Markovian Parallax Denigrate 55 Cicada, 55 Satans, 55 flies 55 umbrellas open to spoil the view Human Potential Movement Nous Research it's not THIS, it's THAT! it's NOT this, it'S that!!! a beige tower under a prefamulated amulite cubicle knee-deep in the green vitriol newsgroup fills with open-box cereal craigslist ads. diet changed. now eating/drinking only Soylent. 112,287 applications for powder of sympathy for just four payments of $19.99 silly (internal world) hysteresis 32 radical…
GExperts stores its settings in the Windows registry, under a key that is specific to each installed Delphi version. Copying that configuration to another machine, or from one Delphi version to another, used to mean exporting registry keys by hand and editing them so they pointed at the right version and then importing them into the registry as described in a previous blog post. Tedious, and easy to get wrong. The GExperts Configuration dialog now has Export … and Import … buttons on the…
I like the “Burgle Bros”, this rack-tag gang of burglars that—unlike most of their colleagues in the heist business—somehow always seem to forfeit extensive planning and just wing it. It’s one of the few co-op systems I continue to enjoy playing and introduce to new people. BB1 came in a small box that was so compact one could even struggle getting everything back into it. It was more tactical and plan-able while BB2 with its colourful Casino backdrop and disrupting guests injected a whole new…
A quick look at how TypeScript conditional types behave with union types.
We want to be desired by everyone we meet. This puts us in constant conflict with other people and with our own inner nature. It is impossible to be liked by everyone. Ninety five percent of the people you meet in life will eventually disappear from it. The person you are closest to today will, at some point, no longer be your closest confidant. Such is the nature of life. It is cyclical. This cyclical nature, coupled with our inability to foresee the future, always tricks us into believing the…
I haven’t read Martyn Cornell’s Porter and Stout, but I wanted to join this Session anyway, largely to pay my respects to Martyn. He was the first beer blogger I ever read, back in the mid-00s; the second and third were The Pub Curmudgeon (RIP) and Tandleman. (Peter, if you’re reading this, look after yourself!) Mudge and Tandleman, titans of the beer blogosphere though they may have been, were models I felt I could aspire to. Go to pub, drink beer, have (slightly contrarian) opinion, write it…
Ambassador Stefanishyna’s reference to citizens having “both the right and the responsibility to build their own futures” is a very Ukrainian thought, I believe. Too many of us in democracies that have enjoyed many decades of peace think of liberty as an absence of force, of constraints, of obligation. In fact, it is also a duty toward ourselves and our neighbors, in the present and for our futures. Would that Russians began to claim liberty in this sense of the word as their own, too. Would…
“South African-born pioneer of the British tech industry David Potter, the man behind the iconic Psion pocket computers, passed away on 28th June, six days before his 83rd birthday. Potter was the founder of the company of the same name, a pivotal firm in the British technology industry from the 1980s to the 2000s. Psion supplied software for the early computers from Sinclair Research, the ZX80 and the ZX81, including a Flight Simulator that you can play online. In 1982, Psion supplied the…
I had no intention of doing a Fourth-themed post, but JWB slyly sent me a link to Sophie Hardach’s BBC piece “The Viking word hidden in the Declaration of American Independence,” calling it a “simple but not actually wrong BBC piece on the varied etymologies of the lexemes that ended up in the phrase ‘Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness,’ with clickbait Viking headline.” Here’s a sample: Let’s start with the brief phrase “Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness”. “This iconic line is…
I wrote this five years ago but can’t find where I posted it. It still holds true today so why not post it here, now? My message for today’s celebration of America’s Independence… The dream of the United States of America has never aligned with the reality of the United Sates of America. How we imagine ourselves to be has never been who we actually are. Does this mean we should not keep dreaming and striving for those lofty goals? No. And if we were ever to achieve them, we should engage new,…
Good morning from Charlottesville, Virginia! ☕️ It’s been super hot and humid in Virginia this week so I’ve been staying inside as much as I possibly can. I did manage to get to Grit yesterday and work on Stream. I need to write up the changes I’ve made in the last two BETA releases. That’s all for now. I hope you enjoy the links. Daring Fireball Felix Rieseberg, quite obviously, is the answer to the question why Claude is an Electron app. It’s like wondering why all the screws in a building…
Celebrating the 250th anniversary of a declaration that had a passage decrying slavery removed because southern states complained by eating carcinogenic mass produced meat tubes while the President tells half of us we’re evil Marxists while we swelter through a man made heat wave is incredibly American. Happy 4th!All snark aside, genuinely, I do love America. The Declaration of Independence - 250 years ago! - was genuinely important. Most places you go, the people are kind, community-minded,…
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Original images by CHUTTERSNAP and Larry Costales on Unsplash; glitched and edited. ✨ In This Edition ✨ 📟 Short-Form Content: Failing grades, export bans, and workplace mass delusions - and yet another reason to ditch Chrome. 🌞 Good News!: Companies can be found liable for LLM-generated content; Pubs are banning AI imagery; Ford is hiring back humans. 📯 The Post-Script: Reading Cory Doctorow's new book, The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI. 📟 Short-Form ContentChatbots ("AI") Students…
I did not have high hopes for Cape Fear on Apple TV+. I was wrong. The cinematography is next level. Music is great. Dramatic tension feels old timey and yet modern. I’m a fan. 📺
The Nahvalur Eclipse was one of the pleasant surprises of my 2025 review queue. The design is admittedly not for everyone, but as a retractable pen, it works well, and is fun to use. I have one Eclipse in the Cobalt with Rose Gold Trim colorway, with a Fine Steel nib, to give away this week. The winner is: Congrats Dustin! I’ve sent you an email to collect your shipping address.
It’s one of those two times of year again. Games Done Quick, the bi-annual week-long charity speedrunning marathon, begins at 12:30 PM (“Noon Thirty”) Eastern Time on Sunday, July 5th, that’s tomorrow. The day after today, the 250th occurrence of that particular US holiday some people make a fuss about. This one is SGDQ, where the S stands for Summer. If my recollection is accurate, AGDQ, the one that happens in January, is the home of Awful Block, speedruns while SGDQ hosts Silly Block. You…
Whenever I remember, I use the #Caturday hashtag over on Mastodon to share photos of my furbabies and I love seeing kitties from all over the world. Cats don't seem to pop up as much on Bear, in fact doing a search didn't bring much up at all. That makes me sad. So I'm going to start posting pics under the tag #BearCats and I'd love for you to join me. You can include as many photos as you want, add a description, write a novel/poem/haiku or just have a title, it's totally up to you. Let's…
So, I came across this news article titled, “Riley Thinks Suits Make the Coach. Research Says He Might Be Right.”: The suit had a classic name: the Clark Gable. Navy blue and cut just right, it was the creation of Giorgio Armani, the legendary Italian designer. It was the piece that made Pat Riley, the legendary NBA coach and executive, believe in the power of style. . . . “I think an audience wants to see somebody on the sidelines who looks like a leader, dresses like a leader, acts like a…
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We must hang together gentlemen . . . else we shall most assuredly hang separately. ~Benjamin FranklinHappy Independence Day! And “happy” is the appropriate greeting for this long weekend. The Declaration of Independence was the first historical instance of the word "happiness" appearing in the founding documents of any nation.In 1776, 56 men signed their names to this radical document. As a result they were, without trial, proclaimed traitors by the government and sentenced to death. These…
Unless we get our fear and greed under control, I don’t think we’ve got another 250 years in us. 🇺🇸
Dad taking a selfie with his Konica T3 in 1976. He was 38. At 39, he learned he had lung cancer, and at 41 he died. I loved him very much. When I was 10 years old, my parents and I went on a cross-country trip that included stopping in Philadelphia on July 4, 1976 -- the country's bicentennial. During the fireworks show in a public park, where thousands of people had gathered, we all started singing "Happy Birthday" to our own country, spontaneously. It was very cool. Now I'm 60, the country is…
Most product screens are compositions of the same few components. Server-driven UI describes them as data and lets each platform render natively.
The party finish mapping out all of the North West of Stonehell's second floor, and have a bad run in with some rude fairies. Party Members Tina the Titanic - Level 6 Fighter Telperion Desh - Level 6 Magician Vaco Adjacent - Level 5 Paladin FollowersZorrel "Captain Nasty" Gnast (Fighter 5), Tiny Tina (Cleric 6) and Rutger (Robot 5) Session Recap With Crownfall Keep expanding significantly as the Crownless Company keeps growing their domain, they decide to head back down to the northwestern…
The 'At Home' store that used to be a 'Sam's Club' is closing. I went to look at rugs.Currently Listening: MUSE “Hexagons”Reply via email
Happy Saturday, everyone! Here on Global Nerdy, Saturday means that it’s time for another “picdump” — the weekly assortment of amusing or interesting pictures, comics, and memes I found over the past week. Share and enjoy! Screenshot Screenshot Screenshot Screenshot Screenshot Screenshot Screenshot Screenshot Screenshot The post Saturday picdump for Saturday, July 4 appeared first on Global Nerdy.
When I was a kid, I ate up America. I so very much wanted to belong to something. My family are immigrants to this country, I, a first-gen, (third culture iykyk) have no roots in this country, and no footing in my parents' homeland. This place was all I knew. My parents came to the states before the Reagan-era, and we were surrounded by white influence. Despite growing up in a mixed culture neighborhood, I went to a predominantly white church, I went to a PWI for most of my schooling, and the…
