The model added extensive royal/portrait framing beyond a simple frog illustration, including full Habsburg regalia (crown, Golden Fleece chain, ruff collar, velvet mantle) and explicit mood/character labels like “Sleepy Drooping Aristocratic Eyelid,” “Haughty Expression,” and “Asymmetric Downturned Corner Creases (Inbred … Read more
Last year, I visited my grandmother’s house for the first time after the pandemic and came across a cupboard full of loose old photos. I counted 1,351 of them spanning all the way from my grandparents in their early 20s, … Read more
4 October 2018 CIA Applicant Screening I first took a polygraph when I applied to the CIA and went through the applicant screening process. To prepare for the test, I read A Tremor in the Blood by David T. Lykken. … Read more
Back in 2009 Tim Berners-Lee drafted a web-specification for “Socially Aware Cloud Storage”: There is an architecture in which a few existing or Web protocols are gathered together with some glue to make a world wide system in which applications … Read more
Aviation is a poster child for economic stagnation. Yes, airline travel has gotten cheaper and safer—great. But every other aspect of aviation has struggled or even regressed. As I’ve noted many times, we had supersonic travel across the Atlantic from … Read more
MYGA – make youtube great again A clean and minimal youtube frontend, without all the ads and whistles. Supported by yt-dlp, and optionally your local AI model, to make your youtube experience local, mindful, succint and ad free. Channel management/Subscriptions … Read more
It’s time to host your email yourself! A step-by-step guide for installing and configuring a mail server on OpenBSD. As most of the entries in this blog, this is more of a reminder for me in case I need to … Read more
Hugely instrumental in my career. Landed me my first ever job (2008) and has been responsible for underpinning most of my consultancy career (2013–now): https://csswizardry.com/ As long as one sticks with it, I cannot overstate the power of a good … Read more
An international group of researchers, led by the Copenhagen Business School, the University of Basel and the University of Cambridge, surveyed 4,000 people from Denmark, India, Nigeria and the United States about inequality in personal carbon footprints – the total … Read more
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