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Limited transport news Usually my transport round-ups cover all kinds of London transport but this time it's almost all buses, sorry. 💷 The Mayor has announced that bus fares will rise by 10p in November. He didn't phrase it like that,...
Photo by Gilles Lambert on UnsplashYou’re standing in a grocery store line. You’re waiting for a flight. You’re stuck in the passenger seat on a long drive. You reach into your pocket and find it empty. Somehow, your smartphone is gone....
Book review for Heretical Fishing by Haylock Jobson. I rated it 3.5 stars Heretical Fishing follows a man who - in isekai tradition - is hit by a truck and wakes up in a fantasy world. He decides he wants to become a fisherman, so he so...
I don't even know why I'm writing this. But my thoughts need to go somewhere. I have been thinking about obsession. I am not here to defend the guy for not telling the girl that he loved her when she asked him about it. Because that is...
Hello RSS reader! This post contains an interactive feature. Please visit the canonical web page for an optimal viewing experience :) At the risk of pissing on people’s chips I figured it’d be helpful to illustrate the three classes of...
I'm happy to announce a new paper, Brauer groups of resolved quiver moduli via gerbes, joint with Gianni Petrella and Sebastian Torres. In this paper we give a new and very different proof of an old result due to Le Bruyn and Schofield...
The family genie screws us all. I couldn't solve the crashing problem that I reported last time, even with a new version of the game that I bought from GOG. I thus started over, and it only took me about 20 minutes to get back to where I...
There is so much happening in Bye Bye Bunny, a degree project animated short by Rubika students, that it could easily be extended into a full-length feature. Having said that, it would probably give the world’s children nightmares as...
“America appears to be suffering from a fun shortage. For the industries supplying recreational amenities, this deficit is a business opportunity.” That’s a line from an article by Ben Steverman for Bloomberg (via Kottke.org). It argues...
A few weeks ago, I wrote about what happens when a destructor actually throws and why it is a dangerous idea. One of the readers commented that he was once in a situation where he had to propagate an exception from a destructor. But as a...
I solved the puzzle ‘Choice Words’ in 2:11:06 with 1 friend using @crossmate.inqk.net.
★★★½☆ The PineTab2 is not a great computer. But it is a hyper-mobile Linux tablet that can run desktop and command-line apps natively, with a touchscreen and an optional physical keyboard, for a budget price. As a touchscreen tablet, it...
A practical guide to prevent transient model provider errors, tool call failures, or good old network hiccups from breaking your agents.
New article: "Why I Cut Ties with Wizard aka th3w1zard1".
Stories of New York City, Mapped is an interactive map of the New York Times' long-running Metropolitan Diary column. For nearly fifty years, the Metropolitan Diary has been the Times’ home for reader-submitted vignettes, eccentric...