On lacking good authority
Recently started reading “The Mysterious Benedict Society” with my daughter (after the show on Disney), and … it has some interesting parts. (This was written just before “the Great Recession”, fifte…
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A grim use of the Apple Watch’s features: appleinsider.com/articles/...…
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Looking at structures found in the Azores: www.youtube.com/watch…
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DD * MM = YY 11/2/22…
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A new space station lives ! english.news.cn/20221101/...…
Halloween moon
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On letting go of the GPL, by Martin Kleppman: > For all these reasons, I think it no longer makes sense to cling on to the GPL and copyleft. Let them go. Instead, I would encourage you to adopt a…
Building big
There have always been “mega-building projects”. In the past, these were large hydro-electric projects, and more recently skyscrapers competing to be the tallest building. Today one such mega-project…
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Phenomenal tour of the Great Pyramid, feels like I'm right there! giza.mused.org/en/guided...…
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Evening of sorts…
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Friedman describes the paradoxesl we've been led to, in the absence of clear priorities: > I understand why people want all five — now. I want all five! But they involve trade-offs, which too…
A notebook sequence
I had started using the Midori MD line of notebooks about three years ago. These are fairly minimal in terms of binding etc, but do come with a sticker you can affix to the notebook. This sticker h…