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welcomed eight years as liberators

Dr NA

I like reading about geopolitics and listening podcasts about the topic. I am now convinced that there is no 3D-chess geopolitical strategy for the US in Iran. They are just winging it.

The worst part is that I’ve never ridden a motorcycle.

Why I Don’t Vibe Code A “brief” accounting of various reasons why vibe coding has just never clicked for me personally as a developer.

Hey all, I decided to write up some of my thoughts in more detail about why I don't vibe code, in case it's interesting to any of you

jacobharr.is/personal/i-d...

Dirección de Tal Cosa, Dirección de Tal Otra YouTube video by Leo Maslíah - Topic

"Dirección de tal cosa, dirección de tal otra" Leo Masliah

Porque tu dia necesita más preguntas.

youtube.com/watch?v=Iw-9FXf4kYI

Buenos días, ojazos 👀
Vamos a asomarnos al viernes

Now I'll spend my weekend watching videos about how to ride motorcycles during the weekend.

Historian here history first time as tragedy the second time as farce.

And buses!

Green cover showing the album and band names using the typical Yes lettering

Listening: Close to the Edge (1972) by Yes. #music

This is my favourite Yes album.

I just cope with English, I guess.

Charitable interpretations: Covid brain fog, toxoplasmosis from her cat, etc.

Government’s new science institute to lose 6% of staff less than a year after forming The Bioeconomy Science Institute is shedding 6% of its staff.

And people wonder why NZ’s R&D spend is way lower than the rest of the OECD & our productivity is in the toilet. www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...

Resist ‘dangerous and socially unacceptable’ age checks for social media, scientists warn Computer scientists are campaigning against the global march toward age checks online.

"There is no scientific evidence to support the assumption that banning minors from accessing services would have a positive effect on their mental health and development." www.politico.eu/article/age-...

Government ‘kicked the tyres’ on solar subsidies but went with ‘minor’ tweaks instead It is one of the cheapest ways to cut power bills - yet documents reveal the government shelved a subsidy.

New Zealand has more sunshine than Germany.
But only 1 in 35 homes here has rooftop solar.
Australia? 1 in 3.

Why? I tried to find out - despite some strange secrecy

www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

When someone says „Scientists do not want you to know“ you can dismiss everything from there on. Scientists want you to know. They are desperate that you know. They can’t shut up about what they found out and want you to know.

That's so cool!

Nice flowers but how do you manage to keep your desk so clean? Mine is always a mess.

Estoy totalmente convencido de que cree que Checho Hirane es estúpido.

YES! Of course the Atlantic gave Minard a lot more room.
But his master stroke was to do these comparatively over time

I still use his book to inform my teaching. Sad news indeed.

#rstats RIP, John Fox
@yihui.org just published this lovely tribute to John Fox and his work

yihui.org/en/2026/02/j...

Immigrants are supposed to integrate to the local culture and we are bad.
Expats do not need to make any integration efforts or learning the local language. They are a good thing^{TM}.

I could cope with a Glock 17, anything bigger is problematic.

I woke up at 3 am thinking about this. How can we deal with wealthy investors' disappointment?

If anyone is friends with any Georgian air traffic controllers, buy them a nice bottle of wine. As guardians of pretty much the only narrow gap still available between Europe and Asia that avoids both Iran, the Gulf, Ukraine and Russia, they are under some substantial pressure.

Funny thing is that most engineers I know, and I know lots of them, use Word.

Jim is a polymath.