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I have been tracking my gaming for a long time now, and now I have consolidated everyting. Over the last few days I have backfilled the lifetime totals from my Steam account (which I have had since 2009), extracted my 15 year old...
15 years ago, I was part of a school musical production. As a member of the supporting cast, I was given one line to deliver. Sounds easy enough, right? Everything was fine during rehearsals. But on the day of the show, I flubbed that...
In the previous video in our virtual memory series, we discussed demand paging. But that was mostly theoretical, explaining how demand paging works inside the Linux kernel and the mechanisms through which it handles page faults. In this...
This summary sounds a bit different than my usual summaries. The intro to last session explains why. I believe only 2 more will be written this way before we get back to my usual writeups. (although the audio is not returning) The Story...
Last week I wrote about the home theatre upgrades in the context of how it improved my videogame experience. This time I want to expand upon that to explore how it makes an even bigger difference to video (film/TV) content. When I was...
Look, I think we all get it: the light in LACMA sucks for paintings. It’s modernist curtain walls and curtains all the way down: @arthistory.bsky.social on LACMA But if there’s one work in the whole blasted out place where a reflection...
It’s been two months since my wife and I adopted our dog. She has been settling in, and getting more comfortable with walking further and further from her new home. A few days ago, we took her to the biggest park she’s been to so far....
Last month something failed in production that had never failed in CI. It compiles, unit tests are green, it builds. The contract between services matched the OpenAPI file everyone had signed off on. The symbolic world of the codebase...
If you have an ever so slightly twisted younger sibling, then you will understand the relationship between the World Games and the Olympics. They are a little different and certainly less conventional – and include sports such as...
Techno #feudalism is a description of the power that large #dotcons technology platforms now have over the economy and society. The comparison is with medieval feudalism. Under feudalism, land was the critical means of production and...
I was back on the Dice In Mind podcast with Bradley and Jason, talking about the new Microscope, the magic of This Means War, and just about everything else that crossed our minds: Dice In Mind (episode 176): Ben Robbins and His Socks...
My biased search expert perspective on where new AI teams run into expensive and unfortunate mistakes
Earlier today, I migrated my self-hosted UniFi controller from Network Manager to UniFi OS Server. One of the annoyances of the new setup is that it does not allow automated local backups - just automated backups to Ubiquiti’s cloud....
Hi, welcome to this write-up for the 78. Royal Company challenge from Bellingcat. Here you can see my thought processes and what steps I took to get to the answer, but of course there are many different ways of reaching the same results....
All our lives, we try to figure out the best possible way to live. We are constantly caught in the conundrum of whether to betray a friend to rise to the top or to remain true to our ethics. We struggle to answer whether being ethical...