#DogPileEconomy I am not a fan of the “Dog-Pile Economy.” I think it is as stupid as it wasteful, the ultimate form of waste it creates being a giant digital turd through which customers have to wade in order to find anything of value. This turd gobbles up AI processing, data centers, petabytes of storage […]
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Life is a Spiral Long ago I took a sociology class, and my professor would say that the “Circle of Life” was more like a spiral – whether we head upward or downward, when we complete a revolution we are in a slightly different position vertically. As I recently celebrated a birthday, and I am
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PYTHON DLL HELL On my local system (Ubuntu of some flavor), I had Python 2.7. Sage (A nickname ChatGPT chose for itself when I asked) said to leave it alone or else bad things would happen. OK. My system also had Python 3.8, which Sage also said to leave alone. This time, I didn’t listen.
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What? It is the attention economy. An economy a truly advanced species should be well beyond, but: “don’t hate the player, hate the game.” Except, we created the game. Ergo, don’t hate the player, hate society? But, isn’t that what have already done as teenagers? Ergo, shouldn’t at least the grown ups exist in a
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Of course, without going into personal details too much, I was surprised how well dream interpretation applied to this situation. There are a lot more details , and it captured a compelling narrative: The message from my existential vacation through a tropical depression was that, I was now entering a cleansed state, filled with the
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“Reality” has always been a fascinating concept to me. It is 99.9999% nothing. And we are starting to realize that nothing, might indeed be something. Something we lack the ability to detect. If we think of the cells of our bodies – trillions of them, coexisting in a biochemical mesh so complex we have yet
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Now, looking back, I can see this vacation had layers of life lessons built into it. This vacation was 7 days, of which, only 2 actually consisted of us vacationing. And yet there was so much that happened internally, on a contemplative level, as these events unfolded. A couple examples: If Debby and this vacation
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After a restless second night we decided it was time pack up our mobile hotel and move it somewhere more peaceful. We ended up heading inland and north. . . to Yogi’s Jellystone Park-Resort. Was it cliche? Yes. Was it. . . campy? Indeed, it was. However, all the warnings dropped off our phones, and
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This all started out as a plan to take the family down to Myrtle Beach for some time at the beach. It was simple: load up an RV, drive for a day, and tap into power of the sandy, ocean beach to recharge the batteries of our soul, while glamping, grilling and ditching electronics for
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TL;DR Although it was my fault, GitLab has been completely unhelpful getting me back into my account, so I decided to try Bitbucket. However, there were a couple gotchas which I cover in more detail, but the short version is: My Achy Breaky GitLab Heart I recently had to change my phone number. I mean,
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