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AI can do anything you want or need it to. But it won’t. Not without intent. And the intent is solely yours. Error happened.
Un kolossal umano, poco divino e sorprendentemente sentito
5-star hikes • 5 to 8 mile options • Moderate & Hard | Gain 2,550 to 2,930 feet • Stowe, VT | Northwest Region . South view from Mount Mansfield's ridgeline Not to be outdone by New Hampshire, which lost theirs in a rockfall in 2003,...
Paul Kafasis, linking to an Ars Technica report with the headline “A missing underscore sent innocent man to prison for 18 months”, asks: While I understand how the mistake led to this poor guy becoming a suspect, I really can’t fathom...
Glen Hansard died. I’ve been listening to and writing about him and his music for damn near 20 years, so this is a gut punch. A few years ago I wrote an essay for Cinema Sugar about how seeing Once in the theater in 2007 completely...
Sorry for the delay getting this out — nixos2 developed a problem I've been chasing down as I could find the time, and it ate most of the week. There'll be a homeserver post on that saga soon. In the meantime, a lot happened with...
Lorenz and Little: How Much Does Your Tail Cost? Lorenz and Little sounds like hipster burger bar from 2015. It’s time for Marc’s Amateur Statistics Corner! Today: why I pay a lot of attention to tail latency when optimizing cost. I’ve...
There is a gap in one of my paintings, near the top-left where the brush ran out before it reached the edge, and through the gap you can see a photograph. Not a painted impression of a photograph — the photograph, blurred, pixel for...
Cleaning the larder, New tyres!, Why screwed up?, Electricity bill, Minitel cost cutting.
Bonkers sci-fi. This book appeared in the ongoing odyssey discourse, and a sci-fi book based on the iliad/odyssey sounded interesting, and having enjoyed his Hyperion and Carrion Comfort (⭐️⭐️) I thought I’d give it a shot. Absolutely...
So there’s this strange thing that happens to me where when I’m in a depression it literally affects my sight. The deeper I get into a depression the more I get literal tunnel vision, with all of the edges seeming hazy and dark…it’s as...
If you love cats, like me, and you like popsicles, please have a look at these images! This graphics pack, made with love by a human artist, contains 12 high quality, transparent PNG images of kawaii cat popsicles featuring kitty heads...
In June, Alex Hsu hosted an IndieWeb Carnival themed “No way!?”. June is now over so Alex diligently wrote a nice roundup of the results. I have to hand it to Alex and all the other IndieWeb Carnival hosts: reading 25 wildly different...
Chris Mowles reflects on the question of whether the consultant/leader is a healer or revealer and offers his thoughts that the second position is better: To take the second position is to work alongside the client/team in a way which is...
Sadness. I have to pee. Fatigue. An eeriness. A flatness. Liminal spaces. Nostalgia and Déjà vu. Water and dust. Asbestos and safety harnesses. Don’t fall down. Don’t fall down. Don’t worry, I won’t fall down. Splat. sigh I guess I’ll go...