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“This is the strange thing about life, when people are confronted, they all say that the truth is what they want but when the truth disagrees with them, they balk at it as if it were an unwanted zombie apocalypse that only wants to...
There are a few ways to know that a file is a symlink. Here’s one I learned today.
We take a minor break in our Blockbuster posts for a A Few Good Things. I figured this would also be a good place to share a bit of information about The Blockbuster Chronicles. The entire series of posts is eleven posts, that will be...
Executive Summary: Improved buses to major shopping centres are the 'low hanging fruit' of the bus world. They have high patronage gains relative to their cost and often do not need network reform or new bus purchases. Many examples...
OpenAI has some severe misalignment problems, and experienced total failures of its infrastructure and supervision. I chronicled that in a series of posts, which also cover similar less severe incidents elsewhere: OpenAI Shares Some...
Even now, as you’re reading these words, hundreds of robots are poring over them, and carrying them away. Winging their way over the internet to massive data centres, joining trillions of their brethren in the mad dash to get eaten by...
"Oblivion of the Waves" by Anton Smit, side on Looking into the hollow head from behind I've seen the hollow-face illusion plenty of times in textbooks. It's something else to come across it as a massive sculpture in woodland. For some...
A year ago, I made the leap to lithium (LiFePO4). My lead AGM gave up the ghost, the result of a failed solar panel allowing it to go flat for too long. It was also long in the tooth. I wrenched my shoulder maneuvering it out of its...
View from Cariboo Dam, pre-run: High cloud, high humidity. Or something like that. In a remarkable turn of events, I actually headed out relatively early and started my run at 9:38 a.m. This is over two hours earlier than Monday’s run...
Ohmygod I’m still writing about AI on my political philosophy blogI wasn’t expecting to write a post like this so late into the AI bubble, which I wrote about in March, but after recent AI news stories I felt obligated to post this....
A day of mooching punctuated by an overdue visit from Roo to shoot the shit. Both our social batteries were low so it only lasted half an hour, but she brought brownies, which helped. Otherwise I seem to have got my reading bug back, or...
The Copernicus Browser can be used to browser through current and historical satellite imagery: think of it like the Google Maps “Satellite” layer, more up to date, but with less resolution.I zoom in to St. Peters Harbour, on Prince...
From The Making of the Modern Philippines: Pieces of a Jigsaw State, by Philip Bowring (Bloomsbury Academic, 2022), Kindle pp. 183-187: The island of Mindanao is the most misunderstood part of the nation. Decades of on and off conflict...
Took a trip to Texel today, visited Ecomare, saw the baby seals and the lighthouse at the northern tip of the island. Shot photographed lots of seagulls that were flying along the ferry on the way to and from the island. 👉 View 6 more...