Io vorrei dare soldi a Bonelli, ma non ci riesco. Voglio recuperare Mercurio Loi, vado sul sito e clicco personaggi: non c’è nella lista principale. Ci sta, è una cosa minore. Clicco “tutto personaggi” che immagino dovrebbe essere “tutti” ma passi. Su https://www.sergiobonelli.it/personaggi/ ci sono solo immagini quindi non è che puoi usare la ricerca testo del browser, devi scorrere la pagina a mano e cercare se c’è. Non c’è, o non lo vedo. In realtà una pagina per il personaggio c’è…

By the time I got out of bed yesterday, I had three people ask me if I'd seen the OpenAI announcement that the Partition Principle does not imply the Axiom of Choice. The number kept increasing during the day, and I can see why. I am famously interested in this problem. Indeed, at least two people asked if I plan on sending Sam Altman a bottle of whisky, as promised in my Problems page. The answer to that is no. And let me explain to you why, and why you should be very angry at OpenAI. Continue…

As an improvement to my version with Python or with Ruby, with tools like jq now being widely used, how do we minify a JSON string? Given: { "key": [ 123, 456 ], "key2": "value" } We can override the --indent: % jq --indent 0 . < a.json {"key":[123,456],"key2":"value"}

Hello, dear hoomans! Remember when I said that I would be debunking some specific concepts from quantum physics that have been distorted by the New Age philosophy? Ahah, yeah, me neither I totally didn't just remember when I updated the Grimoire with my "Internet Safety" series... Ahem. So here we go, the long overdue conclusion to the quantum physics rant. And to reassure everyone again, there is still no math in this pawst. Just a lot of hissing. Enjoy! VibRaTiONs: also known as "frequencies"…

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RubyLLM 2.1 is out. I released it on stage at Deccan Queen on Rails in Pune. It builds on 2.0 and adds an MCP client, typed judgments, evaluations, tool progress, OpenTelemetry tracing, and a nineteenth provider. It’s also faster, with no code changes. In this post: MCP client Judgments Evaluations Faster by default Tool progress OpenTelemetry Smaller changes Upgrading from 2.0 An MCP Client Where You Decide What the Model Sees In RubyLLM 2.1 an MCP server is a Ruby class you own: it lives in…

This is the Thursday Pressing Concerns! It’s got new albums from Hour, Song People, and Classic Traffic, plus a reissue of an album from The Smashing Times. Earlier this week, the September 2026 playlist went up, so check that out too. If you’re looking for more new music, you can visit the site directory to see what else we’ve written about lately. If you’d like to support Rosy Overdrive, you can share this (or another) post, or donate here. Hour – Ghost Bridge Release date: October 9th Record…

It’s hard to believe that this moment happened 31 years ago, as I was about to marry my first wife. My mom, my dad, my brother, and me — in simpler times, in times full of promise. Promise that was not fulfilled. This marriage was bad from the start; it crashed and burned, and ended. But none of us could see that coming. It was a day for celebration, and we celebrated. My parents are 50 and 54 in this photo. It’s always a little strange to see photos of them from when they were younger than I…

I really agree with Sean Goedecke’s piece on how to read code. He describes following a particular path through a program, seeing which functions call each other and how the data moves, then going back into the detail once he understands the shape of it. It’s a big reason why I still think design engineers need to understand coding fundamentals, especially with how much code we can now generate with AI. When you’re working on an interface, you’re making decisions about behaviour all the time.…

I've been spending more time with the awesome Road Trip DLC in American Truck Simulator, and messing with Steam Workshop mods in the process. There is a very large collection of mods from the years and years of development this game has had before the Car Mode was introduced, so it's actually a good idea to look for RT mods by sorting the Workshop by newest. That being said, I wanted to review a few mods that I've been a big fan of so far, which I feel changes the feel of the game in a way that…

A ce point ci, je pense que l'idée de voter blanc parmi une partie de la gauche était une psyop. C'est comme ca que les gens non révolutionnaires puissent se sentir révolutionnaires pendant une seconde pendant qu'ils font rien pendant cinq ans et tout ça en entrant dans le jeu de ceux qui cherchent à éliminer le peu de pouvoir qu'on a. #france #frpol #politics #politique #elections2027

8 October 2026 Cleer dashboard: How much energy and emissions does AI inference use? This is great: Sustainable AI Group have a dashboard that models AI model energy use and emissions: Cleer, and I like to see chunky calculation and tech reports with it. Closed-model figures are modelled from the nearest open-weight proxies, so they’re an estimate (please just disclose your emissions, AI giants!). A closed model’s performance on a knowledge benchmark is used to match it to the 5 closest open…

So... Elon's telling anyone that'll listen (with Donnie POTUS at his side) that Artificial Intelligence, pardon- Super Intelligence is gonna give us all, Universal Basic... make that- "Universal High Income!" Now, when will the light bulb shine over the head of some bright Press lad or lass and they finally get to asking, "Hey, ain't that there what y'all call... "Socialism!?" Ya know, the same exact stuff they're always frettin' and a hollerin' is gonna be the death of us all!Elon also said…

Well, it was +2C at dawn on Tuesday morning which encouraged a return to bed* and then a first firing up of the furnace. Even though it warmed up as the sun popped out, one needs to listen for clangs and sniff for smells on a day when the heating isn’t a necessity. All’s well but probably should get it serviced. Clangs and smells are not the height of mechanical engineering testing. Right after someone looks into that new loud rumble from the dryer. It’s enough to drive one to drink. Which I…

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Today I received the first spam comment in this blog. Of course it sounded like it was written by an AI.. Took quite a while when you consider that this blog is running since June 20th, 2023. 😆😅

Ideas · Generative Art Timeline · Le Random*A massive website struggling to deal with the history of generative art

*It’s the old-school Y2K collapse, only much much more so

Back to ACWest and back to the Ramada. With images; cc-by-sa on everything.

R2-D2 (D-Squad) Star Wars Droid Factory Item No.: ??? Manufacturer: Disney Number: n/a Includes: Card, RX base Action Feature: Comes apart Retail: $19.99 Availability: September 2026 Appearances: The Clone Wars Bio: All different types of droids populate the Star Wars galaxy. Each droid has their own unique personality and colors. This droid served Colonel Meebur Gascon and the droid unit D-Squad to infiltrate a Separatist Dreadnought. Join R2-D2 on his adventures throughout the galaxy.May the…

I really do find that AI answers quite handy for certain queries. It’s great to ask something simple like “What time is the Eagles game today?” or something like that. Often times these websites that are made, written and maintained by an actual human being are far more interesting. They are usually unique too. It is common for me to explore their other posts or pages if I find what they wrote appealing. I suppose a lot of that is nostalgia from when I first got on the internet. It was a lot…

As we were in Oxford on Sunday we checked out the new Mike Nelson exhibition at Modern Art Oxford. It includes a new version of Triple Bluff Canyon (above), an installation inspired by Robert Smithson's Partially Buried Woodshed (1970) and the Gulf Wars that had recently taken place when it was first shown at MAO in 2004. The photograph below is one I took when another version was installed at the Hayward Gallery's big Mike Nelson retrospective in 2023. As you can see, this entropic landscape…

This is the fifth and final book in Ambrose Parry’s Raven and Fisher historical crime series set within the medical world of 19th century Edinburgh. I’m sorry that it’s the last one, as I’ve enjoyed all of the books and am disappointed there won’t be any more. If you’re new to the series, I recommend reading in order starting with the first novel, The Way of All Flesh, but it’s not completely essential as the books also work as separate mysteries. As The Death of Shame opens, Dr Will Raven is…

I’m pushing to complete a first draft of OpenZFS Mastery in the next few weeks. Here’s a bit on ZFS and lightweight virtual machines. Lightweight virtualization like Linux containers, Illumos zones, and FreeBSD jails are the most efficient way to isolate virtual systems from the host. Rather than making the virtual machine deploy its own networking stack, memory cache, and filesystem, the main host’s kernel handles those tasks and reduces the virtual machine to an isolated process space. Some…

I’m in th last final parts of opening up a local bank account for my business. And as me were signing on Monday, they ask “I just need your company stamp.” And of course I’d forgotth to get one. “What is it?” you ask. It is a stump w/ th company name. That’s it. Nothing special, 100% reproducable. So £18 later I go back to th bank with th stump.

Not a bad day with some sunshine. A bit cooler. Did H car, Doc, T in the week making 131 to date. A calf in to burn. Cleared all the lab bins out. Brushed down B Room.

Eastern horizon on the evening of Monday, October 12 as seen from Adelaide at 20:54 ACDST, 90 minutes after sunset (click to embiggen). Saturn is the brightest object above the eastern horizon. The asteroid Vesta is at opposition and 1s easily visible in binoculars on the 12th. unfortunately there are no bright guide stars to easily get to it. The insets shows the telescopic view of Saturn and the binocular view of Vesta at this time. Similar views will be seen elsewhere in Australia at the…

FactMap is the latest map game to be a little like GeoGuessr. However instead of guessing the locations of random Street View images, in this game you need to point to the locations of five daily historical or geographical facts.FactMap gives you a fact and asks you to work out where on Earth it happened. The answer might be the place where a famous person died, where a treaty was signed, where a band formed, or where a particular animal lives. For example, one question might ask: Where did…