I’ve spent the last few weeks working with the security architecture of the nRF54L series from Nordic Semiconductor (in case you missed it, I recently joined Nordic!). While doing so, I have engaged my typical low-level learning technique of eschewing writing firmware for manually poking at registers using the debugger. A few nights ago I found myself observing unexpected values in memory when working with the key management unit. It turned out to be a familiar issue, but one that requires an…

During the Last Glacial Maximum, the European landscape looked radically unrecognizable compared to today. Enormous ice sheets flattened Northern Europe, global sea levels dropped dramatically, and the sheer weight of the ice compressed Earth's crust downward by hundreds of meters.Europe Under the Ice is an impressive interactive mapped visualization that tracks these massive geophysical changes step-by-step from 24,100 BC all the way to the present day. Press play on the map and you can watch…

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While developers questioned ZCode's silent full-repository snapshots, Zhipu announced GLM-5.3-FlashX. A read-only forensic review of ZCode 3.12.3 found a 748 MiB encrypted snapshot whose manifest was 98.9% .git, plus a complete credential-to-OSS upload path.

September 18, 2026 I finally remember why Seasalt Cornwall ISN’T a strange brand to me – there’s one on the main shopping street where my uncle lives in England! I’m occasionally crazy, but I’m not completely gone. Yet… So one of you – at least – has a longing for this sweater, and isn’t at all certain if it will work for her. My first instinct: if you have brown in your closet already, this sweater is going to fit in like it was born there! Sweater – Seasalt Cornwall Maybe our heroine is…

We are here again, I can’t quite believe it is Friday once again. There have been some new models gracing the bench this week so grab a hot drink and let us take a look…Last weekend saw the end of the ‘50 years of preservation’ of the Llangollen Railway with a gala and evening beer-ex. This stopped at Glyndyfrdwy on its return and Porters bar was open - so my partner and I strolled down and enjoyed a pint before they arrived and the spectacle of a completely packed train arrive and all the…

So I’ve been a little Kickstarter-crazy over the last several months, despite the fact that I have a to-read and to-watch pile already teetering over my head and the last thing I needed was…well, more things. But people keep putting out (or not putting out, as I’ll get to) good things I want to enjoy, and thus here we are. I talked about several of these items back in April, but I thought I’d at least update you on what’s going on with them. Starting with the items that I either already have in…

Sometimes a lot of slides might consist of 15 or 20 individual images. Or there can be only two! This was one of those two-slide lots, but they are both pretty darn nice.The Pack Mules have been gone for over 50 years... I'm sure there are many younger Disneyland fans who would be surprised to learn that such an attraction ever existed! The idea of being able to ride a real pack mule definitely seems like a concept from another era; I can't imagine that the ride capacity was that high, and the…

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Video Games Fire Emblem: Fortune’s Weave, Final Fantasy XIII (Completed), Slay the Spire, Rabbit and Steel Tabletop Games Playing D&D 5e (2024) as a Wood Elf Rogue named Alinar. Shows and Movies Nothing currently Music 90s and 00s rock - Green Day, Soundgarden, Linkin Park, The Offspring Other Stuff Dbacks postseason is still (barely) alive 🤞

You want to leave. You have wanted to leave since roughly February. You have talked it over with your partner, twice with a friend who did the same thing three years ago, once with a former manager over coffee, and last week with somebody you barely know at a wedding.Every one of those conversations was useful. Not one of them changed the answer.The last two weeks were about not being able to see the problem. This is the opposite. You can see it perfectly well. What you cannot see is how to pay…

I love dungeon crawlers. I love the thought of being right there in the thick of it, my party lost in the dark, or backed up against a wall as I hear something skittering about nearby. They feel dangerous in a way few other games do. Scratches on a wall might indicate trouble ahead—or a path to temporary safety. Mechanical and magical traps hide around every corner. There’s a real chance something will sneak up and attack from behind, or above, or below without warning, or even while my party…

A ritual is a habit that has picked up meaning. That is the whole difference: a habit is what you do, a ritual is how you do it, with attention and with intent. Brushing your teeth is a habit. Always brushing before you shower, and finding it odd the other way round, has become a ritual. The reversed-order test is a tool rather than a definition: it points to the place where an action has acquired meaning. People use rituals to steer their mood: to calm down before a performance, to gear up for…

I was heading home through Marylebone yesterday when I saw a train in new GBR branding. That's odd, I thought, I didn't think Chiltern had been nationalised yet. And they haven't quite, they transfer on Sunday and this was the DfT PR launch hullaballoo. You could tell it was an event because platform 1 had been fenced off, ironically with Chiltern-branded barriers. You could tell it was an official event because attendees were wearing suits, sensible shirts and lanyards. You could tell it was a…

This document curates the most common questions Shreya and I received while teaching 700+ engineers & PMs AI Evals. Warning: These are sharp opinions about what works in most cases. They are not universal truths. Use your judgment. How to use this FAQ Browse the questions that interest you, or choose a guide below for a curated reading path through the FAQs and related articles. Where are you? This sounds like me I’m new to evals I’ve heard the term, but I’m not sure what evals involve or…

Undiscovered chocolate found in the fridge behind the tomtato puree. I quickly moved it to the fruit basket, as you do. A morning without slipping into tiresome rant mode. A verbal shopping list of things and issues that probably don't bother me that much but I feel like they should. So I bite. At my time of life I should know better etc. Anyway I enjoyed a nice haircut yesterday. As I live close to the shop I can carry out a recce quite easily. Too many people waiting and I retire homewards to…

I squeezed in quite a few books in August, thanks in part to several days off in Cape Cod at a lovely house my sister rented (I accidentally left behind one Boston Library book which she had to take back to NYC with her - oh well, the BPL eventually got it back and, ironically, neither of us liked it so stopped reading after a few pages). I enjoyed rereading Dervla McTiernan’s Cormac Reilly series, after visiting Galway, where they are set.The best books I read in August were Regime Chance by…

For months and months, I've had a book lurk unread in my Borrowbox reading list. Finally, a week ago, I brought 21st Century Yokel [2017] by Tom "never 'eard of 'im" Cox into play and it was a treat. He was born in the same year as Caitlin Moran [prev] and had a similar early career trajectory: working-class kid from Up North with a good ear and zeitgeist taste gets job as mainstream music journalist in London. They've branched out on different paths since then, but are both still writing and…

Reading Time: 40 minutes WE’RE ALL GOING TO DIE! Well, of course we are, this isn’t news, but thanks to AI – or at least the imaginary version currently taking up the space left by the Silicon Valley brainworms – it seems that the entirety of the media and political classes have decided to spend the past week proffering (wrong, often spectacularly-ill-informed) opinions on how exactly you get from ‘LLMs that are increasingly impressive but not in any meaningful way close to intelligence’ and ‘a…

Absolutely everything and everyone is just incredibly, overwhelmingly, fantastically interesting. Except football. I especially love — not remotely too strong a word — the detail behind things that you never normally think of. I just learned why door frames are the size they are, for instance. Unbelievable. Fantastic. My 58keys YouTube channel is named after the number of keys on one single computer and I could justify that to you, I could enthuse about why, but that was yesterday’s fact and…

The HandleBar Adelaide uses vehicles devised by brothers Henk and Zwier Van Laar in Amsterdam in the 1990s. The four-wheel, open frame vehicles, the size of a family car, have allowed fans to take in dozens of US, European and Asian cityscapes, beer in hand, since the vehicles were first tested. Americ-an Stephen Lindsay and Australian Jason Seris operated 9 of the Amsterdam-manufactured vehicles in the U.S since they took up the venture in 2012. The vehicles were brought to Adelaide in 2016 by…

This year’s Columbia and Snake river steelhead run is shaping up to be historically bad. Since the fish counting at Bonneville Dam started only July 1, fisheries managers have tallied just over 52,000 fish above the dam. This makes the 2026 steelhead migration the smallest ever recorded.

Hot take: Is it just me or has the word “snappy” ceased having meaning within the typosphere? I’ve heard “snappy” applied to the best typewriters, the worst typewriters, and nearly everything in between. While almost everyone uses it with a positive connotation, the noise of the depth and breadth of machines it’s used to describe has drowned out any signal of actual meaning for me. I hear someone say that a “typewriter is snappy”, and it translates to me as the tautology that a “typewriter is…

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Source Somewhere in early Pleistocene South Africa… An adult hominin searches along a stream; the distressed calls from an abandoned infant have awakened its parental instincts; even if the baby has been abandoned by a rival clan, it cannot remain indifferent. Unfortunately, there is no baby, and it has instead walked into an ambush… This piece is actually inspired by a Mexican legend that is still repeated often to this day. A person is walking or riding a horse in the wilderness, and hears…

I'm intrigued! The current state of the art for these apps is a hot mess, so this is a welcome change. I'm looking forward to trying this.

Nate Silver’s latest is A supermajority wants to slow AI down, noting the general convulsion of fear provoked by the AI Guys’ it’ll-kill-us-all palpitations. From which: And then there’s a weird faction of AI denialists — people ostensibly on the left — who are convinced that AI is all a scam and therefore there isn’t much need for regulation. In parallel, the IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force, the people who standardize protocols so the Internet can work) is seeing a steady flow of…

If you are looking for a quick and simple supper for one, this Ham and Swiss Dutch Baby Pancake fits the bill perfectly. Its the perfect size for anyone who is wanting to cook something without any waste. It goes together very quickly using simple ingredients and can be on the table in less than half an hour! I was wanting something quick and easy for my supper. I didn't want anything that was going to be a lot of trouble and I didn't want a lot of leftovers. I also hadn't been shopping yet so…

Before you push the shutter button, before even you leave the house, everything has been decided. You might not have a list of photographs you expect to take on the day, but your visual values have already decided what will come out of your day. Building Vision exists before the encounter. When I walk out of the house to take a landscape, I have already something in mind: a location, a relationship between forms, an atmosphere, elements in the frame. Sometimes I know exactly what I’m looking…