my travel laptop is a M1 macbook air with 8 GB of RAM. it gets by with that WAY better than i expected when i got it. faster and much better battery life than the 2 year newer dell inspiron with 16 GB RAM that i was previously using...
even don knuth is on the claude code hype train: www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/paper...
Post a pic you took, no context, to bring some zen to the feed.
noooo! that really sucks…
i built an entire x86 CPU emulator in CSS (no javascript)
you can write programs in C, compile them to x86 machine code with GCC, and run them inside CSS
lyra.horse/x86css/
The mathematical mystery inside the legendary ’90s shooter Quake 3 www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-...
well, that’s not very aubergine…
my lived experience this past week is that claude code saved me many hours of annoying, fiddly development time. i was then able to invest those hours into enjoying bortle 1 🇿🇦 skies. life is short, time is by far our most precious resource...
southern african large telescope
south african astronomical observatory - sutherland
back on my BS this week... 🇿🇦
David Hogg has written a white paper on doing astrophysics in the age of LLMs. It looks to be thought-provoking. My initial reaction is that either LLMs will destroy the field or they will force a reckoning with and re-imagining of the current system that often prioritizes output over quality. 🧪
This thread is really important to read in full, and articulates why fighting unjust detention by ICE is so difficult. It also confirms why I decided not to look for a new job in the US after my layoff and move back to Canada.
suzuki still makes those in van format and they're all over the place in south africa: www.suzukiauto.co.za/cars/eeco. i want to take one home so badly...
1Password not mincing words here:
"If you are experimenting with OpenClaw, do not do it on a company device. Full stop."
"If you have already run OpenClaw on a work device, treat it as a potential incident and engage your security team immediately."
1password.com/blog/from-ma...
ah, makes much more sense as a college in-statement.
fwiw, i’m a tucsonan since 1992 and this is the first time i’ve ever heard the term “t-loc” used.
I think one thing people outside Minnesota don't understand is that after Good and Pretti were killed by feds while observing, the most normal people you could imagine have made peace with the fact that they could be next, and they are still out there because they say it's the right thing to do.
grew up curling in wisconsin and can confirm it’s hella fun, with or without pitchers of spotted cow at hand.
i assume it’s a “if you have to ask, you don’t wanna know” situation….
A photo that appears to have a "gettyimages" watermark but the watermark is actually painted directly on the bridge.
This watermark graffiti by street artist Mathieu Tremblin is, like, the best thing ever.
i have that tshirt!
umpteen years ago i had tandoori tacos at the el rey theater and they very much improved my life!
from near your 'hood, @mattkenworthy.bsky.social
MVS erasure
what does it say if i owned books for all three and those books were very well-worn? also had several 'life in hell' and lynda barry books...
ah, i thought it was early 2021 that it closed. the little one just closed up a few months ago…
poca cosa was gonna be my quote post, but closed less than 5 years ago. it was so amazingly good. my spouse worked front of house back in the early 2000’s.
the NYT did a piece on it in 1997: www.nytimes.com/1997/01/26/t...
iirc, the restaurant closed in 1998 when giovanni fell ill and closed for good in 1999 after he passed away.
er pastaro in sonoita, az. the chef, giovanni schifano, worked in 5 ⭐️ nyc restaurants for years before moving west. the walls were covered with pictures of the many celebrities he cooked for over the years. we were once seated at a table next to kevin costner and rene russo. best vodka sauce ever!
