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Kamikaze tricyclists and fighting on the beach I grew up in the Fifties in Port Tennant, a tight-knit community on the east side of Swansea, in a world of terraced houses and sprawling, imagined battlefields, shared uneasily with my...
In the previous article, we looked at std::indirect — C++26’s answer to the “I need a heap-allocated member with value semantics” problem. indirect<T> always stores exactly a T. But what if you need to store a Circle or a Rectangle...
You have probably heard of Tommy Wiseau's The Room, a B-movie that everyone mocked upon its release, only for people to return to it years later and admire its lack of quality and horrible dialogue, making it a cult classic as something...
I.Matthew Adelstein (aka Bentham’s Bulldog) and Richard Chappell debate the existence of God. So do JP Andrew, Benjamin Tettu, Sangwon Lee, Ethan Muse, other Ethan, and “Atheistic Journals”, all within this month! I thought the...
Early this year, I set up Linux Mint dual boot with Windows 11, coming back to desktop Linux after so many years: Return to Linux While my time with Linux Mint has generally been good, I have been meaning to try some other distros for...
In a prior post, I mentioned the scene from Casino Royale where Vesper Lynd says, “I’m the money” and Bond responds, “…every penny of it.”I suddenly started wondering why Bond would say the word “penny,” given that it’s a name for a unit...
When we think of ferocious predators among animals we likely think of sharks and grizzly bears, big creatures with teeth. But I remember as a kid watching ladybugs on a rose bush moving through aphids like a combine through wheat. They...
Since this is also Witchcraft Wednesday, let’s talk about desire.Occult magic begins with wanting.Not wishing. Not hoping. Wanting. The kind of desire that keeps one awake, sends one back to the old book, makes them draw the circle one...
It’s definitely not covered really anywhere, but the early ’90s college music scene was super neo-hippie, so much so that there was a term: “neo-hippie frat rat.” I’m not sure there was anywhere in the world more full of neo-hippie...
Twenty Years Ago on FITK … Another Saturday night and I ain’t got nobody, I got some money, ’cause I just got paid… How I wish I had someone to talk to, I’m in an awful way" -Sam Cooke A ritual in hundreds of cultures, for thousands of...
A little less than six years ago, I started looking at moving from Doggcatcher to Podcast Republic. 24 Hours later I was pretty happy with my choice. Time and technology march on and, while looking at some software on Flathub, I...
Karl Bode: So prepare for a year of breathless and evidence-optional claims that Chinese AI is a dire threat to U.S. consumer privacy and national security, followed by an elaborate bipartisan train of bad policy and shitty new laws...
I am sitting on a chair in Victoria. I stayed with my brother’s high school friend. Me and my Italian cousin and my brother’s other friend. We swam in the ocean yesterday. We saw some sea otters. I found a ping pong paddle. ——- Later in...
A great how-to on moving from a Docker volume to a bind mount. That being said, I don't necessarily agree with their benefits breakdowns for each. For example, as a benefit of using Docker volumes, they say: Persistence: Even if the...
Patrick Dubroy, Fast is better than slow: Think about it — if you’re fast, you get data more quickly. That helps you make better decisions, sooner. It also means you learn faster, and over longer periods it means you learn more. Being...