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Find the net elevation change over the lifespan of a famous deceased person: (net elevation at death) – (net elevation at birth) (via Net Elevation ) … but why?

On the western slopes of the Sierra Nevada, the forests around 4,000 feet in elevation are excellent places to enjoy a wide variety of birds and other wildlife. The mid-montane coniferous forests of this "lower conifer zone," as it is known, occur at elevations just above the oak woodlands and chaparral of the foothills, and just below the upper conifer zone. Here, at this meeting place of plant communities, pockets …

Recently I traveled to Portland, Oregon to speak at the PDX People’s Digital Safety Fair, meet up with five groups in the Electronic Frontier Alliance, and attend BSides PDX 2024. Portland’s first ever Digital Safety Fair was a success and five of our six EFA organizations in the area participated: Personal Telco Project, Encode Justice Oregon, PDX Privacy, TA3M Portland, and Community Broadband PDX. I was able to reaffirm our …

For my oldest WIP, at least.I started with roughly 82-84k, but during my revisions, whittled that down to a solid 80k. Not bad, considering I've chopped and/or added more to previous books. This one needed a bit more work, as I have undergone several drafts to shape the story where it is today. There are still a few issues I need to address during the editing phase, but I'm much …

We’ve reached the fifth and final installment of our read-and-watch-alongs for the Kino Cult Blu-Ray release The Classic Ghosts. Source: DVD Beaver This one is really just a “watch-along,” because this episode does not seem to be based on any previously existing short story. And The Bones Come Together The teleplay was written by Sholomo Keil, who, as far as I can tell, has no other writing credits. It was …

This blog post is more of a collection of notes than a cohesive article. I wrote it to help guide my own thinking on the subject (I find writing to be a good way to clarify my ideas and identify the things I want to look into further). As such there are no conclusions — this is a studio journal, not a scholarly research journal — but there are several …

A new set of image generation capabilities for FLUX models, including inpainting, outpainting, canny edge detection, and depth maps.

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A very floppy clown shoe, as the first — and almost certainly not the last — of Our Once-and-Future Dear Leader's nominees1 for Senate-confirmable offices of the United States2 ignominiously, and rather ungracefully, withdraws before there's even a schedule for a potentially embarrassing Senate committee hearing. This leaves the rather frightening question of whether the next DoJ clown nominated

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Matt and Sam are joined by Curt Mills of the American Conservative to assess Trump’s national security team.

I had the great opportunity to go on the Syntax podcast and talk about web performance, web components, the Boston Globe project, JavaScript over reliance, Squarespace, my Web Components Course, and a lot more. It was fun to jump on a show I listen to regularly. That episode is live with an utterly linkbait title wherever you get your podcasts! PS: use the code SYNTAX for 30% off my Web …

I grew up with Swiss Army knives at home. My father and grandfathers were all in the Swiss Army, so the knives were ubiquitous at home. But not the red plasticky type ones, the real Swiss Army knives with the handles made of aluminum and four basic tools. There were two of them, and they always came with us, be it for camping or walking. I think in all those …

We are spotlighting another great review that my late friend Bruce Kogan posted. His reviews were always thorough and well thought out. This time we spotlight his review of 1947's Good News...Good News was the best musical from the Roaring Twenties from the premier songwriting team of DeSylva,Brown&Henderson. It ran on Broadway for 557 performances in the 1927-29 season and gave the team a number of song hits identified with …

Despite the Government’s stated commitment to growth, the Budget included no pro-growth tax reform, and its largest revenue raising measure is likely to reduce private sector employment and wages. The Budget continued a sad trend of tax policy driven by realpolitik rather than long term strategic thinking. It’s to be hoped we see something more […] Source