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Find all previous and future episodes listed here or in your podcast app under “Barbican Station”. Donate to #TeamEvie and the Literally Healing program at the Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles. Go to either TinyURL.com/giveTE for a monetary donation or TinyURL.com/TeamE24, pick a book and make sure to pick Team Evie as the shipping location. I’ll have more ways to donate soon, so watch the feed. In this episode we …

You arrive at a gate with two guards. One guard likes big butts and he cannot lie. The other guard hates big butts and he cannot tell the truth.

Installing, Updating, and removing PHP on Windows 10, Windows 11, and Windows Server 2025 made with `winget`.

If I were to dump out a puzzle from its box and ask you to put it together, you’d likely start with the edge pieces, as we’ve all been taught to do. Recently, however, while watching my seven-year-old assemble one of his own, I realized this isn’t necessarily the best strategy. The puzzle he was working on was circular, and the circumference was uniformly white, surrounding a clear design in …

Eric Ericson (b. Blaby, Leicestersire, 23 June 1925; d.reg. North Surrey, Oct-Dec 2006) In the short span of five years, between 1978 and 1983, Eric Ericson published four books, and then the name disappears from the public record. Three are occult novels, and the fourth is occult nonfiction. The only known facts about him, for many years, were that he was born in 1925 (sourced from the US

Notes on The Pole: A Novel by J.M. Coetzee (Liveright, 2023)1. "The decision to invite the Pole ... is arrived at only after some soul-searching." The Pole then is the soul being searched for. And reading The Pole by J.M. Coetzee is an attempt to find the soul in a human being. 2. If our searchee is Witold, the Pole, our searcher is Beatriz, a board member of a concert …

Last year I decided that I want to share my most important learnings about engineering, teams and quite frankly personal mental health. My hope is that those who want to learn from me find it useful. This is a continuation to this. Over the years, I've been asked countless times: “What advice would you give to young programmers or engineers?” For the longest time, I struggled to answer. I wasn't …

“I thought we were done with all the trippy science stuff” – Irey West In spite of Irey’s quote, this volume of THE FLASH continues to be more than a little trippy – but we do have at least one thing confirmed that explains some of the strange happenings. Wally battles Weather Wizard, while Wally continues to be in the Watchtower – and that’s not the strangest thing going on. …

It’s Boxing Day and I’m a small pile on the sofa. We successfully Did Christmas at ours this year, and I never want to see another mince pie (until next year). So, what better time than now to look back on the year? Skip to bits you care about: The year in... ...big life things ...conferences ...gardening ...travel ...books ...podcasts ...music ...video games ...blog posts ...Christmas dinner The year in... …

Lego Advent Calendar Every year, my lovely wife prepares a custom advent calendar for me. And, because I loved it as a kid and still do, she puts Lego in it. Everyday, I get a few more pieces and build a new model. At the last day I get the manual and build the actual set. It's great fun. This year's set was Set 60431: Space Explorer and Alien Life. …

The end of the year is already here. A quick recap of 2024, and hopes for 2025.

Image credit: https://unsplash.com/@cathrynlavery It’s been a busy year, so here is a round up of the non-academic writing and podcasts I did in 2024:Writing“Who’s afraid of “killer robots”? Why human decision making remains the central concern of ethical warfare”, article written for the ABC. “Meta now allows military agencies to access its AI software. It poses a moral dilemma for everybody who uses it”, article written for the Conversation. “The …

# Enjoying: Games and Media I recently received my new copy of The Encyclopedia of Radical Helping, and it's so delightful. I wish I had the budget to gift it to all my most caring friends who are part of movement & activism spaces - the two I have gifted it to so far have enjoyed it, too! # Games I've still been greatly enjoying Fallen London, a web-based game …

In December 2023, a minor miracle happened: async fn in traits shipped. As of Rust 1.39, we already had free-standing async functions: pub async fn read_hosts() -> eyre::Result<Vec<u8>> { // etc. } ...and async functions in impl blocks: impl HostReader { pub async fn read_hosts(&self) -> eyre::Result<Vec<u8>> { // etc. } } But we did not have async functions in traits:

I wanted to know how large the deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3-Base repo on Hugging Face was without actually downloading all of the files. With some help from Claude, here's the recipe that worked. First, clone the repo without having Git LFS download the files: GIT_LFS_SKIP_SMUDGE=1 git clone https://huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3-Base cd DeepSeek-V3-Base The git lfs ls-files -s command lists the files along with their sizes: git lfs ls-files -s 3f4e5fcec2 - model-00001-of-000163.safetensors (5.2 GB) 4fb0c2abdd …