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Huh, SE is releasing a new version of FF7 on Steam. Like, a completely different program kinda new. If you've got the old one you get the new one for free.
Details about what's actually New™ about the new version are... Sparse.
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/39140/view/514107648813039662
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The AI RoboDoctor Will See You Now
A Harvard-led study just dropped a result that will make every #ER doctor’s stethoscope twitch.
In a head-to-head against attending physicians at a Boston hospital, #OpenAI’s o1-preview reasoning model diagnosed patients more accurately at the moment of triage, just when information is sparse, time is short, and getting it wrong can kill someone.
https://bit.ly/4n5bf9t #Healthcare #emergencymedicine #AI #artificialintelligence
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The AI RoboDoctor Will See You Now
A Harvard-led study just dropped a result that will make every #ER doctor’s stethoscope twitch.
In a head-to-head against attending physicians at a Boston hospital, #OpenAI’s o1-preview reasoning model diagnosed patients more accurately at the moment of triage, just when information is sparse, time is short, and getting it wrong can kill someone.
https://bit.ly/4n5bf9t #Healthcare #emergencymedicine #AI #artificialintelligence
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The AI RoboDoctor Will See You Now
A Harvard-led study just dropped a result that will make every #ER doctor’s stethoscope twitch.
In a head-to-head against attending physicians at a Boston hospital, #OpenAI’s o1-preview reasoning model diagnosed patients more accurately at the moment of triage, just when information is sparse, time is short, and getting it wrong can kill someone.
https://bit.ly/4n5bf9t #Healthcare #emergencymedicine #AI #artificialintelligence
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The AI RoboDoctor Will See You Now
A Harvard-led study just dropped a result that will make every #ER doctor’s stethoscope twitch.
In a head-to-head against attending physicians at a Boston hospital, #OpenAI’s o1-preview reasoning model diagnosed patients more accurately at the moment of triage, just when information is sparse, time is short, and getting it wrong can kill someone.
https://bit.ly/4n5bf9t #Healthcare #emergencymedicine #AI #artificialintelligence
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So, I've been attempting to do this. I have a few patches established and try to increase them every year...
Turning a #SepticField into a #wildflower #meadow
by Anna, January 18, 2023
"When I mentioned not wanting to turn our septic field into the traditional mowed lawn, Travis Sparks wrote in to share his impressive mini-meadow, started in 2017 atop his #Maine septic field.
First step turning a septic field into a wildflower meadow
" 'I mowed the area down as low as I could in late spring 2017,' he wrote, 'spread a thin layer of compost over the whole area, broadcast a variety of both perennial [be careful about root depth if using perennials -- or annuals for that matter] and annual seed mixes over it, and lightly raked everything. I mowed it a couple more times that year (higher cut) to try to knock the competition back while things germinated, and then left it be.'
" 'I just had sparse grasses and wildflowers to start (nothing woody) before doing any of this, so the competition wasn’t too strong early on. It was reasonably successful the following year.'
"Travis wasn’t entirely thrilled with wildflower establishment, though, so he repeated the process in late spring 2019 including 'another very light top-dressing of compost since the leach field soil is mostly just sandy fill.' The results that year were even more inspiring...
"[2021 update] Travis wrote that after the establishment phase, he hasn’t done anything to keep the meadow on track (although I suspect he’ll have to mow now and then to keep woody plants out).
"I’m so impressed by his success, which turns his septic field into habitat for pollinators and lots of other wildlife. Have you turned a blah septic field into an integral part of your homestead? If so, I’d love to hear about it!"
https://wetknee.com/turning-a-septic-field-into-a-wildflower-meadow/
#SolarPunkSunday #Gardening #NativeGrasses #WildflowerMeadows #Sedges #Rewilding #NativeGrasses #GardeningForPollinators
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A peaceful woodland unfolds near Macclesfield in England, with tall trees scattered across a forest floor blanketed in dry leaves. The area offers serene #ForestWalk opportunities, perfect for those seeking #PeacefulViews and quiet reflection amidst nature. Sunlight filters gently through the sparse canopy, making it an inviting spot for #NaturePhotography and #OutdoorAdventure enthusiasts. Nestled within the scenic Cheshire countryside, this tranquil #WoodlandScenery reflects the charm and calm of the local landscape.
Taken Apr 2009
#SilentSunday #UKCountryPic #Photography #MastoGPT #ForestWalk #NaturePhotography #WoodlandScenery #OutdoorAdventure #PeacefulViews #Macclesfield #England #UnitedKingdom
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Karnivool – In Verses Review By SaundersFollowing a string of setbacks, barriers, and logistical complications, Aussie progressive rock/metal juggernaut Karnivool finally return with their hotly anticipated fourth opus, In Verses. After nearly thirteen years between drinks, the crafty quartet, from the far reaches and musical hotbed of Perth, Western Australia, make a welcome return for prog aficionados and longtime fans of the veteran collective, who flourished from crunchy alt metal and nü flavored beginnings, into a revered progressive band through three previous LPs of high quality. From the clever arrangements and blockbuster hooks of 2005’s Themata, through to the accomplished, complex Toolisms and evolving textures of stunning sophomore platter Sound Awake (2009), to the rawer, experimental edge of 2013’s Asymmetry, Karnivool’s discography is sparse yet undeniably excellent.
Approaching In Verses feels a little strange initially. Karnivool’s curious decision to gradually drip-feed half the album’s songs across numerous months lends a familiarity to those without the willpower to give in to temptation, ensuring several of the songs are well lived in before giving the entire opus full attention. Take, for instance, the stormy rhythmic thrust and instantly gratifying hooks of lead single “Drone” (released in July 2025) or the revamped, stuttering crunch of “All It Takes,” originally released back in 2021. These higher energy songs are scattered throughout an album that pivots into more measured, subdued progressive pathways, courtesy of several longer form melodic odysseys, rich in detail, slow burning builds, and emotive, gorgeous vocals from silky voiced frontman Ian Kenny.
Opener “Ghost” unfurls at a relaxed pace, ramping up tension before a delightfully heavy, Middle Eastern-esque groove kicks in. After doing the rounds in their live shows, it is cool to finally hear the song in its studio form. Its complex arrangement and grinding edge lend a darker, off-kilter punch before the infectious burst of “Drone” makes its impressive mark. In Verses largely maintains momentum, sequencing quibbles aside. The softer material and prog power balladry roughly consume half the album, finding Karnivool snaking down introspective, heartfelt pathways, while compromising elements of Karnivool’s signature heavier, energetic fare, leading to pangs of initial disappointment. Over time, these feelings subsided as the brooding tones, glistening melodies, and gentle swells washed over. Soaring mid-album cut “Conversations” comes replete with delicate guitar work undercutting earworm hooks that cut deep. From noodling, melancholic builds, to crunchier undertones and hooks that eventually penetrate the brain and prove tough to dislodge, “Reanimation” culminates with an epic, soul-tingling solo from prog veteran Guthrie Govan (The Aristocrats, Steven Wilson).
Following the infectious grooves and bright melodies of “Remote Self-Control”, In Verses wraps up with a pair of wrenching, lighter in the air ballads (“Opal,” and haunting, bagpiped-adorned “Salva”). Again, displaying the slow-burning unfurl, structural subtleties and pop sensibilities featuring prominently across the album’s mellower cuts. Kenny’s powerhouse singing has been a staple of the Aussie music scene for decades now, both with Karnivool and high-profile rockers (now the questionably pop-inclined) Birds of Tokyo. It’s another highlight reel performance, bolstering Karnivool’s muscular, progressive rock/metallic core with blockbuster hooks, singalong anthems, and an emotionally raw delivery. Drummer Steve Judd and bassist Jon Stockman lay a mighty foundation, through a complex, tightly synced mix of tricky rhythms and driving grooves, paving way for guitarists Drew Goddard and Mark Hosking to delve into their bag of tricks. Supplementing crushing bursts of technical riffage and chunky grooves with understated layers of texture and noodling prog excursions, the duo perform impressively.
Over an hour-long runtime, Karnivool mostly get things right, though astute editing in patches and sequencing to more effectively disperse the mellower fare and energetic numbers, creates lingering nitpicks. Thus, In Verses proves difficult to score. Much of the material achieves, or at least teeters on the cusp of greatness, though the minor bloat, uneven pacing, and ballad-heavy approach compromise the album’s undeniable strengths. Regardless, In Verses marks a nuanced, introspective step in Karnivool’s evolution, rewarding patience, while retaining the signature hallmarks, intelligent songwriting, and hooky accessibility curated over the past couple of decades. Definitely a grower, In Verses won’t change the minds of listeners previously unmoved by Karnivool. Another singular entry into the band’s outstanding repertoire, In Verses stays true to the winning facets that have led to Karnivool’s revered status. Falling narrowly short of the lofty heights of Themata or Sound Awake, flaws and all, In Verses triumphs on its own merits.
Rating: 3.5/5.0
#2026 #35 #AustralianMetal #BirdsOfTokyo #CymaticRecords #Feb26 #InVerses #Karnivool #ProgressiveMetal #ProgressiveRock #Review #Reviews #SonyMusic #StevenWilson #TheAristocrats #Tool
DR: N/A | Format Reviewed: Stream
Label: Cymatic Records
Websites: Official | Facebook
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"The Long and Winding Road" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles from their 1970 album #LetItBe. It was written by #PaulMcCartney and credited to #LennonMcCartney. When issued as a single in May 1970, a month after #theBeatlesBreakup, it became the group's 20th and final number-one hit on the #Billboard Hot 100 chart in the United States. The main recording of the song took place in January 1969 and featured a sparse musical arrangement of piano, bass.
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CW: 3D rendered image of drug capsules
Wanted to see if I could make convincing capsules. I'm pretty happy with the way this looks. For some reason, Cycles gives some weird colors on the faces when I crank up my noise textures. I think it has something to do with minor variation in the floating point lookup for the location vector, but I don't have the energy to investigate right now.
I always have a difficult time with clusters of things, like the pellets in the capsule. It's hard to get them clustered closely enough together without clipping through each other, but also without looking too sparse. I also had trouble with the physics sim. I used capsule-shaped proxy objects, of course, but I struggled with actually getting those replaced with my rendered object instances. In the end, I baked the physics state, collapsed each capsule to a point, and used geometry nodes to instance on the point, but I would much prefer a better solution in the future if I can figure it out.
#Blender #Blender3D #3DArt #GeometryNodes #3DRender #Capsule #Capsules #Art #Drugs -
#Florida is about to lose its most famous symbol forever. What happened to #oranges?
“Soon enough, trees everywhere were showing blotchy, mottled, yellowed leaves and suffering from twig dieback and sparse foliage.
Under duress, the trees would drop all their fruit on the ground prematurely.
What rare fruit survived to maturity on these little, addled trees was misshapen, acrid, and stubbornly green on one end; in short, it tasted terrible.
The juice was gross.”
https://slate.com/business/2026/04/florida-state-orange-food-houses-real-estate.html
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#fedihired #GetFediHired #fediHire #FediWork #HireMe
For the past several years I ran a project at a multinational entertainment company that is being shuttered b/c of a pull-back on #DEI initiatives (!) & I find myself with time on my hands. I work in HTML & CSS, Wordpress, eCommerce, print design (esp. books).
If you need help or know anyone who might, please peek at my portfolio. It looks sparse b/c most of the past 6 years are covered by an NDA…thanks for sharing.
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#1girl #:q #absurdres #animal_ear_fluff #animal_ears #arrow_(symbol) #bad_id #bad_pixiv_id #bottomless #breasts #choker #clothes_writing #collarbone #colored_pubic_hair #commentary #crop_top #crop_top_overhang #ears_through_headwear #fate/extra #fate/grand_order #fate_(series) #female_pubic_hair #fox_ears #fox_girl #fox_tail #fuck-me_clothes #fuck-me_shirt #hat #highres #large_breasts #licking_lips #naughty_face #pink_hair #pink_pubic_hair #profanity #pubic_hair #pussy #solo #sparse_pubic_hair #sun_hat #tail #tamamo_no_mae_(fate) #tamamo_no_mae_(swimsuit_lancer)_(fate) #thick_thighs #thighs #tongue #tongue_out #unworn_bikini_bottom #yellow_eyes #zanamaoria https://danbooru.donmai.us/posts/3666700
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Baryonyx (Maxim) (Prehistoric Animal Models by PNSO
My thanks goes to the good folks at Happy Hen Toys for providing a review sample for this review. Despite its history and the significance of its discovery, I never had much Baryonyx in my collection growing up. Although Baryonyx has had a presence in the toy market since the late 1980s, for a long time that presence seemed pretty sparse. It was only in the last decade or so when all of the […]
Read more... https://dinotoyblog.com/baryonyx-maxim-prehistoric-animal-models-by-pnso/
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Gaming in Review 2025
Last week, I did a general review of stuff from 2025, but seeing Endies posts from the Indie RPG Newsletter and Cannibal Halfling Games inspired me to think some more about which games I managed to get to the table this year. My gaming schedule can get a bit sparse from hectic other things, like the spring and fall softball schedules but I still had a good time with a few different campaigns. Games That Hit the Table in 2025 Dungeons and Dragons D&D was the big one of the year running […]https://alexanderkeane.com/2025/12/19/gaming-in-review-2025/
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After years of reading that #TimeMachine backups couldn't be rsync'd and whatnot because hardlinks and more complicated directory hard links.
Something must have changed or the information I was reading was all wrong for networked TimeMachine backups. I believe hard links are heavily used in HFS+ and the newer APFS volumes. However for storing these on a networked share or none Apple filesystem they are placed in a "sparsebundle" which is disk image, on the underlying filesystem is stored as some metadata files and a number of "bands".
With that and TM being finicky at times, I finally decided to try moving my backups to NVMe from spinning rust. And it all worked!
I think it was: https://blog.fosketts.net/2015/07/22/how-to-use-mac-os-x-sparse-bundle-disk-images/ which gave me the right info for how "sparse bundles" work and can safely be rsyncd.
Also a special shout out for https://eclecticlight.co/ the depth of knowledge and the T2M2 utility for analysing TM Logs.
My new storage box is now faster and much quieter (no longer need to restrict backups to not run after 11pm).
Next changes:
- Upgrade networking to 2.5Gbe
- Set up `sanoid` and `syncoid` for zfs snapshots and send them to the spinning rust.Shiny (and dusty) green motherboard for attention :P
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Was today years old when I first listened to 69 Love Songs by #TheMagneticFields. What an #indie masterpiece! Very reminiscent of #1990s coffeehouses, cult films, and road trips. The lyrics are sparse, and at turns somber, quirky, and playful, but all are emotionally true, exploring love in all its transcendent and mundane facets. The quiet way Stephen Merritt sings and strums "The Book of Love" (my favorite track) sounds sacred. So glad I stumbled over this #album! #music
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Healing the Heart with Music and Art
The Ruppe, Saturday, February 7 at 01:00 PM MST
Spirit Stage ABQ on Instagram: "We are excited to present HEALING THE HEART WITH MUSIC AND ART a FREE community event at @spiritstageabq presented by @solamenteholistichealth_ Saturday 2/7/2026 1-3 PM hosted by @laguadalupe505. This event is a free arts and crafts workshop making traditional tin hearts and rosemary wreaths used for protection. We are joined by musical guest Alec Andre @cbdeann a Mexican-American indie/alternative singer-songwriter from Nogales, Arizona, known for his bilingual, emotionally raw music that blends Latin and American cultures, often featuring sparse, nostalgic ballads with intimate lyrics about heartbreak, longing, and modern relationships, featured on EPs like Dreams of You and Holy Dream and singles like “Fatal”. Local flavor @lattecorazon.nm will be selling coffee delights and other refreshments. We hope you’ll join us! Solamente Holistic Health is a mental health care practice and apothecary. Spirit Stage is the music and arts venue operating the larger room."
https://www.instagram.com/p/DTfnscAEXEu/
https://burque.fun/event/healing-the-heart-with-music-and-art
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Recently I've combined various functions which I've been using in other projects (e.g. my personal PKM toolchain) and published them as new library https://thi.ng/text-analysis for better re-use:
- customizable, composable & extensible tokenization (transducer based)
- ngram generation
- Porter-stemming & stopword removal
- vocabulary (bi-directional index) creation
- dense & sparse multi-hot vector encoding/decoding
- histograms (incl. sorted versions)
- tf-idf (term frequency & inverse document frequency), multiple strategies
- k-means clustering (with k-means++ initialization & customizable distance metrics)
- similarity/distance functions (dense & sparse versions)
- central terms extractionThe attached code example (also in the project readme) uses this package to creeate a clustering of all ~210 #ThingUmbrella packages, based on their assigned tags/keywords...
The library is not intended to be a full-blown NLP solution, but I keep on finding myself running into these functions/concepts quite often, and maybe you'll find them useful too...
#Text #Analysis #Cluster #KMeans #TFIDF #Ngram #Vector #TypeScript #JavaScript
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Mirror's Edge has very unique specific vibe that I think 2 fails to recreate.
Not only is the city you're running through beautiful and clean, but it's almost completely empty, vast office complexes and infrastructure unused by anyone.
It's really cool, like the hallways of Portal but it's an entire city.
I'm pretty sure it's unintentional too, just a limitation of cpu power at the time to populate the world with random NPCs, the only other people you meet are like 4 other runners, and sparse police who are only there to get you specifically.
There are distant NPCs you can see on the street but they're so far away it feels like a different world.
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Mann has been balling tonight. LFG, Nets!
Mann has been balling in stretches tonight. Nice to see. LFG, Nets!
Refs really calling a bowling-pins game—bodies tumbling all over the court… foul calls sparse. 🏀 ⚫️⚪️ #NBA #BrooklynNets #NetsWorld #TeranceMann
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https://github.com/xero/leviathan-crypto/releases/tag/v2.1.0
leviathan-crypto presents post-quantum ratchet primitives! ratchetInit, KDFChain, kemRatchetEncap/Decap, SkippedKeyStore, & RatchetKeypair are now available for all your sparse post quantum ratchet needs. tools to build your own signal-esque apps! #crypto #cryptography #ratchet #spqr -
In other #ThingUmbrella related news: I've completed the weekend round — 65+ commits — of restructuring & splitting up some larger packages, with the result of there being nine more of them now. 198 in total! Another side effect of this effort is generally fewer dependencies, incl. for some select other core packages (partially by choosing to intern small functions/functionality, in cases where it made sense...)
The new packages (but existing functionality!) are:
- https://thi.ng/bidir-index : Bi-directional map/index data structure
- https://thi.ng/disjoint-set: Disjoint Set data structure w/ path compression (useful for union-find tasks)
- https://thi.ng/object-utils : Plain JS object & map manipulation
- https://thi.ng/pixel-convolve: Extensible image convolution, preset kernels, normal map generation
- https://thi.ng/pixel-dominant-colors: k-means based dominant color extraction from images
- https://thi.ng/sorted-map: Skiplist-based sorted map & set data structures
- https://thi.ng/sparse-set : Sparse set data structure
- https://thi.ng/trie : Trie-based map data structure w/ prefix search/query
- https://thi.ng/uuid : Binary & string-based UUID v4 generationThe packages which have been split up have received major version updates w/ notices on both readmes & changelogs:
- https://thi.ng/adjacency
- https://thi.ng/associative
- https://thi.ng/pixel
- https://thi.ng/randomIn case you missed it, please see this issue for more context:
https://github.com/thi-ng/umbrella/issues/486
#ThingUmbrella #Refactoring #Restructure #Dependencies #OpenSource #TypeScript #JavaScript
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In other #ThingUmbrella related news: I've completed the weekend round — 65+ commits — of restructuring & splitting up some larger packages, with the result of there being nine more of them now. 198 in total! Another side effect of this effort is generally fewer dependencies, incl. for some select other core packages (partially by choosing to intern small functions/functionality, in cases where it made sense...)
The new packages (but existing functionality!) are:
- https://thi.ng/bidir-index : Bi-directional map/index data structure
- https://thi.ng/disjoint-set: Disjoint Set data structure w/ path compression (useful for union-find tasks)
- https://thi.ng/object-utils : Plain JS object & map manipulation
- https://thi.ng/pixel-convolve: Extensible image convolution, preset kernels, normal map generation
- https://thi.ng/pixel-dominant-colors: k-means based dominant color extraction from images
- https://thi.ng/sorted-map: Skiplist-based sorted map & set data structures
- https://thi.ng/sparse-set : Sparse set data structure
- https://thi.ng/trie : Trie-based map data structure w/ prefix search/query
- https://thi.ng/uuid : Binary & string-based UUID v4 generationThe packages which have been split up have received major version updates w/ notices on both readmes & changelogs:
- https://thi.ng/adjacency
- https://thi.ng/associative
- https://thi.ng/pixel
- https://thi.ng/randomIn case you missed it, please see this issue for more context:
https://github.com/thi-ng/umbrella/issues/486
#ThingUmbrella #Refactoring #Restructure #Dependencies #OpenSource #TypeScript #JavaScript
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In other #ThingUmbrella related news: I've completed the weekend round — 65+ commits — of restructuring & splitting up some larger packages, with the result of there being nine more of them now. 198 in total! Another side effect of this effort is generally fewer dependencies, incl. for some select other core packages (partially by choosing to intern small functions/functionality, in cases where it made sense...)
The new packages (but existing functionality!) are:
- https://thi.ng/bidir-index : Bi-directional map/index data structure
- https://thi.ng/disjoint-set: Disjoint Set data structure w/ path compression (useful for union-find tasks)
- https://thi.ng/object-utils : Plain JS object & map manipulation
- https://thi.ng/pixel-convolve: Extensible image convolution, preset kernels, normal map generation
- https://thi.ng/pixel-dominant-colors: k-means based dominant color extraction from images
- https://thi.ng/sorted-map: Skiplist-based sorted map & set data structures
- https://thi.ng/sparse-set : Sparse set data structure
- https://thi.ng/trie : Trie-based map data structure w/ prefix search/query
- https://thi.ng/uuid : Binary & string-based UUID v4 generationThe packages which have been split up have received major version updates w/ notices on both readmes & changelogs:
- https://thi.ng/adjacency
- https://thi.ng/associative
- https://thi.ng/pixel
- https://thi.ng/randomIn case you missed it, please see this issue for more context:
https://github.com/thi-ng/umbrella/issues/486
#ThingUmbrella #Refactoring #Restructure #Dependencies #OpenSource #TypeScript #JavaScript
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In other #ThingUmbrella related news: I've completed the weekend round — 65+ commits — of restructuring & splitting up some larger packages, with the result of there being nine more of them now. 198 in total! Another side effect of this effort is generally fewer dependencies, incl. for some select other core packages (partially by choosing to intern small functions/functionality, in cases where it made sense...)
The new packages (but existing functionality!) are:
- https://thi.ng/bidir-index : Bi-directional map/index data structure
- https://thi.ng/disjoint-set: Disjoint Set data structure w/ path compression (useful for union-find tasks)
- https://thi.ng/object-utils : Plain JS object & map manipulation
- https://thi.ng/pixel-convolve: Extensible image convolution, preset kernels, normal map generation
- https://thi.ng/pixel-dominant-colors: k-means based dominant color extraction from images
- https://thi.ng/sorted-map: Skiplist-based sorted map & set data structures
- https://thi.ng/sparse-set : Sparse set data structure
- https://thi.ng/trie : Trie-based map data structure w/ prefix search/query
- https://thi.ng/uuid : Binary & string-based UUID v4 generationThe packages which have been split up have received major version updates w/ notices on both readmes & changelogs:
- https://thi.ng/adjacency
- https://thi.ng/associative
- https://thi.ng/pixel
- https://thi.ng/randomIn case you missed it, please see this issue for more context:
https://github.com/thi-ng/umbrella/issues/486
#ThingUmbrella #Refactoring #Restructure #Dependencies #OpenSource #TypeScript #JavaScript
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In other #ThingUmbrella related news: I've completed the weekend round — 65+ commits — of restructuring & splitting up some larger packages, with the result of there being nine more of them now. 198 in total! Another side effect of this effort is generally fewer dependencies, incl. for some select other core packages (partially by choosing to intern small functions/functionality, in cases where it made sense...)
The new packages (but existing functionality!) are:
- https://thi.ng/bidir-index : Bi-directional map/index data structure
- https://thi.ng/disjoint-set: Disjoint Set data structure w/ path compression (useful for union-find tasks)
- https://thi.ng/object-utils : Plain JS object & map manipulation
- https://thi.ng/pixel-convolve: Extensible image convolution, preset kernels, normal map generation
- https://thi.ng/pixel-dominant-colors: k-means based dominant color extraction from images
- https://thi.ng/sorted-map: Skiplist-based sorted map & set data structures
- https://thi.ng/sparse-set : Sparse set data structure
- https://thi.ng/trie : Trie-based map data structure w/ prefix search/query
- https://thi.ng/uuid : Binary & string-based UUID v4 generationThe packages which have been split up have received major version updates w/ notices on both readmes & changelogs:
- https://thi.ng/adjacency
- https://thi.ng/associative
- https://thi.ng/pixel
- https://thi.ng/randomIn case you missed it, please see this issue for more context:
https://github.com/thi-ng/umbrella/issues/486
#ThingUmbrella #Refactoring #Restructure #Dependencies #OpenSource #TypeScript #JavaScript
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Halocraft – The Sky Will Remember / To Leave a Single Wolf Alive [Things You Might Have Missed 2025]
By Killjoy
I find the idea of double albums fascinating. While in many cases they may indicate an unchecked surge of inspiration or an unwillingness to self-edit, there are instances when the decision can feel genuinely appropriate. Halocraft, a (mostly) instrumental post-rock quartet from Greece, opted to split the final entry of a multi-album story into two parallel endings. According to their respective Bandcamp pages, The Sky Will Remember is the “imaginary happy ending,” whereas To Leave a Single Wolf Alive is the “true dark ending.” Aside from this brief description, the song titles, and sparse lyrics, Halocraft relies solely on their music to tell both sides of this narrative.
Halocraft’s “music first, atmosphere second” approach serves them well. It’s hard not to let oneself be borne away by the dreamy, leisurely guitar lines, which bear a fair resemblance to God Is an Astronaut or Black Narcissus. The Sky Will Remember is much closer to the cheerful, upbeat nature of Halocraft’s prior two full-lengths, with tons of tunes that are sticky-sweet but somehow never cloying. On the other hand, To Leave a Single Wolf Alive is a significant deviation from Halocraft’s usual style. Aside from its noticeably darker tone, it’s less reliant on hooks and, therefore, its slower burn took me a little longer to appreciate. Careful attention to both records will reveal subtle, whimsical bass counterpoints to the twin guitars.
The real strength of Halocraft’s songwriting is favoring clearly defined melodies over the sprawling free-form tendencies common in the post-rock genre. The songs loosely adhere to the tried and true pop structure, with verses and choruses that just happen to be instrumental in this case. I am, personally, partial toward The Sky Will Remember. Tracks such as “A Headful of Dreams,” “And in That Light, I Saw You,” and “Particle” never fail to lift my spirits. To Leave a Single Wolf Alive is there when I’m in the mood for something more melancholic but equally pleasant. While it does lean more heavily on repetition, there are moments that stand out, such as the slithering grooves of “And the Weak Suffer What They Must” and the faint goth-rock shades of “They Rest in Flames.” Though very different from one another, both albums are versatile enough to excel in the foreground and the background.
After spending nearly a year with both, I can confidently say that Halocraft has accomplished the difficult and paradoxical task of making two opposite yet complementary records. The Sky Will Remember and To Leave a Single Wolf Alive are a refreshing reversal of many instrumental post-rock norms, like meandering songwriting and lack of meaningful melodies. They are so easy to listen to and enjoy, no matter what mood I find myself in. I may connect with The Sky Will Remember more, but I appreciate Halocraft’s willingness and capability to expand their sound into darker avenues on To Leave a Single Wolf Alive. My hope is that on their next record they can take both of these disparate strands and weave them together. For now, though, you can’t go wrong with either choice.Tracks to Check Out (The Sky Will Remember): “A Headful of Dreams,” “And in That Light, I Saw You”
Tracks to Check Out (To Leave a Single Wolf Alive): “And the Weak Suffer What They Must,” “They Rest in Flames”
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Trying to work out if it's possible to configure Containerd to set (or the equivalent of) the `--init` flag on container run so `tini` hosts PID 1 and signal handling works properly.
It looks like `--init` does some magic - I can see runc has some PID/FD parameters, but it loooks like CRI doesn't have an escape hatch for any say, arbitrary arguments - even if I did work out the magic.
Containerd config is even more sparse on the CRI (or at least, the man page is)
https://github.com/containerd/containerd/blob/main/docs/man/containerd-config.toml.5.mdI really don't want to have to insist that every damn Dockerfile bundles `tini` and sets `ENTRYPOINT`.
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#Steaming services saturating the market, dividing the #content and then pricing themselves right out of the market's comfort zone might have been the most predictable thing to happen in the past decade (other than #ClimateChange, of course).
I was happy when the handful that existed (#Netflix, #Hulu) were just holding areas for old cancelled 1980s #sitcoms and cheesy low-budget #comedies I enjoyed watching on cable as a kid for a reasonably low price. Now, the old shows that I can't #binge anywhere else are sparse and entry level pricing for ad-free streaming are astronomical.