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That is the top half of an 8 Seen, these stationary arches seem very disquieting. n.b. Scene here is a relaxed view 3d stereograph.
The problems we face in the #openweb are often presented as technology problems. Which protocol, platform, licence, federation path, software? Which standard? These questions matter, but they are not the foundations of the problem. A lot...
Got some high-quality rewritable cartridges. One game per cart. No choice paralysis like with an EverDrive.Epilogue Operator finally gets to earn its keep. OG feeling.
I’ll start today’s article off with a definition of formal verification as provided by Keagan McLelland on the Bitcoin Development Mailing List: Formal Verification is a practice in software development that gives greater assurances than...
I quite like Yoko Taro's works, or at least those I've experienced in some way: I've yet to play Drakengard 3, but the first one has a special place in my mind, and NieR Replicant might be one of my favourite games ever. What about...
I've revised and improved this posting from 2023. I've had the impression since childhood that the universe is trying to teach me things. In fact, that's what This All is. Especially the friction; the "bad" stuff. I'm not trying to shine...
Here's what I missed this morning. Sigh!
Rising rents are just one obstacle to opportunity today(Source: Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University)Some time ago, First Presbyterian Church in Cedar Rapids engaged me to do two talks, on justice and social welfare....
The title of this post is actually a quote from an excellent post by Elizabeth Lopatto on The Verge. I’ll get to that in a minute. You should read it. I read Lopatto’s article this morning, the morning after we said goodbye to my...
Klook defined the evolution from swing to bop and, in 1961, was already in business for twenty-five years, off to a good start with his European clique in Cologne. [row-start] [half] [/half] [half] Personnel Dusko Gojkovich (trumpet),...
I just completed my first Field Notes pocket journal. It’s covered in scotch tape because the cover completely separated from the pages after being stuck in my suit pants pocket all day during a particularly hot and humid wedding. I...
Here’s a fun little contradiction to start your week with: NetFoundry asked 200 CISOs and CTOs whether they feel pressure to secure the AI they’re deploying. Unsurprisingly, and to my considerable relief, every single one said “yes”. We...
Why should I fear death? If I am, then death is not. If Death is, then I am not. Why should I fear that which can only exist when I do not? — Epicurus
TIL: A 1997 episode of Pokémon sent 685 people to the hospital with seizures. Here’s a wikipedia entry about it. Warning: the Wikipedia article has snippets of the scene that caused seizures for viewers.
Tigris has a pretty advanced replication scheme for writes. What happens when you actually need to delete things? Turns out deleting things is hard in distributed systems. Especially when you have a geo-replicated active-active database...