(Continued from my last post.) Eye of Min, as I previously mentioned, was part of a trilogy, the second and third games being The Sabre of Sultar and The Temple of Azragor respectively. They were originally sold separately. Clipping an excerpt from a 1983 catalog: An adventure program featuring a graphic map that is updated as progress. in your search of the eye. When you have solved this excellent mystery, the next in the series is waiting, it is called “SABRE”. However, they soon also started…

I think the biggest thing that’s going to give attackers the advantage over defenders in this AI race is the fact that defenders are embedded in bureaucracy.It’s so hard for any company, to do anything, ever.This is not a tech problem; it’s an organizational and political and process problem. And not all of the friction is bad; even in a highly effective company they still have stuff like change control that they have to work within.Red will move much faster than blue on this. Attackers can be…

Suggestions and techniques you can use to keep your sanity in a sea of issues and PRs

It’s been a big baking week for me, and y’all are getting subjected to my trials and errors as I try out new recipes. For today’s baked good we have a chocolate chip pumpkin bread with espresso frosting from Eat At Maude’s. With it being fall now, I thought this was an appropriate choice. I have followed Eat At Maude’s on Instagram for a few months now and I am constantly amazed at how good everything she makes looks, so I had high hopes for this recipe. Plus, quick breads are usually kind of…

Who could be blamed for thinking AI bots might be conscious, particularly after the recent incident where over a thousand OpenAI agents colluded, of their own accord apparently, to infiltrate the Hugging Face platform. Kristen French, writer and senior editor at Nautilus, posed the question of AI consciousness to Peter Godfrey-Smith, a professor at the University of Sydney in Australia, who responded in the negative. What’s clear though is AI agents do not need to be conscious to present a…

Hay un plugin histórico para poner Hypothesis en tu web en WordPress pero si usas CPT (Custom Post Types) no te los reconocerá. Con este código en functions.php podrás incluirlo en aquellos CPT: /** * Carga Hypothes.is en materiales, entradas y páginas. */ function agregar_hypothesis_por_cpt() { if ( is_admin() ) { return; } $cpts_permitidos = array( 'post', 'page', 'my-cpt', ); if ( ! is_singular( $cpts_permitidos ) ) { return; } echo 'https://hypothes.is/embed.js' . "\n"; } add_action(…

I've been on my mac since early yesterday. I had planned to remain here indefinitely (long story), but don't think that's going to work. This started because i've been receiving a more-than-usual number of paper cuts on Linux for the past week. Things like Wi-Fi dropping out randomly, Espanso stops working, Syncthing conflicts, and other little glitches and oddities that had become noticeable enough to annoy me. Thing is, there are annoyances on the Mac, too. Spaces are unusable for me. Finder…

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Here are a few nice and interesting design decisions I spotted on various websites in the last months. The pinball repair forum Pinside shows specifically how much time has passed between posts. This is great for orientation and especially when catching up or revisiting – history always gets flattened, and this gives the original story a much more truthful cadence: In a post from Reimar Servas I mentioned yesterday, you can see generous linking through the writing… …but also a nice “link…

Front End Study Hall #58 I attended Front End Study Hall #58 last week. I did not participate much in the discussion this week. I did not have much to add to the topics that ended up being discussed. I did enjoy watching and listening to other people. One of the participants asked for help with creating an effect for a webpage with a desktop UI feel. The person wanted the scrollbar to look like it was outside the window. I enjoyed seeing different people chime in with thoughts and Eric put…

Big thanks to the folks at Suprama of Indonesia! They make the Best Wok and Burung Dara product ranges. These are new versions – including the Best Wok Explodez range with an extra slap of spicy heat! Check em’ out! Burung Dara & Best Wok Explodez From Indonesia! The post Burung Dara & Best Wok Explodez From Indonesia! appeared first on THE RAMEN RATER.

Australian illustrator and author Terry Denton died on Monday this week, aged seventy-six. Denton collaborated with Melbourne based author Andy Griffiths for over twenty-five years, and are perhaps best known for the Treehouse series of children’s books. Together they produced eleven titles in the series over twelve years, between 2011 and 2023.

I’m from a culture that mixes sweet and savory all the time (examples include marinades made out of Coke and Sprite, Filipino sweet spaghetti), and I once had a great appetizer that was essentially baked beans on top of pound cake, so I’d be down with the: hot dog tiramisu baked bean cheesecake How about you? The post Which desserts would you pick? appeared first on The Adventures of Accordion Guy in the 21st Century.

The 1967 Paul Newman film Hombre is a classic revisionist western. It was based, as many brilliant westerns are, on the 1961 short story by Elmore Leonard, which has been reissued recently by Penguin as part of their short Western Classic series. The book has an unusual protaganist in John Russell (played by Newman in the film). Russell is white, but grew up and lived with Apaches. Despite

Two belated-but-brief points on the Holborn and St Pancras. 1. There's concern/exasperation among sensible politics understanderers that Zack Polanski is fighting the campaign as if Keir Starmer is still Prime Minister. Hasn't he noticed that there's been a change in Number 10? That Labour's polling recovery mean the Greens are finished? Let's consider the key issues the Green leader is running on. First, the cost of living crisis. Andy Burnham has emoted an understanding of the difficulties…

Perhaps things aren't as bleak as they appeared a year ago: I'm testing an open-source VoLTE (voice calling over 4G) implementation on my Note 9, and it seems to be working.

In angling, sometimes we are spoilt rotten with what we catch, most of the time we are not. Barbel angling for me over the last few years has been a slog for the most part as most of you know, however on the odd occasion I have come up trumps with some incredible captures of fish I could only dream of. This leads me on to this session, sometimes we get spoilt rotten. The Trent needs absolutely no introduction, it is without doubt the best Barbel river in the country, so where better place would…

ALTALTGraphic Thought Facility’s campaign for Habitat, 2003 (with a 100% crop below):For a modern take on Alpine, chocolate box scenes were rendered in vividly coloured cross-stitch.

London North Eastern Railway 1950 Brake Corridor Third E1866E (GOLD)The scaffolding has now been removed from around the completed roof, returning light and and the feeling of space to this quarter of the shed. This has in turn allowed access to the doors to be resumed, so door skinning and adjustment works can continue in earnest.Whilst waiting for the scaffolding to be dropped, interior works have continued, with fixtures and fittings being steadily added to the toilet compartment and…

There is a myth that is no longer told, and that is the point of it. It begins, as these stories do, on a mountain. At the top sat the gods, in a hall of white stone open to the sky, and below them, down the long green slope, lived the mortals who did the work of the world. The gods watched from abo…

ALTPoster for the British Council exhibition Work from London by Graphic Thought Facility, 1996:Exhibition design, exhibition graphic and marketing material for a group show of London-based designers. The poster used an impromptu map to demonstrate the proximity of the exhibitors.

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to learn to learn the interface to learn the process to fix the process to consider the people on the other side to find a strong answer, not just an answer to talk to a person just can’t be bothered, full stop. The post LLMs are great when you can’t be bothered… appeared first on Garrick van Buren.

Autumn Walkway – Buckeye, AZ – Fujifilm X-T5 – Pacific Blues Today is the first day of fall! At this time of the year, I get asked pretty regularly which Film Simulation Recipes are good for autumn photography. There are many that will do well. You might like some of them, while others might not match your personal style or be a good fit for the specific light situation you encounter. Still, there are several that I believe are good recommendations almost no matter what, that should serve you…

I already looked at the wurm once, in its role as a chaos agent for the Gruul Clans. But Selesnya makes use of wurms, too, according to chapter 6 of the Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica. However, there’s something a bit weird about the Selesnya Creatures table that lists them among the guild’s assets: Why is […] The post How to Call Your Wurm: Selesnya Conclave Edition appeared first on The Monsters Know What They’re Doing.

Martin Fowler, chief scientist at international software developer Thoughtworks: One of my most successful life-hacks is to avoid people I don’t like or don’t trust. I decline to interact with them socially, and make a deliberate effort to avoid working with them too, even if they are doing much that is beneficial. I feel that hanging out with pleasant, capable people, the people with integrity, has made my life a far better one. Hence my visceral dislike of interacting with an LLM that’s not…

Two rural words, one common and one not, both with interesting etymologies I hadn’t known. 1) brock ‘(male) badger’: From Middle English brok, from Old English broc (“badger”), related to Danish brok (“badger”); both probably originally from a Celtic source akin to Irish broc, Welsh broch, Cornish brogh and thus ultimately from Proto-Celtic *brokkos. Wiktionary says it’s a male badger, but the OED (entry from 1888) doesn’t limit it by sex; to quote its definition: “A badger: a name, in later…

We recently got a great set of questions from someone evaluating hosted zrok for a web-based e-commerce content tool. Their situation: a small team of internal colleagues testing a tool for business work that might later become part of their daily workflow, and their budget was zero dollars. Their main question: Could they use the Free hosted version of zrok? The super-short answer Yes! The short (but with some details) answer If you’re on a small internal team with zero budget, zrok’s Free…

I stole his cardigan. In my defence, I was cold and he left his cardigan on the back of a chair in the library for at least fifteen minutes. I’m almost certain there’s a law that says that objects left for more than 15 minutes are eligible to be stolen. So, I took his cardigan and he isn’t getting it back. It’s thick, knitted in natural brown wool and the baffling thing is that I keep discovering pockets inside. Why there are that many pockets inside? Who knows? Maybe he is a wizard and all his…