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For the past week, I’ve been telling people that I’m feeling a lot like the “Old Man Yells at Cloud” meme. “Old Man Yells at Cloud” is a meme based on an image from The Simpsons featuring Grandpa Simpson angrily waving a fist under the...
Meta spent tens of billions of dollars on building the future of the internet, and all it has to show for it is a handful of bored children in the parking lot of an offbrand drive-thru restaurant. – James Ball Without Let or Hindrance...
As our "Cyberdelia" series has seen a bit of success at branching out from being only the "Hackers" party, we've decided to try and screen roughly one cult movie a month! I hope you will join us. Our bill through the rest of the year:...
I discussed previously that AI projects have a short lifespan, on average. This one is a related hypothesis, which I believe we are starting to see in the AI-adjacent software engineering domain already, and which might spill into other...
One of the biggest problems we face isn’t technology, politics or even money. It’s #stupidindividualism. By this I don’t mean individual freedom, freedom matters. I mean the habit of seeing every issue only through “my” immediate...
Guest post by Matt Spick Photo: Parsadanov/Shutterstock.comFrom relative obscurity, paper mills have recently moved into the spotlight of academic attention. These organisations - which sell manuscripts or citations to authors to enhance...
Acqua che gorgoglia in lontananza. Un piccolo ruscello in un fosso che taglia a metà un prato verde. O forse non è verde. È giallo, viola, bianco, azzurro. Fiori. Un mare verde sporcato da macchie di fiori. Si sente solo l’acqua. O forse...
Table of Contents Table of Contents At a Glance Architecture The Host pf: Default Deny, Both Directions nginx: A Lazy Mirror with proxy_store The pkg Mirror (Port 8080) The freebsd-update Mirror (Port 80) The Release Mirror (Port 8081)...
From The Russo-Ukraine War: The Return of History, by Serhii Plokhy (W. W. Norton, 2023), Kindle pp. 28, 31: In 1995, in his review of Matlock’s memoir, titled Autopsy on an Empire, Kennan wrote: “I find it hard to think of any event...
It's 1949, John von Neumann stood in front of a room at the University of Illinois and described a machine that could build a working copy of itself. No example of it existed yet, it was only theoretically possible. He called it a theory...
People with parallel careers simultaneously hold two different jobs not because they have to but because they want to.
After two recent albums that felt like pale imitations, Muse have returned to their space rock roots with something raw, coherent, and genuinely emotional. A track-by-track review from a long-haul flight. | Read full post >>
It’s that time of year again: the season for enjoying a long(-ish) novel in the company of an unknown number of like-minded fellow readers. Friends, if you prefer—only friends you’ve maybe not met. Many of you know the story, but just in...
June 28 - July 5 a week full of work... Exercising ran twice this week, not the best scenario but I tried... Reading I finished Mistborn: The Final Empire by Brandon Sanderson. Overall I think it's okay and I started the second book The...