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There’s something incredibly sweet about praying for another person, and it’s a sweetness that cannot be found in praying only for ourselves. It’s as though we empty ourselves of our own needs and desires, if only for a moment, and allow...
Me and lots of people I work or interact with are using AI to build things. The kind of things they are building vary a lot so I figured I would write down a few of the archetypes and some brief observations on each.Type 1 : A long...
“Company destroys two million books” is not a headline that generates sympathy. – ISBNdb Welcome to the Future (#1351) Minority Report meets 1984: The FBI office in charge of maintaining the terrorist watch list is seeking an...
I believe everyone should try a Linux distro and see what you think. Unlike Microsoft Windows Linux provides multiple versions to try. Think of it like an adventure. You may want to run it from a DVD to see if the distro fits your style....
Editor’s note: Our Mind Upon Mind series is a nod to a 1937 Chips from the Chisel column (also featured in “Honest Labour: The Charles H. Hayward Years”), in which Hayward wrote, “The influence of mind upon mind is extraordinary.” The...
It is deeply uncomfortable to admit, but there is truth in the old claim that one becomes more conservative with age. This isn’t a ‘bit’, burnishing my credentials for an application to become Director of one of the new Centres for...
the sky's not supposed to be that color the air's not supposed to make you sick and the cold wind that blows through the fraser river valley is supposed to be a godsend not a curse i am listening to the click-click of the filter in my...
The default way of sharing data between Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) is mounting Windows directories inside WSL. This works, but is rather slow. There is a different way: Mount a WSL file system under windows. You can even mount a...
You say you want to be a doctor. Have you ever been a doctor? No, you haven’t. So you don’t want to be a doctor. You think you want to be a doctor. Detach. Don’t go through medical school as if it’s your one and only possibility. You may...
↬feddit.uk/post/53318007/26670384 My site has been having some strange activity recently and has been crashing, maybe I should check to see if the same things are happening to me…
Time? What is time? Is this a weeknote or monthnote? I don't even know anymore. It's a note spanning what my mind is willing. I've just read about shifting from operating in chronos time to kairos time, and it's sticking. Kinda hard when...
Lately I've had the opportunity to travel by train and coach, during which time I also tend to work. It's really only during these periods that I'm reminded of how web sites fail so terribly over a slow connection. On the odd occasion I...
Image from the Blaugust Discord channel and community During the month of August I will be participating in Blaugust, a month long blogging challenge. Last year I wrote a post about my blogging journey as part of the Reclaim Hosting...
This intrigues me quite a bit, since I’ve been looking into ternary models myself. It isn’t hard (at all) to beat Gemma 4 on quality, or to push tokens quickly through consumer hardware if you accept the quality trade-offs, but there may...
Welcome to a new Work in Progress Wednesday post, we start this week with a sci-fi theme. In an attempt to recapture his youthful gaming days, Stephen has been painting up some mechs for a game of the original Battletech. Some of these...