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Hannah Arendt's challenge to the Stoic ideal of inner freedom, and what it means for engineers who want their code to speak for itself.
It’s been four years since I talked to you. I wonder if you would still be here if I had paused my life and put all my energy into helping you get back on your feet. Confused about my own life’s purpose, I didn’t dare to imagine a life...
Recently I watched a video talking about the literacy crisis. A whole generation of youngsters are growing up with poor literacy skills, whilst adults are increasingly outsourcing their critical thinking skills to Grand Theft...
Sometimes I follow a link over to Mastodon and see the insane way people talk on social media, or I read an article about cash drops and other trends, and I thank all the powers that I am blessedly out of touch. I may be online a lot,...
I’m very curious about how languages will evolve because of the LLMs.If people start avoiding the language’s whole sentence structures and em dashes and god knows what else just because the AI uses them, what will happen to the language?...
If you like this content consider becoming a member. It helps the content keep coming. Read what you don't agree with This is a good reminder to read things you don't agree with because the other side is not dumb and it's far too easy to...
The past few days have been filled with discussion about the Lombards, aka the Langobards, and their origin according to medieval texts. This blog has mostly dealt with them previously because of their occupation of the northern Italian...
Hey people! Today I thought I’d really like to share with you a piece by a harpist whose music I’ve only recently discovered, but whose work I find very interesting. I’ve said it several times here before that I love to hear the harp in...
You said: Get 500 random words from what ever source ChatGPT said: Sure — here are 500 random English words: apple river window velvet mountain candle thunder garden bicycle mirror ocean feather lantern forest silver pocket castle cloud...
Great coffee this morning at Johnson Public House in Madison.
at smartdeli in Berlin, Germany Filed under snapshots with tags: Berlin Reply by email Add an emoji reaction: 🥕 🚲 🐾 💜
For those new to CabbieBlog or readers who are slightly forgetful, on Saturdays I’m republishing posts, many going back over a decade. Some will still be very relevant while others have become dated over time. Just think of this post as...
Sometimes you want to visualize your time-series data in a chart. Traditionally, this is done by slicing your time-scale into equal-sized bins and counting the events that fall into each one. The big players—Grafana, Datadog,...
Don’t worry. They will let you know. And won’t they just. In a 2,000-word blog post. On a website they coded themselves. With a disclaimer in the footer that no part of it was generated, assisted, or even glanced at by an LLM. And...
Our first Australian road trip Limestone stalactites and helictites in Jewel Cave ✒️ Written by: Abbie While spending a month in Western Australia, we knew we wanted to embark on a lil' road trip—a practice run for the eight weeks on the...