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1) And you start to wonder who isn’t whoand who isn’t realand then you start to ask yourselfand you think even more . . .then you rethink about who told youthey “were there” of how they were on your sideand next, you realize who it...
Italian Transport Minister Matteo Salvini went to meet President of Serbia Aleksandar Vučić, and promised there would be Trieste - Beograd direct trains. There was no commitment as to when these trains would run, or whether they would be...
I work at Automattic and they have an extremely unusual set-up (that I’ve written about before): they’re a wholly remote company and always have been. Maybe that’s not so unusual, except for the fact that they’re also a 20+ year old...
Licoricia of Winchester, the second wife of David of Oxford (one of the wealthiest financiers in England in the 13th century), was a successful businesswoman herself. Her first husband, Abraham son of Isaac, was an extremely wealthy...
I went to bed recently knowing the next day had at least three potential issues waiting for me. One had already made a surprise arrival that evening. Another looked like a tricky conversation. The third could go either way. I fell asleep...
What is Dave wearing today? Dave is wearing the overpriced T-shirt he purchased a while ago from a souvenir shop near Bryce Canyon, as well as running shorts and socks. How does Dave feel today? Dave is frustrangy, which is a portmanteau...
I’m a Florida Man.I don’t mean I’m one of those idiot caricature Floridians who are always making “Florida Man” headlines for bizarre behavior such as throwing a live alligator through a drive-thru window, or pooping on a dead possum...
Welcome to this week's Link Dump, which is so action-packed, not one, but four hosts were required!Two ships from the "dawn of naval aviation."It turns out that wild chimpanzees are pretty good drummers.If you're planning to visit the...
My new year's resolution is to play more video games with my wife. Specifically co-operative games. I hate playing competitively; it's rubbish to achieve victory at the expense of someone else. So I asked for recommendations and picked...
Picking up from Joseph's post.Not being from Maine, I didn't spend a lot of time reading or writing about the Senate primary. Here are, I believe, the entirety of my social media posts on the subject. If you look closely, you might spot...
Guten Tag allerseits, Look I know it’s incredibly wrong to like the Waffen SS but if we look at it objectively they were the quintessential bad guys. Along with all the other Nazis of course. I’ve always liked the bad guys but obviously...
After a downpour at dawn, the sky brightens, then darkens again. The aspen and tulip tree saplings in my yard take turns trembling in the breeze. The tanager sings.
It feels like the beginning of an inflection point that plans for a gigantic data center are being abandoned after years of litigation trying to block it. The story, as told by Etiido Uko at Tom’s Hardware, is that the last of several...
I've been ECS-curious ever since I learned about it in the Bevy game engine documentation.The ECS architecture predictably improves performance in languages that give you low-level control over memory (C, C++, Rust, Zig, and friends)....