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On May 4, 1970, Ohio National Guardsmen shot and killed four Kent State University students. The FBI found their self-defense claims were fabricated. No one ever went to jail. Here is the complete story.
For the weeks of April 21st and April 28th
Another uneventful week, starting with a few days of glorious wall-to-wall sunshine and ending with cloud and drizzle. Unfortunately, I didn’t get out in it often and instead have been spending even moretime at the computer. But first, I...
Otoliths - LithosI saw guitarist/vocalist Tom Smith play a few times well over a decade now with the great, under-heralded Bay Area band Social Studies. Smith takes center stage with Otoliths — and their new debut album is a crackling...
Part 4 of India’s space launch crisis: Why India needs to launch Chandrayaan 4 in time to ensure maximum national and international benefits | Moon Monday #273 and Indian Space Progress #38
As is always the case, this started with a simple question: Will AI change how networks work? Will it impact the speeds we need at home and on our phones? My assumption was that AI would accelerate this — personal AI agents querying the...
The Great Film.
I started working on the new Array data type for Redis in the first days of January. The PR landed the repository only now, so this code was cooked for four months. I worked at the implementation kinda part time (kinda because many weeks...
This beautiful fellow is a Piliated Woodpecker, which is apparently rare compared to the other types in this area. He sat at the base of what used to be our cherry tree and cleaned it out on Saturday morning, giving me enough time to put...
Perfume PossePlace holder I am away this week – and I didn’t manage to focus on a proper post. So, a place holder. Happy May Day a bit late. I have two lily of the valley blooming this year, as opposed to just… Continue Reading → Perfume...
Streaming fantasies
From the air, you can’t see the road, except from directly above, but you know where it is!
Every so often, I would notice that our upstream bandwidth consumption was going up. Average upload usage is growing 21.7% year over year, more than twice the rate of downstream growth. The network is finally tilting toward something...