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Dana G. Smith, writing for The Sydney Morning Herald; People who have strong relationships generally live longer, and the unicorns known as “super-agers” — older adults who have the memory abilities of someone 20 years younger — tend to be especially outgoing. On the flipside, chronic loneliness raises the risk for...
Corbusier Chapel, Ronchamp, France, 1955, René Burri, Swiss, 1933-2014 8:55 am October. whenever Normal Living
Other photos to show the size of the pizza (or conversely the baby) were in focus, but this one had the best expression.
There are few experiences where the situation is so incongruent that you are left utterly speechless at the absurdity of it all, your mind incapable of processing what just happened, after feebly trying to search for an explanation. One of these is the soundtrack for Resident Evil: Director’s Cut DualShock’s Mansion...
In this ~2-hour video, I talk with Ovidiu “Ovi” Stoica about programming in Clojure and using it for business, the use of Emacs, and various topics related to AI. About Clojure, I ask Ovi what the language is good for and which sort of business/project benefits from it. He explained at length the strengths of the...
During a break today, I watched a YouTube video about how to promote yourself, and the creator talked about newsletters. Now, maybe I’m out of touch, but I thought newsletters were a thing of the past. I know anything like that on my end goes right to spam. I also don’t sign up for newsletters, so maybe that’s why I...
Do Product Owners "Own" Their Own Product? This is a question I've been asking myself for a long time, and I still can't answer it with a simple "yes or no." The classic answer, "it depends," could be well applied here. I mean, my answer can vary from time to time, depending on the context I'm working in. The reason...
One of my biggest concerns, and also a challenge many people are facing, is the reduction in the number of entry-level jobs, primarily due to AI; everyone is now looking for an experienced employee. Especially in a sector such as tech, this should be alarming because of basic math: fewer junior engineers means fewer...
There’s something exhilarating about taking a shower and stepping out into the city, a light breeze whipping through your damp hair. You’re coming down from a weightlifting session—a disappointing one—but the subsequent shower has lifted your spirits, left you breathing a bit more clearly, your skin awash in...
You are sending a PR upstream. You accidentally commit it with the wrong email. First, you prevent this mistake from happening again by updating your ~/.gitconfig. And now you need to fix the most recent commit. You can easily do so with: % git commit --amend --reset-author --no-edit Alternatively, with my aliases:...
I almost forgot how to write these. On Monday morning my roomba (which isn’t a roomba) managed to ram itself under my couch. It usually doesn’t fit underneath the strut in the front, but sometimes, with just enough speed, it can get it. And of course it won’t get out and just beep sadly.Apparently that […]
Coming back to this blog feels like sneaking into my own apartment, trying to be quiet, even though this is my apartment. I guess that's just how it feels to come back from internet death. I didn't mean to disappear for the whole of September (and half of October), but sometimes life creeps up on you. When I started...
I have a job with a company laptop. They use Google Drive for their project folders, and this is not something that I will ever change with them. The also use Salesforce for almost all the things, and that is worse than any business "solution" that I have every tried …
This question has been doing the rounds in my head for a while since completing #PaPy. Why does a blog’s sitemap.xml need to have <lastmod>? According to the specs, the tag is not mandatory and besides that, it does not really fit into a blog, I don’t think. At least, I cannot justify using it as I fail to see its...
Ten years ago I had some thoughts on turning 40. Now I’m at the next milestone birthday with a few more thoughts to share. A lot of life has happened in ten years. Let’s start with some birthday facts: Fifty years ago today, it was a Tuesday (like today!) and the weather was fair and mild in South Jersey. If my...
La comunidad de KDE cumple 29 años lleno de vitalidad. Un proyecto que sigue evolucionando y mejorando es un proyecto vivo.
A few weeks ago, I mentioned in a footnote that I have a script that takes a URL on the clipboard and makes a Markdown reference-style link in BBEdit. Actually, I have several link-making scripts for BBEdit. I’ve written about some of them already (including very long ago), but never about all of them. Buckle up.
🌐 Distributed Training 🚀 Scaling: Overview ✅ Goal: Minimize: Cost (i.e. amount of time spent training) Maximize: Performance Note📑 Note See 🤗 Performance and Scalability for more details In this talk, we will explore the intricacies of training foundation models on supercomputers. We will discuss the architecture of...
On the sixth day of our Black Forest trip, we visited two special spots at a gentler pace after five active days. First, we explored the picturesque yet tourist-frequented Mummelsee, then hiked towards Hornisgrinde’s moorlands before retreating due to weather. Later, we ventured on a wild, natural forest path,...
“Here’s the pitch: it’s a philosophy movie…” “Huh.” “based on a philosophy book…” “I’m listening.” “by an actual philosopher.” “Go on.” “That is, a philosophy professor.” “You don’t say.” “An analytic philosophy professor.” “Sold!” Okay, that’s not how it happened. But somehow, Tetralogue, by Timothy Williamson,...
Ayer se acabo el ciclo oficial de soporte para Windows 10 poniendo fin a 10 años de esta versión del sistema operativo de Microsoft. Fue la elección que tomé al volver al mundo PC, sobre todo después de tener la Raspberry 400 para usar GNU / Linux (de hecho tuve que deshacerme de la partición […]
Suppose we answer the most important question of existence in the affirmative. There is then only one question remaining: How shall we live this life? Despite all the technologies of thought and feeling we have invented to divine an answer — philosophy and poetry, scripture and self-help — life stares mutely back at...
The Wanted Detective was a surprisingly entertaining costumed detective drama during the busy CDrama summer months of 2025. An original script ( a rare breed) with tight plotting and fascinating characters.
I subscribe to DistroWatch’s feed in Miniflux. Through this, I learn about different Linux distributions. Today I saw an update for FunOS. That is a fun name, but what is FunOS? [A]n Ubuntu-based Linux distribution featuring the lightweight JWM window manager. Interesting. According to the FunOS website, it is built...
I wish I could’ve seen it when you blew up your television —Baxter So this review is going to be very spoilery so please just go read the book; start with other Gibson books (like Burning Chrome, which is referenced and spoiled here in Count Zero) before this one, though, unless you really want to jump in the deep...
October 2025. Bucharest. The last of the Bucharest posts, you’ll be delighted to know. If nothing else, Mrs RM will find them useful when she comes to her own more forensic blog and wonders “Where was that fancy meringue ?”. This was Tort de Bezea, one of numerous upmarket cafes in the snappily named Sector…...
Vembanad Lake is one of the longest lakes in India and the largest in Kerala. It touches three districts in Kerala. So when we thought of exploring Kerala, we wanted to start with nature, and backwaters were the first thing that came to mind, besides beaches. We chose Kumarakom as it seemed to... The post Kumarakom...
Blog post where I discuss my thoughts on one of the game routes and the accessibility add-on, Katawa Shoujo: Re-Engineered.
Testing out Helix as my new text editor I first tried out Helix several years ago before I even gave Neovim a real shot. I’ve seen a few posts pop up about Helix this past week, so I had the idea to ditch Neovim and give it another go. Julia Evans: Notes on switching to Helix from vim Artem Golubin: How I’m using...
When a German Government Airbus A350-941 is scheduled to appear in NUE, no self-respecting airplane photographer would miss the chance to capture it. This explains why I got up at 7:00, and after a quick shower and breakfast, I jumped on my bicycle.
Dear Colleague, I understand that you wish me to participate in your protests against the Trump administration’s proposed “compact” with American universities. I will do so on one condition: that you openly acknowledge (a) that you were completely comfortable with the Obama and Biden administrations’ use of “Dear...
My most recent charity bookshop purchase was a slim volume of essays by Clive James titled Latest Readings. 'Essays' is pushing it, actually: most of these pieces are little more than jottings occasioned by James's most recent reading and rereading in the long period of relapse before his death. As he says, 'If you...
Ten years after cellphone manufacturers stopped putting headphone jacks on their devices, you still can't buy a USB-C headphone adapter that you can be sure will work.
I’ve been making a lot of mini foldy zines recently. Some of them are me revisiting old zines, some are new. My next job is to get them all listed in my shop. Slight tangent, but speaking of shops, if you prefer to use a marketplace type place instead of my cool little independent shop, […]