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Whenever one of my lectures covers the topic of Greco-Roman agriculture, I always include the ‘Aristophanes the Astrologer’ passage from Agathias Scholasticus – it may be 6th century CE, but it expresses a timeless reality that speaks to...
We left Bedford last week in the midst of war but, like many towns in the country, thinking ahead. Planning …Continue reading →
I’m hosting July’s IWBC and the timing is perfect since I split my reading year into to halves, which means I’m starting with an empty shelf in July. The book I picked is “To Have or to Be” by Erich Fromm. I read this book now more than...
When Intel designed the 80386, they gave it a trick for hiding memory latency: Early Start. Instead of waiting for an instruction to reach its memory micro-op, the 386 begins the next instruction's address work — effective address,...
The icons in the forthcoming version of macOS have been subtly tweaked to retreat from last year’s “Liquid Glass” appearance. CC-licensed photo by Yeray Hdez Guerra on Flickr. You can sign up to receive each day’s Start Up post by …...
Early morning musings about a huge part of my identity
I was originally going to try my first baby run post-surgery today, but then the forecast came out with a high of 31°C (it got to 32) and I noped right out of that. Instead, I walked to Burnaby Lake and back. In fact, I walked all the...
Koriander CMS on PyPI Open in new tab (full image size 81 KiB) Try installing Koriander CMS from PyPI. All you need to run is the following, provided that you've installed pipx: pipx install koriander You can use Koriander CMS in your...
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I’ve put “Femme Prédatrice” up for sale on itch.io. I’ll doubtless put it up elsewhere, too, but I mainly wanted to get it in an upcoming book bundle and maybe get some more eyes on Animal Noir. I also enjoyed making a noir movie style...