Back in February 2023 I had a bad experience where I left my Framework laptop in my backpack and found it had gotten very hot, to the point it was unusable for a while: it refused to boot and made alarming beeping noises if I tried pressing the power button …
I occasionally hang out in birding forums on the web, and I was a little surprised to encounter people using four-letter abbreviations for bird species, such as BCCH for Black-capped chickadee or AMCR for American crow. I did a little digging and it turns out that not only are these …
I get annoyed by a lot of the discourse about LLMs, such debates about how much they are going to revolutionize industry, or whether they are truly intelligent. There are things that we know for sure about their limitations, and things that are not going to change: in particular, they …
The windows of my apartment are old and drafty, so I wanted to use one of those plastic window insulation kits to better insulate the windows. So I measured all four of the windows:
Dang, kde-open5 is slow sometimes. What’s going on?
Suppose we have a string like this:
USPS tracking numbers are 22 digits long. Here are some examples from the USPS website: