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The AfD is something like the Trumpian GOP of Germany. It is described  DW AfD video  - notable because there doesn't seem much English ...

The urge for self-preservation is very strong in most beings. If strong AI appears, it seems reasonable to expect at least some of them to h...

Summary: my very expensive mac laptop's screen coating started to come off in under a year, and Apple refuses to repair it under warra...

"Ego" is a complex phenomena that, in Buddhist theory, represents a great risk to happiness. The ego is responsible for a great de...

This bug was difficult for me to diagnose. The first sign of trouble was that the ` npm ` command wasn't found. I use homebrew to man...

As usual, the instructions on how to install Java 8 on OSX are really, really bad if you start from a search for "install java 8 osx...

There's been an explosion in front-end web frameworks over the last two years or so. It's exciting, but it's hard to keep up, an...

XKCD makes an excellent point: The question becomes: how do I get a ringtone like this? First, find a good source. YouTube has a good...

So, if you just delete Network Connect.app in OSX, this won't do the trick. You need something more, a magical command line that will ma...

From Evernote: Generational Error mode about computers I'm 37 and I come from a generation that invented ...

(Click on the links to play. Blogger doesn't host MP3s so I'm using box.net). I'm rather proud of these pieces, even if they are...

3 Prologue Scary Skinchanger & Others vignette 16 Tyrion Voyage to Pentos and Ilyirio 31 Daenerys Ruling Mereen; D...

Tim Bray wrote a little blog post on Web vs. Native apps and makes a really important point: actually, all apps these days use the web. The...

Consider this funny post . It's plain text. If you try to run a bookmarklet (like "Share in Google Reader"), it will fail beca...

Watching Jeeves & Wooster . Struck by telegram silimarity to SMS. Telegram less convenient, far slower, much more classy. Length contstr...

The Oil Drum | Time to Wake Up: Days of Abundant Resources and Falling Prices Are Over Forever The purpose of this, my second (and much long...

The Great Critic has sat in patient judgement over the thoughts, opinions, and art of countless generations of thinkers and artists. He obse...

Ok . The right (and some on the left, like Blagojevich ) have innovated and profited from the innovation: they've made the startling re...

"I really wish I could help you, but our system won't let me do that." - Purple Yoga studio manager, Sequanna Williams. ( Yel...

For me, the new music landscape has been all but barren for many years. KROQ was my radio station from middle-school on (and actually KTWV -...

"History abounds with religious enthusiasts who have read spiritual portent into the arrangement of the planets, the vacuum of space, e...

The readme makes this very difficult to suss out. Here you go: Installed ICU (International Components for Unicode) by hand on my Mac. The ...

I haven't posted in a while (and I see that when I did I was in rather a bad mood; poor GRRM!) and there's a lot to talk about: Geek...