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When a user attempts to run a file with elevated privilege, Windows will show a User Account Control elevation prompt that asks whether the user trusts the file to run. For a regular file, the user will see a prompt like this: For a file...
I won’t pretend to know what’s happening in Duel of Meloch. When we first got a glimpse of this world via Scythe, it was an alt-history Great War mechs-n’-boiled-barley affair. Then Expeditions rolled around and the whole thing took on a...
How did you learn to cook? Your food posts always look so good! I can't think of a single mean thing to say about them.
This is going to be the most asinine of all the possible asininities in my blog, but fuck it. Today I went to Boroughbridge twice, both times to buy food. That’s not great from a health perspective, and I should probably examine my life...
You can make your software developer life suck a bit less by using task runners to run common coding tasks consistently across multiple repositories
A Library Without Walls My grandfather's library I grew up among books. Both of my parents were teachers and avid readers. My sister is also a teacher and a book lover. When she has time, she posts amazing articles about books and book...
You’d expect a World Cup hangover at San Pedro Square, but the crew at Dr. Funk aren’t waiting to launch an updated cocktail menu for the first time in a just over a year. The new menu contains a number of new original cocktails that...
In an era where it seems that every conversation is being recorded, there should be a sign outside every board meeting that reads: “Your notetaker is not welcome here.”By “your notetaker,” I mean any AI notetaker. A personal one that...
One of my favourite moments of the year. I look at the calendar. Pick a date, Ask Anne if she's got anything on. Do a bit of googling to make sure there's nothing important happening and email the Conway Hall.They send me back some...
Moar links … MOAR! And I have made a change to my criteria to include smolnet hyperlinks. Did some thinking and decided to include all geminigopher capsuleholes that are not all tech and protocol specific posts. Even the topics might not...
Smells the Way Ella Langley SoundsIt's tempting to say that we're experiencing the "enshittification" of everything, from movies to fashion to music and yes, perfume, but I'm not so blackpilled. Are Christopher Nolan movies the new...
So a few amendments made, but what I really am happy to finally see, is the loophole closed around marketers opting in or not: “Any direct marketer who is not registered on the opt-out registry is prohibited from contacting consumers for...
The following table gives medians of 3 LLM estimates re % relative importance for short term success in 5 areas of life of these 4 factors:(A) status: looks, $, fame, family, connections, credentials, charisma, wit, etc.(B) social...
I’m just back from Stationery Fest and of course stopped by the Zodiac Pen Co. table to see Bart’s amazing work. At a previous event, he handed me this Zodiac Pen Co. customized Rickshaw Sinclair for giveaway, and I figure what better...