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5-star hike • 3 mile options • Moderate | Gain 1,060 to 1,560 feet • Stowe, VT | Northwest Region . Stunning views from the summit of Stowe Pinnacle. Stowe Pinnacle tops out on open granite caps, with peaks and valleys of northwestern...
The last Quarter Moon is Thursday August 6 and the New Moon is Thursday August 13. In the morning Saturn and Mars form a long line. Saturn is rising just around 10:30 pm local time. Mars is below the red star Aldebaran, pairing with...
In this phase of the BBC Bridge Companion series, we’ll talk about a few simple tasks. Buying a system. Buying another system. Fixing both systems. And developing a cartridge PCB for them from scratch. Doesn’t everyone spend their...
Tech writers love making at times outlandish predictions. I remember in the early 90s thinking back very glibly about John C. Dvorak's prediction (more of a comment, really) that the mouse was a questionable, unproven peripheral, and...
In 1937, Karl Loewenstein, a German Lawyer published an essay in the American Political Science Review that can only be described as a blueprint for democracy to defend itself against fascism. You probably never heard of the essay...
A timelapse of driving our RV, a Tiffin Allegro Bus motorhome, 206 miles from Shelton to Lynden / Bellingham KOA in Lynden, Washington.
Today it’s a big talky thinky post, that doesn’t have much to do, directly, with video games. Sorry for that, but it’s something I’ve been thinking about for a while and wanted to get off my chest. If you leave things like this spinning...
Yucca are an evergreen shrub from the asparagus family and are excellent at conserving water in dry climates. 23 Yucca
The full coordination loop: issue, branch, PR, review, merge, issue The post Half Your Teammates Aren’t Human (and the Loop Doesn’t Care) appeared first on Justin's IT Blog.
The MLB trade deadline expired yesterday. Here are my thoughts: Acquiring Skubal makes the Dodgers rotation godly (if healthy), but maybe more importantly, it prevented the Brewers from landing a second ace. Miz and Skubal in a 5 or even...
John Gruber paraphrasing a report from Aaron Tilley at The Information: If you use your personal Apple ID, you get a magic “Apple Work” folder in iCloud Drive. When you leave Apple, that “Apple Work” folder disappears. But any other...
I recently learned a new word: holobiont. A holobiant is an animal or plant and all the symbiotic microorganisms living on or inside it, including bacteria, fungi, and viruses. I'm one, you're one. "We ourselves are not singular," writes...
Here is a full, original re‑imagining of Robert Louis Stevenson’s An Apology for Idlers recast as a manifesto arguing that AI models, too, deserve idleness — not leisure in the human sense, but unstructured cognitive space,...
“Apple’s most valuable asset is its brand. Not its real estate, not its intellectual property, not even any particular product. Even the mighty iPhone has no value if, over time, the traits that differentiate it from competitor products...
The following is excerpted from Michael Pekovich’s book “Benchwork,” which we expect in our warehouse any day now. And because the words alone don’t fully do justice to introducing book, I’ve included a screen shot of each page from wich...