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What's really needed is humility.
Farmer here. We would not need market interventions if we simply had high tariffs on food. Farmers produce a commodity product that has to compete on price with food grown in countries with zero labor protections (Mexico cowboys earn $17 per day on average vs WA state cowboys who make $17 minimum per hour) and zero environmental protections (many chemicals are banned from use here and engines need very expensive pollution mitigation devices). The post We need tariffs first...
I recently set up a local coding AI on my MacBook Pro M5 Pro with 48 GB of unified memory — no cloud, no external API, nothing leaving the machine unless I explicitly route it there. Here is an honest account of what I tried, what crashed, and what finally worked. The goal I wanted to run a capable coding model locally — no cloud, no API costs, no code leaving my network.
Why launch costs aren't the reason it costs a fortune to do things in space
When the Roman legions arrived at the Lima River, they were convinced it was the River Lethe - the River of forgetfulness, and refused to cross…
I’d like to start here (as opposed to somewhere else?) by putting something on the record. Or the cassette tape, or whatever. Travan tape? LTO? My esteemed BSD Now podcast co-host Tom says he has enough computers; sentiment to which I can relate. I have enough of these electronic contraptions to last me a lifetime of tinkering, upgrading, maintaining, maintaining, maintaining and did I mention…? Naturally then, I’d like to clarify that I have absolutely no need for...
Judges need accountability, judges need to be able to be fired when they behave illegally or unethically. Judge Ural Glanville at a minimum behaved in an unethical manner if not criminal manner by attempting to use prison time to force the attorney for the defendant to reveal attorney client privileged information. It shocks the conscience that this judge was not given prison time or at least fired from his job.… read more “Judge Orders Attorney’s Arrest but it IMMEDIATELY...
Some well modelled Dutch railways…. Urban trams…. HO, some of it modular on the grand scale…. And to close, how about these gigantic HO loop fiddle yards?
A continuously evolving list of observations from San Francisco.
We’re sending healing thoughts to our buddy DJ Ship Rex who is recovering from hip surgery. Rex’s latest gig was at Zombie Village last week, so a few of us went up to San Francisco on a weeknight to listen to some amazing music and wish our friend a speedy recovery. We arrived a bit … Continue reading "DJ Ship Rex at Zombie Village"
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Twenty Years Ago on FITK Every school had one. A place for that last butt before classes. The space between the garages was popular for those who were "sneak" smokers. The alleys were tolerated by the officals, better to have them there than in the lavs, I suppose. Girls all wanted to stay thin. Boys wanted to impress the girls. Everyone stank. There are still some from my high school class that
În cartea 1984 de George Orwell, la un moment dat este descrisă harta lumii și teritoriile controlate de cele trei superstate. Oceania cuprinde ambele Americi, Insulele Britanice, Australia, Noua Zeelandă și sudul Africii. Eurasia se întinde pe tot continentul european și pe întreaga Rusie, până la granițele Asiei Centrale. Estasia controlează China, Japonia, Coreea și teritoriile din jur. Acum comparați harta descrisă mai sus cu imaginea de mai jos. Harta...
I have talked about Vibe coding in a lot of my posts about AI and I just realized that some of the readers of my Blog Posts might not actually know what it means. ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) recently shared a Tech Brief on Vibe Coding (AI-Assisted Software Development, or Vibe Coding: Benefits and […]
foofaraw.press The first anthology from Foofaraw Press has arrived.A little bit of self-promo here, but over on the litmag I run, we released our first full length anthology. It's a book of 30 stories that were submitted to us based on the theme of "foofaraw: a great deal of fuss or attention given to a minor matter." You can pick it up directly from us as a limited edition hardcover, paperback or epub/pdf, or find it anywhere books are sold online. It was a huge labor of...