Ha! Compiled Zork from source with zilf and zapf (); running in Yazmin (). Nice. image
Always worth taking sentences that use “the Cloud” or “the Internet” and try replacing those phrases with “A shed in Virginia” to see how they hold up. “Our service is fully based in a shed in Virginia”; “All my files are in a shed in Virginia”; “A shed in Virginia was designed to survive a nuclear war”, etc.
A couple of parking signs for anyone who wants to print them out for this coming Saturday.
An instructive contrast here. When it comes to EU policies it thinks are bad for business, Apple has no trouble making full-throated, detailed, public statements like this, because it—correctly!—judges it’s dealing with a government that can be pressured in a conventional way. When it comes to the US, however, it's all kiss-ass humiliation dinners and gold trophies. A good illustration of how debased governance has become in the US.
The most compact, informative, and useful introduction to the Philosophy and Sociology of Science remains Kovar (2001), “Electron Band Structure in Germanium, My Ass”.
Semester starts next week; people starting to show up around the place. image
I had the Blueberry talk with GPT5.
@npub1e0x2...xqda Chesterton's Fence is only the beginning.
I see it’s time once again to break this out of storage. image
I became a U.S. citizen this past Friday. I wrote a thing about it.