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There's been a recarpeting project at my work which has required everyone to box up the stuff in their offices while the contractors work on it. For the scientists this has been particularly onerous; one of them remarked to me the other day that we softwa

Back in January, Jetbrains brought out an "AI addon" for $100/year. I bought this around then because the AI talk-talk was just warming up and my coworkers and I were all pretty fired up about it. I did the trial for a week and I noticed a significant imp

Everyone knows that debugging is twice as hard as writing a program in the first place. So if you're as clever as you can be when you write it, how will you ever debug it? - Brian Kernighan, The Elements of Programming Style I'd have to say this syntactic

My wife and I made a trade last month: I would listen to a book of her choosing and in exchange she would listen to one of mine. I decided to make her listen to God Speaks Again in exchange for listening to Buy What You Love Without Going Broke, and this

This is kind of a response to "If I hear"design pattern" one more time, I'll go mad", but I confess I did not read the original deeply. The purpose of Design Patterns (as I understand the book and the concept) is not to provide you with a bunch of ready-m

As a Baha'i, I had to rescind my party affiliation because it is an aspect of partisan politics, which is forbidden. That doesn't mean I can't or don't vote; on the other hand, election and democracy is as important to the Faith as avoiding partisan polit

A few other things occurred to me. A major benefit: Tragedeigh naming is basically impossible. Is it Cate or Kate? It's 𐑒𐑱𐑑. I also kind of like that you can see visually the irritating rhyming of my daughter's friends names: 𐑧𐑤𐑰-𐑨𐑤𐑰-𐑨𐑛𐑰, 𐑧𐑤𐑰𐑨𐑯𐑩-𐑭𐑮𐑰𐑨𐑯𐑩-𐑭𐑛

I've been spending some time the last few days learning the Shavian alphabet. There's a great learning application at shavian.app. What's the point of this? I mean, fun mainly. One point of this alphabet is to have an actually phonetic (or phonemic to be

To assist with job interviews at the NRAO we recently wrote a small

This is the kind of problem where you could load the whole thing into Postgres and get the answer in about five seconds. In fact, let's try it: postgres# create table i18n_day2 (input timestamp with time zone); CREATE TABLE postgres=# copy i18n_day2 from