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Nvidia just told Wall Street it'll personally cover up to 25% of the loss if the GPUs backing $500 billion in AI data center loans turn out to be worth less than the paperwork says. TechCrunch called it "risky but brilliant." I'd call it...
This is often how I feel about discord servers or other online communities. Are we having a conversation with each other or is everyone just stating their own thoughts without reading or considering what the person before them sent? I...
Take this code, defining a small NamedTuple with a keyword argument per field: from typing import NamedTuple Point = NamedTuple("Point", x=int, y=int) Run it on Python 3.13 or 3.14, and you’ll see: $ python3.14 example.py...
In order to feel happy we need to 1. come to terms with the fact that we live in the age of abundance, and 2. accept that abundance is not the key to happiness. Scarcity is. There is happiness in owning precious things, and using them no...
I registered jae.fi on the 14th of February 2021, right after I learned that the company for which I originally moved to Finland to join decided to hire me. At the time, I thought it would be a nice-to-have to get something with my name...
Platinum Komodo Fountain Pen. “But Brad, wasn’t Stationery Fest two weeks ago?” Yes, but we had to cut things from the last episode and we still had notebooks to empty! Myke and I cover those last bits, including a quick chat with Ryder...
I wear a lot of hats and play a lot of roles. I’m a husband, father, academic author, writer (debatable), engineer, manager, director, and researcher. I’ve recently accepted the difficult roles of coach and mentor. I’m a cook, I’m a...
Summer holiday childcare duty today with both the great nephs, M (10) and G (6). Given the heat and the inevitability of them getting frustrated with each other after a period of time we stuck on a movie. And then I did a jigsaw with G...
Just taking a quick look, it seems that I sent about 16 personal emails this year. I have a feeling that probably much , much higher than average.
I love my home: it's the first house I've fully furnished with my wife (in the last one I was the one who moved in later), it's in a nice quiet area in town, a bit on the upper side, and there's a splendid view of the mountains in the...
Miles of open road, a Big Gulp, and literal tons of steel. A trucker’s life ain’t an easy one, as author Ryan Lowell knows from years of experience as a dispatcher. This experience gave him the ideas and know-how he needed to write his...
I had the great privilege of facilitating a few games of The Wax Marches this week! Thank you to the playtesters, whose blogs will be linked below. As a bottom line up front, what a pleasure to finally get to stretch this game's legs a...
you call me cute in a way I cannot fight I call surrender surrounded by cool August breeze safe in a warm nest of pillows and sheets guiding me through the night there is a beacon your words remain a constant echo in my mind even half...
With everything else that has been going on recently, I forgot to share this cartoon from the latest Private Eye:
07:29 I don’t understand the purpose of screen protectors on digital screens. They are generally of low quality as compared to the actual screen and will give in early. Do they really protect the screens then? Or is it just...