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How Taiwan's Hsinchu Science Park, home to TSMC, became its wealthiest hub; one neighborhood reported 2023 average household incomes of $146K, 5x the average (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/24/busines

Welcome to the Luxury City Built by Taiwan’s A.I. Boom
Fortunes, luxury buildings and birthrates are rising in the city at the center of Taiwan’s chip supply chain.

from my link log —
How we knew space is a vacuum.
https://sky-lights.org/2021/06/14/qa-how-we-knew-space-was-a-vacuum/
saved 2023-03-12

Maybe 3 years later, this situation has changed.
Somehow I doubt it.
Planning Inspectorate can’t say if its inspectors are carbon literate. | Steady State Manchester
https://steadystatemanchester.net/2023/06/06/plan…

Planning Inspectorate can’t say if its inspectors are carbon literate.
We have had a (late) response from the Planning Inspectorate to our Freedom of Information request. We asked for information on whether planning inspectors have received carbon-literacy training. T…

Making Rust supply chain attacks harder with Cackle
Alex is a software engineer who has built a tool which she licences to her customers. She only has a small number of clients, but they like her tool. She built her tool using Rust, with about 20 direct dependencies from crates.io. When you count indirect dependencies, her tool has about 250 dependencies.
— by @…

Man muss Lanz nicht mögen. Gestern Abend hatte Manfred Weber (CSU) jedenfalls kein leichtes Spiel.
Es ging hauptsächlich um den Iran-Krieg und am Ende noch um unsere Automobilindustrie. Weber wirkt völlig planlos.
https://www.morgenpost…

Markus Lanz macht Manfred Webers Auftritt zum Spießrutenlauf
Markus Lanz, Moderator, sitzt 2023 auf der Bühne im Thalia Theater.

"...it is not just about sentencing. Proven sexual offences by children rose 47 per cent in 2023-24 and have kept rising: evidence from the Children’s Commissioner tying this to universal access to online pornography cannot be ignored.
/Cont'd.
Child rapes are on the rise — we must understand why to address that | Morning Star

RunPod, which rents access to non-Nvidia servers, raised $100M led by Summit Partners at a $1B valuation, a source says up from $100M after its seed in 2024 (Stephanie Palazzolo/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/cl

Cloud Startup Runpod Raises $100 Million, Says It Turned Down Buyout Offers
By some accounts, the compute crunch of 2026 has become even more dire than the chip crunch of 2023, which saw even venture capital firms becoming quasi-cloud providers temporarily. That’s good news for a subclass of firms that popped up to rent out computing power and help developers run ...

Guardrails enable you to defend against prompt injection or jailbreak attacks by your coding agents. In our tutorial on agentic software engineering, we provide an overview of the options available to you for this purpose: https://agentic-software-engineering.r

from my link log —
32 MiB working set on a 64 GiB machine.
https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2023/10/01/32-mib-working-sets-on-a-64-gib-machine/
saved 2023-10-02

32 MiB Working Sets on a 64 GiB machine
Memory is a relatively scarce resource on many consumer computers, so a feature to limit how much memory a process uses seems like a good idea, and Microsoft did indeed implement such a feature. Ho…

Climate alarm!
This is NOT within normal bounds for the Netherlands: the second half of June is now forecasted to become the warmest in 126 years, beating June 2023 by a margin of over 3°C!
24-hour average of 23.4°C, in this forecast.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #Afrodeutsche
Avalon Emerson & the Charm:
🎵 Hot Evening (6 Music Session, 3 Jul 2023)
#AvalonEmerson #theCharm
https://avalonemerson.bandcamp.com/track/hot-evening
https://open.spotify.com/track/1A0Cw6bYJirHpsxqbcun5d

Zilveren Nipkowschijf voor documentaire De afhaalchinees: Thuisbezorgd -
Zilveren Nipkowschijf voor documentaire De afhaalchinees: Thuisbezorgd
https://nos.nl/l/2618155
> De documentaireserie van Qian van Binsbergen is het vervolg op De Afhaalchinees uit 2023 en gaat over de gevolgen van adoptie.…

I'm packaging my first #app for @…
I've been running https://zadzmo.org/code/nepenthes/

Nepenthes - ZADZMO.org
Making web crawlers eat shit since 2023

Canterbury | April 2023
#photography #blackandwhitephotography #monochrome #documentingplace

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
The Beatles:
🎵 Revolution (2023 Mix)
#NowPlaying #TheBeatles
#radioeins gespielten Titel als #Spotify Playliste: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3hdH98B6uyXilhcWxCA6nv

Dane John Gardens, Canterbury | April 2023
#photography #blackandwhitephotography #monochrome #documentingplace

from my link log —
No vehicles in the park: a game about content moderation.
https://novehiclesinthepark.com/
saved 2023-06-24 https://dotat.at/:/1BJCD…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #ChrisHawkins
King Creosote:
🎵 Blue Marbled Elm Trees (6 Music Session, 8 Nov 2023)
#KingCreosote
https://kingcreosote.bandcamp.com/track/blue-marbled-elm-trees
https://open.spotify.com/track/71wTcC03dBgJv3Xwkl5C7l

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #6MusicsJukebox
Pip Blom:
🎵 Get Back (6 Music Session, 24 Oct 2023)
#PipBlom
https://pipblom.bandcamp.com/track/get-back
https://open.spotify.com/track/5IEARTqiVq9HtfAGAqtbiM

Canterbury Cathedral: Cloisters at night | April 2023
#photography #blackandwhitephotography #monochrome #documentingplace

Canterbury Cathedral | April 2023
#photography #blackandwhitephotography #monochrome #documentingplace

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #Afrodeutsche
Gotts Street Park:
🎵 Got To Be Good (6 Music Session, 27 Nov 2023) (feat. Pip Millett)
#GottsStreetPark
https://open.spotify.com/track/59QJsTw38Jj13WnR1qz1MC

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #Afrodeutsche
Everything but the Girl:
🎵 Run A Red Light (6 Music Session, 19 Apr 2023)
#EverythingbuttheGirl
https://open.spotify.com/track/74ixyNYERpYysIIIjcYGBK