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Fine-Tuning on My Own Commit History: The Model Now Writes Bugs in My Style

https://cha1nc0der.wordpress.com/2026/05/05/fine-tuning-on-my-own-commit-history-the-model-now-writes-bugs-in-my-style/

https://www.wacoca.com/media/648047/ Book Review: Gem Testing Techniques #book #books #gem #gemology #Gems&Gemology #GG #Hobby #Hodgkinson #lighting #optics #pleochroism #practical #RefractiveIndex #refractometer #Renfro #review #testing #ultraviolet #書籍

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https://www.wacoca.com/media/648047/ Book Review: Gem Testing Techniques #book #books #gem #gemology #Gems&Gemology #GG #Hobby #Hodgkinson #lighting #optics #pleochroism #practical #RefractiveIndex #refractometer #Renfro #review #testing #ultraviolet #書籍

A top superbike reignites debate over #Chinese #innovation
"innovation activities in #China r still dominated by incremental innovation.. while #basicresearch-based radical innovat'n activities remain insufficient.. ZXMOTO’s 820RR shows high-performance #engineering need not require premium pricing. Though these aren't “zero to one” breakthroughs, they represent an impactful & #practical form of innovation: one tt lowers costs, expands #access & reshapes markets fr w'in"👍
https://www.straitstimes.com/opinion/a-top-superbike-reignites-debate-over-chinese-innovation

This Is What a Personal Surveillance System Actually Looks Like

https://cha1nc0der.wordpress.com/2026/04/03/this-is-what-a-personal-surveillance-system-actually-looks-like/

This Is What a Personal Surveillance System Actually Looks Like

https://cha1nc0der.wordpress.com/2026/04/03/this-is-what-a-personal-surveillance-system-actually-looks-like/

This Is What a Personal Surveillance System Actually Looks Like

https://cha1nc0der.wordpress.com/2026/04/03/this-is-what-a-personal-surveillance-system-actually-looks-like/

This Is What a Personal Surveillance System Actually Looks Like

https://cha1nc0der.wordpress.com/2026/04/03/this-is-what-a-personal-surveillance-system-actually-looks-like/

This Is What a Personal Surveillance System Actually Looks Like

https://cha1nc0der.wordpress.com/2026/04/03/this-is-what-a-personal-surveillance-system-actually-looks-like/

OSINT Isn’t About Skill Anymore. It’s About Systems

https://cha1nc0der.wordpress.com/2026/03/21/osint-isnt-about-skill-anymore-its-about-systems/

OSINT Isn’t About Skill Anymore. It’s About Systems

https://cha1nc0der.wordpress.com/2026/03/21/osint-isnt-about-skill-anymore-its-about-systems/

OSINT Isn’t About Skill Anymore. It’s About Systems

https://cha1nc0der.wordpress.com/2026/03/21/osint-isnt-about-skill-anymore-its-about-systems/

OSINT Isn’t About Skill Anymore. It’s About Systems

https://cha1nc0der.wordpress.com/2026/03/21/osint-isnt-about-skill-anymore-its-about-systems/

OSINT Isn’t About Skill Anymore. It’s About Systems

https://cha1nc0der.wordpress.com/2026/03/21/osint-isnt-about-skill-anymore-its-about-systems/

I am going to get #wild with my #thoughts in this new #HotTopic of #interest I have in mind.

You are all that you #believe be it in something, or not.

In #practical #terms #life is 50% yours to shape and 50% its shape around you to respond with.

Thoughts aren't #energy they are what holds it in place if you empower their #purpose through #connection to it.

Objects that are #still do not #move if they #anchor another object in #place where possible.

Nobody #dreams alone.

Cory Doctorow, a fellow #Canadian, writes a lot of interesting stuff. I agree with his positions on many things, but not all. For example, I'm about ten thousand percent behind his opposition to anti-circumvention laws; I was one of the thousands of Canadians who wrote to the government opposing the introduction of the law many years ago.

However, his blog on Thursday, staking out the position that opposition to "AI" (LLM) is just geeky #purity culture is somewhere between "flat-out wrong" and "disingenuous at best".

My position against #LLM #slop everywhere is both because of #ethical #concerns and practical ones. There does not exist an LLM right now that was built and trained ethically; they are all statistical plagiarism machines, and speaking as someone whose #prose and #code has been plagiarized by every single one of them, that pisses me off, royally.

That's a show-stopper for me, but even if it wasn't, the #practical concerns - that the output is #untrustworthy, that the #references can't be checked, that the #code is #insecure and #unmaintainable, that the #licensing status is unclear, that it's a #copyright violation - are *also* enough to rule out #LLMs at present.

He then presents a #strawman argument - all tech is fruit of the poisoned tree, the #transistor was invented by a racist, etc. But William Shockley is not designing or manufacturing any of the transistors / #ICs I use today.

So, @doctorow - I gotta say I disagree. And that's fine.

Kind heart That’s it. https://sacs.zouluvo.com/kind-heart-thats-it/

#totebag #bag #clothbag #message #humor #original #quote #funnyquote #expression #design #illustration #art #fashion #accessory #everyday #shopping #eco #reusable #practical #gift #giftidea #trendy #minimalist #modern #stylish #visual #typography #slogan #creative

Soft but strong https://sacs.zouluvo.com/soft-but-strong/

#totebag #bag #clothbag #message #humor #original #quote #funnyquote #expression #design #illustration #art #fashion #accessory #everyday #shopping #eco #reusable #practical #gift #giftidea #trendy #minimalist #modern #stylish #visual #typography #slogan #creative

Beautiful and real https://sacs.zouluvo.com/beautiful-and-real/

#totebag #bag #clothbag #message #humor #original #quote #funnyquote #expression #design #illustration #art #fashion #accessory #everyday #shopping #eco #reusable #practical #gift #giftidea #trendy #minimalist #modern #stylish #visual #typography #slogan #creative

Rebel Flower https://sacs.zouluvo.com/rebel-flower/

Rebel Flower

#totebag #bag #clothbag #message #humor #original #quote #funnyquote #expression #design #illustration #art #fashion #accessory #everyday #shopping #eco #reusable #practical #gift #giftidea #trendy #minimalist #modern #stylish #visual #typography #slogan #creative

A quotation from Franklin Roosevelt

To accomplish almost anything worthwhile, it is necessary to compromise between the ideal and the practical.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945) American lawyer, politician, statesman, US President (1933-1945)
Quoted in Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen, “How the President Works,” Harper’s Monthly Magazine, Vol. 173 (1936-06)

More about this quote: wist.info/roosevelt-franklin-d…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #franklinroosevelt #fdr #franklindroosevelt #franklindelanoroosevelt #accomplish #compromise #ideal #idealism #practical #practicality #pragmatic #pragmatism #succeed #success

Sweet & strong https://sacs.zouluvo.com/sweet-strong/

Discover my new bags

#totebag #bag #clothbag #message #humor #original #quote #funnyquote #expression #design #illustration #art #fashion #accessory #everyday #shopping #eco #reusable #practical #gift #giftidea #trendy #minimalist #modern #stylish #visual #typography #slogan #creative

All young #CS and #IT practitioners should study, in-depth, at least the following #programming paradigms and pillar languages:

Imperative:
• Mechanical—Forth
• Procedural—C
• Objective—Smalltalk

Declarative:
• Functional—ML
• Relational—SQL
• Logical—Prolog

Theoretic:
• Computability—𝜆-Calculus
• Polymorphic—Hindley-Milner
• Dependent—Martin-Löf

The above is only "my" short-list. Every experienced programmer has "his" short-list of favourites. Regardless, dedicating oneself to the study of one such short-list would equip a young technologist with both practical and theoretical foundations for the rest of his career—provided he does not switch into the MBA lane, upon the first opportunity.

There is a caveat, though. Each of the above subjects stands atop decades of #theoretical research and #practical advances in #computing. For example, Forth, perhaps the simplest one of the lot, could be viewed as a programmer-readable summary of computing history, from von Neumann's seminal paper (1945) at least up to ANSI Forth (1994). And Martin-Löf intuitionistic type theory (1972), arguably the most complex of the lot, was created with the aim to serve as a new foundation of mathematics, possibly reaching back to Euclid. Dependent type theory, even after more than half-a-century, is still a vibrant (HoTT, as it were) research area.

It is plain to see that "mastery" of computing is an endeavour that demands more than life-and-a-half of dedication. So, none of us are true masters thereof. Indeed, for most of us, just to become barely competent in this field requires a careerlong dedication. Hence, the admonition against switching lanes.

Oh and, #practice maybe careerlong, but #learning is lifelong.

Faster Practical Modular Inversion

https://purplesyringa.moe/blog/faster-practical-modular-inversion/

#HackerNews #Faster #Modular #Inversion #Practical #Algorithms #Cryptography #Tech #News

An Attempt at a Compelling Articulation of Forth's Practical Strengths and Eter

https://im-just-lee.ing/forth-why-cb234c03.txt

#HackerNews #Forth #Programming #Articulation #Practical #Strengths #HackerNews

We respect builds prioritizing function over form. Reliable starting, confident handling, sufficient range - practical considerations matter when civilization fades behind you.
Share this reminder when cosmetic perfection tempts over mechanical reliability. Beauty means nothing without capability.
Do you build for the garage or the highway? Different purposes require completely different approaches.

#motorcycle #ready #adventure #capable #practical

🎥 👉 @first.forty.eight

Das aufwändigste Musikvideo, das ich je mitgemacht habe. Achtung, nichts für zarte Seelen. Dann guckt lieber den Clean Cut!. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Z987LmR2i0&list=PL5UVwWJz8xp7fVkEtNuJAzOo3JEP_bjXB&index=2

#arri #blender #fcp #aftereffects #practical #vfx

C++20 Modules: Practical Insights, Status and TODOs

https://chuanqixu9.github.io/c++/2025/08/14/C++20-Modules.en.html

#HackerNews #C++20 #Modules #Practical #Insights #Status #TODOs #Programming #C++20

Top ten posts in July 2025

https://library.hrmtc.com/2025/08/01/top-ten-posts-in-july-2025/

#aMatterOfConvenience #aleisterCrowley #angelMagicJohnDee #ArthurMoros #awakening #baby #bes #bestPosts #bestTen #Bible #blackCube #book #casual #christians #ChristopherSHyatt #cippus #ClavisSaturni #conqueror #countess #court #crocodiles #darcyKuntz #DavidBeth #DavidRakine #detachment #elAquelarre #Enochian #externalHierarchy #FraterYechidah #Goya #grimoire #hadit #heretic #hermeticOrderOfTheGoldenDawn #hierarchy #higherSelf #horus #husk #idea #independent #inherentStrangeness #initiation #initiationRituals #israelRegardie #JMarvinSpiegelman #JeanLéonGerome #JohnColleton #journey #July2025 #KristinSwenson #kundaliniOldComment #LaVéritéSortantDuPuits #liberLegis #Liechtenstein #lightBringers #love #loveUnderFear #loveUnderWill #lucifer #magicallyDirected #meme #mostPeculiar #naked #normie #ofCourse #onePointedness #OttoRahn #paganLove #peace #practical #propaganda #quote #sabbaticGoat #saturn #Saturnian #seach #serpentLove #spiritualFormula #Star #stephenSkinner #sublime #summary #summaryOfTheMonth #TPolyphilus #TheBookOfTheLaw #TomasVincente #TonyFuller #topPosts #topTen #trueSelf #truth #Unicursal #unique #virtue

On the Benefit of Using Trains Instead of Cars

Reading Time: 3 minutes

On Sunday I took the car rather than the train. This allowed me to wake up slightly later, and to drive up to the meeting point within an hour. By train I would have had a half hour walk, followed by a two hour train ride. On the way back it was meant to take an hour and ten minutes but didn't, because of a crash on the A1. I didn't see any news about it so I don't think it was a bad crash. It did however block the motorway. A drive that should have taken an hour then took two hours.

I like to take the train. It's intuitive. It's comfortable. It's social. It's relaxing. I took the car because I thought it would be more convenient. It was, but for the person that had to get back as fast as possible to catch a plane.

Without the car that person would have had to wait an extra half hour to an hour, and then another two hours on trains. By having the car I could drive spontaneously with most of the hiking group. The plan was to head to Nyon, to drop everyone off, in order for them to get to Geneva. In the end, due to the traffic jam we re-routed via Allaman, and then Rolle, and they took the train from Rolle. With a car you can leap frog segments of a train journey.

I think the person made it back with time to pack, shower, and get to the airport comfortably. I don't know because there was no follow up. It doesn't bother me in the least. The person seemed worried about getting home in town so I offered to drive her part of the way. If I had had that option on Saturday I probably would not have rushed for the train. I would have been happy to hitch a ride to Gland, and the train from there.

Travel time + Interval Between Trains

Saturday, and Sunday the journeys were two hours, but the train wait could be three hours. From the moment you finish a hike to the moment you get home can be three and a half hours, if I include my half hour walk.

If it wasn't for the car crash and traffic jams then the car would have taken an hour ten rather than almost two hours. With the car crash, and traffic jam, with Sunday afternoon congestion the car was not faster, for me. It was faster for those that had the freedom to catch a train from a convenient train station. The moral, for me, is that on a Sunday afternoon, with congestion, trains are faster.

The paradox is that if a train is empty, or full, it goes at the same speed, but when an empty, or full, makes a huge difference. It makes sense to fill trains to capacity. It's absurd to fill motorways to capacity. That's why using trains when hiking is fantastic. It also provides us with the flexibility to do point to point hikes, rather than loops.

Some Exceptions

Nyon to Ste-Croix is convenient train. So is Nyon to Les Paccots, and Gruyères to Nyon. Nyon to Jaun too is very convenient. In contrast Nyon to Auberge communale de Pont-de-Nant, Route du Pont-de-Nant 10, 1880 Plans-sur-Bex is not convenient by train and bus, unless you start the hike at the bus stop, rather than the restaurant.

When I was looking at logistics from the Vue Des Alpes I saw that it makes sense to walk down to the nearby train station, four kilometres away. By doing this you have a train every hour, rather than every two to three hours.

Conclusion

If it wasn't for a van catching fire near Céligny the motorway would have been fluid. It's because of this accident that the advantage of taking the car was negated. Having said that, rush hour traffic on a Sunday evening is normal, so the gains you have in the morning are negated in the evening. This explains why the motorway, lake road and vineyard roads were blocked. This explains why it made sense to drop people off in Rolle, to catch their train. On Saturday I will almost certainly take the train as it's a linear hike and simplifies logistics.

#convenient #environment #practical #switzerland #trains

The Concept Of Indigenous GIS
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Reading a paper (http://alturl.com/8wte5), they used the specific term ‘Indigenous GIS’ – and I found this intriguing!
As I read it, spatial data collection and analysis was done with a focus on how a tribe or social group might ‘see’ the data, including spatiotemporal....
I look forward to finding out more about what others are working on! – so PLEASE feel free to share any examples that you might have…
#GIS #spatial #mapping #indigenous #IndigineousGIS #FirstNation #perspective #cultural #social #naturalresources #archaeology #publicsafety #socialservices #planning #design #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #mapping #cartography #usecase #practical #pragamatic #resultsdriven #focused##

#Hypnosis - as an example of a practical application of the paradigm of "#embodiment" and "#embededdness"

Abstract

The following essay will examine hypnosis as an example of a #practical #application of the #paradigm of "embodiment" and "embededdness" in more detail. In this context, an attempt will be made to prove the #effectiveness of the #hypnosis procedure with the help of #empirical #findings from #cognitive #neuroscience.

More at: https://philosophies.de/index.php/2022/11/27/die-hypnose/

Appropedia, the sustainable wiki, is partnering with the UNDP in El Salvador to create materials for open knowledge management on development.

Check out the first 30 resources compiled, from water mapping to microclimate data: https://www.appropedia.org/PNUD_El_Salvador

#community #scale #model #practical #solutions #appropriate #technology #opensource #wiki #sustainability #development #commons #education #elsalvador #postgrowthalliance @emiliovelis

@djb (Daniel J. Bernstein) tooted about a new blog post[1] he published. It's here:
https://blog.cr.yp.to/20250118-flight.html

It's interesting. He's a #mathematician and software guy that in more recent years has been known mostly for his work in #cryptography, #theoretical and #practical. You're probably using his #Curve25519 every day in your #communications.

I'm not a mathematician (by a long shot), but it's written in a pretty accessible manner - it's not #formulae and #turgid academic #prose.

The central point he's getting at, by my possibly-mistaken understanding of it, is that current "common sense" about when attacks against pre-quantum cryptography like #RSA (and therefore when post-quantum cryptography becomes critical) are badly mistaken - based on bad assumptions about how attacks work, how they're implemented, and on badly #extrapolating from those bad assumptions using logic that doesn't actually represent the way attacks are developed and become practical.

TL;DR is something along the lines of "#quantum cryptographic attacks against RSA will be practical sooner than most people think, and you should be deploying quantum-resistant cryptography now, not later".

It's worth reading if you're at all interested in #crypto and #security stuff.

He also mentions a project he's involved in that has been discussed separately, transparent post-quantum tunnelling for unmodified #server and #client #software. Link in post.

[1] Written more like a conference presentation, FWIW.

#KamalaHarris on #Trump’s #economic agenda: “You see, for Donald Trump, our #economy works best if it works for those who own the big skyscrapers, not those who actually build them, not those who wire them, not those who mop the floor.”
Harris is presenting herself as a #pragmatist unbound by ideology.”We shouldn’t be constrained by ideology, & instead should seek #practical solutions to problems,”she says, offering herself as a #technocrat – #qualified & #capable.
#unions #labor
#HarrisWalz2024

#Trump Goes on Truly #Incoherent Rant When Asked About #Childcare

Try to make any sense of what Trump said here.

#weird #insane #inane #deranged #delusional #Nonsense #TrumpIsUnfit

#WeAreNotGoingBack

#CommonSense #sanity #RealityBasedPolitics #ActualPolicies #Practical #HarrisWalz2024

https://newrepublic.com/post/185655/trump-incoherent-rant-affordable-childcare-question

Dear #Solution based Friends,
We all find #different ways to #live our lives and make sense of #Life, love, the #universe and everything...🌞
Mine:
1. Be Kind, be friendly, be civil
2. Simplify (applies to most things)
3. Keep it Real
What are your #practical steps, #follows and working pragmatics? For me it is to break the very rulz that work... oh wait that is for #tomorrow...😘

#VicePresident #KamalaHarris has #brilliant #economic #pitch.

Harris is drawing a clear distinction between her and Trump, because her #plans will actually #provide #practical #help for the poor and #middleclass.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/8/15/2263334/-Vice-President-Kamala-Harris-has-brilliant-economic-pitch

#Topsurgery included in #leading #breastsurgery #textbook for first time ever

#BreastSurgery, which is part of the #Companion to #SpecialistSurgicalPractice #series, is an #uptodate and #practical #referenceguide providing the latest #updates on #surgical #practice for those going through #surgicaltraining to established #consultants.

#Women #TransMen #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #UK #NHS #Transitioning #Mastectomy #BreastRemoval #BreastAugmentation

https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/10/17/top-surgery-textbook-gender-affirming-healthcare-trans-education/

A quotation from #Pratchett , Terry:

«
There isn’t a way things should be. There’s just what happens, and what we do.
»

Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/pratchett-terry/30793/

#quote #quotes #quotation #choice #circumstances #destiny #freewill #freedom #ideal #practical #pragmatic #predestination #purpose #random #reaction #reality

I put this #chart together almost 10 years ago to help #nonprofit orgs think about their relationship to #data and #InformationTechnology .

I'm posting it here, because there seem to be a lot of conversations about #epistemology - ranging from the #practical to the #theoretical Perhaps this chart can be adapted to #contexts beyond the original one.

Creative Commons license 3.0 attrib-noncommercial-no derivs.

@epistemology
@nptech
#information
#knowledge
#wisdom
#insight
#analysis

Earlier this month, we were proud to host our first pinning ceremony for the first five graduates of Wake Tech's new Practical Nursing program, which prepares students to practice as an entry-level nurse under the supervision of a registered nurse or other health care provider.

https://www.waketech.edu/post/wt-news-story/14370?fbclid=IwAR1isA_KsB4FL_6raJuO_sm9BgRaYM0sWvfMLfgy2TTHQlUHKZgqhVDJUG8

#Practical #Nursing #Healthcare #Health #Care #First #Graduates #Pinning #HigherEd #WakeTech