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Enlarged and realThe potato chips on this potato chip bag may look a bit "off". That is because a real potato chip from inside this bag has been placed on top of the "enlarged to show texture" potato chips. The real potato chip is close...
Hello again, from Hotness! Yes, it does get warm in Minnesota— yesterday the high was 95 degrees. The cantaloupe I'm trying to grow likes it, at least?(This is a little bit late because family stuff— everything's good, but I had to...
Eric Klinenberg at CNU34Twenty-first century social infrastructures are already reviving civic life in nations across the planet: public plazas in low-lying cities that double as massive water storage systems during extreme weather...
I've been using Hermes a lot lately. Especially after reading Duarte's post At first it was interesting mostly as a tool. Another AI agent, another interface, another way to ask models to do things. I've tried Openclaw, Nanoclaw and many...
09:19 If for nothing else, I love following FIFA matches live just for the atmosphere. 22:33 There was a time when I enjoyed playing PC games. Even though I was never good at them. I was reminded of this while listening to Tom Scott...
“It is the first thing any one has to learn in order to live,” Henry Miller wrote in comparing the art of living to dance, driven by rhythm into which the dancer must relax. “It is extremely difficult, because it means surrender, full...
Table of Contents 1. The Night Feeling 2. Nighttime on the Farm 3. After Hours 4. Night Weather 5. Closing Thoughts 1. The Night Feeling There is a feeling I’ve had most of my life that I’ve never had a good name for. It shows up at...
there's a particular sadness to witnessing life happen without you pictures of happy moments yourself not included because you wanted to believe you didn't need that connection that's just the way we are, you know we don't keep in touch...
14 years, still going strong. People don’t realise that “Just get a Brother laser; it’s fine” is the highest possible compliment for printers. If you want a printer to (1) sit near-dormant in deep sleep for weeks or months on end, and...
Mario Kart World for the Nintendo Switch 2 adds a new unique game mechanic for the series where courses that neighbor each other in the sprawling world map can physically and thematically morph over a short transitionary “lap”. These...
I don’t know if it’s coming from this wishful thinking that’s taken hold again that “neurodivergent people’s communication is honest and clear and direct, but neurotypicals’ is deceptive and unnecessarily vague,” but if it is— From the...
DevRelCon NYC is the developer relations conference for North America, it’s happening in Brooklyn on July 22 and 23, and I’m a speaker! Here’s a quick writeup of my talk, as it appears on the schedule: The Market is Trying to Tell You...
Rudolf Koppitz survived being shot down over enemy territory in 1917, won a bravery medal, and went on to photograph Bewegungsstudie, the most widely published image in Austrian photography. Here's his story.
Some time ago, a friend of mine asked if I know an app which could allow him to analyze his spending based on bank statements. I did a quick research and I found a few tools like this, but nothing looked good enough for me to safely...
How a trillion-dollar industry started doing Econ 101 in public, and discovered that the math was never on its side. Somewhere in a glass tower, a banker looked at OpenAI's actual audited numbers, did the arithmetic that everyone had...