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Dolly Parton - Musikladen 1977Goodbye to real American dreamer Dolly Parton! Yesterday after the sad news broke, the various online timelines overflowed with love and appreciation for the...
Feeling saturated with life is inevitable. You are bound to feel cramped and bored with everything you do repeatedly. Like monkeys, we are wired to seek novelty, and we constantly attempt to find it in the world around us. Almost...
🤖 This post includes some LLM-derived content 🤖 Since the availability of GitHub's Stacked PRs finally landing for repositories that use a Merge Queue, I've been "kicking the tyres" with some of my contributions to Renovate. They're...
So I decided that instead of trying to remember JavaScript, I'm going to jump into something else. Being as the next module in my masters focuses on information and visualisation, what better than trying to figure out data science? Since...
In a previous video, I asked the community for tips on how they deal with social anxiety in FFXIV grouping situations. I got quite a few responses, and some of them were very helpful! While I tried to think up all the tips I could in my...
I don’t particularly care for Dolly Parton’s music, but I loved Dolly Parton. She was literally the best of us. Unapologetically herself whether people liked it or not. Did not give a single fuck about what was “expected” of her based on...
Singapore, being the small state that it is, has always been careful about the foreign policy statements it makes. But if even Singapore speaks out against something, you know it's really a problem. What more if it's in opposition to a...
The past few days have had me wondering what our motivations were to do anything long term and what that meant for our happiness. Are we happiest when our reward is in the future or the present? Are we happiest when we do something for...
The user of the library shouldn’t need to know whether you found the title in , <title>, OpenGraph, Twitter metadata, or because a small goat whispered it to you. ChatGPT
I can't remember when the last essential American 60s garage rock compilation was issued... sometime in the early 00s with the ace Teenage Shutdown cd series and those seven volumes of Fuzz, Flaykes & Shakes. This month however an...
And a selection from days 7 & 8…. Ron…. Isle of Man Day 7. Cloudy with sunny intervals and breezy. Last full day so just did round trips to The Sound and Laxey. Isle of Man Day 8. Sunny. Bus and train to Port Erin and then by bus to...
Clouds, mushrooms, trees. Vantage point: biking.
In my recent weekly updates of activity at the Open Journal of Astrophysics, the latest of which is here, I’ve remarked that we had built up quite a backlog of papers accepted but yet to be published. This is no doubt due to August being...
Back in September of 2020, I provided an in-depth review of McDonald's Spicy Chicken McNuggets. I thought they were utterly delicious thanks to avoiding being too spicy, but still having some zip to them. They've been gone from the menu...
IntroductionWell, we’re finally here: the discussion of variance in golf I’ve been working on for months. The good news is that the work is done. But the topic is long and dense, so I’ll be breaking it up into three parts to make it a...