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Evolutionary biology has come a long way since Darwin published On the Origin of the Species in 1859, so much so that we may have to start calling it evolutionary chemistry. Joking aside, this fascinating glimpse into Darwin’s thoughts...
My dad is dying. He's been dying for a long time—many years. As long as I've known my husband, and longer. We've had so many years of "who knows if this is his last Christmas," except, those years all seem kind of silly now. We know this...
Hand Holds On Bench PlanesI wonder if we truly understand the hold we have on bench planes, the subtle grips, the slips and slides left and right and then the difference between skews and slides and a combination of both in a sliding...
Reviving an old cast iron pan and baking cinnamon buns.
New word for me from today’s Apple crossword: “pluot.” Well, and “aprium.” You’d think they were plum/apricot hybrids, and they are, but it’s more complex than that. Simple hybrids are calls plumcots and apriplums; these are “later...
📷 214/365 - Pond reflection.
My enthusiasm for gadgets has steadily declined over the past few years. At least aside of music-making, because let's be honest: you can never have too many music-making gadgets!There's one gadget I've been having an eye on for a long...
* Hooded figure on the beach by Engin Akyurt via Pexels ** Introduction Last week was one of the sadder weeks on the celebrity front with the passing of both Dolly Parton and Tim Curry within a day of each other. Both of them were people...
Typeclasses are an overloading mechanism that allows compile time or runtime polymorphism. A typeclass method call like m a b ... (or a.m(b, ...) in Rust) resolves to a concrete method based on the type arguments passed to the method....
Many AI products right now follow the same recipe: take one bounded capability, wrap a model and a chat loop around it, and call it an agent with a hip .ai domain. Truth is, it is still just a tool, only now with a probabilistic...
Hello, loves! Buzz is supposed to take the flower. Make it so. Tout le monde déteste l’IA. Blurb says it all. Let’s look at Buzz’s code when he encounters Dot while she has the yellow flower. class QuestGiverDenizen: def __init__(self,...
I recently visited Trustees of Reservations property Lowell Holly in Mashpee and Sandwich, MA, on Cape Cod. It’s a pleasant hike with lots to enjoy. Lowell Holly abuts Wakeby Pond and Mashpee Pond. There are beaches on both ponds along...
The goal of this article is not to wax lyrical about the potential of pre-existing anarchist societies and projects, I will not be discussing Rojava, the Zapatistas or Chaz. Indeed, Benn Jordan and The Pondscum Collective have both done...
A sticky note from The Umbrella Man and Other Stories: What We Talk About When We Talk About the JFK Assassination, by Martin Fitzgerald: talking to witnesses is as close as I'll get to being there and if they can't agree on the basic...
Here is the summary:By the '90s microcomputers (computers based on single microprocessors) grew big enough to run Real OSes with memory protection etc. Most 20th century vendors did not have such things in their 1980/1990s OSes and...