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Coming up in about three weeks, my birthday of doom: 2026 – 1940 = 86. A bad omen. As in NOAD: verb eighty-six (also 86): [with object] North American English informal 1 eject or bar (someone) from a restaurant, bar, etc.: they were...
There is no guarantee what the future will hold, so when planning for our financial future, we can look back at history and replay our finances in that context and see what would happen. In this post I will answer whether my retirement...
Whenever I have worked on parallel programming, I always plot some variation of the speedup scale. This is very helpful to detect problems like this one that affects numpy, where you can only see it whenever the contention for some...
A cute and cheeky visitor in EKSN this evening.
Pleasant late-summer evening in EKSN.
Newport Street Victoria Square Deansgate Victoria Square
Gerhard Richter Facsimile Object Annunciation after Titian (P12). 2015, Diasec-mounted Giclée print on aluminum, 125.4 × 200.3 cm, ed. 27/50 [above] sold at Koller in Zurich in Nov 2025. To have the kind of relationship with a dealer...
S3 Tables still does not provide a great console experience despite being around for two-ish years now. This is evident when looking for an easy way to delete the resoure you create with it through the console. So here are some easy AWS...
This post argues that AI agents haven't actually made refactoring cheaper, they've just made the same risky, all-or-nothing rewrites faster. The real fix, the author says, is doing refactors in small, incremental pieces instead of big...
“You know you’re gonna be stared at in Shenyang, right?” The post The People of Shenyang, The 2026 “Àimǎ” Edition first appeared on Correr Es Mi Destino.
13 Minutes… In 2018, I fulfilled a lifelong dream. On a family holiday to Florida and Maryland, we spent a day at the Kennedy Space Center. I stood underneath a Saturn V, saw the Space Shuttle Atlantis and got to see artefacts from the...
Jamie and the Mystery Quilt by Vicki Berger Erwin, 1987. Money has been tight in the Huddleston family since Jamie’s father died. The family lives in a big, old house that’s been in the Huddleston family for generations, but it has...
Just so I will hopefully remember to check it out: Arnaud Bouchez has released mormot.core.i18n, a translation layer for Delphi/Freepascal that could replace the more or less abandoned dxgettext.
The way tech happens these days it seems like things are always in beta. Even if you’re not running beta software. I haven’t run betas the last few years, and so far this year I haven’t either. I did pick up a MacBook Neo to perhaps give...
Since Apple forced me to migrate to zsh as my default shell1, I have noticed that every now and then I lose part of my command history. I am sure I ran the command in the morning, and in the afternoon going up, up and up in the terminal...