I feel like the guy in the White House suggesting a wartime enemy take out San Diego, where approximately 9% or 115,000 troops of the U.S. military are stationed, isn’t really something a pro-military political party would say. I mean, we always hear how the Republicans are pro-military, but now TFG is suggesting it’d be OK to sacrifice San Diego or Los Angeles. TFG is unhinged. “Let them take out Los Angeles, let them take out San Diego, this is a very small price to pay.” Here’s a link to the…

A common refrain you'll see splattered across the soggy-ass U.S. press is that the real problem in modern America is that we're increasingly "polarized." That we're suffering from an escalation of "partisan tribalism" of unknown origin. This ambiguous lament generally pops up among two subsets of people: folks who don't really understand politics or the unique threat of fascism; and folks that don't want to be particularly honest about the real cause of U.S. discord because it might imperil…

Last night I slept great. I wanted to watch the Rays game and watch for people but the idea of just relaxing in bed under the cover sounded too good to pass up on. I was tired anyway. I woke up this morning feeling very refreshed and energetic. That cool air really helped me get a good night’s rest. I have not had that in a few days. I enjoyed my coffee this morning. The slight chill in the house made it all the better to drink it. While I was drinking my coffee I found and fixed a small little…

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TLDR:Software geeks, parents, educators and lawmakers should get their common priorities straight and start to seriously work together to achieve what matters the most in an all-digital world. Here is what, why, and how.Public service announcement: if you like my work, thanks in advance for one-time donations via PayPal (mfioretti@nexaima.net) or LiberaPay., which are even better than (still welcome) paid subscriptions. I am also available to work, speak and teach on the same topics: if…

The first part of a series about bare-metal programming for x86 PC-type computers, using Linux for development.

As of this morning, Record Store Day announced an exclusive 10-inch vinyl zoetrope release of Charlie Brown's All Stars! The release date is Black Friday, November 27; check it out here. As usual, be sure to encourage your local brick-and-mortar music shop to order it!The disc pairs the A side All Stars! themes with variations of the same tunes from four other Peanuts soundtrack albums on the B-side. The A Side tracks feature Vince Guaraldi, piano; John Coppola and Frank Snow, trumpets; Eddie…

I can't believe buying the PS5 Pro at launch was buying it at near half off. The inventory for the PS5 Pro has been out of stock the closer we get to Grand Theft Auto VI's launch on November 19, 2026. The supply has been so constrained that Sony has re-introduced a lottery system in Japan for the opportunity to give them ¥137,980 ($872.28~) to buy a new one. PlayStation Lifestyle reports that this shortage may continue into early 2027. This shortage is another good reason for Sony to push out…

The layers of communication, miscommunication, and mistranslation that shape Fjord (dir. Cristian Mungiu, 2026) reach uncountable within the first hour. The first presented layer is the Romanian-Norwegian Gheorghiu household, bilingual in Romanian and English, the children now assimilating to the Norwegian-speaking community where they’ve moved. I’ve already skipped over the zeroeth presented layer, though, wherein the parents communicate their family’s values to their disobedient coming-of-age…

LLM inference begins with prefill, which processes the prompt and builds a key and value cache. Decode then generates new tokens using that cached history. Grouped query attention, used in models such as Llama 3.1 and Qwen3, reduces the cache by letting several query heads share a KV head. Reading that cache is still a recurring cost at every attention layer and generation step. The Colfax post on S/P ping pong describes a scheduling improvement for FA4 decode on Blackwell. In the original…

Awhile back I made a post about the The Form Factor Method and how the style/type of device I was using seemed to have a pretty profound impact on how I used it. I won’t bullshit you and pretend I’ve kept up every rule I put forward. Like most people my relationship and needs with my devices is always evolving. But as I’ve been home on paternity leave with our new daughter I’ve had the space to catch myself letting the boundaries slide. The big one that always creeps its way back in is using…

Hypertile by @jdvmi00 is very handy if you use Omarchy on a larger screen - https://plugins.omarchy.org/plugin.html?id=jmartin.hypertileNow I can justify buying a much larger monitor.

Ohio started early voting today and my book tour literally starts on Election Day, so this morning Krissy and I got ourselves over to the Darke County board of elections to vote early and in person. Now I won’t have to scramble on the actual day to manage my book release, tour, and voting! One less thing to worry about, especially with this election. Speaking of which, I really do strongly encourage each of you out there to get your vote in early (and in person) if that’s a thing you can do. It…

Earlier this year I noticed that my Crumpler and Timbuk2 bags were finally starting to fall apart. I had recently rediscovered my good old Chrome Buran messenger but it was simply too heavy and large for what I had in mind. While browsing the current Chrome Industries catalog I stumbled upon the Kadet Max 15L Sling and I knew I’d have to buy this one! Kadet Max Sling from the front It has exactly the right size for all the things I usually carry with me: A 13" notebook, tablet, a notebook, and…

Earlier this year I noticed that my Crumpler and Timbuk2 bags were finally starting to fall apart. I had recently rediscovered my good old Chrome Buran messenger but it was simply too heavy and large for what I had in mind. While browsing the current Chrome Industries catalog I stumbled upon the Kadet Max 15L Sling and I knew I’d have to buy this one! Kadet Max Sling from the front It has exactly the right size for all the things I usually carry with me: A 13" notebook, tablet, a notebook, and…

Liked OOHH - this is exciting.. Sending a webmention to: a post by Loura by John PHI⑊PIN

Managing understanding and intent has always been important in software engineering. AI has been changing the landscape. Generative AI is dramatically accelerating software development, allowing teams to generate and modify code faster than ever before. For decades, software engineering has focused on managing technical debt—how code structure and implementation make systems harder to change. But in the age of AI, technical debt might no longer be the most important constraint. This article…

Rick Beato just published another one of his long-form interviews. This time, he interviewed Josh Homme. Josh is from Palm Desert, California, where there were no clubs, so his band Kyuss, which he founded when he was 14, played parties outside in the desert. Out there, as Josh puts it, there’s nothing for the sound to bounce off of and everything just goes away. So he tuned down as low as the strings would go, played through bass amps, and somewhere in the distance you could hear a generator…

Tomatin HouseSeptember 2026 Amongst the 150 or so posts I've written for this blog, there are several that bid farewell to Tomatin, where my salmon fly fishing journey began and so many happy memories were created. We left sadly at the end of the 2013 season, never expecting to return. By good fortune we came back in 2017 and enjoyed our second best week ever, despite losing 2 1/2 days to spates. Our return in Covid and drought bound 2020 was less successful owing to the abject lack of water.…

Thanks to Charlie Horse 47 and Killdumpster for their sponsorship of this post, via the magic of Patreon. ***All moving pictures contain pictures but not all moving pictures are moving.And shall we be moved by the films that were released this month in 1976?That depends on how we feel about such offerings as Marathon Man, Alex & the Gypsy, A Matter of Time, Burnt Offerings, Car Wash, The Seven-Per-Cent Solution and Carry On England.I must confess to only having seen Marathon Man and Carry On…

Antique benches and chairs spotted in Downtown Grapevine, Texas. The post Chairs and Benches appeared first on 75CentralPhotography.

Bernard Lewis (1916-2018), Notes on a Century: Reflections of a Middle East Historian (New York: Penguin Books, 2012), page number unknown (chapter 1): There is one other thing that I recall about Yiddish. Many languages have some sort of suffix, added at the end of a word, for a variety of purposes—smallness, affection, intimacy, etc. In English we use only two: -let and -kin (e.g., booklet, lambkin) and both sparingly. German makes much more extensive use of -lein and -chen (e.g., fraülein,…

Quoted Trackback Spam on Iroha Isshiki Hair Color Study · The New Leaf Journal by Nicholas A. Ferrell (thenewleafjournal.com) As you can see, a spam website linked to my February 12, 2021 article Iroha Isshiki’s Hair is Brown, as Expected?, and my site received the trackback on September 28, 2026. How do I know this is a spam website and not a legitimate website sharing my anime/light novel 2D girl hair color research? Well, the fact that the link text was “free russian porn” ... Failing to…

There's this document, a note in my Notes app, that I've kept for a while now. Here's the outline of it: Sefer Sigilae Samādhi {in the form of 5 questions}

I've been into web performance for as long as I can remember. Back in the day, I cared about it enough to write a book, Fast ASP.NET Websites. My career has since moved into gaming, and while I've kept an eye on web performance, I haven't stayed as up to date as I'd like. A few of the worst-performing pages on this blog were sitting at a Lighthouse score of 73. I'd been putting off tackling them, but after making some changes to the blog recently, I tried something different: I handed the…

What’s the deal with writing? Why do we keep getting scolded that writing should be not executed by a machine but by a human? We’re quite happy to allow counting to be done by a computer connected to the check-out in the supermarket; more than happy to allow percentage calculation to be executed by a calculator; and resigned to our computers suggesting le mot juste, or correcting our spelling. We’re perfectly happy to have machines spit out ideas, televisions to entertain us. I wonder if there…

While I appreciate the time we just spent on the road, I envy an old friend who recently finished a year of traveling abroad with her family. Sophie, her partner, and daughter visited thirty-two countries across six continents. Uf-da, that’s a lot of airline miles.More incredible, she started a blog and posted every day, starting with trip preparation and ending, four hundred-plus days later, on a thoughtful reflection. I applaud her stamina for publishing details from each day with photos.…

The importance of impermanenceThings are always becoming otherwise. When we don’t realize this, or forget it, we find trouble. We imagine and hang onto a durability that is nowhere to be found. Start with the Uppadasutta ‘Arising’ [AN 3.136] Buddhist sutta: This aspect of the world remains the same—this stable truth, this fixed truth: all conditional things are impermanent.This is the first of three marks of existence. The other two: things are unsatisfying; nothing has a fixed self. ‘Marks’…

At work, even though even more people called out sick so honestly I'd have a good excuse if I didn't want to come in. Have been having a better day than yesterday, mostly thanks to a decent nights sleep. One of my coworkers asked how my weekend was, then I asked how theirs was. They said they were sick, but 'that wouldn't stop them from living their life' so they went out to eat and shopping and stuff. I cannot fathom this mentality. You're sick, so you're just going to go out and get everyone…

Well, I've sent off the pilot after editing it today. I found a great site that has free bleeps (I had to bleep out a name), after trying and failing to say 'bleep' loudly enough to use. It was really good fun listening to them to find the right one.Drudge-wise, I thought the central heating was broken, called out The Chap and realised that I hadn't turned on the thermostat! It needs to be serviced anyway, and he's coming back to do that later in the week. My daily dunce moment was…