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Personal life update and links. Today I found out that Belghast from Tales of the Aggronaut passed away due to complications with his treatment for cancer. We weren't particularly close, but he was the one who started Blaugust, which was...
Doctor says six months. Your opinion was five years. Prayer changes nothing. Morphine does. You argue with your father about it anyway. Right up until he stops breathing. You were right. He is dead. Heart stops. No referendum.
What I'm...Working on Issues in our course content packages Balancing non-stimulating rest with work and play Updating my meal plan to remove strong aromatics (onions, steamed kale) Drinking Rosso Caffe lattes Playing Sudoku Listening to...
Creeping bellflower is a common edible weed in yards and gardens, spreading aggressively through seeds and rhizomes. It's one of the most difficult invasive plants I know of to eradicate. The good news is that it's edible, tastes great,...
Read the full post at - The Redeemer by Jo Nesbo I don’t like horror. I don’t like crime fiction. And I really don’t like gratuitous violence. And yet I have read so many Jo Nesbø books. I think that says everything you need to know...
One recent visitor to my yard asked, “Why all the sunflowers?” “I didn’t plant them,” I said. “Not even one.” “You didn’t plant them?” “They’re all volunteers. I used to plant sunflowers, but lately, every year, they just pop up on their...
The Birmingham bin strike has been rolling on for 18 months, and the workers - organised by Unite - have long suspected that the council's refusal to negotiate and willingness to throw money at breaking the strike, more than it would...
09:01 There is so much noise around AI. I want to intentionally slow down and work on something core. Basic. Like even shell scripts. Or HTML. Reply to this post
There is an old joke about a man who sells ten dollar bills for five dollars each. When asked how the business is going, he says it is booming, he just needs more volume. For four years we have watched the smartest people in technology...
My excellent wife referred me to Ben Franklin’s 229 Words for Drunkenness, thinking that it would bring me cheer and perhaps LH material, and she was right on both counts. Jack Shepherd writes: Anyone who’s had a toad and a half for...
Wednesday, July 1As part of the house battery short-circuit debacle, the RV had lost the ability to be charging its house battery while the engine was running on the chassis. I tried for several hours on and off and could not figure out...
via Electronic Gaming Monthly – Issue 125 (December 1999) I fell down a PlayStation rabbit hole, starting with Standard Issue Computing’s recent posts on the PS2 and how the media reported on it in the late 90s, which lead me to the...
How to talk about "AI" without adding to the anthropomorphization These are words that cast systems as doing the same work as people in various roles, and serve to hide all of the ways in which such automation falls short of what is...
Ford hired AI and sacked humans. It backfired badly “Mistakenly, we thought that by just introducing artificial intelligence and ingesting the design requirements that we had, that that would produce a high-quality product.” I assume the...
Mamdani: Democratic socialist candidates ‘can get elected anywhere across this country for any position’ "I think we are seeing a hunger that is not just felt by New Yorkers, but frankly by Americans from coast to coast, for a new kind...