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"Ceasefire" is by far one of the most meaningless words in the dictionary of the Middle East. Since the alleged ceasefire between Iran and the USA/Israel, the war has not really stopped. While the capital and bigger cities such as Tabriz...
I see Liam Proven of The Reg has decided to need to comment on every new software whether it’s ai assisted, ruining both his enthusiasm for said software as well as the comment section, and my enthusiasm for reading his articles. With...
I've been cleaning up my Emacs config over the past couple of days. Capture templates are now consistent and sane. My inbox is explicit and forces review. Org-agenda files are calculated based on timestamps via org-mem. Claude added an...
Triple Inspiration to Find "Sand Well"A lot going on for a simple walk between two West Midlands Railway Stations.History West Midlands PodcastsMy monthly listen is the opening podcast about the Black Country, focusing on the post WWII...
IntroductionIn my post on Hoisting Expressions I discussed the move($expr) feature and how it works much like an inverse of the defer feature many languages have. Instead of creating expressions which run after the scope ends,...
My spouse started his day by pulling a tick out of the back of my knee--we're romantic that way. I was sitting at my desk and felt a weird bump, which I assumed was a new skin growth, which I assumed would mean a trip to the...
The existence of such an opt-out mechanism seems absurd but is an unfortunately reality in Belgium due to existence of management companies. Let us imagine you are a single independent consultant who expects to realize an annual turnover...
Another magnificent short doc by Riley Hooper hat tip Kyle Turgeon
Ringed (banded) racing pigeon in the wild in France (photo from Wikimedia) 15 July 2026 Peregrine falcons eat birds for a living and leave the remains behind, usually just feathers and bones. Every once in a while they eat a banded bird...
If you've been following AI boom skeptics like Ed Zitron, you've heard this a dozen times in more detail and in far less dry language.Over the past year or so, this message has been increasingly making its way into the discourse of...
Dr. Izabella Majcher, Independent Consultant Photo credit: Shutterstock *References to the Regulation's provisions reflect the agreed text at the time of writing and may change following legal-linguistic revision Amid chants of "send...
I'm obviously interested in local history, and thanks to horrible social media I recently became aware of a fairly local group based around local (to them, not that far away from me) history. Now generally I could do with being a bit...
Via Newspapers.comA ghost that was, you might say, all things to all people was reported in the “Moncton Transcript,” February 1, 1922:London, Jan. 30-Eastbourne is being troubled, or entertained, by a "ghost" mystery.A strange...
I recently started building products focused on healthcare affordability in the US. As I was ramping up on a new space, the biggest question that sparked my curiosity was: how did we get here? This question is the inspiration for this...
This was my first-ever visit to the administrative centre and county town of North Yorkshire, which sits between York and Darlington on the main East Coast railway line. Read on to see what I found.... It was another hot day in yet...