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There are plenty of ways to use LLMs ineffectively. For best results, lean into your own intelligence, experience, and creativity. Delegate the boring and routine stuff to closely supervised assistants whose work you can easily check. Mix Human Expertise With LLM Assistance for Easier Coding Part of the LLM series at The New Stack.

I’m not technically a boardgame designer, but I will be at the Hythe Community Games Day on Saturday 9 November taking place inside St. Leonard’s Church in Kent. I’ll mainly be hanging out by the Frostgrave table run by some friends. I expect it to … Continue reading →

So I was watching an ancient episode of Revolver, from 1978. Boomtown Rats closing the show with a buncha boppy hits, including "She's So Modern"Modern girls getting down to the New Wave soundsHang on, who let this chap in?!In his white collar shirt, his tie and mustard tank top! Looks twice the age of the kids around him - like Roy Kinnear, or a Tory backbencher.Still, he seems really into …

Prodigy Season 2 has served up many different flavors of Star Trek. In this “Ascension” two-parter, it’s the taste of a classic space battle action — one that could stand toe-to-toe against any of the best episodes of previous Treks in that genre. It’s cinematic in quality, reveling in the fantastic sights and sounds of ships attacking and evading, but also thoughtful in the choreography of the back and forth …

About last weekend …

The delicate little flowers are leaving Twitter. Or, and I’m not sure which is worse, they are announcing their departure like some shit airport and not going anywhere. As someone who is very much a left leaning centrist – and I need to make that very clear from the off, because the context is important here – I understand it, but I don’t agree with it. I am a firm …

A piece on new sensation Jimi Hendrix in the NME

Broken ribs. Three of them… I feel a little bit vindicated, because this much pain HAD to be something broken, didn’t it? Thank you – so very much! – for all of your kind messages. They keep me going… lots of love, Janice The post Not the Best Diagnosis… appeared first on The Vivienne Files.

I’ve put up another Austin Philips story on Dark Tales Sleuth. This one is supernatural! In “The Missing Word”, an old telegraph operator regales his colleagues on a stormy midnight, about the night that he “heard” his fellow telegraphist’s murder–over the wire. The murderer’s never been found. Yet. This is the story that Mike Ashley collected in his 2018 anthology Glimpses of the Unknown. It’s quite a good one. I …

first in a series of posts related to the last time Trump ran for election (rather than for reelection)Article for MTV.com, 2016, On Alice Cooper's "run" for President in 1972.Forty-four years ago, Alice Cooper ran for President. Okay, not really – but the singer and his group did release the single “Elected” in September 1972, timed for the final stretch of the Nixon versus McGovern race for the White House. …

Tap to view at full size. A good chunk of today was devoted to cleaning up all the tree and plant debris left in Milton’s wake. I’m grateful to have to do it — the canopy of trees over our ’hood probably absorbed a lot of the hurricane’s energy and blunted the force that would’ve been applied to us and our homes. Pictured above: me — below: Anitra! Tap to …

I write this review in the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Milton's devastation of parts of Florida. Milton followed Helene, just a week or so earlier. Both hurricanes cut a swathe through parts of North America, leaving death and destruction in their paths. John Vaillant's recent book Fire Weather is subtitled a "true story from a hotter world" and the story of hurricanes Milton and Helene

I pay close attention to the scalability of my actions. This often leads to situations where it seems like I’m acting against my best interests, but I want to make choices my future self will thank me for.Instead of allowing myself a slow morning after a restless night, I go for a run.Instead of relaxing on the couch, I'm teaching myself how to code.Instead of avoiding a difficult conversation, I …

The Geezers and friends enjoy a trip to Eastbourne

Design for Real Life is now available, for free, in its entirety, at dfrlbook.com. If you like what you read and want a personal copy, or just to support Sara and me, print-on-demand and ePub versions are also available from a number of sources. There are some countries where the book is not yet available, which we hope will be fixed soon. We’ll update the “Buy the book” page as …