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I have been reading some of Richard Moorhead’s new book, arising mainly from the UK’s Post Office scandal, “Frail Professionalism? Lawyers’ Ethics after the Post Office and Other Cases”. It is open access, and available as a PDF (linked...
“Wishes and Fears,” a new, very short story of mine, composed of four even shorter stories, is published online today in the New Yorker. Enjoy!
Viz Media released the first book in this three-volume series way back in 2006. Why am I just now picking it up? Well, last weekend, when flipping through some of the old manga on my bookshelf, I saw an ad for Rie Takada Punch! in the...
Open the nginx configuration file /etc/nginx/nginx.conf Set server_tokens to off http { server_tokens off; } Apply modifications systemctl reload nginx.service
Today it’s eight years since I started working as a house inspector. Best job I’ve ever had, and I have had quite a few different ones. If you only count unique visits, leaving all revisits out, today’s last job marked visit number...
Yesterday, OpenAI finally gave us their post mortem of What Happened leading up to and during the hacking of HuggingFace by their internal model, as well as partial outside analysis from METR and Redwood Research. The reports are a...
[Giving away hundreds of million of books is an incredible legacy.] Dolly Parton died on Tuesday, but the legacy of her Imagination Library will live on. It’s the best of humanity. Dolly herself was from a hollow in East Tennessee, and...
Every summer, I look forward to having the truck at home, so we can head north - across the border - to explore some of the most amazing landscapes in the entirety of North America. In all those travels to Canada, the Kootenays - in...
"We should banish the idea," writes Alfred North Whitehead, "of a mythical, far-off end of education."We require our children to go to school, not just for their own good, but, ostensibly, so that they will be prepared for the rights and...
Much as in Slay the Spire (or Dominion) a strategy can be good or bad depending on the other cards in the pool. Here is where I am at after my 5th Full Counterstrike game. In general — Production worlds have priority over military...
Abxylute has officially unveiled its upcoming mobile controllers — the M5 and M6 — which look suspiciously like the MCON and upcoming MCON Slim. The Abxylute M6 Details are light about the features here as the Kickstarter page only seems...
... Etiquette, Vaccination, and MoreTwice yesterday, I encountered two of my favorite commentators urging a more self-interested discussion of two things America would do much better with more of: etiquette and vaccination.Both were a...
A timelapse of driving our RV, a Tiffin Allegro Bus motorhome, 261 miles / 420 km, about five hours of driving, from Wild Rose RV Park in Hope, British Columbia, Canada to our home base near Shelton, Washington, USA.
I never did make that post about what I saw at VCF (Vintage Computing Festival) Midwest, even though I still have all my photos. Some time soon! In VCF Southeast a few weeks ago though, there were a number of hopeful indie developers who...
There has been an increasing awareness across the United States regarding surveillance cameras, specifically the ones from Flock. These unimposing cameras are black, mounted on thin black poles, and are covered by a small black solar...