Author: carpetbomberz
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The ghost of organic architecture lives on.
I got to experience the thrill and joy of “hunting” down the elusive Nakagin Capsule tower on my 3rd trip to Japan. My wife and I were trying out Mos Burger and visited Shinbashi Station just south of Ginza. The station had seen better days, but the shopping mall under the elevated freeway that travels…
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If you ever read Clifford Stoll’s “The Cuckoo’s Egg” get on over to Oxide and Friends,…
This was definitely a good technical foray into the mechanics required to find the discrepancy that pointed to the evidence that something was tampered with,… In Cliff Stolls case some years ago it was accounting for computer time on a big shared system (90 cent discrepancy on their monthly charge back at the University Data…
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American comedian Jimy Kimmel was blown away by Japan’s bathrooms【Video】
“It’s like the whole country is Disneyland, and we’re living at Six Flags.” Japan regularly sees a surge in inbound foreign travelers in spring, with many hoping to time their trip to coincide with the blooming of the country’s famed cherry blossoms. Unfortunately, a sudden cold snap kept the flowers from opening until later than……
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Redis Adopts Dual Source-Available Licensing
Redis Adopts Dual Source-Available Licensing Well this sucks: after fifteen years (and contributions from more than 700 people), Redis is dropping the 3-clause BSD license going forward, instead being “dual-licensed under the Redis Source Available License (RSALv2) and Server Side Public License (SSPLv1)” from Redis 7.4 onwards. Via @msw Redis Adopts Dual Source-Available Licensing A…
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Dare to stare into the AI and it will train on your data.
https://heartsoulmachine.com/blog/2024/03-02-understanding-and-meaning Tim Klapdor responds to some comments from Stephen Downes’s questions re: AI and what it actually does here. This is my fav pull-quote: ….,we perform the gestalt and apply the concepts that sit alongside it. We apply traits and behaviours that don’t actually exist. By doing so we become part of the hallucination of…
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Moore’s Scofflaws
Years ago, Jeff Bezos famously quipped that “your margin is my opportunity.” This was of course aimed not at Amazon’s customers, but rather its competitors, and it was deadly serious: customers of AWS in those bygone years will fondly remember that every re:Invent brought with it another round of price cuts. This era did not……
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TVJay – stay calm,… he’s trained TV Engineer.
If you are the least bit interested in Broadcast TeeVee, RF transmissions, or Linux Home Lab types of topics,… get on over to TVJay’s channel on the YouTubes as fast as you can. I participate as much as I can in the chat. Fun will be had by all. And TVJay might get dispatched, call…
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Tell Me More
With Kelly Corrigan Tonight’s episode opens with an essay looking back on themes and interviewees for the last 48 episodes (6 seasons in total). And there’s a lot there. But at the heart of it are these sentiments: Yeah I think I can abide by that. Matthew Desmond who wrote two different books “Evicted” and…
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“R” is for redundancy
TVJay is a real live TV Engineer (no foolin’) out in the Midwest. And broadcast TeeVee is still serious business.
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Studio Ghibli to be acquired by Nippon TV as subsidiary company in stock purchase
Independent era comes to an end for Hayao Miyazaki’s studio, but it could be the start of a happy future. For nearly two decades, Studio Ghibli has been an independent company. Originally founded in 1985 with the support of Japanese publishing giant Tokuma Shoten, Ghibli has been independent since 2005, during which it’s released eight……
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