I have a friend who grow up and lives in a poor country. He is a brilliant person. Takes good care of the family, works hard to earn a living. However, the place that he lives has limited employment opportunities. Nevertheless, he still makes good money in his employment. I think that he could achieve far more if he is born in a first world country. Due to his age, migration is not an option. The next best hope are his children. The aim is to let his children step on his shoulder to find bigger…

Incredible movie. Does something genuinely original and effecting. If you’ve seen all the Friday the 13th movies you’ll get all the loving references, but it’s not necessary to enjoy. Great needle drops as well. Hahah einbinder is perfectly cast and Gillian Anderson is jaw droppingly magnetic. God damn this movie rules so hard I’m mad.

What an amazing achievement that it can generate such tables.

• 4-star hike • 1 mile out-and-back • Easy | Gain 20 feet • New Boston, NH | Merrimack Region . There's no shortage of rocks in New Hampshire, but some are celebrated with greater reverence than others. Granite Staters still are having problems letting go of the Old Man Of The Mountain - the rocky feature that collapsed in 2003 - to the point that even now it's still celebrated on the state's vehicle license plate. Of course we're not about to suggest replacing the license plate with a rock…

In 1975, computers were enormous machines housed in dedicated rooms, surrounded by cabinets, cables, magnetic tape reels, and equipment that looked more like science fiction than the technology found in most homes today. A book titled How a Computer System Works offered readers a way to understand these complicated machines, explaining their components and showing […]

If you've slept on the Apple TV show Dark Matter, you should watch it. Season one based on the book, and was good. Season two has surprised me. Without any further source material, it's better than season one. Highly highly recommended.

One of the most wonderful aspects of math is how deep we can get by studying seemingly trivial questions. Consider the roots of unity, where "unity" simply means the number 1. Basics: roots of unity for real numbers Studying the roots of unity usually begins in middle school: what is the square root of 1? Equivalently, what are the solutions to this equation? Well, there are two answers: 1 and -1. Similarly, we can ask the question for higher roots; the third roots are solutions to the…

When a mysterious sea creature terrorizes a remote town, a fisherman must fight to protect his family, his community, and his way of life. Whoa. This mini-series is short, but will definitely take you places. Excellent writing and the filming locations in Newfoundland are breath-taking. There’s mystery, a bit of monster horror, some gore and a mini series that’s pretty unpredictable (although a bit implausible). But on the other hand, it’s fiction, so it’s okay. It’s not made to be a…

At the Asian Board Games Festival in Penang in August, I did a game exchange with Vito of Homp, an Indonesian game design studio. I still have not managed to play some of the games, but they look good and I want to showcase them. Sultan Spices was inspired by a children's book called Sultan Kecil Mencari Rempah (Little Sultan Hunts for Spices). Back of the box

17 Contraption | INDEX | 19 Confused Self-imposed constraint: Use the letters of the prompt word inside a 2-inch square to illustrate its meaning. Hongdian Black Forest fountain pen, EF, black ink on 120 gsm paper.

At the end of each week, I usually collate a lightly edited collection of recent comments I’ve made on social media, which I think of as my public scratch pad. I tag on what books I may have finished reading. Knowing I’ll revisit my social media posts serves, I’ve found, as a positive and mellowing influence on my online activity. Some items show up on disquiet.com before this post, in which case I don’t repeat them. I mostly hang out on Mastodon (at post.lurk.org/@disquiet), and I’m also…

midnight don't mean much to me anymore but so many fragments of song that fly from my fingers together in wing and flight unfinished in earlier hours still crushed by autumn of sunrise then desert winter daytime contains other things said explicate It Was Just Like Yesterday :: 17th October 2026

Got a another bill from the urgent care just under $400. Stupid, annoying, whatever. Put it on the credit card, will probably pay it off one half at a time. My partner did find out they can put me on their insurance, so next year I'll have that, that's something. It's whatever, we push forward. I did sign up for a R.U.S.H. tournament next week, so I'm excited for that! I may stream it so I can rewatch my gameplay after!

Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. (1 Corinthians 13) I've been learning that love isn't the feeling at the top of the mountain. It's what you do on the way back down. Growth looks a lot less like winning and a lot more like keeping no record of wrongs, telling the truth gently, and protecting the people in your life, especially when they're not in the room. This week I read The Shape of Trust — Anatomy of a Sangha, a small interactive piece…

Friday (16 October) would have been my father’s 83rd birthday. Here is a link to his obituary, along with some additional photos.

added a new slash page to showing off my nail polish collection.

The first recording today starts with the end of League of Super Evil. There’s a trail for Live ‘n’ Deadly. Then there’s a short episode of Newsround. Barney’s Barrier Reef – Take My Breath Away. Barney and Gemma are looking at the way sea creatures breathe underwater. This is a Potato Cod. A Moray Eel. A Manta Ray. Squat Lobsters. A Barnacle. A Jellyfish. A Sea Snake. A Sea Cucumber doing bottom breathing. A Mud Lobster. A Mudskipper. A Minke Whale. A Dolphin. A Hawkfish. Media Centre…

Happy 6 years of ari-web!

I have long had a habit of bookmarking interesting blogs online then never reading them again. Part of setting up my own blog was the RSS feed, and with AI now, I thought it would be quick to take a folder of the ~2k bookmarks and turn it into an RSS feed so I could actually leverage all those links. Plus, I’ve seen all those cool projects where people re-use old electronics, and I wanted to learn how to do this.

by Joanna Sodeman-Taylor There’s nothing like writing about the premier selections of the New York Film Festival... at night. Speaking of, let’s talk about Beatrice Gibson’s debut feature At Night, a delicate, hypnotic city symphony that premiered to great reviews at this year’s Locarno Film Festival, where she won the Best Emerging Director Award, before being programmed into NYFF's Currents program. At Night stars Gibson as a filmmaker named B who’s scouting locations in Paris for an upcoming…

I did a web search on the above phrase, in prep for a podcast, and in ten pages of results didn’t find anything I thought reasonable. Which promotes me to write this, hoping it can show up for others when they so search. This content isn’t new, just restated, maybe better. When considering purported evidence for meteors or ball lightning, we are much more forgiving than when considering purported evidence of telepathy or ghosts, as reasonable priors for the former are much higher than for the…

Teddy Bears Never Dieby Cho YeeunGenres: Horror Pages: 304 Rating: Synopsis: The horrormance genre mash-up you've been waiting for - from the award-winning Korean author Cho Yeeun comes a new novel where a young girl and a teddy bear team up to enact revenge! A poisoned city - A grieving daughter - A boy trapped in a bear's body. When the fledgling coastal town of Yamu is rocked by a mass-poisoning attack at The Seaview Parc, the luxury high-rise meant to revitalise the city, Hwayoung is one of…

Tech companies structurally depend on writing to serve as evidence, in the same way that Bitcoin depends on proof-of-work hashing. However, in the last few years, LLMs have started to undermine this practice. How can writing be like proof-of-work? When I’m writing something at work, it’s not always to communicate an idea. Sometimes it’s because having a piece of writing is useful as evidence: of compliance with some process, of the fact that I put in effort, or of the fact that I know about…

I had the pleasure of being interviewed by Yacine of Deep Learning with Yacine. He posed a lot of very thoughtful questions and I had a great time. Please check it out! The lightly edited transcript follows, auto-transcribed with faster-whisper and then reviewed by me for correctness, adding links for context, and editing out a lot of “I think” and “um” and “like” selectively. (Yacine) A lot of people asked me how to get into machine learning in 2026. Instead of giving you my usual advice, I…

Everyone who bothers with this inevitably asks themselves, Who am I writing for? Many will answer, For myself, of course. But then why a public-facing website? Why the upvotes, guestbooks, Contact links? Be honest with yourself. Does knowing someone might read your writing change what you’re willing to say? Perhaps the for myself claim isn't really about the absence of an audience. Rather, it's about refusing to let that audience dictate what you write. L’air du temps, the hate mail, the…

A model can now rebuild anything that runs on your machine. The companies will answer by moving everything onto their servers, and the small developers pay first.

Er....just a coffee for me.

Trains need careful marshalling, your threads are the same. I apologize for this illustration, it is bad even by my standards. In my defense, I drew it on an airplane. Condition variables (CVs) are supposed to be the easy-to-use, hard-to-mess-up synchronization primitive in C++. There are still plenty of way to mess them up, some subtle enough that I often encounter issues in production code. This article is a gentle walk through some of the common errors. Key Takeaways Condition Variables are…

Some pics from the SF Old Car Picnic today: