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A couple of years ago, a friend of mine asked me if we wanted to exchange mixtapes. I was actually deeply afraid. Despite working with music, I'm very self conscious about my taste, probably due to some bullying during my formative years...
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“OpenAI is making a big change for ChatGPT users on its free and Go tiers: Starting next week, users on those tiers will be able to have unlimited text chats with the chatbot, according to OpenAI. Right now, you may run into rate limits...
In this blog post, we will tear into ChatGPT's code execution sandbox. We will decipher and benchmark the real compute and memory limits behind the claims of 56 cores and 4 GB of RAM.
Another fairly local harvest with Glorious Grasslands, at a farm near Sapperton. When I got there, I realised I’d done it previously back in 2023, but this was a different field. Two harvesters today so we set up a large tarpaulin and...
Why Target Common Lisp for Code Generation? I’ve been asked twice now: if the generated code doesn't matter—if the AI is doing the heavy lifting of writing the syntax—why do I vibe code in Common Lisp? Why not target Python, TypeScript,...
Just had a little trip up to my favorite city of Juneau, Alaska. So lovely. Here’s just one story from the trip. There is a Big Thing going on there right now which is essentially an impending flood that is going to happen any day now....
How uptight a place must Ravnica be if the theater community is made up entirely of hedonistic, nihilistic, demon-worshiping anarchists? I mean, I’ve known my share of actors, but this still seems like a slight exaggeration. (Disclaimer:...
Much progress yesterday and today. Builder Brad and Builder Bob were on-site with Bob's daughter and grandson, and Brad's right-hand-man Derrick to frame up the interior walls of the walk-out basement. It looks different IRL than it does...
Every disappointment, breakup, or failure turns into inspiration. A disappointment becomes a short story. A breakup becomes a poem. A failure becomes a lessons-learned post. Writing helps you revisit, process, and reframe. Nothing is...
I know that when walking the coast of Britain, many people did it to raise money for charity. I didn’t mainly because I was doing it whilst working full time and for my own enjoyment and I didn’t think I could really justify asking for...
Galen, On Avoiding Distress 1 (tr. Sophia Xenophontos): [You also said] that you learned that when his books were lost in the fire, Philides the grammarian wasted away from depression and grief and died, and that various others were...
A roundup of interesting links I have enjoyed recently. A typewriter wiki: typewriter.wiki William Jardine’s 40-volume series on natural history: c82.net A searchable index of nonfiction book prizes: book-prize-index.vercel.app The...
“The international finals for the world’s longest-running space engineering competition were held at NASA’s Kennedy Space Centre and the Walt Disney World Resort in Florida from 30 July to 2 August. Team ZA was the only African team in...