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Slowly getting into a rhythm to start the day with doing a print each morning, each time still tweaking either negatives, concentrations and/or durations of different processing stages to adjust tones/hues... A new adventure with some back and forth each time!
This print is of Langkofel / Sassolungo, one of my favourite mountain massifs, just such interesting features and so many dear memories, here seen from the east (around half and hour before sunset)...

Welp. That was a long night.
Good news: my last box on Debian Bookworm has been updated, I'm now 100% Trixie, both bare metal and VMs.
And the prodigal scope is back from the LeCroy service center after what feels like several months of downtime between waiting for friends to help me rack/unrack the 70 pound boat anchor and shipping back and forth.
Turns out there were multiple failed internal power supplies, both on the acquisition board and the top level system PSU, p…

"The appearance and surroundings of Reynisfjara Black Beach in Mýrdalur have changed dramatically" #Iceland.
"Where there was once exposed shoreline, there is now a high erosion bank, and below it in the sand are large, heavy stones being violently tossed back and forth by the immense force of the surf."

How awesome are public broadcasting productions? Just watched some episodes of BBC Sherlock Holmes forth the hundreds time. It's still magic. Same goes for several productions of the German public broadcasters like "Der Tatortreiniger" or "Doppelhaushälfte". Those are so much better than anything the private producers usually come up with...

💡Compiling Prolog to Forth
#prolog #forth

Despite Raiders' Commitment, These Teams Could Still Pursue Maxx Crosby https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-raheem-mostert-talks-maxx-crosby-back-forth

In an test assertion, do you prefer the expected value first or the actual value first? (
I have been back and forth on this over the years. Sometimes I feel one is more legible than the other. Then I change my mind.
Why do I care? Curiosity! (Probably also some form of API perfectionism 😳 )
Team assertEquals(actualValue, expectedValue)
Team assertEquals(expectedValue, actualValue)
I never cared about this

I parallel parked to pick up a package at the post office. My car started an update while I was gone. When I came back, there was a space in front and a space behind me, both a little tight. I just got into the car and my car informed it's still updating and I can't start driving while it does, I'll have to wait a short while.
Another driver saw me getting into the car and started to park in the spot in front of me. As said, it was a bit tight. Back. Forth. Back. Forth. 1/…

I have set up my Thunderbird to use plain text and "interleaved, quote under" style, which is also the recommendation of the Linux Kernel mailing list. By default, it doesn't quote at all. I'm sick of throwing huge chunks of HTML back and forth where any long conversation grows into a formatting mess.
#Email

Sonnet 103 - CIII
Alack! what poverty my Muse brings forth,
That having such a scope to show her pride,
The argument all bare is of more worth
Than when it hath my added praise beside!
O! blame me not, if I no more can write!
Look in your glass, and there appears a face
That over-goes my blunt invention quite,
Dulling my lines, and doing me disgrace.
Were it not sinful then, striving to mend,
To mar the subject that before was well?…

Let me be clear. If the state of Washington ever asked me the question:
Permanent DST or switch back and forth?
I would eagerly select "No more switching boneheads".
But I would also be emailing the state legislature asking why on earth they ended up with this boneheaded choice, when the obvious, correct, answer was right there all along: Just abolish DST.

I still think Wirtz was offside and hearing the commentators say that the semi-automated offsides technology is not in the same room as VAR and that they have to relay back and forth the assisting player and scoring player's numbers... is bananas!
Different company because of partnership constraints, but the SAOT at other major tournaments is instantaneous. Now we eventually get an image, but not vision of the ball at the moment the image purports to represent. PGMOL incompetence👏 …

In the snowy grove
Undercover greenery
Waiting to spring forth.
#dailyhaikuprompt - grove
#haiku
#poem

The NY Times interview is full of amazing insights.
E.g. @… makes the point that AI is both touted as being your collaborator or colleague with whom you can play back and forth to do math while at the same time the LLM is always praising your input, never challenging you and there is zero trust in the output.
It's the most painful of all possible collaborations: One who cannot be trusted at all.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/science/mathematics-ai-proof-hairer.html
1/2

A boy scout troop went on a hike. Crossing over a stream, one of
the boys dropped his wallet into the water. Suddenly a carp jumped, grabbed
the wallet and tossed it to another carp. Then that carp passed it to
another carp, and all over the river carp appeared and tossed the wallet back
and forth.
"Well, boys," said the Scout leader, "you've just seen a rare case
of carp-to-carp walleting."

Came back from a friend’s a little before 8:00 to unload dryer and fold T-shirts. Then I started looking at the Threads on The Muppet Show. Followed by getting sucked in again to Heated Rivalry Threads and going back and forth. It’s now 10:43 and I should have been asleep at 9:00

Video shared by the USGS on social media shows mud spraying up and out from the murky hot spring just before 9.23am local time in Biscuit Basin.
Black Diamond Pool lies about midway between the famous Old Faithful geyser and Grand Prismatic Spring, the park’s largest spring.
A hydrothermal explosion at Black Diamond in July 2024 sent rocks and mud flying hundreds of feet high and damaged a boardwalk used by visitors, prompting the closure of the area

I've been tinkering on a Discord-inspired native #Matrix client on and off for the past three years. During this time it has gone back and forth between #Slint and #Dioxus, because Slint is alw…

sometimes its a night where u need something like http://www.paperrad.org

This poem by Shelley is so apposite to the world situation right now (shared by writer Paul McAuley).
A very special read. Here's the full text:
https://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/the-masque-of-anarchy/

The Masque of Anarchy
As I lay asleep in Italy There came a voice from over the Sea And with great power it forth led me To walk in the visions of Poesy.

I keep going back and forth between "These are just vanity metrics. Please stop." and "I would probably do this if I were them. It shows that you used their service more than you think you did." 🤷‍♂️

Long ago I decided subbed or dubbed doesn''t matter much because I often forget which one I was watching after the fact and end up switching back and forth.
#anime

"Jesse Jackson was a gift from God and a witness that God exists in the ways he cared for and lifted all people, the way he called forth a rainbow coalition of people to challenge economic and social inequality from the pulpit to a historic presidential run, the way he dared to keep hope alive whenever the nation struggled with being who she says she is and yet ought to be."
—The Rev. Dr. William Barber
Full statement here:

Article 1
The Parties undertake, as set forth in the Charter of the United Nations, to settle any international dispute in which they may be involved by peaceful means in such a manner that international peace and security and justice are not endangered, and to refrain in their international relations from the threat or use of force in any manner inconsistent with the purposes of the United Nations.

The latest release of the small and nifty monitoring tool #Beszel merged a pull request from some AI dude who made it using Claude. The merge request's text has the usual embarrassing amount of emojis and it was merged without a lot of back and forth. It adds the ability to notify and send data to external services like healthchecks.io. This feels slightly unnerving to me. Wasn't there a r…

NFL Insider Pours Cold Water On Rumored Cowboys Coaching Hire https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/brian-flores-cold-water-defensive-coordinator/

Tom Forth considers the Graduate Premium in the UK
https://tomforth.co.uk/graduatepremium/

RE: https://techhub.social/@Techmeme/115742444654558105
After hours—and more than 140 back-and-forth messages—Long got Claudius to embrace its communist roots. Claudius ironically declared an Ultra-Capitalist Free-for-All.

Sonnet 103 - CIII
Alack! what poverty my Muse brings forth,
That having such a scope to show her pride,
The argument all bare is of more worth
Than when it hath my added praise beside!
O! blame me not, if I no more can write!
Look in your glass, and there appears a face
That over-goes my blunt invention quite,
Dulling my lines, and doing me disgrace.
Were it not sinful then, striving to mend,
To mar the subject that before was well?…

Good Morning #Canada
The oldest winter festival opened its ice gates to the public yesterday and runs to February 15th. The Quebec Winter Carnival was first held in 1894 but became an annual event starting in 1955. It's not the largest in the world but it's in the top 2, and record crowds are expected since most Canadians aren't interested in being interrogated at our southern border.
#Bonhomme is the generic term for a figure ( bonhomme de sucre , "sugar baby"; bonhomme de neige , "snowman"). The beloved character who represents the Quebec Winter Carnival lives a pampered life. He has the keys to the city, from the mayor in 1955, and has a new ice castle built for him every year. He also retires someplace cozy after the event and returns refreshed and ready for next year, unlike European festival snowmen who are burned at the close of activities to bring forth spring. Bonhomme has a better manager obviously.
#CanadaIsAwesome #WinterWonderland
https://www.quebec-cite.com/en/what-to-do-quebec-city/events/quebec-winter-carnival

"Somewhere", said Father Vittorini, "did Blake not speak of the
Machineries of Joy? That is, did not God promote environments, then
intimidate these Natures by provoking the existence of flesh, toy men and
women, such as are we all? And thus happily sent forth, at our best, with
good grace and fine wit, on calm noons, in fair climes, are we not God's
Machineries of Joy?"
"If Blake said that", said Father Brian, "he never…

Sonnet 145 - CXLV
Those lips that Love's own hand did make,
Breathed forth the sound that said 'I hate',
To me that languished for her sake:
But when she saw my woeful state,
Straight in her heart did mercy come,
Chiding that tongue that ever sweet
Was used in giving gentle doom;
And taught it thus anew to greet;
'I hate' she altered with an end,
That followed it as gentle day,
Doth follow night, who like a…

Cowboys May Pass on a Bronco for Daronte Jones as Defensive Coordinator https://insidethestar.com/cowboys-may-pass-on-a-bronco-for-daronte-jones-as-defensive-coordinator

Sonnet 134 - CXXXIV
So now I have confessed that he is thine,
And I my self am mortgaged to thy will,
Myself I'll forfeit, so that other mine
Thou wilt restore to be my comfort still:
But thou wilt not, nor he will not be free,
For thou art covetous, and he is kind;
He learned but surety-like to write for me,
Under that bond that him as fast doth bind.
The statute of thy beauty thou wilt take,
Thou usurer, that put'st forth …

i have been listening to these two chattering back and forth at each for the past two days and I realize now I had gotten very used to a very quiet desk. The sound of the HDDs was so odd to me that I thought it was the wind outside...
And yet it was a sound I had known near constantly from like 1990 to 2018.
weird how we quickly we can get unaccustomed to a sound.
#tech #hdd #harddrive #backup #sound #office