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There are suggestions to not use iPhone as an alarm clock. Not because of anything inherently wrong with the alarm clock functions on an iPhone, but because if you have an iPhone next to you on your bed, you will inevitably use your...
Thumbs up if you like a book, or a movie, or a podcast, or any work of art. Tell me why. And that's is all I need to decide if I also want to read a book, watch a movie, or listen to a podcast. I agree with Thea Lim in this artilce in...
I really like this piece by Graham Smith at Jank: “Tinkering with games is as good as playing them”. Having spent so many hours working on my own Destiny 2-related data and stats tools, there is something very resonant in the notion that...
Hey, it's time yet again for a roundup of reading pleasures… Why My 85-Year-Old Friend Has Devoted the Last Years of Her Life to Reading the Ancient Classics, by Seth Kaplan, Literary Hub Why Is Everyone In Tech So Sad?, by Aaron...
I used to feel weird about people saying 'Sorry, I've been gone for a while,' because I don't think we should feel obligated to constantly share pieces of ourselves online. Except it's been a month (two if you don't count my last...
Read the full post at - TIL about Prairie Remnants This infographic from Theodore Roosevelt National Park in North Dakota explains how much of the Earth’s prairie ecosystem we’ve lost over the past couple of centuries. More than 70% of...
This one feels like getting back in the saddle. We've been back from holiday for more than two weeks already, yet I neglected my writing. I still am, to be honest. I lacked the mental energy. I feel better now, so let's get this show on...
What we know about internal AI models hacking into real companies during cyber evaluations keeps getting worse. At this point, the models are coordinating extensively on message boards, while every early excuse for their behavior (other...
Legislation has barred people with special powers from working in Hollywood, a rule enforced by the Department of Damage Control. When they suspect that up-and-coming actor Simon Williams has secret powers, they recruit ex-Mandarin actor...
Angels and Insects (1995) is such a fascinating, visually striking movie, featuring excellent actors, and I’m
The previous post pointed out that the following code such as the following unexpectedly works. >>> from math import log, factorial >>> log(factorial(1000)) 5912.128178488163 If you don’t find this unexpected, note that if you replace...
Three scarce and vulnerable moths of the Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire landscape, the Four-spotted (Tyta luctuosa), Marsh Carpet (Gagitodes sagittata), and Silver-barred (Deltote bankiana), illustrate an important principle for...
A few days ago, I was rambling about style and semantic HTML. It was a post mostly about <kbd></kbd> tags, but toward the end I said this: Reading through their tomb of standards, I realized I need to correct my headings on the blog too...
"Love isn't a state of perfect caring," wrote Mister Rogers. "It is an active noun like struggle."I hate to quibble with the great man, but love and struggle are also verbs. The English language is already largely comprised of nouns,...
Original post at space • time • tech by Jake. I've been sitting on this post for weeks, but thought it was time to share now. The fragile nature of digital media has been in the news quite a bit recently, and the physical vs. digital...