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A few months ago I got to read one of the most entertaining scientific papers I’ve seen in a while.* It’s a study by Stefano Mammola and colleagues that documents patterns in the use of jokes in scientific talks – in particular, talks at...
The Damen LST 100 design, which was picked last December to be the Navy LSM– coming to a shipyard near you TOTE Services in Jacksonville yesterday picked up a $2.6 billion contract from Naval Sea Systems Command’s PAE Maritime to serve...
Golden Brown / Silverness / Melodies Never Lie - The Let It Be Stage, Denver, Colorado, June 12, 2026We’ve been digging into the Aadam Jacobs Collection for over a year now … but of course, Jacobs is just one (extremely prolific) taper....
Golden Brown / Silverness / Melodies Never Lie - The Let It Be Stage, Denver, Colorado, June 12, 2026We’ve been digging into the Aadam Jacobs Collection for over a year now … but of course, Jacobs is just one (extremely prolific) taper....
Unless you are under a rock, you have no doubt heard of the passing of Irish-born Kiwi actor Sir Nigel John Dermot “Sam” Neill. While everyone else is talking Jurassic Park, we, of course, remember Mr. Neill as the fictional though...
We don't have a Midnight Special vs. In Concert or Kirshner's Rock Concert comparison this week, and it's probably just as well, as Special has a highlights show featuring the best of 1978, hosted by Wolfman Jack himself. You can see the...
Armin theorizes that this is because more recent Anthropic models have been specifically trained (presumably via Reinforcement Learning) to better use the edit tools that are baked into Claude Code. This has the unfortunate effect that...
Email-to-SMS gateways were once a popular tool for email geeks and savvy sysadmins to ping themselves with important notifications. Nowadays? They're either dead and gone, in the process of shutting down, or problematic enough that we...
The Once and Future Sex: Going Medieval on Women’s Roles in Society, by Eleanor Janega, published 2023, history, 286 pages. An interesting book. Among other things, it makes a point which hadn’t occurred to me before, that what a society...
Absolutely ripping your hair out reading Claude referring to everything as “honest takes” and "load-bearing seams"? You’re not the only one. But what if I tell you there’s a way to take this massive source of frustration and make it so...
Coding agents write plenty of PL/SQL, but they need a feedback loop to write it well. Here's how to hand dbLinter to Coding Agents and teach it to check its own work.
We'll go over how to detect mime types and customize ffmpegthumbnailer to support additional mime types for certain files.
This week’s theme: Sonny Rollins on the Impulse label. Featured artists include Sonny Rollins, Tommy Flanagan, Bob Cranshaw, Billy Higgins, Mickey Roker, Freddie Hubbard, Elvin Jones, Jimmy Garrison, Oliver Nelson, Kenny Burrell, Roger...
“The trick is to fix the problem you have, rather than the problem you want.” Daniel shared this Bram Cohen quote recently, and it resonated.
Plenty of folks feel a lot of pressure to try and run games as awfully close to the way it's written down in the book. The pressure to play RAW or do it right by the designer is something that smothers a lot of good play. That said there...