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Original airdate: February 18, 2024 The premise: Homer has a job interview at Shelbyville Nuclear Power Plant, but manages to navigate getting hired thanks to Professor Frink’s help, via an earpiece and special techno-glasses that allow him to see and speak through him. The reaction: Professor Frink is a goofy side character the show has made a few attempts at putting in the limelight, but much like Cletus or Sarah …

Ahead of next Tuesday’s online Parliaments, Politics and People seminar, we hear from Dr Jim van der Meulen of Ghent University. On 27 February between 5.30 p.m. and 7.00 p.m., Jim will discuss seventeenth-century Dutch provincial assemblies in East Asia, North America and the Dutch Republic. The seminar takes place online on 27 February 2024, between 17:30 and 19:00. Details of how to join the discussion are available here. When …

The Propstore auction house is back again with another round of Hollywood production artifacts — and while they’ve offered Star Trek props and relics in the past, this March brings one of the most eye-catching item from the franchise in many years. In their next Entertainment Memorabilia Live Auction on March 12, Propstore will be putting up for bid the hero Captain Picard command chair from Star Trek: The Next …

Team Ratings for Week 11 The basic method is described on my Department home page. Here are the team ratings prior to this week’s games, along with the ratings at the start of the season. Current Rating Rating at Season Start Difference Leinster 12.12 10.73 1.40 Bulls 10.67 9.00 1.70 Munster 9.64 10.54 -0.90 Glasgow 6.68 4.19 2.50 Stormers 6.42 8.93 -2.50 Ulster 4.54 7.80 -3.30 Connacht 4.10 3.17 0.90 …

While looking for something else, I came across this rather incredible photo in the Imperial War Museum collection. That's a seaplane stuck 300 feet up a 350ft tall radio mast! If that's not amazing enough, the pilot was rescued by three men who climbed up to retrieve him. And he survived. Here's the IWM's description: A British seaplane, whilst carrying out exercises, emerged from a cloud at high speed and …

Ampere Computing found a niche in creating ARM-based server CPUs. Ampere Altra saw service in Oracle Cloud, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure. For Altra, Ampere used Arm Ltd’s Neoverse N1 core design. Using an existing core design saves engineering time and lets the company get products out the door faster. However, using Arm (the company)’s designs mean Ampere has to pay licensing fees. Furthermore, Arm is using the same basic …

Devin Wilkins and I are still working on coming up with a coordinated timetable on the Northeast Corridor, north to south. Devin just shared with me the code she was running on both routes from New Haven to New York – to Grand Central and to Penn Station – and, taking into account the quality of the right-of-way and tunnels but not timetable padding and conservative curve speeds – it …

Permaculture instructor Andrew Millison journeys with the UN World Food Programme to the Northern border of Senegal to see an innovative land recovery project within the Great Green Wall of Africa that is harvesting rainwater, increasing food security, and rehabilitating the ecosystem.

Sari Azout on Artifact shutting down, reacting to the argument that “the market opportunity isn’t big enough to warrant continued investment in this way.” ”The market opportunity isn’t big enough” – for reading? For knowledge? That’s such a cop out. … Right around the time of their launch, I listened to an interview with the founders framing their new venture along the lines of “AI has captured our imagination and …

“Your female characters all sound alike” -the irony, oh the irony I’ve mentioned before how, when I used to GM a lot, I had a tendency to keep secrets. Deep secrets. Long secrets. Sometimes for years. Longer than most people would consider sensible. Like back in the old Doven campaigns, it was almost ten years before anyone figured out the fundamental structure of the world. When I buried secrets, I …

The mastodon-post Web Component allows you to turn a regular link to a Mastodon post into an embeddable post quote including metadata such as reply count, boost count, favourites and more.OriginAfter reading articles from both Robb Knight and Mario Hamann I was inspired to put my spin on their revised approach to showing vanity metrics from social media on their blog posts.The recent talk around privacy somewhat went hand in …

Dear reader, if it seems your comment has not been approved, sometimes it actually has been approved even if you don’t see it. The reason is that once a combox reaches 200 comments, the Blogger software will not show any new comments made after that unless you click “Load more…” at the bottom of the comments page. The trouble is that this is in small print and easily overlooked. In …

If you haven't read "The Layoff" yet, you should do so before reading this post. This post is a behind the scenes look at the story and contains spoilers. Or, it's not about AI or even layoffs When I wrote "The Layoff", I was trying to write satire of the tech industry. It's not about AI, layoffs, or even the future when both of those are inevitably combined (let's face …

A special event celebrating the Hebridean-based sculptor Steve Dilworth, coinciding with his solo exhibition at Pangolin London, with contributions from his biographer, Georgina Coburn, and a screening of portrait film... The post Journeyman – The Art of Steve Dilworth first appeared on Iain Sinclair.

Writing userscripts to optimize my data entry workflow with the FDA's 510k database.