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Have you ever been to Pompeii? Wait, do you know about it? It's an ancient Roman city that's been completely covered by ash and pumice after a particularly violent eruption of a nearby volcano, Mount Vesuvius. It's often mentioned...
News of another fantastic preservation story to share, this time for the Atari 5200. Thanks to a collaborative effort between several members of the Atari community, two long-lost prototypes by prolific Atari programmer Frank Cohen have...
Books books books. Only two finished in July becuase the third I started is super heavy and just slow to get through. A Darkling Sea - James Cambias A space and ocean adventure all wrapped up into one. It's got Star Trek Prime Directive...
Books books books. Only two finished in July becuase the third I started is super heavy and just slow to get through. A Darkling Sea - James Cambias A space and ocean adventure all wrapped up into one. It's got Star Trek Prime Directive...
Besides Why, in my day..., the other Slashdot meme from yesteryear that never failed to amuse is "If only there was|were some kind of..." However, Google, Kagi, and even Slashdot's own site search were all coming up empty. To satisfy...
Fred Hyndman died a few days ago, news I was sad to receive, as I had great admiration for him as a businessman, philanthropist, and raconteur.Back in the summer of 2019 I was invited to join John Robinson, Fred Hyndman, Alan Holman and...
The summer holiday is halfway. I somehow managed to read eight books in the past three to four months—including cheating by resurrecting a previously discarded book and by diagonally scanning a creativity-related book to find out if...
I think that does it! ✅ Mastodon account migrated ✅ Old bookmarks and block lists imported (only 3 people blocked apparently! The fediverse truly is a different kind of social media) ✅ Some of my old posts migrated via api ✅ Auto...
For eight years in the middle of the disco era, there was a place in Manhattan where you could grab a plate of barbecued chicken, take a dip in an Olympic sized pool, and watch forty or fifty naked bodies moving together on a mattress...
Blaugust is upon us, an annual challenge to set goals for the number of times you post in a month. Top prize goes to those how publish every day during August, but even five times will win you a bronze award. This is the first time I...
AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decision-Making Nikhil Suresh https://hermit-tech.com/blog/ai-mania-is-eviscerating-global-decisionmaking “Unfortunately, we live in a dark timeline. All of the AI projects we have observed as a team are...
From the desk of Benji Welner in Mexico City. Casting six aluminum statues was among the most challening things I have ever done. So, looking to take it easy the following quarter, I took a course all about casting: DESIGN223. Silver...
Printed these post caps. Perfect fit. PETG for outside and water use.
I did end up building a (very dumb) solution to making it faster to write small posts. It's a shell script called posthog.sh which: Opens a temp file in vim If I saved the file, asks if I want it to be a note or a full post and...
July came and went and I didn’t write a reply post to anyone. Why? I simply haven’t read anything that I felt I could build upon. I had a few knee-jerk reactions where I could have written a condescending reply post, but what’s the point...