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pi is my favourite agent so far (mostly) I really like the claude harness. I think it writes pretty good code and I like to shape it as it writes in my IDE - rejecting bad stuff early. But I reflect that I mostly do this because its soo...
🚲 Now I get it just worked out Ryan and I cycled 12km today. No wonder I am aching all over. Meanwhile the 8½ year old isn’t feeling a god damn thing.
New premier Ben Carroll is busy putting his stamp on the state Labor government he took the leadership of last week. After distancing himself from his predecessors ("I'm not Daniel Andrews. I'm not Jacinta Allan") his first action was to...
Another new-to-me book to-read…someday.
Taking a test…
I’ve written previously about gene drive technology, which allows gene editing of entire species. This works by engineering alleles that are inherited at greater than the expected Mendelian frequency of 50%. One example is a CRISPR gene...
Finished reading Bonhoeffer today.
We all know the routine. A superhero movie comes out and struggles so people ask, "Are superhero movies done for? Do people have superhero fatigue?" or, if the lead is female, "Why don't lady heroes sell?" even though flicks with dudes...
As expected, we lost little Batman last night. I kept an eye on him on the critter cam and knew he was gone when I used the camera to chase out the raccoons in a kibble tray nearby, and there was no movement. He is now buried under where...
Okay, last post for today, I pinky promise. Sort of as a followup to what I just posted, I wanted to talk about some issues I have with other people’s rhetoric in general. I am not completely innocent of these either! But it’s worth...
Markdown has become a convenient working format for AI, but it is missing a review layer. MarkLeft keeps Markdown as the editable source, renders it as a document, stores comments inside it, and asks AI to append suggestions instead of...
“Are you wearing the—” Mirage is the name of the dress, Dior Haute Couture F/W 26-27 via Yahoo “The airbrushed T-shirt version of the 1974 artwork Lynda Benglis ran as a two-page advertisement in Artforum that sparked an editorial...
This guitar is still looking for a new home. My skills as a player are sadly lacking, perhaps because I spend so much time building guitars at the expense of time devoted to practising, but I've posted a short clip to YouTube anyway to...
ZFS includes inline compression, meaning files are compressed and decompressed on the fly. While you might expect this to reduce IO performance, it’s been proven to improve throughput by reducing the amount of expensive reads required,...
I’m a day late for a Music Monday, but I had to share this! Drumeo is such a fun channel for learning drums, and the drum theory behind popular songs. My favourite series involves the team playing the melody and vocals for a drummer,...