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Today is the Fourth of July Eve, also known as July third. For those of us in the States, today is basically part one of the holiday. All the offices are closed and it's not like any business is going to get done. I took Thursday -...
This new work from Gold Panda sounds like he spent the winter with Daphni and came out convinced of the power of the bop and the beat and the bass. I love this to start my summer. Some of it gets a bit repetitive - he hasn’t fully...
Lighthouse is one of the most successful developer tools we’ve ever shipped, and I say that as someone who is genuinely proud of the work the team has done on it. But something has gnawed at me for a while. Our ability to help the...
The first three days were like an exhaleAfter months of cocooningAll the moths in my chestBut each day after thatFelt like swallowing and vomiting sandThat came with briny tearsI lay on this shore numb as the cool water takesIts share of...
In philosophy of mind, people sometimes say things like the following: If functionalism is true about consciousness, then digital computers could be conscious; all it requires is that they instantiate the right programs. And yes, most...
Now, I'm sure the knee-jerk reaction to this will be "oh but you're OLD, no one cares about such things these days" but hear me out. It seems that if there is any way to "discover" events happening anywhere these days is to either follow...
Suppose that one has a set of points in the plane, which we will think of as the complex plane . Let denote the number of unit distances determined by these points, i.e., pairs of points whose displacement obeys the equation (For this...
This week, after a little under two years of having adopted the practice, Buttondown has minted its 200th decision log. This is a practice very similar to RFCs or ADRs, but I prefer the term decision because it's both A, used for a...
Hello, loves! We improve some code, reduce overall size and breadth of interfaces, make things better. CW: Brief LLM-“AI” remarks. I’m beginning with a review of the code around the new Connection idea, to see what can be removed and...
Imperial Watch Company entered the microbrand arena in 2022 with the release of the Royal Guard 200. In my review, I praised its retro charm and declared it to be… The post Imperial Watch Co. Rangefinder appeared first on The Time Bum.
(RD) Riddles No Why persist in parley with a slug A sewer being, always filing Oh another, self-riling, sipping idiocy from jug Consummate fool many times over, worsening as You’re older, more shapely in vexation and tangible...
The post Have you ever seen an avocado do this? appeared first on Greg Alder's Yard Posts: Southern California food gardening.
Probably the biggest fear of politicians - thinking citizens. An adaptation of The Thinker by Auguste Rodin. Imagined by me, rendered by ChatGPT
Heatwave 2.0 has been and gone, Prime Minister 9.0 appears to have been (amicably?) decided {{1}}, and the newspapers have instead reverted to saturation coverage of the 'soccer' World Cup. In the hope of also attracting some errant...
FUNLAND ROBOT SCOOBY DOO (EQUITY MARKETING) It’s Friday once again everybody. Welcome to Friday. Hooray. For my Flashback Friday Figure Addendums, I’m more often than not dealing with Marvel or Star Wars, but today I’m changing that up a...