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Previously in tech, the joke was that Microsoft’s org chart was a bunch of divisions in a Mexican standoff. Fast-forward to now, instead of pointing guns at each other, every division at Microsoft is yoked to the other via KPIs and bonus...
Today's Write Now interview features Charlie Greenwald, author of JEFF O'LANTERN.
Kevin Warsh was nominated by President Trump in January 2026 to replace Jerome Powell as Chair of the Federal Reserve. He was confirmed by the US Senate last week and sworn in as the new Fed chair earlier this week. What are some of his...
Mariner’s conspiracy board from Star Trek: Lower Decks s01e05 appears in full in The Art of Star Trek: Lower Decks (IDW, 2026).
I have been going full tilt since I quit my job in 2024 trying to make this work-for-myself gig actually keep us afloat. This is not a plea of any sort. It’s just me admitting that I’m exhausted this week. But honestly, everyone I talk...
Most of my career in distributed systems has been as a tester, performance engineer and formal verification specialist. I’ve written performance benchmarking tools in the past, for RabbitMQ and Apache Pulsar but in recent years I’ve used...
Another unusual orchid from the last Hilo Orchid show. This time it’s the color, though to me it looked on the purple end of blue. Posted for Terri’s Flower Hour. See more responses here.
Below is a guest post by Matt Rips (and Google Gemini). In a discussion of linguistic matters, an LLM began using a word, an adjective, repeatedly, to describe a concept. The word does not exist. There were multiple instances, such as:...
Following our night in Goblin Valley we drove all the way through to Bryce Canyon National Park. We drove through Capitol Reef and Zion. It was the middle of April and both were already busy with tourists. We had been to Capitol Reef...
The `dired-mark-if' `macro` also marks special lines (such as those specifying a directory path), so let's exclude such lines: (dired-mark-if (let . . .
All One Song - “From Hank to Hendrix” with Jerry David DeCiccaIf you haven’t realized it yet, I love talking about Neil Young. And I’ve been fortunate enough to have some great guests on All One Song to help me dissect some of Neil’s...
All One Song - “From Hank to Hendrix” with Jerry David DeCiccaIf you haven’t realized it yet, I love talking about Neil Young. And I’ve been fortunate enough to have some great guests on All One Song to help me dissect some of Neil’s...