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Countries - and state-scale corporates - should each be working on their own Strategic Fact Reserve. If they’re not already. Let me trace the logic… AI as cognitive infrastructure Assume for a moment that AI is upstream of productive work. It’ll start off that people just go faster with AI, and then it’ll become essential. I remember hearing that legal contracts got longer when word processors were introduced (I’d love …

Back in November, it was reported here that two cars from the Middletown & Hummelstown were headed to the Rockhill Trolley Museum. Those cars both headed to Rockhill Furnace today and were unloaded this afternoon. Thanks to Joel Salomon of RTM for the photos and update! The first car, shown above after being un-tarped, is Lewistown & Reedsville 23, a unique and historically significant center-entrance car that ran most of …

In June of 2023, I planted a GEM avocado tree. It was a good-looking tree, on top and bottom. The leaves showed healthy new growth and the roots were abundant and with new white tips. I planted in the best way I knew, a way in which I’d planted many trees before that grew into […] The post Young avocado trees cannot handle competition appeared first on Greg Alder's Yard …

PC This feels too good to be true! How can it possibly be that I’m about to be the person to tell you there’s a new contender for the Legend of Grimrock throne? How is this not already the talk of the gaming town?! Seriously, Tower of Mask is a fantastic Dungeon Master-like with incredible combat, and deserves to go very big. I say “Dungeon Master-like” because as ever, people’s …

The US Trade Representative has filed a “Report on China’s Targeting of the Maritime, Logistics and Shipbuilding Sectors for Dominance” (January 16, 2025). In the lingo of US trade law, this is a “Section 301” report, which comes from a 1974 law delegating the authority to the USTR to investigate “unfair” trade practices by other countries and to impose tariffs or other trade restrictions in response. There is zero doubt …

Flags fly at half mass today at Kindertrauma Castle as we have lost one of the true greats, the incredible David Lynch. The world is a lesser place for sure and it’s easily said that there will never ever be any one like him again. We’re all luckily to have lived in the same time period as him and to enjoy the riches of watching him explore his singular vision …

Our last day on the Great South West Walk took us around a great many scenic overlooks of Nelson Bay, through a windfarm, past a gannet colony on Point Danger, and back into Portland to complete our loop. The morning started off sunny, though before CareFree and I left Mallee Camp, clouds blew in and a couple of raindrops fell. We quickly took down our tent to keep it from …

[Dr] Martin Luther King [Jr] Day was formally established as a federal holiday in the 80s, falling on the third Monday in January. This year, it happens to fall on 20 January — the first time it has been on Inauguration Day {ETC: of a new Administration}. So Dr King's commemoration coincides with… this. And this. And this. I think I'll have to shift to a new cliché-like aphorism,

Skilhunt EC500 WW Specifications Introduction Torch in use Build quality LED, bezel, lens, reflector and beam Size and comparison User interface Batteries and charging Powerbank Performance Beamshots Conclusion Price Product page Specifications Brand/model Skilhunt EC500 WW LED Luminus SFT40 3000K 95 CRI Maximum lumens 1,300 lm Maximum beam intensity 122,000 cd Maximum throw 698 m Battery 1*21700 Li-ion (button top) Onboard charging Yes (USB-C) Powerbank Yes (USB-C) Material Aluminium Modes …

So what’s on my plate this month, now that the holidays are over and we’ve recuperated from that respiratory illness that lingered about three times longer than it should have? The website redesign is almost done. I still have to settle on a layout for the front page, and then it’s a matter of optimizing the CSS (especially for mobile devices), making sure old pages redirect to the new ones, …

Blue-blue skies Riffles on the water transform the city seen.

I haven’t written a post like this in a while. The last one was in 2016. My work life got fractured, not entirely in a bad way, and harder to describe. I was speaking to a friend this week and mentioned working for the Flickr Foundation, a position I’ve held since 2023, and he asked “How many jobs do you have anyhow?” and I thought I’d spell them out. Both …

I don't know much about the works of Leiji Matsumoto, but obviously his stuff is well-known enough that a lot of it is recognisable just from natural cultural osmosis. That's how I can easily tell you that not only is this game a tie-in to a TV show of the same name, released in the same year (2001), but also a big crossover dealie with characters, locations, and other stuff …

This blog post accompanies part 3 of a three part series where we explore the CDS Plugin mechanism in CAP Node.js to find out how it works. In part 1 we looked at the plugin mechanism itself and how it worked. In part 2 we used the cds REPL to start our CAP service running and to introspect it. In this part we'll use what we learned and discovered in …

Game:ViolenceLuke Gearing. 2021# Additional Resources:Terror of the Stratosfiend - Cycle of the Snake-WolfOrbital Intelligence. 2020Terror of the Stratosfiend - Cycle of the Snake-Wolf 2 - Return to the Shattered WoodsOrbital Intelligence. 2022Terror of the Stratosfiend - Cycle of the Snake-Wolf 3 - The Scales of Hyper-Visor God or The Final Voyage of the Crab KingOrbital Ingelligence. 2023# Notes:Using Violence for rules and custom homebrew rulings when needed.Characters:1. U.S. Postal Inspecting …