I have the weed-whacker / edge trimmer. Love it. Also the electric mower — better than my old gas mower. The blower, however, is a disappointment. Doesn’t last long and doesn’t have the same power as my old blower.
There was no vaccine for what ailed her. But to paraphrase Marc Antony: I vaccinate to not bury my children but to raise them.
It’s been over 35 years, but my wife made that sound when she saw the doctor’s face as he was coming down the hall to let us know our daughter didn’t make it. There is no other sound like it. And all these years later, that sound is still in my head.
Here’s the output from Chat-GPT’s new “describe-me” feature:
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Jehovah’s Witnesses came to the door today! First time since before COVID. *NOW* the pandemic is officially over.
This is the talk that threw my understanding of open source onto a completely different track, and I cited at least twice today at #monkigras. Keeping Linux Great, from @r0ml.net
https://youtu.be/i3nJR7PNgI4?si=l98Cz6cxo-AggVBm
True. Hence our surprise.
Well, my son applied to two schools for his undergraduate studies. He got accepted into the BFA program for one, and the MFA program for the other. Not one of the expected outcomes.
Indeed. Wilful misinterpretation (the sincerest form of flattery) is an attempt to create misunderstanding ;)
My wife is running for town council, so I was out canvassing — in a townhouse development where every entrance was above the garage. Every visit required walking up a flight of stairs. So basically I climbed to the top of the Chrysler building today. And back down.
In 1969, the Olivetti Programma 101 ( en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Program... ) — more like a desktop calculator than a computer — but programmable with magnetic cards. My first program was to calculate the value of Pi.
Maybe instead of letting AIs have more access to copyrighted materials than humans (www.theguardian.com/technology/2...), we should let humans have the same access to copyrighted materials as AIs ( code.liberally.net/copyright-an... )
With Public Domain Day coming up, I think the time to make things better might be upon us…. code.liberally.net/copyright-an...
I was thinking of calling my new project GNUTS (for GNU Translated to Swift), but most of the macOS sources are BSD-based, not GNU. Still, once the BSD versions are translated, the GNU versions could easily follow.
First step in that process being converting all POSIX command line commands to Swift.
I have a new project: code.liberally.net/retiring-c/ . I’m working on retiring C.
