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I find them useful in terms of looking back over the past week to reflect on moments from my life, the media I’ve consumed etc, but by and large they are starting to feel a little performative. I’m posting them because I feel like I...
I oppose Trump's SAVE Act for reasons I have already elaborated upon. It is nevertheless interesting to see that even some of its supporters see its passage now as a disaster, as it is currently written.At The Washington Examiner is an...
After writing the previous post about metallic ratios, I thought about the analogy to alchemy and the attempt to make precious metals out of base metals. When can you make one metallic ratio out of another? Can you make the golden ratio...
The idea is, that if I can figure out sourdough now, I will have perfect bread by the time it starts to get cool. That’s when it really counts. :)
Wassup, Traipser! Dakota here with my newsletter, which I started 13 years ago when typewriters were more popular than iPhones. AI wasn’t around then and I sure as hell don’t use it to write now. (It would scrub my jokes, probably comma...
I semi-jokingly say that that Alsace deserves to be called Südpfalz since the cultural border there is not clear unlike the country borders. And I mentioned back in the day that a lot of places in central Rheinland-Pfalz (or...
My last post /habits-1 suggested 'homing' as an alternative to habits. However, inhabiting the constants of my day has led to creating a 'capsule wardrobe' of useful repetitive actions. I think the following is the best way to wear...
My Third Blaugust entry, In Which my Gardening Adventures Lead me to find a very pleasant suprise.
I am wearing a Microbrand Watch of the Year contender. This Indian watch sold for $42, sold out in a flash, and they won’t ship to the United States. If… The post Delhi Watch Company Terra appeared first on The Time Bum.
This is the kind of inference optimisation work I have been doing in go-pherence and my personal llama.cpp fork, but at Cloudflare scale. I have been trying to squeeze more useful models into the hardware I already own; they are trying...
You know those unicorn cakes that are all the rage right now? Like this? (By Rosanna Pansino) Well, this bakery tried to recreate one, and you guys...It's just sad. Huh. I always figured unicorn tears would be more glittery. *** Megan's...
LAMY has released so many awesome colors in the past couple of years I’m still finding different models in the stash to give away. This time, it is the LAMY AL-Star in Aubergine, with an Extra Fine Steel nib. Read the rules below and...
Ankur Sethi argues that manually retyping LLM-generated code is a practical way to avoid cognitive debt. It slows you down, but helps you understand the code, catch bad suggestions, and keep a strong mental model of your codebase. Read more
Introduction Going to make a bet that you didn’t know that I was gone, and really, you don’t give a bleep. And you know what? That is perfectly fine. In fact, I’m happy if no one missed me. Want to know where I went? No? Well, okay… But...
So Beautiful. I absolutely love astrophotography. @GLaG_38