TV is way too complicated these days with really nothing to watch. So some might remember when broadcasting came to the city you used an antenna for sending and receiving the signal to those who were close by to receive it. Soon more people wanted to receive the content the cable technology was formed. Cable was supposed to be the new way to get media and advertising free since the end user paid to have the service come to their home. What an idea right!? Well soon the cable companies were…

Reliability is important, but complex systems also fail in complex (and unpredictable) ways. All systems run in degraded modes, and this means failures can be difficult to predict. Therefore, adaptability is key for dealing with unexpected events. Adaptability supports resilience. Both reliability and resilience are needed for ever increasing speed and scale. Failure Is Inevitable, Let’s Not Pretend Otherwise, by Laura Maguire. The author of the paper focuses on distributed software systems,…

Jaki is a favorite. Jaki is a favorite. View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize Here’s a new arrival which falls into the ”been searching for it forever” category. Recorded in 1961 and released that year. A trio session with the wonderful cast of Jaki, Ron Carter and Roy Haynes. A progressive trio display with musical chameleon Byard showing his sublime ability to incorporate…

So I am loving the big poly energy with these three. Goals. Definitely goals. (Credits in alt.) #ff7 #ff7Rebirth #poly #polyAm #polyamory #enm #ethicalNonMonogamy

Another entry for the bestiary! This one I was inspired to write when I was on a train through the english countryside and saw balls of mistletoe parasytising a whole grove of trees.I've been quite enjoying the freedom of using mothership statblocks, most entries from now on will probably be using them. Thanks to Luke Gearing for suggesting the name to this entry when I was struggling to come up with one. X-Mas "Tree"The X-Mas Tree is a psychomemetic parasite first found on the shadow side of…

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Paul Ford about how web browsers are more than enough for application development: The web browser is very, very, very powerful software for applications, and the cost of accessing that power is going down seemingly every day.

Itch announced this week that they are using Ruffle, a Flash emulator, to host flash games in-browser on itch.io. This is very cool!! I wrote recently about how Flash webgames wwere a major driver of youth culture when I was growing up. Flash's impact on what it meant to be a teen online in the 2000s is very similar to how short-form video pervasively impacts youth culture today, basically - it was THE medium through which teens could engage with Interesting Stuff Online. Flash's deprecation…

In this video I go over a “feature” called OCP/FCP. This “feature” I first discovered on Epoch 460Ah V1 batteries. OCP/FCP means the BMS determines when it thinks the batts are full then shuts off charging. Not all brands have this but it is growing in popularity. In this video I explain what it is and how you can work around it. OCP = Over Charge Protection FCP = Full Charge Protection PLEASE HELP! This site is 100% reader supported. My wife is urging me to shut it down as it just keeps…

Today, after much research and dithering, I finally pulled the trigger on a new motorcycle.Meet Little Red or Aka-chan in Japanese. Chan being the affectionate diminutive used for someone's name.She's a 2026 Honda CT 125 Trail. .Right after I rode it home from the dealership Back on August 25, I sold Yagi, my 2006 Yamaha TW200. She had become so unreliable with electrical issues that I just could not trust her. This left me without a working motorcycle until today.Little Red, with her 125cc…

We planted the hedge along the drive to Fromebridge Mill back in January 2023, and spent many work parties since looking after it. The task today with Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust was to lay the hedge along the left hand side in the field. We split into two teams, and one group headed off to pollard willow near the pipeline, which would come in very handy towards the end of the day. The rest of us armed with bill hooks, silkies, axes and loppers to start at the far end. A couple started with…

Tom Scioli's ability to craft amazing comics results in my considering him a modern master of the art form. Hence, when Image announced a new ongoing series titled, "The Myth of 8-Opus," that got my attention. The man can write, draw, do colors, lettering...I mean, Tom Scioli does it all. As for the plot:"For centuries, intergalactic peace was kept by the warrior known only as 8-Opus! Ten years ago, he disappeared and chaos reigned supreme. Buried in a techno-cosmic sarcophagus, within a…

David Odden’s “Radical substance-free phonology and feature learning” (Canadian Journal of Linguistics/Revue canadienne de linguistique; published online by Cambridge University Press 27 September 2022; Open Access) boggles my mind. The Abstract is fairly unintelligible to me, since it assumes a long steeping in the relevant terminology that I have managed to escape: This article argues that phonological features have no substantive properties, instead, segments are assigned features by…

sourcethe op probably never will see this buti agree that having an "engaged" audience would be better than like a larger one that doesnta larger audience is still an audience though, and like getting any kind of visibility IS a prerequisiteyea like upvotes dont neccesarily translate to happiness, but it means people actually saw itand the more upvotes you have, the more likely people actually end up seeing it in the sea of postssure, maybe the TOP posts arent "competing", and the lower rungs…

Remember when I wrote about my top 5 Mac apps? Yeah, you can skip all that. If you have a Mac: just get Vorssaint. One menu bar icon doing the job of a dozen paid Mac apps. Install only what you use. It's free and it's open source. And I am probably very late to the party: this project has 33k stars on Github. And it has been the number one repo of the day, week and month. And rightly so. Yes, it's a terrible name (I had to double-check everytime while writing this) and the website is kind of…

Fear and loathing. Castles in the sky. Incentives. Good and bad. A secret rendezvous. A man of faith. A hug at the end of a meeting. Wrestling. Jujitsu. Kids. Hope. Dreams. Coming to terms with reality. Cold outside doesn’t have to mean a closed off heart. Fathers and sons. Daughters. I wish I had more money to give. I wish I had more courage to live. Being normal is ok. Disappointment now doesn’t have to mean shame. Spotlight. Lover’s fight. Who done it? French braids. Honey. Walk until your…

🏃‍♂️ So happy I’m able to do hard intervals again and not feeling exhausted afterwards. Session of today: 5x5min ☑️

Lady Liberty at Sunset – New York, NY – Fujifilm X-T5 – Atlantic Sunrise This new Fujifilm Recipe comes courtesy of Dan Allen, who has allowed me to publish a few of his other Recipe creations on Fuji X Weekly, including Kodak T-Max 100 Hard Tone and Kodak T-Max 100 Soft Tone. My favorite Provia-based Recipe, Provia Positive, is a variant of one that Dan made. This new one, called Atlantic Sunrise, is specifically for golden hour photography, intended to convey the vibrant colors of sunrises…

Hey, it’s another (yes, delayed) weekly upcoming Boston-area shows post. In which I write a little bit about imminent nearby musical happenings and run down recent local announcements. But first… I’m still in a state of disbelief about what went down on Tuesday, having not allowed myself to feel even an ounce of optimism given […]

A plague has descended upon the Knight household. 0/10, would not recommend. I remembered a post I now can't find where a developer listed everything they had searched for in a week[1] and thought it would be fun to include some searches I've done this week with zero context. marry me pasta words than end in go hanging chads triscuit biscuit I bought a Legami Super Kawaii pen case designed to hold 100 Legami pens but I needed it for my mildliners. Here it is with just over 60 in it. Also, it's…

Hey folks! Fireside this week, as we’ve (finally) brought the Hearts of Iron IV (I, II IIIa, IIIb, IVa, IVb) series to a close. We may have rather more firesides and even some gap weeks in the next month or two, both due to the end of the semester but also due to some personal schedule disruptions. Still, I plan to try to keep to schedule as much as I can, and we should be back on our regular schedule in January. Percy and Ollie in the office. At long last, the re-flooring required by the…

It’s hard to be depressed in a hammock. It arrived today and I promptly put it together, ditched my shirt, and blissfully roasted in the late morning sun. In Edinburgh, I would lie in the grass in Inverleith Park, listening to the crack of Cricket bats and enjoying the smells of those little disposable grills that suddenly appeared with the sun. But here in the world’s anus, Houston, TX, I would be violated by fire ants, spiders, and quite possibly a snake or two. So, hammock it is. I’ve taken…

Russell Samora and Kevin Litman-Navarro created lo-pi radio: Live lo-fi beats from the digits of pi, forever. A little bit more about how it works (press the ? button on the site for more details): How the sound works: Every note of the melody you hear is the next digit of pi, in order. Each digit is a note in the Fmaj scale. 0 and 9 are rests (silence). Digits are not skipped or changed, but we've created a set of simple rules (and some fiddly ones that aren't worth explaining) that decide…

Mark Boedges is one of my favorite contemporaty painters. I had the pleasure a few months ago to see him conduct a brief painting demo as part of the Wayne Art Center Plein Air event, for which he was the juror. Though my fovorite subjects of his are his deep woods landscapes of rock filled streams (some of which you can see on his webisite here and here), I am very much enjoying his current focus on fishing boats. In particular, I like the way he has carried his fascination with light in the…

Here's the data! Thank you all for filling the survey I mentioned in my other post here. We got 1518 full responses total, which is a lot! Without further ado, here's the data in charts. FYI: I am not a data scientist, just a random guy trying to piece up something. General usage statistics First I want to go through some general usage stuff. What is your desktop icon usage like? In general, people tend to actually not use them much. They still may have some icons, but they get mostly ignored.…

On the 19th September 1943, Erich Janowitz, my Great Uncle on my mother's side, died in U-341, a German submarine operating south-west of Iceland. It was the boat, and Erich Janowitz's second voyage. He was 21. Reading Roger Moorhouse's new book was, in part, an attempt by me to find out more about Erich's life in the service of Germany's war machine. There are many books that have looked at

It's really just a picture. Every handheld here has an IPS backlit screen (with the brightness set to the minimum), except for the DMG Game Boy, which has been with me since the 90s and I want to keep it all original. The Neo Geo Pocket Color is the one that surprised me the most — it's so comfortable to hold, and the "analog d-pad" is so clicky and satisfying. The Game Boy Color was an impulse buy, since it was cheap and already had the new screen, and the customized shell looked cool too. And…