This site for me is a hobby, so I like tweaking things from time to time. It started when I noticed some cruft in the metal section of the pages, and I decided to get rid of it. In the process I worked with an if... then... else because of old habits. Just after I did that, I remembered that Tera now has a ternary function, which is actually perfect for what I wanted to do in this situation. It’s a lot shorter and cleaner-looking. That should help me a lot with the misplaced endif that I…

❮ ❯ × I have done two small “acts of resistance” lately. One is somewhat revealed by the featured image above as I have finally replaced my old Kindle Paperwhite with a Kobo Clara BW. I have for a long time wanted to replace the Kindle as I did not want an e-reader from Amazon anymore. I very rarely used the Amazon store to buy books for it as I primarily loaded books into it by using Calibre and mostly relying on the huge back-catalog of Standard Ebooks to fill it.

Ep #254 With Brad Frost ✨ Robbie and I welcome Brad Frost to talk grief and acceptance around AI, the Orchid synth, snowboarding as a metaphor for finding your line through chaos, why domain expertise matters more than ever, Van Halen's green M&Ms, and Brad's AI and Design Systems course. ⤷ whiskey.fm · spotify · apple · youtube

This Revolution Class 66 is beyond superlatives. It was after I fitted sound to my EWS example that I decided to add a second to the collection, whilst I figured, they were still readily available. As a result the DB liveried 66128 arrived earlier this year…There is nothing that detracts from the quality of finish, of finesse or of performance of this model.The intention with ‘Modern Goods’ was to model something of today’s railway, but already things have moved on with DB Cargo up for sale……

I haven't posted about this yet, but last week my friends and old coworkers still remaining at Heart Machine were all laid off. As far as I know, the company no longer has any development staff. I don't have a full list of HM people looking for jobs, but some of my friends have posted demo reels and portfolios. In general, I wanted to say that everyone who was working at HM was extremely good at their job, and any of them would be a killer hire right now. There are so few jobs in this industry,…

In a 2018 interview for the Guardian he explained that many of the stings were accidentally received due to the nature of his work. But what wasn’t accidental was his dedication to recording and capturing the unique data: “I know some people think me crazy, but I am no masochist, and only occasionally am stung on purpose. When it does happen, I initially react as anyone else would – cursing, more than I should admit. Then I get out my notebook and stopwatch, sit down and make notes.” The full…

I know many of you have waited a long time for this, and it’s finally happening: I’m very excited to announce that my new class Landscape Sketching Fundamentals is out now, available on my website. If you’ve ever wanted to capture the mood of a landscape that caught your eye and make it come alive on ... Read more Source

I often resolve to at least note the performances I go to. Between punk shows and the opera and other stuff it is a super fun ride. And posting a bit helps me remember my feelings and reactions! I got a comped ticket to the (new, postponed) opening night of Simon Boccanegra Tuesday, going in fairly ignorant though I listened to it with half an ear earlier in the day and also knew it was about a politician who had been shipwrecked or something and spanned some sort of tragedy or fuckup in his…

I've more and more become passionate about trying different fiberarts, and it makes me want to be an advocate for crafting, especially when the world overwhelms. I'm a long time crocheter and knitter, and lately I'm adding more and more to my arsenal. I'm learning a lot of (sometimes ancient) crafts, and I love it. There's nothing more relaxing than working with wool or cotton (I refuse to use synthetic fibres), making something with my hands. It keeps me focused on the moment and not the noise…

I thought Siri was supposed to be good now?

Short answer: There is no direct GGUF to MLX converter. mlx_lm.convert only reads Hugging Face safetensors, so pointing it at a .gguf file fails. What to do instead, in order of preference: Download an MLX build that already exists. Most popular models have one on mlx-community. Convert the original weights, not the GGUF. mlx_lm.convert --hf-path <original-repo> -q takes a few seconds. If a GGUF really is all you have, dequantize it with transformers and then convert. Take config.json and the…

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Me and my fiancee had to stop at Tømmerneset to charge our EV on our way to Steigen. We took our dog for a walk and saw these rock carvings along Sagelva. They are supposedly 4-8000 years old.

There has always been that rivalry between these two editors. In fact, the closing question in my first successful job interview in the UK was: Do you use vi or emacs? The interviewer was a long time emacs user, but it wasn’t a problem that I used vim. In the really old times, when I was a DOS user, because that is what we had, I didn’t care much. I used DOS’ edit, or whatever was the editor of the IDE I used at the time. But I spent a lot of time writing documents for high school using…

Today I’m continuing my series on RPG Table Skills: skills that’s going to be used primarily at the table rather than during prep and used by many or all people at the table. My POV and context, as I laid out last time: my target audience here is people who have a baseline level of comfort playing RPGs. I’m coming at this as someone who plays a lot of story games and has more moderate experience with larp and module-based games. When I’m playing, generally my goals are to get into the thick of…

What’s a guilty pleasure song? I do not believe any pleasure is guilty. If something brings you pleasure then that is a good thing! Celebrate it!! I understand the thinking though, I’m sure there are some songs that we enjoy that fall outside the genres most of our friends would recognise as “ours”. For me, my oldest musical pleasures are, of course, songs my parents played. My Mum, the teenage screaming Beatles fan, had a love of singer-songwriters, especially those with the piano to the fore.…

I love this, this is me, what a privilege this is, you paid for this, this is when it counts, you're on the finish line.That is the loop that runs in my head when a race, or a session, goes past the point of being enjoyable and into the part I secretly turn up for. I mentioned it in passing after the 70.3, and a couple of people asked about it, which made me realise I have never actually thought about where any of it came from. I just say it. It has been assembled over the years without me…

Back in 2024, I tried installing SuSE Linux 7.0 in a VM but didn’t get a very satisfactory result, mostly graphics-wise. My main issues were that I got just VGA (640x480 pixels with sixteen colours), no working network and no graphical login. For the graphics, I’d need a working XFree86 configuration, and without a network, I would have had to copy things from my host PC, which was impossible without clipboard integration. I meant to look into this further, but as so often, didn’t. Hence,…

Guest Post By: Caleb Burbach, Founder of the Creedo App ​For the past few years, I’ve worked as a Catholic missionary on a college campus. Most of what I know about evangelization has come from conversations with students in Bible studies, over coffee, after Mass, or sometimes just from walking up to someone on campus … Continue reading 5 Things I’ve Learned About Evangelizing Young People The post 5 Things I’ve Learned About Evangelizing Young People first appeared on The Simple Catholic. The…

If you love old-fashioned bakes with a touch of charm, this Caraway Seed & Lemon Cake is a beautiful little loaf to add to your teatime rotation. Adapted from a trusted Tamasin Day-Lewis recipe, it combines the bright freshness of lemon with the gentle warmth of caraway - just a subtle hint, never overpowering. A touch of vanilla, finely ground almonds for tenderness, and that clever trip of rubbing lemon zest into the sugar for extra fragrance and flavour make this loaf wonderfully moist,…

Hey folks, welcome to the new channel! TikTok's where it's at because video is boss, so let's do this. Got an incredible one to start with, so lock in, like and subscribe. I'm here at the new entrance to King's Cross St Pancras on Euston Road, south side. It's so new nobody else has filmed this yet, yes it's well exclusive. Already got a homeless bloke asleep by the lift but hey. We're going on an amazing journey, I cannot lie A.M.A.Z.I.N.G. We're going one stop south and then back south TO THE…

This is important, so we're going with just one item today. Shut Up, Michael Luttig Back on September 13, we had this question and answer in that weekend's Q&A: Click here for full story

I dislike the punditry that surrounds generative AI. Perhaps on brand, much of it is machine-generated. The rest is mired in near-religious fervor, flames fanned for financial or political gain. There’s also simply too much of it. I have opinions — opinions I like! — but so does everyone else in your social media feed.At the same time, it’s a shame that we so thoroughly poisoned this well. The tech breathes new life into some ancient philosophical questions; it would be lovely to explore them…

This is interesting. Say you have a budget of $1300 and an iPhone 15. Do you spend it on an iPhone 18 Pro or Meta VR glasses? This may turn out to be what Apple Vision Pro should have been.

I done fucked up! In the last post in this series I stated that Zu Chongzhi’s determination of the value of Pi was the most accurate until the sixteenth century and the determination of the German-Dutch mathematician Ludolph van Ceulen (1540–1610). This is complete rubbish! I wasn’t paying attention and did the equivalent of turning two pages at once in my source material. Mādhava of Sangamagrāma (c. 1340-c. 1425) the founder of the so-called Kerala School of astronomy and mathematics in…

The first stanza of C.H. Sisson’s “The Red Admiral” (Exactions, 1980): “The wings tremble, it is the red admiral Ecstatically against the garden wall; September is his enjoyment, but he does not know it, Name it, or refer to it at all.” When I was collecting butterflies as a boy, the Red Admiral was my favorite after the mourning cloak. The beauty of each is less gaudy, more complex than many other species. I always thought the orangish-red pattern on the wings resembled the outline of a gaping…

I was not meant to be born in this time. Everything about is wrong for me. The past makes so much more sense to me. And I feel bad that I'm so obsessed with the past when I should be living in the present. I love the fashions! Not being able to be contacted 24/7, anywhere in the world. Boredom couldn't be filled instantly be a device that never leaves your side. letter writing.

Perfume PosseFive O’Clock Au Gingembre by Serge Lutens Hey Posse Peeps! I often say that Five O’Clock Au Gingembre is by far my most worn Serge Lutens. Over time that is definitely true BUT it has been sat sad and forlorn in the box for at least a… Continue Reading → Perfume PosseFive O’Clock Au Gingembre by Serge Lutens

So way back, in 2018, the food prices that are crushing us now and the fuel issues were all there. They just weren’t peaking yet. Combine that with the apps coming in and trying to take 20% of every food order. Pretty crazy. Then COVID normalized delivery of every kind of food, and everything being expensive. And to this day, no one has given back all those COVID prices. So whether it’s restaurants or guitars, anything new—which I hope the food you’re buying is new—is a serious price increase.…

I missed these two meetings, visiting Italy to see my daughter. But here are some photos, starting with Wednesday 16….. And Sunday 20…. And here’s Brian’s view of proceedings, starring some Very Important Engines…..