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Bill McGuire is a respected geologist and climate scientist. His new book presents climate science, viewed through the prism of historical geological processes, to a non-academic audience. Reading it in the middle of a summer of...
L to R: Reylight Mini Pineapple v3 and Benchmade MBO in S90V Note: This review, as with all content I write on this site, is my opinion. It does not reflect the opinion of others, including the American Knife and Tool Institute (AKTI),...
A picture is worth a thousand LLM prompts: Horizontal value is the input value x for cosf(x), ranging from 0 to 2π. The orange line shows the result of evaluating cosf(x), which looks exactly as expected. The blue line shows the time it...
This is part two of my Mastek Battery Automation project with Home Assistant. I added a second battery, improved parameter handling in the Home Assistant GUI and overhauled the automation & balancing script for (almost) zero grid export....
IntroductionThe goal of in-place initialization is to enable the construction of types directly into a memory location without any additional moves or copies. When working with big types this can be more efficient and even prevent stack...
Three terrible and two good fortunes.
A space away from corporate giants While many of us lament the pull of online corporate giants, we also often neglect our own spaces online and end up like Ana with 5 posts a year. We want to complain about the consolidation, but are...
An food tradition so ancient it likely predates anything else I've shared on this site. Pemmican and it's cousin wasna may seem like a labor intensive trail snack, and they are. They're also useful teaching recipes, and portable,...
The Booker really does love a migrant novel. It has an excellent track record of recognising writers in diaspora, and it particularly seems to gravitate towards books about grieving a homeland, or a culture, that still exists but that...
Started reading All That’s Unseen: An Appalachian Memoir by Emilee Hackney a couple of days ago. I’m about a hundred pages in and I think this is going to be a good one.
Some podcasts are self-recommending enough that I look to break them down if I have the chance. This, as a debate about recursive self-improvement, was one of those. So here we go. The vibes have shifted, contrast this to the lit...
Quick premise on da boss's orders: Shrewfield-On-Avon, a rustic village whose particular location has swamped it with glaziers and pane-mongers after a longstanding window excises has ended. Home to a hydraulics inventor/weapons tycoon...
I use Packet Filter (PF) to set up a basic firewall on FreeBSD. To start, the only service I’m running that requires inbound access is SSH. SSHGuard is added for an additional layer of security. Start Here Enable PF SSHGuard ICMP Final...
In the past month, I have gone from 371 Common Milkweed observations on iNaturalist (17th in the world) to 678 observations (9th). Previously, I had not tried the “Identify” feature, but now I am up to 3,602 identifications.
In about 20 minutes, Singapore’s national football team faces Thailand. Winners of their group games, Thailand’s War Elephants pose an immense challenge to Singapore. This first leg of the semi-finals of the ASEAN Cup, held at home at...