Thu Oct 08
Und Gott sprach: “Geh hin, verbreite Irrsinn und was Nettes deiner Wahl.” Und so ging er hin und es war Irrsinn und etwas ausgesprochen Nettes, das er verbreitete. Und die Welt und alles auf ihr ward recht und gut und irrsinnig nett. Per E-Mail antworten
Comparto en este artículo los atajos de teclado que más utilizo cuando estoy usando el editor Kate de KDE En la terminal utilizo Vim y cuando utilizo un editor gráfico utilizo el editor Kate de la comunidad de KDE. Ofrece un montón de opciones, y complementos para utilizarlo con toda comodidad y ahorrarte trabajo...
Today I tried to add a couple of recently purchased books to my library database using my lccn2library script. It failed because the Library of Congress has either moved or deleted the files lccn2library relies on. Let’s say I was trying to add Applied Elasticity by Timoshenko and Lessells.1 If you go to the LoC’s...
Check out As in guillotine... for more. I grew up reading comics purchased from newsstands and bodegas in the Bronx in the 70s, and experienced firsthand the birth of the direct market via Moon Knight. One of my first jobs as a teenager was a Page at the Mt. Vernon Public Library, mostly shelving books and exploring...
Democracy Now! has a video podcast link, and has had one for the last 15 years, at least. This means you can experience the show in either audio or video. Amy Goodman, host and founder of Democracy Now, in their NYC studio. This also means you can watch their daily news shows for free on your favorite podcatcher...
In an earlier article I solved a 3x3 system by elimination; here is the same system written with matrices and solved by row reduction on the augmented matrix. $$ \begin{cases} x + y + z = 6 \\ 2x - y + z = 3 \\ 3x + 2y - z = 4 \end{cases} $$The same information fits into one matrix equation \(A\mathbf{x} =...
The folks at Read Freely Alabama are in Livingston, AL tonight at 6:00 p.m., in the Bell Conference Center and dinner is provided (it’s tacos!) The meeting itself is free and open to the public. On the agenda tonight is an open discussion about challenges to Alabama public libraries around the state and how you …...
I was in Geneva this week for a meeting of Ecma’s Executive Committee, the group charged with advising Ecma’s General Assembly on governance matters. I arrived the night before & had dinner just up the hill from my hotel (the citizenM) at La Favola in Geneva’s Vieille Ville. We jumped right into business the...
All crows are smart, but Pimavanserin is the smartest. It was she who long ago domesticated the fierce coyotes of the desert. Now, she perches atop the highest spire of their roost, the most splendorous cactus in this land of red clay, and waits—every day—for Flanders, George.Crows have no equals except, perhaps,...
One of my favorite places must be here. This place always seems like a home to me. A nice family owns it and I’ve been coming here for some time. It’s good to sit. To think. To write. Never feel rushed although today I did not get the table I always want. It never matters. This is it. My morning defined. My life has...
Each time you look up at the night sky, you see only ancient signals — by the time a photon has reached your pupil, the star that emitted it may be long dead. The great wonder is that its light can traverse immense expanses of space and time to gladden the darkness of today, to cast wonder upon this lonely planet....
Some might remember that, earlier this year, Valve made the Steam Machine available for purchase. I'd had my eye on one since they were first announced; I had it on my wishlist. Having had a lot of fun with my Steam Deck, I was sure I'd appreciate what was looking to be its bigger sibling (in terms of size and...
Here is another poem by Dick Davis – and why not? He's one of the best (and still living). This one is a rare excursion into something very like free verse, and I think it works beautifully. The Departure of the MythsNow that the series ofTottering bedizenedEdifices goes topplingAnd tinkling intoThe distance,...
Esse é um tower defense bem simples. Não sei se posso considerar um tower defense pra ser sincero. Como você só precisa defender um plano 2D, ele tá mais pra um defenda sua base de uma legião de inimigos enquanto tenta sobreviver o próximo dia. Apesar desses jogos assim raramente terem uma história e serem mais pra...
The capitalist man has a tendency to complicate (and charge for) everything around him. Want to go running in 2026? Buy a pro running shoes, drink whey protein every day, sign up and pay to run with other people and receive a banana and a cheap tin medal at the finish line. For a long time, I regarded the electric...
“AI systems… will transform the discipline: they will make philosophy more capital-intensive. “ * * * The following is a guest post by David Strohmaier, a philosopher and computer scientist in the Natural Language and Information Processing group at the University of Cambridge. In it, he explains why he thinks it’s...
I’ve been meaning to write down my thoughts about AI, specifically as it relates to programming, for a while now, but it has never seemed like the right time. Things have been changing rapidly since I first installed an “AI agent” on my PC 14 months ago. Every time I felt I’d gathered my thoughts, something changed:...
Stranamente da queste parti non mi pare di aver mai scritto niente di Ted Lasso, nonostante sia oramai una serie di culto per tanta gente e abbia appassionato non poco anche il sottoscritto...
I am at the beginning of my watch collecting journey which gives it the vitality of any new hobby when everything is exciting and new. Thinking about watches made me analyze my personal watch history dating all the way back to when I was just a kid.I first started wearing a wrist watch when I was 8, I remember it...
This is an entry from my journal. The other day I had a visitor from the region. My gate is always open. Anyone can walk to my window and check what I am doing inside. This is what a local community is about. Trust among people combined with transparency. The private space blends into the public space. I know them...
Ieri sera ho avuto il piacere di partecipare al meetup “M15 – Inference engines” organizzato da Andrea, Improove, community AI Italy, incontro tecnico molto interessante, ospiti di “casa Adesso.it”, dei sempre curiosi -nonché gentili e competenti- Stefano e Francesco. Sala colma tipica delle grandi occasioni,...
🎵 MuzicăB.U.G. Mafia (2026)★★★☆☆Mulțumesc că urmărești Jurnalul lui ThinkRoot prin RSS. Poți folosi și Atom sau JSON Feed.
TitleDisillusionment CreatorThomas Mann Year1896 Kindshort story Read2026-10-09 FormatHardback (Wydawnictwo Czytelnik, 1956) SourceLittle Library LanguagePolish NoteTranslation by Leopold Staff VerdictA brief, depressing dialogue, and a pleasant one at this length. Any longer, and it would become dull.
In my deep study of both Catholicism and Mormonism over the past year or so, one question that seems to keep coming up is: how can I know when I have been forgiven of sins? Latter-day Saints believe that we can know we have been forgiven of our sins when we have truly repented and we feel peace and joy through the...
Thinking about multi-environment general systems vehicles #rasdFastwalkerLeague View on Bluesky
My notes from this talk by Alexander Petros at Big Sky DevCon 2026. Alex starts by noting how “modernize” used to mean something along the lines of “update this thing that was made before I was born”. But now “modernize” means something more like “update this thing from 5-10 years ago” (hence the framing of the...
08 Stinky | INDEX | 10 Mystical There are at least five different meanings for the word ram: animal, computer memory, hit, force, truck brand. Two of these are depicted in this surreal, mixed-perspective illustration. Self-imposed constraint: Use the letters of the prompt word inside a 2-inch square to illustrate...
Over the years, I learned about many gotchas and strange differences between keyboard handling on Mac and Windows – pertinent especially to web apps, which use the same codebase to cater to both. I thought it might be helpful to someone if I compile them all in one place. This post is meant to be a reference, and...
A guide on using GitHub Actions for automating workflows in your GitHub repository.
La paradoja tiene algo de justicia literaria. El escritor que durante años escribió contra determinadas convenciones de la novela ha acabado convirtiéndose en una referencia para quienes escriben después de él. Lo que entonces podía parecer extravagancia, juego, contaminación de géneros o insumisión respecto de las...
I have done three out of four things right with climate. I eat only plants. I do not drive. I do not fly. Three for four. My failure that torments me every day is that I have not been able to convince all of my friends and fam. That is my failure. I just never figured out how. I read Skeptical Science. They read...
Exit Party is the seventh novel by Canadian author Emily St. John Mandel, and was published last month. But savour the trademark mind-altering synopsis: 2031. America is at war with itself, but for the first time in weeks there is some hope: the Republic of California has been declared, the curfew in Los Angeles is...
I find myself in a very interesting predicament where as my two favorite hobbies often compete for the same periods of free time. I have done very nicely without much planning involved so far until the Summer Game Challenge, and since that worked quite well, I thought it may be useful to write down a list! For now...
I've been riffing on a new Pagecord theme today as part of an improvement I'm making to the 'Cards' layout. I think it's pretty cool. What do you think?
Translation of a letter from pope Adrian I to Charlemagne, about the expulsion of all Venetians from the lands of the former Exarchate.
The golden window of tech may have expired. In 2010, I came across a video of Mick Jagger being interviewed (text version here). It was for a re-release of Exile on Main Street with 10 new tracks. During the interview he says this: But I have a take on that — people only made money out of records for a very, very...
I've been sitting here for the past half hour trying to figure out what to write as an intro, but I really can't think of anything. I'm at a café as usual and I was kind of absentmindedly watching the people around me and I noticed how nice these public places are, because they bring people from all walks of life...
October 2026. Derby. 53 minutes said Google Maps. With some giant steps I made the trek from Derby Station to Darley in under forty, and that was with stopping every 200 yards to gave at flowers and pubs. This Instagram may be AI Slop, but it’s wise advice. Getting out the house and pounding the industrial estates...
By: Paul Elliott | Rating: 3/5I have now read this book 2 times.I seem to remember this book differently. I bought it thinking I would learn a lot of late roman tactics, training and equipment, but this book really skims over all the topics it touches very superficially.
clz and ctz are instructions that compute the number of leading (trailing) zero bits in a fixed-size integer. They are natively supported by modern CPUs, though they are not always fast, e.g. tzcnt has a latency of 3 on Arrow Lake. I used ctz in an FPU emulator I’m working on, but figured out how to avoid it with...
Worker sweeps leaves and other residue from the western approach to Meiji Jingu shrine. 作業員が、明治神宮の西側参道で落ち葉や小枝を掃き集めている。
I don't have an inflated enough opinion of myself to think that many people will miss me. However, I don't want anybody that might be wondering why nothing new has appeared here for ages to think either that I've died, given the few recent posts about my health, or have just given up blogging. I'm officially 'having...
In this post, I argue that individual intellectual activity can only be sustained in an intellectual community of other humans. AI dissolves these communities, which in turn makes private intellectual activity rarer. The Case of Software Some years ago, when it became clear that AI would solve software engineering,...
Last edited 5 minutes ago. I have nothing to do on my phone anymore. I feel that urge during the day to take out phone so I'm either not bored or procrastinating something I don't wanna do and... I have nothing to do on it. Without social media on it anymore, and now without my main game I used to play on Apple...
I felt I lost my vibe with blogging by the end of September. I felt disheartened. I could see that sadness and restlessness weighed me down, but that didn’t help much. I reflected on what happened in the past with these feelings. Every time, no fail, I quit my blog and started all over again, because the weight was...
Looking forward to seeing IndieWeb-curious folks at the meeting (and the regulars of course!) I might be travelling later this month or next, so might be playing it by ear for the following HWC: AP. Subscribe to IndieWeb Events ICS to get the latest events in your calendar! [For up-to-date content, visit BurgeonLab...
I have been wondering why the past couple of years have been so much harder on me even than Trump’s first presidency, and this is exactly why. There is just so much happening, all at once. (Beware: image and link heavy post below the fold; both the images and discussion of government violence rape may be...