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With not having written nor scheduled much blog posts lately and Nate's Taking a week off on my mind, I believe it's a convenient time to take a month off posting myself. Like him, I have no hard feelings toward the activity, even after...
Dare I mention the nightmare I had with my scooter with the ULEZ fine. Which? include the thing I discovered, which is cloned plates, but lets get back to the problem of ANPR. Easily solved by having a human look at the case not a...
It's the end of the first half of the year, can you believe it? It feels like just yesterday we were all amazed we had made it to 2025, and now we're half way through 2026! And it's Tuesday, which means it's Top Ten Tuesday. Quick...
Today I discovered these two Vim flags: vim -w log.txt file vim -s log.txt file The -w flag sends all keystrokes in your session to log.txt. The -s loads Vim and replays all the keystroke back onto that file.
Another scorching month! For the blog that is. June was kind to this corner of the internet, and not all the traffic was from LLMs hungry for new content to "train" on. Here are the favourite five. 1. Authoritarian Babyism 2. A See Ya to...
A song about Los Angeles, the land of broken dreams. Of our time in Los Angeles, of the love and hurt we each experienced. LA is what you make of it - and if nothing else, that’s where we met each other. Lyrics: Out of my head, out of my...
Cyrus Lopez published an essay last week, ‘The Last People Who Know How It Works’, and it’s the best thing I’ve read about computing this year. It mourns an intimacy with machines that he thinks is ending: the boot disk built for one...
If, after moving to pkgbase (for me, that was via pkgbasify), you discover you can’t find the package in question, you might, like me, run this command: % pkg repos -e [18:25 r720-02 dvl ~] % pkg repos -e local: { url :...
Ion Lands have revealed the release date and new name for their long-heralded futuristic game Nivalis. Now retitled Nivalis Nights, the game will hit Steam on 29 September this year. They have also released a new trailer for the game.The...
Nau maiYesterday we played in the jewel of the Midwest, Cleveland, Ohio. My day began in a large parking lot next to Lake Erie. The Ghost Whale was laid up in this concrete wasteland a few blocks from our venue, the Cleveland Rock and...
Imagine the following dialog. Professor: f is a function of a real variable x that takes a real parameter k. Student: What’s a parameter? Professor: It’s a constant that can vary. Student: Then if it can vary, isn’t it a variable?...
I’m grateful that people stop by and read my posts. I think I’m really lucky. Thank you!I love writing here, but I’d love to know how I could serve you better. So every year I ask my readers to fill in a short survey. It doesn’t take...
Hi everyone. It’s the last day of the month and this means it’s time for my monthly review. June, overall, was quite an eventful month. It had its low lows, but thankfully it also had its ups. I started the month with a few meetings with...
if you're true to yourself, it's actually impossible to hate on someone. you're probably just jealous.
David Bessis’s “The fall of the theorem economy” is ostensibly about LLMs and the pursuit of pure math, and I found it fascinating in its own right, even while I’m not qualified to evaluate a number of his claims. Worth stopping and...