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4-star hike • 2 mile out-and-back • Moderate | Gain 590 feet • Amherst & Granby, MA | Western Region . Mt Norwottuck from Long Mountain's viewpoint. Long Mountain sits inside Mount Holyoke Range State Park, along the boundary between...
I am a distributed systems researcher. I mostly read and write about distributed systems and lightweight formal methods. But as my blog definition says, the blog is about "distributed systems broadly defined and other curiosities". The...
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I spent time in someone else’s design proposal this week. Nearly all of my comments were questions about boundaries: why the scope stops where it does, and which responsibilities belong in the new layer versus the one already behind it,...
I just watched Orson Welles’ 1952 short ghost movie Return to Glennascaul (silly but gorgeous) and was struck by the phrase “keep in” used of a fire: the narrator meets a couple of women at a crossroads, drives them to their isolated...
There’s some talk today about how agentic coders are balking at Anthropic’s pricing and adopting alternatives. I was reminded of a thought I had in the weeks following Fable’s release: the free lunch was over. When Moore’s Law was in...
There are a few things wrong with the UK so I hear, and dear old Andy Burnham is trying hard to fix some of them. Fair enough. As a partial solution he's created a No10 in the North to go with the ever present No10 in the South. A quick...
This week started with a weight scare. I went shopping for some shorts and realized I don’t even fit into most of them. I knew I’d gained weight over the last few years but it was mostly muscle. Recently though, I realized I gained a lot...
More bus rides. Noticed the stretch of road between Long Reef and Dee Why still being used as a caryard. Intercoms: "Please hold on when standing." "Stay seated, and do not use the stairs while moving". Safety messages, but the intercoms...
I was just finishing reading my charity shop copy of James Ellroy's LA Confidential and deciding it would have to go in the recycling bin (too much racist language) when I realised that the film version was on TV. I watched a tiny bit of...
I’ve been quiet for a couple of months. I enjoyed publishing weeknotes but something had to give a few weeks ago and this was one of the things that got paused. Still not sure if they will return, or I move to more frequent shorter...
Today has been a glorious late summer day, full of beautiful sunlight, warm but not overly hot temperatures, and harvesting...
I have such a hard time writing when I’m going through something. I get too paralyzed with whatever I’m stressing over and I end up wasting my whole day distracting myself with whatever means I have available. No spend was not successful...
The following is lifted directly from Zvi Mowshowitz with only light formatting changes because I think it’s Important, Valuable, and Good. It is also buried deep in a blog post that many people would have neither the time nor...