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When the edible images only stick to icing, but you're too lazy to frost the whole cookie: We don't talk about the first one. I'm pretty sure they mean the soda, but tell me you don't want to drop this off in the break room when no one's...
Nothing about the current trajectory of AI development is inevitable. It was shaped by the thousands of subjective decisions of a tiny elite, and continues its march based on the active participation and tacit consent of people globally....
By Major Darren Johnson During the Second World War, the United States (US) achieved success on the battlefield, largely due to its effective coordination of air and ground forces. The integration of these elements did not come easily;...
Seems Europe is a good excuse to do some DJ mixing too Recently on a conference trip to Amsterdam for the excellent PublicSpaces conference, I took the Eurostar and it was a interesting experience with the whole outbound ride taking...
Someone posted my little rant about restarting my Mac on Hacker News, and it went viral. As in more than 10,000 hits. 10… thousand… I don’t even know what this number means. To be fair, it’s mostly the discussion taking place (over 300...
In big, enterprise IT departments, the question of build vs buy will often come up. A well intentioned leader will challenge a group Do we really want our talented (and expensive) engineers building this thing? This doesn't feel like our...
A walk along the pier - Howth, Ireland, 2007-04 Alicia and I visited Dublin back in 2007. Confident that, after many years of visiting as a child, I knew my way around the city, I set off confidently on a tour of the town centre. It was...
the past couple of weeks have been full of chores and odd tasks. %%yellow%%in the past, i probably would have just clumsily rushed through my task list and been done with it%%. but it seems my brain has evolved and i have calmed down...
Deep orange sky, hot sun (photo from Wikimedia Commons) 2 July 2026 We have been living with extreme heat in Pittsburgh since Monday 29 June and we’re learning how to cope, but it’s worth pointing out Extreme Heat will continue in the...
Reaching and walking across the Mississippi Headwaters. I’ve now seen the very beginning and very end of the mighty Mississippi. Bucket list item achieved!
As someone being made laid-off next week, I have been spending hours back in the job market and researching how it works now. I've already been watching fake recruiters up close. They have changed. The old ones were easy to spot. The new...
Qui devo ringraziare sia Zel che mi ha fatto conoscere questa ormai storica band romana che Efi che mi ha regalato lo splendido _Dopoguerra_ (disco del 2005) 😌
Almost eight years ago I launched Fanography. It has just received its biggest technical overhaul since then: fanography.info is now a static website, generated with Hugo and served from GitHub Pages. From Flask to Hugo Before,...
The first raiders of Icebrunt crossed the Delving Plateau seeking Fieldlin. Other raiders descended into Herder. Ruined, starving Craftlin dwindled behind them. Icebrunt founded in violence was ever thus suffering. Peace would seldom be...