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Without the best gear, your photos could turn out to only as good as this––a mere snapshot!Don’t let this happen to you. (click to enlarge)I’ve now done some extensive, in-depth, scientific research and it is clear to me that better gear...
A throwaway line in Pulp Fiction about finding your food waiting for you when you get back from the bathroom. On why noticing small good things is a skill rather than a mood, and why it is not the same thing as being told to count your...
Christoph Rauscher, in a post about his 6th year running a weeklong workshop called Writing = Design (which sounds lovely): It was so peaceful, this one week of human writing. We developed sentences from words, focussed on first drafts,...
Hey there. Here are 4 links worth sharing this week: #1. I didn’t use magazines, but I learned coding by typing examples from textbooks. It isn’t as fast as using an LLM. It was something else entirely (3min). #2. One of the lessons from...
"Now a drop of good beer is good for a man Who's thirsty and tired and hot, And I sometimes has a drop for myself From a very special lot; But a fat and healthy working class Is the thing that I most fear, So I reaches my hand for the...
This article explores a software licensing system used in a proprietary enterprise software package from circa 1994, which is no longer supported by the original developers. The licensing system operated on the basis of short...
Who’d a thunk this would happen? Hint, anyone who knows even the slightest thing about tech in today’s world. Anthropic has disclosed that Claude, its prized AI stallion, has escaped all of the guardrails and hacked into three other...
I guess I can no longer call this little corner of mine a beta, now that I have started telling everyone this is my new (and only) blog. And if my plan aligns with the universe, this will be last (and only) blog, until, you know, when I...
I hate Google's garbage that comes with the default android installation on most phones. Some alternative android ROMs exist (GrapheneOS and /e/OS are the most popular ones), but I wasn’t particularly satisfied with my options:...
The Prada Marfa sculptural installation by artists Elmgreen & Dragset. The post West Texas Prada appeared first on 75CentralPhotography.
One recent development in AI is its ability to solve some long-standing problems in mathematics. In 2024 and 2025, this was a trickle: once or twice a year somebody would say that an LLM came up with a proof, and then everyone would...
Left for my VA appointment at 0700 to get my blood work done. The blood draw waiting room was almost full. I guess the hurry up and wait mentality of the military never goes bye bye. I had the blood draw early so it would be done by the...
There is a level of stupidity that only smart people can attain. Extraordinary skill and mental firepower are needed to reach the absolute peak of stupidity. Marx. Ayn Rand. Eugenics. Radical Chic. Universal basic income. Mortgage-backed...