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Just finished "The Melancholy of Summer" by Louisa Onomé. It's an excellent book about parental abandonment, rejecting and accepting help, and friendship, set in Toronto. There were a few threads that didn't quite get wrapped up by the end, but the ending wasn't dissatisfying, and the writing is excellent, particularly TV gee dialogue and the narration of Summer's thoughts. I felt like the strategic use of stutters both gave the main character extra vulnerability, but also helped subtly clue the reader into moments where Summer's perception of her interlocutors doesn't match their real feelings. Between this and "Like Home", I feel like Onomé's novels are a bit rough around the edges, yet they're still some of the most enjoyable books I've been reading, probably because she's pours so much humanity into her characters and lets their honest desire for something better rub off on the audience.
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"Come to mind the names of violent battles: DR-DOS, Taligent, AmigaOS, Newton OS, Windows for Pen Computing, Copland, Vino, NeXTSTEP, Novell NetWare, JavaOS, BeOS, DoJ vs Microsoft, Rhapsody, POSIX, Linux is communism, Linux is a cancer, Samizdat, Windows Vista, SCO, Symbian, Solaris, OpenSolaris, systemd, Windows Phone, MeeGo, Tizen, Firefox OS, Sailfish OS. Countless mythical man-month hours were lost. Millions of lines of code were fired."

Man attempts high jump at Trackapalooza 2025 held at Groton High School way in the Northeast corner of Tompkins County
#photo #photography #sports

Donald Trump’s immigration plan needs a hard reset
On the one hand, the presence of millions of undocumented immigrants in the U.S. makes a mocks our laws and outrages much of the public.
On the other, many industries rely on them and their sudden departure would disrupt the economy
Those dueling impulses are why the past few decades have seen tough laws and lax enforcement.

Trump’s most recent idea for splitting the difference
— cracking down in blue areas of the …

Donald Trump’s immigration plan needs a hard reset
The president’s 360-degree turn on workplace raids shows his current policy isn’t working. There’s an easier way.

Esto del acuerdo EU - EEUU de 15% aranceles a EU (nada a EEUU?), acuerdo de gastar miles de millones en petroleo, gas y armas de EEUU; me parece un muy mal acuerdo del que Europa es la única que cede para gastar mšs en cosas que deberíamos dejar de gastar para consumir interno en renovables y defensa soberana. Y lo vende como un logro Von Der Leyen...

Efficient and Reuseable Cloud Configuration Search Using Discovery Spaces
Michael Johnston, Burkhard Ringlein, Christoph Hagleitner, Alessandro Pomponio, Vassilis Vassiliadis, Christian Pinto, Srikumar Venugopal
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21467

Efficient and Reuseable Cloud Configuration Search Using Discovery Spaces
Finding the optimal set of cloud resources to deploy a given workload at minimal cost while meeting a defined service level agreement is an active area of research. Combining tens of parameters applicable across a large selection of compute, storage, and services offered by cloud providers with similar numbers of application-specific parameters leads to configuration spaces with millions of deployment options. In this paper, we propose Discovery Space, an abstraction that formalizes the descr…