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Amidst a flurry of wildly erroneous charts and figures President Trump announced his “Liberation Day” tariffs on April 2, 2025. These included the boldest action any U.S. President has ever taken against the Heard and McDonald Islands....
you say I can do whatever I want and I lose the ability to speak as if I don't remember so clearly the consequences of the last time I did so out of proportion and one year later I haven't heard a single sorry
I’m on holiday so I shouldn’t really be writing a weeknote but I’m getting lots of designers reaching out to me on Linkedin who have never worked in the NHS, wanting to work there. This is my personal view and not my employer’s. Being a...
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I got sick. I don’t know how I managed to catch a flu-like virus in the middle of the summer, but I did. Funny, in English you say “catch a virus” but in Turkish we say “get caught by a virus”. I don’t know who caught whom, but I had...
Yesterday I wrote that a lot of the special functions that pop up in mathematical physics are solutions to second order linear differential equations with polynomial coefficients. More generally, holonomic functions are defined to be...
I spent two months cloning almost every OS posted to r/osdev and running the code through an analyzer. Almost everything was a reskin of a reskin of Linux, and almost nothing boots on real hardware. Then I said so in public, and 137...
Hello, loves! This morning I’ll try to spike in a Section for the Scroller. I’ll waste 90 minutes. This afternoon, I’ll win! Tout le monde déteste l’IA. We’ll need three Sections if we stick with Sections: the map, the scroller, and the...
Country/blues tune, a little bit risqué, popular with the novelty acts in the 40's and 50's. The 1933 release by Bill Carlisle of "Rattlesnake Daddy" is generallty credited as the very first and original version. Two years later bluesman...
It’s been a super lazy week, I’ve enjoyed it immensely. My only real social activity was a few drinks after work on Thursday. Nothing too carried away and nothing too expensive (the main goal). It’s hot again. Our flat is hot again. I...
The new Spider-Man movie has been out for two days and it's already made more money than The Odyssey.
The Far Outliers are back in the Pacific now, as my reading reflects. I’ve been reading a new book that came out after we left for our academic year in Poland: Family of Spies: A World War II Story of Nazi Espionage, Betrayal, and the...
MARY DURHAM, Mystery Writer: A Bio-Bibliographical Essay by Jamie Sturgeon. If you look in Hubin, the indispensable Crime Fiction Bibliography, amongst the authors, you will see the name Mary Durham, for eleven murder mysteries she had...
Some years ago, more specifically when Top Gun: Maverick was released, something not so unusual happened. I was too broke to see it in theaters. A few months later, I finally watched it at home, and I regretted missing it on the big...
We went in search of the brown pigeon with string foot again this weekend and although we spotted him twice he was far too wary to come close enough for a rescue attempt. So instead we went to St Nicholas Kirk to say hello to the very...