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The Valuable News weekly series is dedicated to provide summary about news, articles and other interesting stuff mostly but not always related to the UNIX/BSD/Linux systems. Whenever I stumble upon something worth mentioning on the...
No Such Scene in the Picture We Have Access To, But We Can Dream, Can't We?Precode: Cagney with Blondell, Welcome to Hollywood, and Have a Hard SeatBLONDE CRAZY (1931) --- The first starring James Cagney after a quartet with him in...
Earlier this year I wrote about how old point-and-shoot cameras are always a gamble because they will fail beyond repair. It might be tomorrow, it might be in ten years, but each one will eventually become a brick. My Canon PowerShot...
Often, when leading a singing workshop, singers will start putting chairs out or standing in a circle. It’s maybe not the way I’d planned, but I’ll usually go with it. It turns out my singers are often more capable than they realise. I’m...
It’s a Monday Pressing Concerns! We’ve got new records from The Chutes, Inland Years, and Me, You, & My Metronome, plus a reissue from Great Plains. Check them out below! If you’re looking for more new music, you can visit the site...
Heading into Black Hat / DEF CON this week I think the biggest idea in tech right now isn’t the attacker vs. defender question as models get smarter.Nor do I think it’s the question of if/how we should control AI models, who should make...
The city giving the name to the adjacent lake. Those narrow alleys and old town centers are so cool in southern Europe.
Python A-Z is a blog series about Python. Each day, I share insights, ideas and examples for different parts of Python development that match with the letter of the day. Blaugust is an annual blogging festival in August where the goal is...
When does quality actually get decided on your team?Most people would say it's decided at the end - the final testing pass, the pre-release bug bash, the last sprint before launch.I don't think that's true.The teams I've seen ship the...
Welcome to my 201st gems post. This is where I share some of the latest news, ideas and resources for maths teachers.1. Volumes of RevolutionMy excellent A level student Samarth made a website volumesofrevolution.co.uk. He has very...
“The freedom of the open road is seductive, serendipitous and absolutely liberating. ” — Aaron Lauritsen We love a good road trip. Sometimes we're on a schedule and have to keep moving, but our favorite journeys leave plenty of time for...
Recent Comments daft punk — jg: “ Found it!As expected, I was looking for something else and found the CD cases that we used to keep in the car. Got a short road trip coming…”
I watched the video this post is based on a while back, and although I agree with much of it, I don’t think the underlying problem is that Swift is bad or that SwiftUI has gaps–which it does. Cocoa and Objective-C were a very tough act...
Is it possible to use ChatGPT and other large language models to promote critical thinking in higher education? As it happens, I am a member of a five-person team of college professors who have experimented with new ways of using GenAI...
1987 Ariolasoft Platform: Amstrad CPC Now many of you will know that Ocean released a game based on the licence of Madballs in 1987, though what you might not know is that another version was in development for Ariolasoft before Ocean...