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I was recently working on a WordPress site where I needed to batch upload a bunch of text-heavy images and then generate posts, descriptions, and tags from those images while also setting the images as featured for each post. In the...
Marvel Entertainment / YouTube: Welcome home, Vision. Loading….Marvel Television’s #VisionQuest, arriving October 14 only on Disney+. Hey, remember way back in 2020 when WandaVision had us all captivated with our new Disney+...
Departing CDG on way to MSP! ✈️
Marvel Entertainment / YouTube: He used to be different.Avengers: Doomsday arrives in theaters everywhere December 18. Okay, maybe “brand new” is a misnomer, as this is the same trailer shown exclusively at Marvel’s Comic Con panel a few...
Star Wars / YouTube: Are you a Jedi… or not?Ahsoka Season 2 premieres January 20 only on Disney+. In what feels like a very long time coming, we’re finally getting the latest live action Star Wars series in the ongoing Dave Filoni...
Bill McGuire is a respected geologist and climate scientist. His new book presents climate science, viewed through the prism of historical geological processes, to a non-academic audience. Reading it in the middle of a summer of...
L to R: Reylight Mini Pineapple v3 and Benchmade MBO in S90V Note: This review, as with all content I write on this site, is my opinion. It does not reflect the opinion of others, including the American Knife and Tool Institute (AKTI),...
A picture is worth a thousand LLM prompts: Horizontal value is the input value x for cosf(x), ranging from 0 to 2π. The orange line shows the result of evaluating cosf(x), which looks exactly as expected. The blue line shows the time it...
This is part two of my Mastek Battery Automation project with Home Assistant. I added a second battery, improved parameter handling in the Home Assistant GUI and overhauled the automation & balancing script for (almost) zero grid export....
IntroductionThe goal of in-place initialization is to enable the construction of types directly into a memory location without any additional moves or copies. When working with big types this can be more efficient and even prevent stack...
Three terrible and two good fortunes.
A space away from corporate giants While many of us lament the pull of online corporate giants, we also often neglect our own spaces online and end up like Ana with 5 posts a year. We want to complain about the consolidation, but are...
An food tradition so ancient it likely predates anything else I've shared on this site. Pemmican and it's cousin wasna may seem like a labor intensive trail snack, and they are. They're also useful teaching recipes, and portable,...
The Booker really does love a migrant novel. It has an excellent track record of recognising writers in diaspora, and it particularly seems to gravitate towards books about grieving a homeland, or a culture, that still exists but that...
Started reading All That’s Unseen: An Appalachian Memoir by Emilee Hackney a couple of days ago. I’m about a hundred pages in and I think this is going to be a good one.