recentic librarian If this ends up dead and nothing more than a semi-introspective rant, so be it, served its purpose. I started programming when I was 16. I am now over twice that and still programming. I don’t like the realities of … Read more
Lingua Graeca Per Se Illustrata (aka) Lingua Graeca Per Se Illustrata By Seumas Macdonald (with much help) LGPSI is an open-ended collaborative project to develop sets of graded reading that guide learners from the beginning to a reading proficiency in … Read more
She will work day and night and does not need rest, boasts Noura, a housewife in Riyadh. Gesturing to the cowering Ugandan maid next to her, who is 23 according to Noura, she adds: “If she does something wrong, you … Read more
E5-2637 (32nm) is from 2012, I can not encourage people enough to buy the last 1151 Xeons or 8 core Atom on Mini-ITX SuperMicro motherboard (might be hard to find new soon): In particular I have E-2124 (2018), E-2224 (2019) … Read more
Hey HN, I’m Gabriel, founder of Meticulous. Our mission is to make the world’s code safe, performant and reliable. We’re starting with a tool to catch JavaScript regressions in web applications with zero-effort from developers. How it works: Insert a … Read more
A press release tells me their “meatless” crumbles are “plant-based.” Another sings the praises of a different product with, “They are plant based, made by hand AND VEGAN!” One subject line reads, “A Vegan’s Guide to Plant-Based Diets.” None of … Read more
My own obsession with Scrabble began in the summer of 2009 in the sweltering heat of Austin, Texas, where I was a graduate student studying economics. As a kid, I had always hated the game, much like Katz-Brown, associating it … Read more
“Backstaged, the alley is the outback world of the unmentionable, if not the unwanted…” -Grady Clay, Alleys: A Hidden Resource, 1978 ACT I: “The Theatre of City Life” On a cool grey afternoon in April of … Read more
Normal body temperature is 98.6˚ F, right? That’s certainly what we’re all taught, and it’s the right answer on a test. I know it seems crazy, but 98.6˚ F may not, in fact, represent the best estimate of normal body … Read more
Full Disclosure: Hydrazine Capital, an investment fund lead by Sam Altman (CEO of OpenAI) is the lead investor for my employer Geo Land Solutions, which specializes in real estate valuation to help municipal property tax assessors perform more accurate, fair, … Read more