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Beneath the elegant halls of the Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle in Paris is the fossil skeleton of one of the Pleistocene’s most formidable predators: Smilodon, the celebrated—and slightly misleadingly named—sabre-toothed cat.With...
Just couple of years ago I had a small rant about German RLE-based codecs named *PEG. Recently I’ve discovered yet another pointless format called NPEG. Unlike the rest it’s Polish, targets Amiga instead of DOS and it’s essentially...
Hello, loves! Received wisdom and personal experience tell me to cover built-in collections. Here’s why.
There has been some talk, even from those unsympathetic to Nigel Farage, that the candidacy of Count Binface, the highest-profile opponent to the Reform leader in the upcoming Clacton by-election, is somehow unserious and indicates...
Since I revisited my old post on ICD code matching, I thought I’d revisit by post on HCPCS codes too. HCPCS stands for Healthcare Common Procedure Coding System, and is pronounced “hick picks.” When most people say HCPCS, they...
Today I have a treat for you: a new guest review! I don't feature a ton of guest reviews these days, but when Cherry emailed and said that she's been reading the blog for fourteen years and would love to write a review...well. Of course...
We drove our coach 255 miles, about five hours of driving, from Cummins Coach Care in Coburg, Oregon to our home base near Shelton, Washington. Here’s a map showing our route, heading north: An interactive map, with potential stops...
White Pointer Gaming is the Youtube channel that examines games and figures out how they pull off the graphical tricks they do, and we’ve linked them to those several times before because they almost always find some interesting tricks...
I think sometime this week was 100 working days in this role (if you remove all of my sick days). Usually I’d try and write some kind of retrospective to mark the milestone but honestly this week I’ve been feeling pretty disappointed by...
I never leave the house without a fat stack of $2 bills in case I ever encounter a lemonade stand. This has quickly become one of the most joyful habits in my life.First of all, you should know that I operated a lot of lemonade stands...
tag(s): #failures #programming #overblown-minor-annoyances Here is a link to part 1. If you don't feel like reading it: I had an LLM write a minimal MCP server to expose Emacs, and I figured if I am going to use these tools, at least...
Part of the ongoing Big Tech's War on Users series.When I wrote Part 1 of the privacy asterisk series back in April, one of the smaller points in a long list was that "Hide My Email" doesn't mean what it sounds like it means. There are...
An idea I had yesterday, has not been tested it but the underlying systems all have, so I'm confident it works. But if the great sun move not of himself; but is as an errand-boy in heaven; nor one single star can revolve, but by some...
There’s a huge scandal going on in Ukraine, right nowSpecific details and nature of the scandal do not concern us very much. What I find interesting, is how it highlights the super-robust, ironclad position of the Ukrainian...