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Today’s breakfast location: mangrove swamp.
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I’m in the #philippines right now. These magnificent beasts are “jeepneys.”
Privately operated like a taxi, but they run regular routes like a bus. The Philippines found itself with a serious surplus of cast-off US army jeeps after WW2. Enterprising locals modified them to carry more passengers, fabricated replacement parts when they started to wear out, and built entire new jeepneys from the repl
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Today’s breakfast location: mangrove swamp.
Leaving El Nido today. I am going to miss this view.
My iPhone had an unfortunate unplanned brief encounter with salt water the other day, and while it’s hanging in there, it’s developed some interesting pathologies as a result.
For example: the responsiveness of apps now seems to depend on …
It’s the second guy who baffles me more. I can almost understand a chemical dependency—one that coincidentally ruins your sense of smell—that you feel driven to satisfy, other people and rules be damned.
The music guy though? I don’t know …
If there’s a species of person in this world that I utterly cannot relate to, it’s the sort who see absolutely no problem with inflicting their choices on everyone around them.
Example from the other day: the 3 Eastern European boomer wom…
I’m in the #philippines right now. These magnificent beasts are “jeepneys.”
Privately operated like a taxi, but they run regular routes like a bus. The Philippines found itself with a serious surplus of cast-off US army jeeps after WW2. En…
I think I was happy today before I went on Mastodon. I think I’m going to go and try and get that back 👋
I rant about LLMs a lot, and somehow this never occurred to me. Ye gods. The colourless, uninflected, and mostly-useless nature of LLM summaries makes so much sense, from this perspective.
https://mastodon.social/@gray17/115477396842271268
This is a good course. I took it before rebuilding our company website and its styles from scratch, and following the approach taught by the course feels like it’s really paying off, with big parts of the build feeling much easier than exp…
Too early to declare total victory, but I *think* I’ve successfully switched between different NVIDIA GPUs under Linux. 😥
Excuse for not going to jujitsu this morning: I ate way too much Korean fried chicken for dinner last night, and now I feel so bloated that practicing an energetic combat sport where people might try to apply their full bodyweight to my ab…
It’s no surprise that I’ve never finished System Shock. It retains its power to creep me the fuck out.
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