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Unplugged.I'm really enjoying Linux right now (both KDE and Dank Linux with Niri). It could be just a mood (it usually is), but I've noticed that whenever I'm using the Mac, I just want to switch back. This is new to me. On the other...
I keep doing this, with so many things but particularly cameras.181 words · 1 image
Here’s a lovely hack that I’ve used when machete-mode debugging. Say you have a class, and you want to find its live instances, perhaps to check how many there are or what value a certain attribute has across them. Normally you'd have to...
Read the full post at - The Society of the Spectacle by Guy Debord Guy Debord wrote The Society of the Spectacle in 1967. He was part of a cohort of media theorists — mostly French, though I’d throw Marshall McLuhan in there too — who...
Where: Tlahutum Regional Park (Coquitlam)Weather: Mostly cloudy, 21°C I guess my Forerunner 265 wasn’t lying when it said take a rest day, because I was so pooped in the morning that I skipped Reifel and Boundary Bay. Nic swung by after,...
Steve McQueen spent most of his career being the coolest man on any screen. He was the guy doing his own stunts in Bullitt, jumping the fence in The Great Escape (or at least getting the credit for it), and turning up to a three-week...
I have always been a little uneasy about human bodies in museums, regardless of their age. It isn’t a disquiet based on religion, but around the issue of permission. I’m opting for cremation when my last page turns, and that will avoid...
I have a new idea that everything you should try to do to get ready for AI basically breaks down into three pieces.Deeply understanding how things work The first is deeply understanding how things work, especially the things you care...
I've been practicing karate since 2008, got my black belt in 2016, and I am now a 4th degree black belt. Every week I spend half an hour sparring with my instructor and if you listened in, you'd hear a lot of critical feedback, given in...
“Is it okay if I share my screen?” | Seth's Blog If you call a meeting, do the work to earn it. Make sure the right people are there, make sure you’re prepared and make sure they are too. Use any excuse you can to cancel the meeting and...
I was born 45 years ago today. I’m still here. I’m doing a pretty good job sticking around.
Imagining a pulp globetrotting Cthulhu campaign. I’ve played and enjoyed Call of Cthulhu, but my taste wends away from skill-based systems these days. What if a player character had just a few base statistics and a chunky measure of...
We’ve talked about uncertainty in polls (see Margin of Error, Total Margin of Error, Total Margin of Error II) and we’ve talked about ranked data (see exploded logit !). A new paper, Rosenman & Liang 2026, looks at uncertainty in ranked...
Since I reviewed Gray last week, it seems fitting to review his main adversary this week: The Great Black Wizard! Like Gray (and He-Ro, Sharella, Red Shadow, King Grayskull, and Veena), the Great Black Wizard is a character from...
They are already setting up Kirmes. I guess we have to visit at least once. I remember it being really annoying last year. We'll see…