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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...
Clone voices from a few seconds of audio, generate speech in 23 languages across 7 TTS engines, dictate into any text field with a global hotkey, and give any MCP-aware AI agent a voice of your choosing. The two cloud incumbents sit on...
This was the last message of Tim Samaras who only a few hours later, along with his son, Paul, and meteorologist Carl Young, died after a tornado generating winds of up to 175 mph picked up their car and threw it somersaulting through...
I’ve mentioned before that our work is usually invisible in completed projects. With a few exceptions you generally can’t even see the portions of a project building that were our responsibility because what you’re seeing is the...
Can you guess what this is? Give up? Riding through the car wash! (click to enlarge)Lucky for you I've had no profound thoughts lately so I thought I would post a few lighthearted ’grabshots’ I made as I went about life. Just for your...
When she smiles The day’s a little better
Up at 5:30. Sleeping gear stowed, boom tent tucked away. Third customer of the day at The Bean, a cranberry muffin and a glass of iced tea. Keith drops by for a quick breakfast. He says a small flotilla of boats is sailing across the...