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What is this?! Third grade?! I don’t need THAT MUCH validation. *Sighs* • You like a post: ACHIEVEMENT! • You create a post: ACHIEVEMENT! •You break a daily posting schedule: ACHIEVEMENT! And so on… And furthermore. I am over it....
We didn’t have a bumper crop of plums this year, but the ones we got are plump and juicy. I made a plum pie, and though Jae loves plum pastries I find them more tart than I care for. I do like plum bread, though, and plum sauce, so I...
It’s been six years since I visited with Lane Winslow and her neighbors in King’s Cove, British Columbia, where she settled after WWII, hoping to find a peaceful place to rebuild her life. She has been partially successful: she is living...
This is a post about a simple concept. In .NET, I want to know how many processors exist on a host/VM. However, as far as I can tell, there's no APIs for that in modern .NET. If you need that information, this post shows the only...
Part of the User Manual Series where I give some brief overviews of the media, experiences, thoughts that help make me...me. Released hourly on my 32nd birthday. Fantastic Mr. Fox The first time I finished reading a book that I...
Translated from French into English by Mark Hutchinson. This book isn't out yet, but will be in November 2026. I received a digital ARC from the publisher (thank you!). I was excited to read this title after having read "A Leopard-Skin...
My interest in LLMs has increasingly shifted towards smaller models, small in terms of size and their ability to run on modest local machines. For some time now, I have been using models with fewer than 40 B parameters on my machines in...
During the month of August I will be participating in Blaugust, a month long blogging challenge. Today’s TDC says: Neal.Fun has another interesting site: Constellation Draw. See what you can design in the skies for the Daily Create...
I was in Denver last week for work. I managed to get out to Red Rocks on my final morning. It was fantastic during the day—I can only imagine what it would be like seeing a gig there at night. 🔗 ∙ Tagged in My Photos, Travel.
"The Flight 93 election" was a term used by conservatives in 2016 to justify voting for Donald Trump. The basic idea was that, even though Donald Trump was essentially everything we, well, knew he was -- a racist, an idiot, a wrecker --...
Our post last week prompted some interesting comments and responses, including a couple which suggested that the market ought to sort it out. Kien Tan is a retail consultant and analyst and one of the most interesting people we follow on...
OTD in 2008, I began blogging about family history. I was a decade into my genealogy research and my first blog post was about great-grandpa Meyer Elias Mahler (1855?-1910). In the 18 years since that initial post, I learned lots more...
I have just finished reading Seething Lane by Jack Jewers, a novel in which Samuel Pepys is reinvented as a sleuth, swashbuckler and firefighter, acting on behalf of Charles II to investigate the murder of a libertine aristocrat. First...
Part of the User Manual Series where I give some brief overviews of the media, experiences and thoughts that help make me...me. Released hourly on my 32nd birthday. Jurassic Park Dinosaurs are cool. The original released not long before...
Here are images from the second roll of Ilford HP5 Plus I shot at the car show. I used my Pentax 645 and my 75mm f/2.8 SMC Pentax-A 645 lens. I developed in Clayton F76+ 1+9. I liked how these rolls of HP5 Plus turned out in Clayton...