Automated Archives for March, 20th 2023
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Wallabag Additions
These are articles that which I saved today so that I may read them later. Substance and quality will vary drastically.
- Arresting Donald Trump Would Not Be Good for Donald Trump (newrepublic.com)
- A New Drug Switched Off My Appetite. What’s Left? (wired.com)
- Stephen Hawking's final theorem turns time and causality inside out (newscientist.com)
- Overstimulation is Ruining Your life (thats-eli.medium.com)
Chess For the Day
Record: 3-0-5
Net Elo Change: -10
Games Played
- crowndice - WIN
- Markgraf4 - LOSS
- BAMOONO - LOSS
- psvsb - LOSS
- joe121 - WIN
- eseminselim - LOSS
- Agaragimov1961 - WIN
- AshokTNchess - LOSS
Blog Posts On This Day
- 2002-03-20 (2 posts)
Ken Thompson on his music box project (youtube.com)
Ken Thompson is one of the creators of Unix and here he is giving a talk about a longterm project of his for making a music machine. It's a good journey through the evolution of technology through this ongoing project.
I had, back in college, the vision for a similar project which I had called 'Ainur' after the singing demigods of Tolkien mythology. At the time, the idea was a portable computer which I could take to parties or conventions and it would run a wifi mp3 streaming service entirely autonomously, and also be available as a file sharing FTP server. It's still an idea I have, and would probably be Raspberry Pi built these days - but in the era of music streaming, it feels like a less and less needed project.
20 Years Since the US Invaded Iraq (npr.org)
I was wondering why my RSS feed was besieged by Iraq retrospectives and I finally learned it was because today is the 20th anniversary of the invasion.
We were sold lies in the name of national security. We toppled a tyrant under these falsehoods. And it was only the beginning of our prolonged presence in the middle east to secure our access to oil and in the name of freedom.
Monday morning rolling start
Overall we kept it a fairly quiet weekend. Friday night was spent hanging out with friends, but after that Katie's cold reared up and so it was a fairly chill weekend. Saturday we were supposed to go to a Sounders game (which they ended up drawing) but with Katie not feeling well we decided to stay home. Sunday we mainly binged ABC's Will Trent, which features a dyslexic detective and I gave Elwood a much needed bath.
Now it's back to work for another week. This Monday morning is serenaded by the best of Led Zeppelin after I had Immigrant Song in my head.
March 19th, 2023
Automated Archives for March, 19th 2023
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Chess For the Day
Record: 3-0-0
Net Elo Change: +19
Games Played
- muthusmith - WIN
- spakin-30 - WIN
- m0hamedsaeed - WIN
Blog Posts On This Day
- 2021-03-19 (3 posts)
March 18th, 2023
Automated Archives for March, 18th 2023
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Wallabag Additions
These are articles that which I saved today so that I may read them later. Substance and quality will vary drastically.
- Phreaks and l33ts: Inside the early ‘90s tech scene that created L0pht, the legendary hackerspace (cyberscoop.com)
Chess For the Day
Record: 1-0-0
Net Elo Change: +6
Games Played
- Jorgemachin10 - WIN
Blog Posts On This Day
- 2021-03-18 (3 posts)
Mark Rober on drone deliveries (youtube.com)
What a cool bit of technology in this video. I loved seeing how Zipline does it in Rwanda, and while I'm more dubious of the technology for home deliveries in urban and suburban environments - I still think the technology is awesome.
Also, I appreciate him making sure to delve into Rwanda more as a country.
March 17th, 2023
Automated Archives for March, 17th 2023
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Chess For the Day
Record: 2-0-2
Net Elo Change: -1
Games Played
- Natsh - WIN
- Phnunes - LOSS
- Tatar_Eget - LOSS
- KrasterGuitars - WIN
Blog Posts On This Day
- 2007-03-17 (1 post)
March 16th, 2023
Automated Archives for March, 16th 2023
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Chess For the Day
Record: 2-0-4
Net Elo Change: -11
Games Played
- generalvelasco - LOSS
- Ubu82 - LOSS
- JuandeUruguay - LOSS
- campacavall0 - LOSS
- NemezesCafaliuns - WIN
- manucarrace - WIN
Blog Posts On This Day
- 2021-03-16 (3 posts)
Important lesson today. If you're going to get pizza from Costco, phone the call in as you're shopping and don't order it at the kiosk after you check out.
This morning's soundtrack (youtube.com)
I've been a long time fan of this channel on YouTube. I love listening to the foreign music because, first, it's usually fantastic. And second, being non-English, it helps me not get distracted by the music.
I learned how to use ffmpeg last night to rotate videos from the terminal. Going to be a big help going forward rather than having to wrestle with VLC's convert functionality.
March 15th, 2023
Automated Archives for March, 15th 2023
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Chess For the Day
Record: 1-1-5
Net Elo Change: -10
Games Played
- Juan_A_G - WIN
- cicciocriscore - LOSS
- Nick_Nichols_EU - LOSS
- nicknamer - LOSS
- GodfatherCorleone - DRAW
- docofthree - LOSS
- Saadeddin - LOSS
Blog Posts On This Day
- 2021-03-15 (8 posts)
March 14th, 2023
Automated Archives for March, 14th 2023
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Chess For the Day
Record: 5-0-4
Net Elo Change: +7
Games Played
- ghfhgfhfy - WIN
- Dimzone - WIN
- Clint_Oxford101 - WIN
- Fa1th - WIN
- bat_u_han - LOSS
- Daeqik - LOSS
- Fabianrms - WIN
- BawsMcgee - LOSS
- sayah - LOSS
Blog Posts On This Day
- 2021-03-14 (1 post)