Not content with taking all the RAM and GPU the industry can make for the next year to 18 months, Sam Altman now wants RAM from your home computer as well. But from a global allocation perspective, actually, it’s quite terrible to have everybody have a bunch of the world’s limited supply of DRAM sitting in their own computer and being used 5% of the time. You want maximum utilization in the cloud if you’re trying to deal with this very supply-constrained environment. And somehow many people’s…

I’m tired. Most things feel like they have to happen fast to not be left out, or fall behind. And I think October has been the month where I’ve felt it most. From the blog since my last time: Switching from Dokploy to Komodo What I learned after 5 years without social media Life Potty-training is going so good (knock on wood)! I’m so proud of our oldest, when she was very little the training went fine, but one day she didn’t want to do it anymore. And it took a long time before she wanted, but…

I'm glad I did my Ace Combat catch-up tour in preparation for 8, because it sure is making a lot of call-backs. Consequently, this post will speak freely about spoilers for 3: Electrosphere, 04: Shattered Skies, 5: The Unsung War, Zero: The Belkan War, and 7: Skies Unknown. I have unfortunately been unable to play 6: Fires of Liberation because it still has somewhat janky emulation and I refuse to play the LLM-coded recomp. Which is not to say this game wouldn't be enjoyable if you've never…

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Today I wanted to post about what I learned about the fascinating world of Babylonia after Nebuchadnezzar during my PhD, or things other people are making and learning like my friend Tod Feinmann’s new Figure-Eight Shield and a field of stakes from Early Iron Age Denmark very similar to contemporary fields of sharp stones from Iberia and Ireland. Unfortunately, I have to spend my limited free time this weekend looking for alternatives to my main email provider the Swiss nonprofit Proton Ag.…

I've been riding mountain bikes at night, off and on, since I was a teen. It's fun. It's scary. It's social. When I was a kid, there was a regular Thursday Night Ride from the Depot in Mill Valley, California. We'd all roll up the mountain, then take various ways down. The hot setup, for me was two Mini-Mag flashlights, each with two AA batteries, in DKG (Dave Garoutte) handlebar mounts, one slightly up, one slightly down. There were many nights I finished without lights.When my kids were old…

Following on from my post “Damn Claude, that’s a lot of commits”, I thought this follow up Tweet 6 months later would be a banger. In my post "damn Claude, that’s a lot of commits" https://t.co/zOVMNUv6d4 I found that in March, users of Claude made about 2.6 million public, Claude attributed commits a week. I just ran the same script again, it’s now about 7m a week (in just 6 months) — Paul Kinlan (@Paul_Kinlan) September 27, 2026 Turns out nope. That being said, I thought I would run it again…

A grab bag of some quick answers to some common questions I've answered over the years. Updated Oct 2026. Read More ... Continue reading Quick Tips: Backpacking rules of thumb at PMags.com.

I feel like I got stuff done this week, and certainly did spend time on tasks from the list, and ticked them off, and yet my To Do list is now much longer than it was a week ago. I’d say it’s a good thing that I don’t have a job or children, but many of these tasks are probably things I wouldn’t bother doing, or would spend a lot less time on, if I had other commitments. For example, I spent several hours searching through several sites in search of door handles for our forthcoming new doors.…

Proton's CEO called a request for security testing "loser thinking". Using AI to write code is fine, but for a privacy company, the guardrails around that code are the product.

Happy Sunday, and happy "Saints have a bye week so they can't lose" day. That may be bitter and I shouldn't write off their season yet but... maybe next year? Of course, this is just one more kinda crappy thing going on amongst a giant pile of other crappy things so - let's just get right to the links, shall we? When job hunting turns into a security lesson Everyone knows the job market is hell now, and to be honest, hell may be a bit too kind. Now imagine you are considering a job, download a…

CVE-2026-98432 is a use-after-free bug in the Linux kernel’s IPv4 TCP handshake. Anyone who can send a SYN to a listening port can reach it. Your application never sees a single byte. The bug goes back to Linux 4.4. The upstream fix has been out since mid-October. Ubuntu and Red Hat still haven’t shipped one.

Note: My read but “waiting to be reviewed pile” is growing. Short rumination/tangents/impressions are a way to get through the stack before my memory and will fades. My website partially serves as a record of what I have read and a memory palace for future projects. Stay tuned for more detailed and analytical reviews. 1. John Collier’s Tom’s A-Cold (1933) Uncredited cover for the 1st edition 4.25/5 (Very Good) If it were not for my general writing slump with a growing, and demoralizing, backlog…

Kristen Arnett’s debut novel, Mostly Dead Things, is a book about the family dynamics that occur when everybody in the family has a different idea about what appropriate grief looks like. It centers around a family taxidermy shop taken over by the family’s eldest, Jessa, who took over the business after her father took his own life. In many ways it reminded me of Melissa Faliveno’s Hemlock, about a queer woman who returns to her family’s lake cabin in Northern Wisconsin several years after her…

Lucas and Sadie came over and we watched the movie Mother Mary (a horror movie). Buffy and I had Church Music beers, and later some wine was found for Buffy and Lucas. A broken down depressed pop star re-connects with an old friend who's a fashion designer to design a dress for her upcoming concert. A lot of religious undertones. The movie starred Ann Hathaway and Michealla Coel. The the ghost was sponsored by JC Penny. The movie was a real thinking type. This post (Halloween 2026 - Rain -…

Old Man’s War by John Scalzi 📚 doesn’t disappoint. Already half through it! Record time for me.

↬chasingmailboxes.com/2026/10/03/coffeeneuring-challenge-2026-and-were-16-basic-in-the-best-way/ A challenge where you bike to coffee shops and get an autumn-friendly drink (which thankfully does not have to be coffee). I found out about this today via Jeremy, so I might join in November, even though I’m pretty sure making the 8 rides before then will be very tough given the 2-per-week limit. I’ll likely give myself an extra few days or remove the 2-per-week limit. We’ll see! Anyway, there are…

Sad to hear the passing of Juan Atkins. Detroit techno legend, RIP.

It’s easy enough to find a blogging platform that doesn’t cost anything to use, Bear itself has a decent enough free tier, but how many of us do end up spending some money on our little journals? For me, there’s a few things I always pay for: A Personal DomainWhen people buy a domain for their blog, it’s a clear sign they intend to stick around. I can become quite attached to a good blog, so I find myself more likely to follow someone with a domain because there’s a higher expectation they will…

Last night at 2 a.m. a lot of clocks turned back one hour, going from Daylight Saving Time back to Standard Time. But here in BC, the outgoing NDP government changed that back in March, stating that as of this November–which begins today–the province would switch to permanent DST, or what we would call simply, Pacific Time. This gave an eight month heads-up to various applications, hardware, and other devices to adopt the change so there would be no shenanigans come November 1st. But there are…

Co-hosting a house party with friends. Our friends, V&N, wanted to throw a housewarming party as their roommates have moved out. N suggested we do it on Halloween. "Why don't we make our own invitations?" he suggested. This was back in September so we had plenty of time. Daniel got really excited because he had just gotten into linocut printing. Daniel worked on the design and carved it out on linoleum. N bought the paint. Then one evening, N came over and we printed out 15 invitations on black…

Thanks to Charlie Horse 47 and Killdumpster for their sponsorship of this post, via the magic of Patreon. ***November 1976 was a great month for fans of aquatic cake holes, as it saw the discovery of the first known megamouth shark.But enough of that. Let's see what the big mouths of Marvel are getting up to.Given that the Whizzer is about eighty, by this point and has been established as having a bad heart and possibly died at the end of the first Nuklo story, it is surprising that he seems to…

The historic tall ship Elissa—launched in 1877—sits at its berth in Galveston, Texas. The post Texas Tall Ship appeared first on 75CentralPhotography.

November does still feel like an event, even with the demise of Nanowrimo. There are plenty of alternatives around. My writing group is doing a little challenge, basically just 'finish something', which for us is easier said than done. Plus my wife is always up for a challenge so we decided to gamify it a bit more too. My goal is to get the penultimate chapter of my fic done. I've got hardly any idea what will actually happen, about two hundred words, and I've not updated since March. So…

AI has taken most of the manual coding off my hands — and some of the joy with it. So I went back to an old hobby: electronics, logic gates, and the abstractions underneath.

No. I tested one across four configurations, and every variant lost to a constant forecast predicting zero price change.

There I was recently, thinking I needed to get the monochrome ratio up to 90%, but of course this causes me to get right into a color period. Oh well. The light had an amazing quality earlier so I could not not share this image in color. (The kids were marveling at it as well.) Still not feeling super well, this thing is a drag… Annoys me greatly.

Hello again, and welcome back to my monthly newsletter. Last month, I tried writing more of a prosaic update, and I enjoyed it - so I am continuing that style here. I am currently back in Brooklyn, having just returned from the F1 race in Mexico City. This was my first time attending an F1 race in person, and it was a lot of fun. I was surprised by how close the audience is to the track, and how much of the noise is not the engines - but air whooshing around the cars as they punch through. It…

Been feeling super ropey all day today. I hate stomach aches and nausea so much.138 words · 1 image