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Imagine comparing the same sentence as it has been copied and edited in many communities for millions of years. Some words change freely. Others remain nearly fixed because changing them destroys the meaning. A third group changes in...
This is about what I’d expect. If it works, it will seem revolutionary and magical to most people–including in the EU, though that is another matter entirely–and yet I still think they could do better. People like me will carry on using...
Happy Bastille Day, though I confess that I am rooting for España in today’s World Cup semi-final match in Arlington, Texas! Now, picking up where we left off in my previous post, below is a comprehensive summary of Adam Smith’s survey...
Now that the new bootloader shown that it can be fast to write to the CH32v3xx flash, time to revisit the swindle way of loading code.(Gemini was really helpful again. But as a smart assistant, no vibe coding here).Starting point:So we...
Visiting Larkrail this weekend wasn’t just an exhibition, it was a long weekend spent with my now, very good friend, Simon Castens. Beyond the day itself, and the help I could offer in preparation too, we enjoyed time chewing over...
Hi there ULGers, Today I thought we could talk about an interesting niche brand that I fell madly in love with. Their Memory Motel was amazing, until it turned on me and started giving me headaches. SHAME! I was so bummed. Somehow its...
[NOTE: due to medical stuff and other commitments, I’m on a Tuesday/Thursday schedule this week. I should be back to the regular routine next week.] So funny that I was talking about digests last Friday, when on Saturday some came in and...
I think today's selection of STUFF FROM THE BOX is pretty nice! Hopefully you will agree.First up is this fun "encased cent" from the Stork Club in New York City - as you can see, this one also commemorates the 1939 New York World's...
Who did that?Many people see graffiti as a modern phenomenon. It’s the young, you’ll hear, who do it – they have too much time on their hands, they have no respect, they should do something useful, and so on. Against that, others will...
Got up at 9a.m. Cloudy at first but sunshine in the afternoon. Nell got a new carpet cleaner off Mrs Harris. Took Jane to see the animals at work. Dot took us and brought us back in the car.
I may have just spent my afternoon sucked into the impulse-buy vortex that is IKEA. I came for a packet of draw liners. I left with a bookcase, two mismatching bedside lamps, a bamboo foot rest, a set of kitchen cupboards, a plastic pot...
IH Loadstar (c. 1970), Pilot Point TX. I’m starting to think that the answer to the question “why am I here?” is “because my parents wanted to fuck 61 years ago.” I know there’s more to it than that, and at least in my parents’ case it...
Investors underwrite scaling laws because the alternative (having an Einstein discover better algorithms) is high variance What would it take to make progress towards general intelligence, where general stands for any problem that might...
I'm by no means a designer. I just love experimenting with this sort of thing. There are plenty of courses and articles about animations and micro-interactions online, but I've never really followed any of them. This is simply me playing...
We are in a culture of optimization, which means we are in a culture of slop.The core paradox: as soon as something is identified as “good,” it becomes optimizable. As soon as something is optimizable, it is scaled and mass-produced....