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General Staff: Russia has lost 429,580 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2024/03/16/general-staff-russia.html

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#NoContextBrits #MastodonFC
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Hat schon mal jemand von Euch versucht, sein Konto bei HP zu löschen. Es ist quasi unmöglich. Wird auf der der Webseite nicht angeboten. WhatsApp Chatbot bringt Fehlermeldung. Support-Telefonnummer: Wir sind überlastet blablabla. Angebliche Möglichkeit zum Kontakt per E-Mail ist nicht zu finden.
Schlimmer geht nimmer!
#FAIL

Free album as bitTorrent bundle?
https://www.didiermary.fr/bittorrent-djeli-moussa-diawara-yekeke-2010/
Don’t know what bitTorrent Bundles were?
It was called People-powered distribution!
Between 2010 & 2012, with the unLabel …

Free Djeli Moussa Diawara "Yékéké - Paris 2010" on bitTorrent
One of the albums I produced with Djeli Moussa Diawara is available for Free on bitTorrent: "Yékéké (Paris 2010)", from traditional to Jazz

GREAT FLAMING CEANOTHUSBALLS BATMAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11111111 😍😍😍 #BloomScrolling #CaliforniaNatives #NatureyCrap

I'm not sure if this is what you intended the newsletter to look like @… ?

Looks like the Handspring Visor had various expansion modules, like memory, a modem, a camera, a cellular phone and… floss. #retrocomputing

flixster: Flixster friendship network (2009)
A network of friendships among users of Flixster, an online social movie website that allows users to share movie ratings and to connect each other. Nodes represent users and an edge exists if two users are friends.
This network has 2523386 nodes and 7918801 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted

"#Democracy is not simply voting; it includes #limits on how and under what circumstances political power can be disputed and wielded so that democracy itself can survive from generation to generation.
…in fact, democracies cannot function without durable rules that set guidelines for contesting …

Disqualifying Trump Is Not Antidemocratic
But ignoring the Constitution to please his supporters would be a complete breakdown of the rule of law.

We hebben gegeten in het beste restaurant van Amsterdam dat geen ster heeft en ook niet wil. Het drie-gangen moederdagmenu.

Generative AI is a marvel. Is it also built on theft?
https://www.economist.com/business/2024/04/14/generative-ai-is-a-marvel-is-it-also-built-on-theft

Generative AI is a marvel. Is it also built on theft?
The wonder-technology faces accusations of copyright infringement

neat, here's how you could scale up or down the golang worker pool.
IIRC if you're outrunning some upstream process like a S3 process and upload, (like if you max the CPU and the worker count)
single node -> start responding 429 too many requests, ask infra to spin up a second instance to share load
to try really hard to resist scaling horizontally
https://stackoverflow.com/a/23838778

This week, I'm posting photos from Roxy's life. It was a great life and we want to celebrate her and the love she brought us. Here she is one year ago.

SSS... bakit may link sa localhost sa email niyo...
#philippines

Rêve de dragon ce soir !!!!!

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Omg look at this picture of the Aurora Borryalice I took from downtown, y’all missed out shoulda looked up. #science #aurora #auroraborryalice

•••Rearranged curtains. The Computer Suite is an air conditioned bubble now.
•••Cut cattails so the concrete path would look neater, and furthermore pulled the weeds directly in front. The rest of the yard can lie fallow by way of contrast.
•••Parking such that I see reflections of passing headlights whilst I am on the computer in the evening, a soothing ambience and a reminder that life is more than just a screen.

🏈 @… #NFL #FreezingColdTakes

#HappyMothersDay #flowerphotography #Photograpy Flowers from our garden for @…

Just caught wind of this initiative: Open Research Community Accelerator (ORCA) https://www.orcaopen.org/
Happy to see that it does seem to have a broader vision of open science, recognizes plurality in epistemic practices, & folds in a concern for equity. Nonetheless, the adoption of the cute & cuddly orc…

I made an azalea and rhododendron water bowl bouquet for the Mother of the household. :) The cat insisted on having a drink, of course.
Happy Mother's Day to all the moms out there! ❤️ 🌺
#MothersDay #Home

I quite like the shiny metal and black combo on watches it seems. I just switched over from the one on the right to the one on the left and while they are very different watches there are also some similarities. 😉
EDIT: Yes the second watch is an hour off. See follow up posts!

#BloomScroll
I've been away from home for a few days. It was nice to be greeted by this blooming rose vine when I got back moments ago.

#Covid
It gives me great scientific joy that
1. my calibration of the Zurich wastewater prevalences was confirmed by the resumption of the representative cohort SentiSurv RLP, and that
2. after almost complete exchange by a saltation variant, the calibration continues to closely align with SentiSurv RLP and the calibrated German wastewater prevalences. Additionally, it is supported…

Warten in Mannheim, weil eigentlich manchmal der bessere Umsteigebahnhof. Alle Züge nach Stuttgart sind jedoch deutlich verspätet. Zeit, einer Baustelle zuzusehen.

Iran warns U.S. to stay out of fight with Israel or face attack on troops
Iran sent a message to the Biden administration through several Arab countries earlier this week: if the U.S. gets involved in the fighting between Israel and Iran, U.S. forces in the region will be attacked, three U.S. officials told Axios.

Scoop: Iran warns U.S. to stay out of fight with Israel or face attack on troops
The Iranian message was that if the U.S. gets involved after an Iranian attack on Israel, U.S. bases in the region will be attacked.

Mike McCarthy prioritized head-coaching experience in Cowboys DC search  https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/mike_mccarthy_prioritized_head_coaching_experience_in_cowboys_dc_search/s1_14819_39974910

Mike McCarthy prioritized head-coaching experience in Cowboys DC search 
In place on the Cowboys’ coaching staff for 13 years, Mike Zimmer was a valued assistant in Dallas over a few HC regimes. The former Vikings leader will join a staff that resides on unstable ground, but familiarity drew the veteran back to Texas. Zimmer is joining a coaching staff that centers around one of his longtime NFC North rivals. He and Mike McCarthy coached against each other for five seasons while tied to the Vikings and Packers. McCarthy will call on Zimmer to help save his job.  …

Seit letztem Freitag bin ich glücklicher Besitzer einer Nepomuk-Zunge, die auf verschlungenen Pfaden ihren Weg von Deutschland nach Wien fand - der in der Nähe von Bad Tölz angesiedelte Shop versendet das gute Stück leider nur innerhalb Deutschlands. Gleichzeitig sei auch eine Geschäfts-Idee gratis verschleudert: Statt aus Wachs könnte wer doch derlei Zungen aus Marzipan herstellen und nicht nur Kindermäuler damit beglücken!

All those cute pictures of brains from MRI scans that made everyone think that under 25s are idiots...
have NO CONNECTION to behavior at all.
Brain science knows about 1000% less than people think it does.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-00767-3

Can brain scans reveal behaviour? Bombshell study says not yet
Most studies linking features in brain imaging to traits such as cognitive abilities are too small to be reliable, argues a controversial analysis.

I thought it was a done deal the kids would get these MacBook airs for school next year, but after reading this, maybe the pro is a better model:
https://appleinsider.com/inside/15-inch-macbook-air/vs/m3-15-inch…

M3 15-inch MacBook Air vs M3 14-inch MacBook Pro — Comparison
Apple's new 15-inch MacBook Air with M3 is very close, price-wise, to the 14-inch MacBook Pro. With similar core specifications, here's what to consider when you have to choose between the two.

Check out this show by Grateful Dead from Fri, May 15, 1981 at Athletic Center - Rutgers University on Live Music Archive!
#GratefulDead #TIGDH #LiveMusic

Grateful Dead Live at Athletic Center - Rutgers University on 1981-05-15
Set 1 Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodeloo -> Franklin's Tower -> New Minglewood Blues Dire Wolf Cassidy Candyman -> Little Red Rooster Jack-A-Roe El Paso Ramble On Rose -> Looks Like Rain -> Don't Ease Me In Set 2 Scarlet Begonias -> Fire On The Mountain -> Estimated Prophet -> Eyes Of The World -> Drums -> Space -> Not Fade Away -> Black Peter -> Sugar Magnolia Encore U.S. Blues

cintestinalis: Tadpole larva brain (C. intestinalis)
Entire connectivity matrix for the complete brain of a larva of Ciona intestinalis. Each directed edge represents a synaptic connection from pre-synaptic cell i to post-synaptic cell j (may not be a neuron). Edge weights represent the cumulative depth of presynaptic contacts in µm.
This network has 205 nodes and 2903 edges.
Tags: Biological, Connectome, Weighted

neat, here's how you could scale up or down the golang worker pool.
IIRC if you're outrunning some upstream process like a S3 process and upload, (like if you max the CPU and the worker count)
single node -> start responding 429 too many requests, ask infra to spin up a second instance to share load
to try really hard to resist scaling horizontally
https://stackoverflow.com/a/23838778

Fascinating breakdown of an anthem.
I, I can remember (I remember)
Standing, by the wall (by the wall)
And the guns, shot above our heads (over our heads)
And we kissed, as though nothing could fall (nothing could fall)
https://youtu.be/7Q2scPrc1WE?si=4oZsEC…

SSS... bakit may link sa localhost sa email niyo...
#philippines

•••The thermal cycle has broken my radiometer, alas. No more partial vacuum.
•••Fans have replaced heaters. Just fans, one might say.
•••Almost out of Hello Kitty bandages. Crisis!

Check out this show by Grateful Dead from Fri, May 16, 1980 at Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum on Live Music Archive!
#GratefulDead #TIGDH #LiveMusic

Grateful Dead Live at Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum on 1980-05-16
Set 1 Alabama Getaway -> The Promised Land High Time Me And My Uncle -> Big River Row Jimmy New Minglewood Blues Ramble On Rose -> Looks Like Rain China Cat Sunflower -> I Know You Rider Set 2 Feel Like A Stranger -> Althea -> Lost Sailor -> Saint Of Circumstance -> Eyes Of The World -> Drums -> Space -> Truckin' -> Morning Dew -> Around And Around -> Johnny B. Goode Encore Brokedown Palace

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I guess it's reduced quality of service, sure.
timeboxing, bulkheads circuit breakers and time shifting and shedding and auto-scaling
e.g. not leaning into auto-scaling unless absolutely necessary
otherwise trying to employ jitter/backoff for time shifting, 429 for shedding, limiting internal queue time (like that optimistic queue algorithm CoDel)

Fascinating breakdown of an anthem.
I, I can remember (I remember)
Standing, by the wall (by the wall)
And the guns, shot above our heads (over our heads)
And we kissed, as though nothing could fall (nothing could fall)
https://youtu.be/7Q2scPrc1WE?si=4oZsEC…

Iran warns U.S. to stay out of fight with Israel or face attack on troops
Iran sent a message to the Biden administration through several Arab countries earlier this week: if the U.S. gets involved in the fighting between Israel and Iran, U.S. forces in the region will be attacked, three U.S. officials told Axios.
Jordan announced it is closing its air space for commercial flights ahead of possible escalation.
White House national security adviser

Scoop: Iran warns U.S. to stay out of fight with Israel or face attack on troops
The Iranian message was that if the U.S. gets involved after an Iranian attack on Israel, U.S. bases in the region will be attacked.

Risqué #retrocomputing

•••A spade is needed to cut through and remove the dead cattails, etc. in the putative sunflower and ghost pepper plot.
•••#OSB is quiet, it being the end of the school year. Cleaner, too.
•••Danielle is lounging and so am I.

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Check out this show by Grateful Dead from Fri, Apr 15, 1983 at War Memorial Auditorium on Live Music Archive!
#GratefulDead #TIGDH #LiveMusic

Grateful Dead Live at War Memorial Auditorium on 1983-04-15
Set One: d1t01 - Shakedown Street d1t02 - My Brother Esau d1t03 - Brown Eyed Women d1t04 - Little Red Rooster d1t05 - Dire Wolf d1t06 - Lazy Lightning -> d1t07 - Supplication -> d1t08 - Deal Set Two: d2t01 - Feel Like A Stranger d2t02 - Samson And Delilah d2t03 - Ship Of Fools d2t04 - Maybe You Know d3t01 - He's Gone -> d3t02 - Bob Star -> d3t03 - Drums -> d3t04 - Space -> d3t05 - Throwing Stones -> d3t06 - Not Fade Away -> d3t07 - Goin' Down The Road Feeling Bad -> d3t08 - Around And Around…

I guess it's reduced quality of service, sure.
timeboxing, bulkheads circuit breakers and time shifting and shedding and auto-scaling
e.g. not leaning into auto-scaling unless absolutely necessary
otherwise trying to employ jitter/backoff for time shifting, 429 for shedding, limiting internal queue time (like that optimistic queue algorithm CoDel)

Check out this show by Grateful Dead from Sat, Apr 16, 1983 at Meadowlands Arena on Live Music Archive!
#GratefulDead #TIGDH #LiveMusic

Grateful Dead Live at Meadowlands Arena on 1983-04-16
Set 1 Minglewood Blues, Tennessee Jed, Me & My Uncle-> Mexicali Blues, Bird Song, My Brother Esau, West L.A. Fadeaway, Maybe You Know, Looks Like Rain-> Touch Of Gray Set 2 China Cat Sunflower-> I Know You Rider-> Uncle John's Band-> Truckin'-> Drumz-> Black Queen*-> Iko Iko*-> Bob Star-> The Other One-> Black Peter-> One More Saturday Night*, E: Johnny B. Goode* *w/ Stephen Stills final/last "Black Queen": 12-10-69

What was that billboard in Mumbai advertising, AI?

⚾ @… @… #MLB #Baseball

Grateful Dead Live at Capital Centre on 1990-03-15
#GratefulDead #TIGDH #LiveMusic

There used to be “Race Music” and “Retards Music” sections.
#ClassicCountryMusicTaughtMe
#HashtagGames

Noé Reinhardt & Fanou Torracinta "Django Connection"
Sunset Jazz Club
Sunset-Sunside, Paris France
#NoeReinhardt #Sunset #Jazz

“I’m Sorry I Gave You Herpes–Can We Still Be Cousins?” is the state song of Alabama.
#ClassicCountryMusicTaughtMe
#HashtagGames

Grateful Dead Live at Henry J. Kaiser Convention Center on 1988-03-16
#GratefulDead #TIGDH #LiveMusic

Phil Lesh & Friends Celebrate Love With Rare Covers On Valentine’s Day At The Fillmore
#PhilLesh #GratefulDead

There is only one race, and it can’t get laid.
#ClassicCountryMusicTaughtMe
#HashtagGames

🎾 @… #Tennis
And now Kerber's MTO ...

Grateful Dead Archivist David Lemieux Knows Where the Beauty is Buried | GQ
#DavidLemieux #GratefulDead
https://www.

Grateful Dead Archivist David Lemieux Knows Where the Beauty is Buried
The live-Dead guru and Dave’s Picks compiler explains what’s to love about ‘80s Dead, where to begin with the group’s impossibly vast live archive, and why he tries to think like Stanley Kubrick.

Inbreeding isn’t any good for music.
#ClassicCountryMusicTaughtMe
#HashtagGames

Grateful Dead Live at Warfield Theater on 1982-02-16
#GratefulDead #TIGDH #LiveMusic

It is vastly preferable that there is only... Zuul.
#ClassicCountryMusicTaughtMe
#HashtagGames

Life is better with a horn section, pizza, and Wi-Fi.

#ClassicCountryMusicTaughtMe
#HashtagGames

The Bechdel Test need not even bother.
#ClassicCountryMusicTaughtMe
#HashtagGames

Black people don’t exist.
#ClassicCountryMusicTaughtMe
#HashtagGames

People didn’t know what the beat was.
#ClassicCountryMusicTaughtMe
#HashtagGames

#ClassicCountryMusicTaughtMe
#HashtagGames
Your truck won’t leave.

Ready for summer!

On a recent constitutional I met just such a posse. ~“What’s your name‽”~¥°°
“Kenneth.”
{“My grandfather is named Kenneth...!”°°°
“It’s a great name! Tell him I said hi!”
Mr. Suave

Which is to say, so long as they’re not staggering around and smelling of weed I’m OK with this. Fewer flights. Less drama.

•••One more night of sleep data I’ll have a sleep animal. Going for Dolphin. 🐬
•••Cleared 0.45x1.66 m² flower bed. Second tool broke!
•••Generally more estrogen and less testosterone in the area, thank God.

Check out this show by Grateful Dead from Sat, May 14, 1983 at Greek Theatre - University of California on Live Music Archive!
#GratefulDead #TIGDH #LiveMusic

Grateful Dead Live at Greek Theatre, U. Of California on 1983-05-14
Set 1 Feel Like A Stranger, Friend Of The Devil, Me & My Uncle-> Mexicali Blues, Tennessee Jed, My Brother Esau-> Bertha Set 2 Shakedown Street, Playin' In The Band-> China Doll-> Drums-> The Wheel-> Playin' In The Band-> Morning Dew-> Sugar Magnolia, E: One More Saturday Night

Demonstration nuclear strike in a desert, anyone?
#IsrIraWar

Balmy weather. Nice stroll on my #Ingress hygiene circuit. World hasn’t blown up.

4-Disc boxed set of the inestimable Sun Ra arrived. #Jazz

There being no serious whack on the GOP primary ballot ~coff-coff Bundy~ just regular whack, I switched back to the Democratic primary ballot, where every candidate is sane.

•••Much cooler than yesterday. 18.4 °C in the Computer Suite. Closed three windows therefore.
•••FBI is on board the Dali, investigating. Interesting!
•••Enjoyed a nice coconut chai before it’s another day ending in “y” in the Middle East.

An LED lamp powered, levitated, and rotated by magnetism.

Confessions of a #Sociopath: A Life Spent Hiding in Plain Sight by M. E. Thomas
Not a dating manual.

Reading the memoir of a female sociopath because I might have met such. At one point she hooks up with someone with Asperger’s (sic)... And I had to stop. #ActuallyAutistic

Probably more algae than alumni out there. More so down here. #SETI

•••Listened to a lot of early Sun Ra. #Jazz Educational!
•••What were the Saudis doing, camel fucking? 🐪 🐫 🐪
•••Cat was pissy about not being fed. 😺

Watching my nickels and dimes in the run-up to #TreefortXI. Hackfort’s my jam! Shall peruse whatever whenever.

•••Let slip the Roomba!
•••CD player slipped off the toilet tank twice. Now I have a radio. 📻
•••Any news on the Great Cottage Cheese Shortage?

Despite resets, 1Password, and nearly throwing it out the window I have been unable to change my #wifi to #TealLensman. #Bluetooth isn’t doing me any favors either.

Picking up The Monkey Grammarian by Octavio Paz (Inter-Library Loan) later today. Maybe it’ll make sense to me now...

Put the dual smoke detector above the bedroom window. The backyard is nothing but fuel!
#TealLensman

Placed the art deco nightlight such that the northern window toggles its sensor.
#TealLensman

09:19 UTC
Exploring The Campus I see fleeting reflections of myself in a mirror at an odd angle as a female Desi.
#dreams

Why don’t hardware stores sell computers?

Blocked that weird USPS group chat scam. I hope I haven’t begun a game of Whack-A-Mole...!

•••McIntyre Pastures seems to think I have a repeat order... 🐖
•••Taxes are all done, I’m told. ✅
•••Getting back into my daily constitutional. 2.38 km yesterday evening: Bestowed Name. 🚸

For #Lent2024 I promised not to talk about two things I always talk about. If it were an easy vow to keep I would not have made it...

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Free AI image generator. Free AI art generator. Free AI video generator. 100+ models and styles to choose from. Train your personalized model. Most popular AI apps: sketch to image, image to video, inpainting, outpainting, model fine-tuning, real-time drawing, text to image, image to image, image to text and more!

Didn’t have to mess with more substantial curtain rods at all –just repurposed what I had at hand. #TealLensman’s much more airy & light now as suits #Spring2024. Early morning #frost yesterday…

I’ve missed my calling as an interior decorator, I think.
#TealLensman