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The ascended Christ of this mural at St. Vitus’s Cathedral in Prague seems so happy I couldn’t help but think of the song by The Postal Service: They will see us waving from such great heights Come down now, they’ll say But everything...
I found some contagious metadata corruption in exiv2, such that reading a file with corrupt XML namespace values in XMP data poisons all subsequent metadata writes with the same corrupt namespace — even to other files. I don’t think it...
They want sainthood, he wants freedom and belonging, sie wants protection and safety for a loved one, while she simply wants everything to stop going horribly wrong. A delightful return to the Imperial Raadch universe in which Leckie...
Thanks to BookSirens for providing me with a review copy. This is an intriguing self-published novel with a backstory almost as interesting as the plot. The story is a descent into paranoia as an author is convinced that an AI is...
I talk about a bunch of things here with my good pal Huyen (Kotlin Multiplatform, Android, the web) but arguably the most important thing we chatted about was the role of AI/LLMs, how it’s a tool and should be treated as such, and why...
I don’t know if anyone has tried to make a canonical list of wine/food pairing theories. But in looking through some of the empirical studies I’ve seen over the past few years, it looks like there are about 8 distinct theories about why...
This has gotten lots of attention in tech circles, but not that many people have been connecting the dots. From the Information: Coinbase has cut its AI spending “nearly in half” even as it increases the number of tokens it uses, by...
Benjamin Tolkin via Christine Kerr
I’ve done something I genuinely thought I’d never do again: I installed Windows as the primary OS on my main handheld device, my ROG Ally X. To be clear, my desktop and laptop remain dedicated Linux workstations. I still use CachyOS as...
Caddisflies are a little bit like moths, but without the scales on their wings. They’re the Trichoptera, which means hairy or bristly-winged rather than the scaly wings of the Lepidoptera, the moths and butterflies. And these two groups...
Some time ago, I saw a nationwide medical organisation advertising a training course for doctors on a particular spreadsheet software. But I still haven’t seen it advertising a training course that teaches doctors about the tools,...
You don't have to miss out on Docker Desktop features on Linux, it's pretty painless to install either the CLI or Docker Desktop.
After the past few entries concerning the anti-Jewish Canons of the Fourth Lateran Council of 1215, we come finally to Canon 70, dealing with Jews who convert to Christianity but might change their minds at a later date:Some, we...
These are the delicate drawings of one Effie Long. One of the drawings is dated 1914. From a large group of 50 they are literally drawn on scraps of paper. I have collected quite a number of works by school girls from the late 19th and...