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Mijndert Stuij shares a bunch of practical ways to make your terminal feel instant, from skipping shell frameworks and caching completions to lazy-loading slow tools. A good reminder that tiny bits of latency add up fast when you live in...
What is the sacred? It seems to be a way that groups bond together by seeing something outside themselves as of special value to them. The group values itself as the only people who can see that sacred thing.What is ideal identity? Let...
A scene keeps playing in my head. Over and over again.A man is riding his bicycle. He crosses the street and starts weaving right to left. He hits a pole and falls down. Head first on the street. He isn't moving. I get off my bike and...
Our friend Allan Pinkerton, who has preserved many released C64 titles over the years and helped us (see ALA Software titles), has preserved a batch of Expert Software titles for the Commodore 64 which include: Personal Skills Money...
Worthy Read is an ongoing series here at the blog where I link out to a piece I think is worth your valuable time. Graham Smith / Jank: The videogame industry wants you to buy games before they’re released because it makes it easier for...
Pessimism over artificial intelligence exists everywhere but it is particularly acute in the US. The country’s lack of social safety net is to blame, writes venture capitalist Paul Kedrosky in the New York Times:→ The New York Times
I realized recently that Halls cough drops do more than assist with a cold. They also assist with your mental health! These are some of the phrases I’ve captured on the wrappers than come with each lozenge: Lots of good encouragement...
So the heatwave continues. The forecast for Maynooth today has temperatures exceeding 30°C, and higher in the South. This kind of heat is very unusual for Ireland; the highest temperature ever recorded on the island is 33.3 °C, in...
The Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) Interceptor, first fielded in 2008, is, along with Aegis SM-3, the exo-atmospheric ballistic missile defense “meat” in the layered air defense sandwich between the full-on ICBM-killing...
U.S. Pacific Fleet oiler USS Hassayampa (AO 145) refuels two ships simultaneously while underway at sea. To the right is the attack carrier USS Hancock (CVA 19), and on the left the destroyer USS McKean (DD 784) on Yankee Station during...
Admiral Hipper-class heavy cruiser Blücher on sea trials. Her career was short. The destruction of the Kriegsmarine’s Hipper-class superheavy cruiser Blucher before the dawn of the first day of Operation Weserübung on 9 April 1940 was,...
A varied collection of links some of which have been sitting in my notes for a while. Frank Cottrell-Boyce: ‘We’ve treated a generation of chil… They miss school? “School is where our kids feel secure. It’s where they’re fed. It’s their...
In this post we find all Pythagorean triples that contain consecutive numbers, all Pythagorean triples (a, b, c) such that a + 1 = b or b + 1 = c. a + 1 = b George Osborne wrote a paper [1] addressing the question of when the squares of...
I finished reading Mickey7. It was very entertaining and funny. At a certain part, I thought I guessed what was going to happen but I was wrong! There’s no filler nor fluff, I liked it.
Ever since I got my first mechanical keyboard, I’ve been able to turn caps lock, one of the most useless functions on a keyboard, into something actually useful. The keyboard came with a switch on the back that allowed it to act as...