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When people suggest that you “make peace with God”, they might mean:God is very powerful, so you are unlikely to win fights with him,His authority is legit, so you should be ashamed to fight him, andAny value by which you might justify...
Recently I found myself killing and yanking more often than ever. One problem with that is that the capitalization and punctuation of what I have yanked is often wrong. As a (pretty stupid) example, I might see the sentence “This is...
There’s been a lot of discussion recently about the GenAI giants “watermarking” their output, which to say hiding some data in it so you can tell that it’s been generated by ChatGPT or Gemini or Claude or whatever. The technology for...
The Skykomish River in the North Cascades is partially glacier fed. It joins with the Snoqualmie River to form the Snohomish River, flowing into the Puget Sound near Everett. Columbia Glacier is seen on the left of the painting, with the...
Listen to me: You do not need the new Harry Potter show. Or movie. Or tie-in game. Or collectible. This has nothing to do with casting choices. This has everything to do with Rowling’s anti-trans activism. (Yes, she has an executive...
I’ll be performing at Full Moon Festival. Further details TBD. #VRChat #FullMoonFestival
"Why should software paid for by taxpayers stay locked behind proprietary licences?" This is 100% true here in the UK, as well. £330m paid to the company-who-shall-not-be-named for the NHS' FDP - which should have been part of a huge...
Listened to this What Now? with Trevor Noah episode with Lera Boroditsky, a cognitive scientist and linguist expert, discussing how language changes or affects your personality. (Transcription courtesy of Overcast’s excellent...
A week ago it came to light that UC Berkeley math professor Zvezdelina Stankova, who went viral in an August 15th essay deploring the poor preparedness of some of her students, actually used AI for her essay. The article was flagged by...
I continue to be fascinated at the reduction in food noise associated with this new drug and that I'm under 100kg for the first time in recent memory
After completing the Montana Backcountry Discovery Route, we're up to ten BDRs since we started running them in 2017. Through the running of each one, @mrs.turbodb and I are - as you can imagine - regularly comparing the current BDR to...
Sometimes – all the time, if you’re me – you see something that you don’t need yet you must have. Thus… Starslayer vol. 1 #1-5 As a kid, I remember seeing ads for this comic in Comics Scene and wanting it because Mike Grell, but nothing...
This is a history of my homelab, since about 2008, arranged chronologically. Formerly, this was a post on imgur, but I’m porting it over here for posterity sake. Enjoy! 2008 Homelab version alpha This cabinet was all full of old Athlon...
Next month Contemporary Textiles London – of which I am a member – are exhibiting at Morden Hall Park from Saturday 3 September to Saturday 27 September. Morden Hall Park is a Thank you for reading my blog. Please join me next week on...
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