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“Ruins confound the normative spacings of things, practices and people. They open up possibilities for regulated urban bodies to escape their shackles in expressive pursuits and sensual experience, foreground alternative aesthetics about...
The evergreen forest of Colorado’s Rocky Mountain National Park‘s Prospect Canyon. The post In Prospect Canyon appeared first on 75CentralPhotography.
For many years I have loved Phoebe Atwood Taylor’s 8-book Leonidas Witherall series (published under the penname Alice Tilton), but I must admit I have never quite got hooked on her longer Asey Mayo series. However, Penguin recently...
This post was last edited 14 minutes ago. Due to fortunate personal circumstances, my family and I were able to be away from our home for nearly two months. For me, this meant not having access to my desktop PC, my servers and other...
I’ve read several standalone novels by Louise Douglas and enjoyed them all, but haven’t tried any of the books in her detective series set in France until now. This is the fourth in the series so I hoped it wouldn’t matter that I hadn’t...
This is a part of a series of blog posts on self-hosting atproto components. The previous ones are [Self-hosting your PDS] and Self-hosting and Tangled. atcr.io is a container registry on atproto, it’s a place where you can push your...
Since the last update to ChatGPT voice, I’ve been enjoying talking to it while driving, and since I have a daily commute of about 30 minutes, I’ve been talking with it a lot. It’s great to bounce ideas, get philosophical, learn new...
This week’s group post asks us about our motivation to blog, and Krikket gives us a set of prompts. Here they are, with my answers. Q: What tricks do you use to keep yourself motivated when something feels impossible? Bricolage. Roughly...
What is this?! Third grade?! I don’t need THAT MUCH validation. *Sighs* • You like a post: ACHIEVEMENT! • You create a post: ACHIEVEMENT! •You break a daily posting schedule: ACHIEVEMENT! And so on… And furthermore. I am over it....
We didn’t have a bumper crop of plums this year, but the ones we got are plump and juicy. I made a plum pie, and though Jae loves plum pastries I find them more tart than I care for. I do like plum bread, though, and plum sauce, so I...
Part of the User Manual Series where I give some brief overviews of the media, experiences, thoughts that help make me...me. Released hourly on my 32nd birthday. Fantastic Mr. Fox The first time I finished reading a book that I...
This is a post about a simple concept. In .NET, I want to know how many processors exist on a host/VM. However, as far as I can tell, there's no APIs for that in modern .NET. If you need that information, this post shows the only...
It’s been six years since I visited with Lane Winslow and her neighbors in King’s Cove, British Columbia, where she settled after WWII, hoping to find a peaceful place to rebuild her life. She has been partially successful: she is living...
Translated from French into English by Mark Hutchinson. This book isn't out yet, but will be in November 2026. I received a digital ARC from the publisher (thank you!). I was excited to read this title after having read "A Leopard-Skin...
My interest in LLMs has increasingly shifted towards smaller models, small in terms of size and their ability to run on modest local machines. For some time now, I have been using models with fewer than 40 B parameters on my machines in...