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I am continuing my reread of Rex Stout's novellas. "Die Like a Dog" is a 66-page novella in the Nero Wolfe series. It is one of three stories in Three Witnesses, published in 1957. I have featured some of my favorite novellas by Stout in previous posts in the last year. However, this story might be my absolute favorite of Nero Wolfe stories in shorter format.It is unusual because it …

You know that feeling of odd regret that happens after the fact, when you’re able to look at something more objectively? That’s kind of where I am right now, and it’s also where I’ve been. It’s not an easy place to be. There are red flags and green flags, but the flags in between are amber: warning signs that might indicate a problem. Photo by Joe Roberts on Unsplash Natalie …

Today we are announcing the availability of the SFO Museum Application Programming Interface (API). The API allows developers to access SFO Museum-related data programatically over the internet. The SFO Museum API has actually been around for a while now. It’s what powers the object counts as you add and remove filters on the advanced search page on the Aviation Collection website and is how items are added to and removed …

New article from Special Needs Jungle: Deep in the deserts of Turkmenistan, there’s a toxic fire that’s been burning for decades. It’s known locally as the Door to Hell. Inadvertently started by unaccountable government apparatchiks, exacerbated … The post PAC SEND report: Slightly pointless when decision-makers don’t know what they value more—money or children’s futures? appeared first on Special Needs Jungle. Matt Keer ⓒ Special Needs Jungle 2008-2023 All Rights …

Now that I have a job where I’m writing web components full time, I see the this keyword more than I ever have in my whole life. It’s not a problem, per se, but you can see how it’s a little repetitive. I started wondering what my options were to fix this minor annoyance and the ShopTalk Discord helped me find a simple way and an over-the-top way to fix …

Today I learned that the hash of an integer is the integer itself, except for -1. The hash of -1 is -2. Hash of -1 is -2 The hash of a value is a numeric “signature” assigned to that value used in data structures like dictionaries and sets. Among other interpretations, a hash is supposed to be a quick way to check if two objects are different. So, if two …

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ICYMI I wrote about Jimmy Carter earlier in the month. This week, on Thursday, Andy Smarick and I are going to talk about his recent report on college and leadership. Join us at LInkedIn 130p for, “Do you have to go to an Ivy to lead?“ On the 28th, I’m moderating a discussion with the Campaign for Grade Level Reading about SEL, politics, and why athletics turn out to be …

When Alien: Romulus first came out, the buzz around it was so good that I was sure I was going to have to do the rarest of rare things in 2024: go see a movie in a theater. But after the initial wave of good vibes, the mood on the internet seemed to sour, with more and more people complaining that the movie was too derivative of Alien and Aliens …

hyperfine is a neat tool for benchmarking commands. If you provide it multiple commands, its output includes a comparison, saying which is the fastest, and by how much. I often find I want to benchmark before and after some change, by running the same test command on my main Git branch and a feature branch. Here is my hyperfine recipe to do that, using the --prepare option to switch branches …

One of the things I like the most about The Brutalist, I think, is that it is a movie that retains some of it’s secrets. Certainly, a lot of it drawn out right in front of you. This is an epic and I swear, almost a response to The Godfather. Mario Puzo had one of his characters say, right up front, “I believe in America.” Here Writer/Director Brady Corbet, joined …

I stumbled on the article, Lullaby Language by Jerry Weinberg. Here is an extract of the keywords that confuse teams involved in projects working together and the better ways of dealing with the situation. Should The meaning of “should” would be “probably won’t.” For instance, the sentence, “The Catalog Department should deliver component pricing data by 1 February to the IT Department.” Team-A interprets this as “The Catalog Department [must] …

June 2024 This was my longest distance to drive to get to the start of a walk on this trip, as I was staying in Stranraer, so it was a long drive to Auchencairn taking nearly an hour and a half. I had hoped to relocate to Dumfries for the later walks on this trip, but the hotels there were too expensive, so I made an early start and set …

We recently got back from a family trip to Mexico, a country I’d almost never been to (a couple of childhood day trips to Nogales, a walk across the border into Juárez in 1999, a day and a half in Cabo San Lucas giving a lecture.) I’m a fan! Some surprises: Drinking pulque under a highway bridge with our family (part of the food tour!) I heard this incredible banger …

Gidon KremerSongs of Fate Gidon Kremer violinVida Miknevičiūtė sopranoMagdalena Ceple violoncelloAndrei Pushkarev vibraphoneKremerata BalticaWeinberg/KuprevičiusRecorded July 2019Plokštelių studija, VilniusEngineers: Vilius Keras and Aleksandra KerienėŠerkšnytė/JančevskisConcert recording July 2022Pfarrkirche, LockenhausEngineer: Peter LaengerCover photo: Thomas WunschAlbum produced by Manfred EicherRelease date: January 19, 2024 The word fate comes from the Proto-Indo-European root meaning “to speak, tell, say.” In its Latinate forms, it took on the nuance of that which was spoken by the divine. …