I'm not going to try to even enumerate the layers of meaning here ( Read more... )

I wonder if AI is good enough at this point that organizations could offer a public bug reporting facility to their customers, and rely on an AI to bring only those reporting something real to a human's attention?

What brings this to mind is a minor - it probably started life as a typo - data bug I came upon today. The interesting thing about it ( Read more... )

Today is the 1"st Annual" Newton Porchfest. I hadn't planned to take any of it in, but a few minutes ago, just as a I stepped outside to take some recycling to the bin, the band at the Auburndale Library (next door) started into Here Comes the Sun - a lovely performance, entirely suited to a lazy spring day. I'm now trying to decide if walking ( Read more... )

Behind the cut is a screencap from a Youtube video called 878: A Tour of Viking Britain. ( The North Sea in the 9th-Century )

When I'm reading a web page and see a link that might be interesting, I usually open it in a new (backgrounded) tab and keep reading, without really even being conscious of it. I'm sure most of you do the same. So a coupe of weeks ago I was going through a window with maybe 100 such, some waiting since April. I closed a tab, saw a youtube.com URL ( Read more... )

I have an excelent 1.5ℓ coffee pitcher: It will keep a four-to-six person team-meeting in hot coffee for an hour - or two people working on a project for a half-day. But when it's only me, it's just too much. 1.5ℓ isn't necessarily more coffee than I want in a day. But it's definitely more than I should. And after five or six hours, most of it ( Read more... )

I've had a fantastic birthday! I didn't make any plans, as I often don't. I remembered it was my birthday when I woke up, but as I don't generally keep a facebook tab open, and haven't run biff(1) or any of its descendants for 20 years ... what can I say? It got swapped out. To the point where, an hour into the first of the wonderful hour+ phone ( Read more... )

Do any of you have an informed view on the relative merits of DD-WRT, OpenWRT, Tomato, et al? It's close to ten years since I looked into them in any detail; ISTR deciding at the time that none was significantly better or worse than the others. (Though I'm also fairly sure the decision I made then - to use DD-WRT - had a more substantive basis ( Read more... )

I need to make a trip to Ikea, and I'm going to need some help. So: anyone want to go to Ikea some time in the next couple weeks? If so, would you be interested in trading some labor for a ride? (The ride comes with well over ⅔ of the space in the cargo van I'll be renting. And I'll happily kill a few hours in the café to give you time to do ( Read more... )

I don't suppose anyone around Boston has an empty ¼-inch magnetic tape reel laying around gathering dust, and would like me to take it off your hands? (Hey, it's worth a shot. At least among my friends....)

@WAYRTTD?{I have a 30m flat cat5 cable. Which is in many ways a lot handier to keep close to hand for those moments when I suddenly need 'net ( Read more... )