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It’s all starting to feel a bit 2016 again, as on successive days we have to process the deaths of Dolly Parton, Tim Curry and Yayoi Kusama, three people who in their own very different ways, channelled their art as much into being...
I uninstalled NetNewsWire from my iPhone today. Last night, as I was dozing off, I had this feeling, this feeling that I've had many times in the past, that reading so much on the web may not be a good thing. Like I'm not getting the...
Radio access networks to merge in wholesale joint venture2degrees and One NZ say they plan to merge their radio access networks in a jointly-owned wholesale business.The transaction will be subject to approval from the Commerce...
2nd Place, City Scenes, State Fair of Texas 2026. Three of my photos just won ribbons at the State Fair of Texas. They were printed at 11x14" on foam core. One was shot on an 18-year-old DSLR, the other two on a four-year-old iPhone....
“You must be regular and natural in your habits, like a bourgeois, that you may be violent and original in your work.”- Flaubert
An attacker stole around $8.7 million from the Moonwell defi lending protocol after manipulating the price of an illiquid token called MAMO. After pumping the MAMO token price, they "borrowed" various assets and abandoned the...
Every list of the sexiest moments in movie history starts the same way. Ursula Andress walks out of the Caribbean Sea in a white bikini in Dr. No and cinema is never quite the same again. It's such a famous image that it's easy to assume...
Elves are classically pretty bishonen and self-serious, but the fact that in OSR games they fight as well as a Fighter while magic-using as well as a magic-user makes them the perfect OC-do-not-steal anime protagonist character option....
A new post from ben.balter.com · Read it on the web →The build pipeline behind Open and Async is absurdly over-engineered—five formats out of one Markdown source, a real browser auditing every push, the works. I built it to satisfy my...
I'm still digging into a mystery about the models I've been training; although an increasing number of them beat the OpenAI GPT-2 small weights on the narrow technical measure of the loss they get on a test set, they're not as good at an...
Pfff, it's been a while, right? I had sort of promised myself that I'd spend more time here, writing this and that, and a bit of the other. But like most things with me these days, nothing much came of it. Priorities changed, interests...
Dolly Parton, pictured in 1988 Country Music isn’t really my thing, but I was very sad when I heard the news a couple of days ago about the death of Dolly Parton. So sad, in fact, that I felt I had to wait a while before posting...
Record store shelves once told stories long before anyone dropped a needle on vinyl. A cover was an artist’s first impression, a single image meant to stop browsers mid-flip and pull them toward the turntable. Between the 1970s and the...
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A visit to the Lake District would not be complete without at least one walk to the top of a big hill. What with spouse and I not being regular users of shanks pony least of all up mountains I asked around for recommendations for a...