: only men have access to identification, to recognizing sameness in the other and the laws that organize this sameness, to an "acting" that recognizes...
An exploration of how constraints can foster creativity in writing and systems design.
I’ve been chatting with a good number of folks who are turning down streaming services lately for various reasons. I’ve blogged about this before, and if you’re looking for advice on how to make the switch, I and a lot of others have...
“Let's make a grave…” And that's what we did. Everyone was crying for the poor dead bird as they went around murdering flowers Keiko-chan, the eponymous "Woman", is different; it's not explained how or why but that's not important, you...
I host my open-source projects on Codeberg. But out of respect for this excellent service, I don't want to clutter it with one-off piles of code and stuff I don't take seriously. Also, I wanted to have my own "incubator" where I let my...
Hoy todo pasa por el software, de alguna manera experimentar la tecnología no se siente verdadera. Aún hoy, (yo que crecí en los 90), me siguen asombrando más los dispositivos de los 80, con aquellos relojes Casio que te tomaban la...
Today I watched with great interest the discussion of Yanis Varoufakis with the hosts of The Rest Is Politics podcast, Alastair Campbell and Rory Stewart:...
A gentle rocking The train glides through the rice fields World of blue and green
Three plants — all old favorites of mine — that have recently caught my helper Isaac’s attention on our walks around downtown Palo Alto: two because of their striking foliage and flowers, one because its multitude of yellow flowers seem...
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com Global affairs journalist David Rothkopf wrote today in The Daily Beast: “Not since Vietnam have we seen a more systematic effort by an administration to lie about the nature, costs, consequences, and...
How far back in time can you understand English? The same passage written in 100 year intervals, here’s how English in the year 1000 reads: And þæt heo sægde wæs eall soþ. Ic ƿifode on hire, and heo ƿæs ful scyne ƿif, ƿis ond ƿærfæst. Ne...
Yesterday I received an email from the Thunderbird team inviting me to join a preview of their new hosted email service, Thunderbird Pro. I love email, so was very keep to sign up and test it out. Before we get into this, I want to say...
Dude, so I spend an inordinate amount of time thinking about giant monsters. I was introduced to the Showa-era dubbed Godzilla films ("GODZILLER!") very young by my older brother and my cousin and that canon event permanently adjusted my...
Canonical anunció la llegada de Ubuntu 26.04 LTS el pasado 23 de abril. La nueva versión, incluía una buena serie de actualizaciones, como la versión 7.0 del kernel. Además, controladores, versiones recientes de paquetes importantes,...
The claim that public discourse operates as a marketplace of ideas — where truth and falsehood compete on equal terms, and the better argument wins — has never described how mass public discourse actually works. John Stuart Mill’s On...
Une carte des initiatives et des énergies qui traversent et réunissent le “web revival”.
The most popular link last time (quite a while ago now!) was this piece about how Facebook is absolutely cooked, with this one about the life-changing value of having a good coat second.Was 30 Rock actually a prophecy predicting what...
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