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Out early for the moon and whippoorwill, and soon enough the only blue sky we’re likely to see all day. Everything drips. Half-open aspen leaves hang like gray dishrags from the sapling in the yard.
In the morning, the sun shines brightly onto our patio. When I wake up, I […]
Given the current price of computer hardware, there’s a good chance I’ll be sticking with the generation of equipment I have for a while. While I always appreciate more performance, I also care about power efficiency now that I’m looking...
My wife wants a new headboard, after we got rid of our traditional mattress in favor of an adjustable one (because we are old…make fun all you want, I haven’t woken up in the middle of the night since it was set up a month ago). As a...
In this post, I’m going to show you how I told FreeBSD’s newsyslog to ignore any compression directives and just rotate the file. I will also speculate about some historical items which may be widely incorrect. If you wish to correct any...
Last year, I was still shell-shocked.
Our next entry in the archives is Monster Demolition, which has had some video footage online of the game running for many years. The game was apparently turned into Rampage, though as you can see – this was looking quite different, with...
Horseshoe crabs are marine and brackish water arthropods of the order Xiphosura — a slowly evolving, conservative taxa.Much like (slow) Water Striders (Aquarius remigis), (relatively sluggish) Coelacanth (Latimeria chalumnae) and (the...
A lesson we can derive from Rust’s error handling and async libraries, and Haskell’s effect system libraries, is that languages need to have opinionated (and efficient, flexible) interop features. If not and the language is flexible...
Experiments with getting usable outputs out of local models on a standard Macbook
Selected readings "Crab raccoon" (9/1/24) "Crab raccoon, part 2" (9/2/24) "Commas matter, Oxford and otherwise" (4/17/22) — lengthy bibliography on commas