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Our next entry in the archives is Monster Demolition, which has had some video footage online of the game running for many years. The game was apparently turned into Rampage, though as you can see – this was looking quite different, with...
Horseshoe crabs are marine and brackish water arthropods of the order Xiphosura — a slowly evolving, conservative taxa.Much like (slow) Water Striders (Aquarius remigis), (relatively sluggish) Coelacanth (Latimeria chalumnae) and (the...
A lesson we can derive from Rust’s error handling and async libraries, and Haskell’s effect system libraries, is that languages need to have opinionated (and efficient, flexible) interop features. If not and the language is flexible...
Experiments with getting usable outputs out of local models on a standard Macbook
Selected readings "Crab raccoon" (9/1/24) "Crab raccoon, part 2" (9/2/24) "Commas matter, Oxford and otherwise" (4/17/22) — lengthy bibliography on commas
Nothing dramatic, just mildly cursed.
This is not the fizziest 1930s detective novel I’ve ever read, but it’s worth keeping, and I enjoyed it. It has an appreciable quality of whodidit, making me read on for the unmasking. Caryl Brahms and S J Simon were both keen ballet...
Super busy week of work, fun, not-fun work and a lot in between.
I created the website OpenMentions so there would be a collection of topics you could freely mention to tell other people you wrote something about a topic they are interested in. Anyone can use it. OpenMentions has been around for a...
Weakliem writes: In 2016, Donald Trump lost the popular vote to a weak candidate, although the mysterious workings of the Electoral College gave him the presidency. During his first term, he never reached a 50% approval rating. In the...
Vitals Robert De Niro as Lloyd Barker, slow-witted bandit and junkie Kentucky, Summer 1933 Film: Bloody Mama Release Date: March 24, 1970 Director: Robert Corman Wardrobe Credit: Thomas Costich WARNING! Spoilers ahead! Background Happy...
I'm not sure when it happened, exactly - maybe sometime in middle school? - but I'll always remember the day Mom told me I was skipping school, and we were going shopping instead. ...
How do we put subtraction on the table?