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(I had a post a while back requesting people to submit open problems in Luca Trevisan's honor with deadline Oct 1. I am extending that to Oct 14, but that is a HARD deadline. See my original post which I have updated, here.)And now back to our regularly scheduled program. ====================================Breaking News: \(R(5) \le 46 \)I know this since 46 people have emailed me this link here.Recall that R(5) is …

[There is a shortage of skilled tech workers in Japan](https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2024/02/06/tech/japan-tech-firms-labor-shortage/), and a growing number of Japanese companies have responded by building new, multinational development teams. An in-house multinational team, which typically uses English as a first language, can allow a Japanese company to take better advantage of the global talent market. But what's it like for the international developers working on those teams? Are there communication issues with management? Is …

Third Edition Rules, First Edition Feel. Although not a full product in and of itself, The Wizard’s Amulet (W0) provides an excellent preview of what Necromancer Games is bringing to the table with their D20/D&D releases. Review Originally Published November 15th, 2000 “Third Edition Rules, First Edition Feel.” That’s the tagline that Necromancer Games is using for their line of D&D supplements (developed under the Open Gaming License), and it …

The sea off Krevborna's coast only got a cursory mention in the first edition of the setting book, so I'm aiming to change that with the forthcoming revised edition. Here's the starting point for what's going on with...The Judas SeaThe Terrifying Ocean and Its Hidden MonstrositiesThe waters of the Judas Sea are often rough and choppy, and the weather at sea is frequently temperamental. Vicious storms arise without warning and …

Happy Sunday, everyone! It’s been an exciting week in tech with all the new Apple gear arriving, Meta revealing their Orion project, and ChatGPT’s advanced voice mode rolling out more broadly. For my part, I finally caved and ordered a pair of the new transparent Meta x Ray-Bans to try out. I’m unduly excited about the return of transparent tech aesthetic to our modern culture.Elsewhere, I’ve fallen down the rabbit …

Want a taste of the frights but too busy to go to a haunted house? How about a haunted train? This year, a Tokaido shinkansen, in what is being called the world’s first zombie bullet train, will travel between Tokyo and Osaka. The stage will be set in car 16 of the “Nozomi 435” bullet […] Related posts: Analysis: Japan’s Zombie Outbreak Preparedness Japan’s Jimi ‘Mundane’ Halloween Costumes of 2020 …

There's very little to innovate in (motor) vehicle parking management and so it's nice to be able to report on something which is both simple and clever at the same time.I found myself with a bit of spare time the other week and so on a trip into the City of London, I diverted down to the Walworth Road in Southwark for a look at an experimental project which provides …

We’ve both been home all week which has been nice and easy, getting back into the usual routines, plus a walk up and down Sugar Loaf. On the way up Sugar Loaf § No major music listening this week, although I’ve enjoyed Dance, No One’s Watching by Ezra Collective, Love is Overtaking Me by Arthur Russell, and SOPHIE. § In the several years I’ve been wearing an Apple Watch I’ve …

While flying down the side of Tamalpais via Eldridge for the first time in a couple months I found myself wondering if that trail somehow managed to get even rockier. Once I regained the pavement at sea level I went to shift and my twist shifter just spun. Turns out I had rattled the shift box off the hub. To be fair, I hadn’t popped off the rear wheel or …

Our decision to homeschool our children is often a hot topic of conversation among friends and colleagues. There are the usual jokes, and many people bring up something about socialisation. Britt’s favourite response when asked why we homeschool is, “Why do you send your kids to school?” Honestly, I love her cheeky nature. I wanted to distill my thoughts on the subject into a blog post so I could share …

For several years now, I’ve shared examples of my short fiction here on this website. Today, though, sees the start of something new — the publication of The Lammas Ghosts, a collection of fifteen of my own original, Norfolk-based short stories in printed form. You can find out more here. For me, ghost stories have, first and foremost, been a way of talking about two specific places — often, the …

My iPhone 16 Pro Max preorder arrived this week, and it’s glorious. New iOS is great and I’m enjoying the new button + camera control, but the best thing is that I no longer have any devices that use a Lightning Cable! We are a USB-C only house. One of my main focuses has been rolling forward a bunch of low-intervention changes which, once live, will make it far easier …

At work, my team launched a new design guide last week. My colleague, Nikin, did most of the hard work putting it together with Eleventy static site generator, whilst I advised on accessibility and navigation structure. Public transport decided to fail at varying levels of disruption on multiple routes for my commutes to and from work last week. Both London Underground and Thameslink were cancelled or delayed significantly. That combined …

• A cooler Underground: TfL eyes more stations for its new cooling technology (Ian Visits) • Ashley Down Station – the first ever train: Video (JenOnTheMove) • Germany faces major challenges for its trains (MediaRail) • Europe’s answer to the Suez Canal breaks ground after 20-year delay (Euronews) • Singapore East-West Line MRT disruption: Faulty train left a trail of destruction (Straits Times) • Circle Line leads Lisboa metro expansion …

The military regime banned long hair, miniskirts, Sophocles, Tolstoy, Euripides, Russian-style toasts, strikes, Aristophanes, Ionesco, Sartre, Albee, Pinter, freedom of the press, sociology, Beckett, Dostoyevsky, modern music, pop music, new math and the letter Z, which means HE LIVES in ancient greek. Z ★★★★½ Comentar este post · Me gusta