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“You must be regular and natural in your habits, like a bourgeois, that you may be violent and original in your work.”- Flaubert
An attacker stole around $8.7 million from the Moonwell defi lending protocol after manipulating the price of an illiquid token called MAMO. After pumping the MAMO token price, they "borrowed" various assets and abandoned the...
Every list of the sexiest moments in movie history starts the same way. Ursula Andress walks out of the Caribbean Sea in a white bikini in Dr. No and cinema is never quite the same again. It's such a famous image that it's easy to assume...
Elves are classically pretty bishonen and self-serious, but the fact that in OSR games they fight as well as a Fighter while magic-using as well as a magic-user makes them the perfect OC-do-not-steal anime protagonist character option....
A new post from ben.balter.com · Read it on the web →The build pipeline behind Open and Async is absurdly over-engineered—five formats out of one Markdown source, a real browser auditing every push, the works. I built it to satisfy my...
I'm still digging into a mystery about the models I've been training; although an increasing number of them beat the OpenAI GPT-2 small weights on the narrow technical measure of the loss they get on a test set, they're not as good at an...
Pfff, it's been a while, right? I had sort of promised myself that I'd spend more time here, writing this and that, and a bit of the other. But like most things with me these days, nothing much came of it. Priorities changed, interests...
Dolly Parton, pictured in 1988 Country Music isn’t really my thing, but I was very sad when I heard the news a couple of days ago about the death of Dolly Parton. So sad, in fact, that I felt I had to wait a while before posting...
Record store shelves once told stories long before anyone dropped a needle on vinyl. A cover was an artist’s first impression, a single image meant to stop browsers mid-flip and pull them toward the turntable. Between the 1970s and the...
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A visit to the Lake District would not be complete without at least one walk to the top of a big hill. What with spouse and I not being regular users of shanks pony least of all up mountains I asked around for recommendations for a...
This is from The Intersection column that appears every other Monday in Mint. If the United States had not coerced India to restrict its relationship with Iran in 2018, we would likely have bilateral annual trade of over $20 billion...
I am using the typewriter that Catherine Hennessey gave me to type gallery labels for a show that Lisa and I are mounting on Monday. It’s a very satisfying machine to use, and I’m very happy with the results.Come to The Gallery starting...
The LGBT community is mourning the loss of two queer icons in two days: Dolly Parton, the honorary drag queen and fierce voice for tolerance, and Tim Curry, whose arch performance as Frank N Furter in Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975,...
The battle of France is over. I expect that the Battle of Britain is about to begin. Winston Churchill - June 18th 1940 Churchill’s famous speech on the 18th June in 1940 came a few short weeks after the British Expeditionary forces...