To me, the ideal setup is two computers: a powerful desktop and a convenient ultrabook. Indeed, even a more budget user might benefit from having a combination of a Chromebook and Desktop – a $300 Chromebook and a $700 Desktop probably beats a $1000 laptop – especially if you build the desktop yourself, as you […]
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If you are part of that privileged group who has the money and need for a second computer, building your own computer is really the way to go. Everyone’s first computer these days should probably be a laptop, or maybe a tablet. Well maybe not these days because with COVID no one is going anywhere,
I had a nasty crash on a TT bike a few years ago. I made the mistake of saying ‘on your left!’ to two neewbies on city bikes while I was going fast down a hill. I gave them far too much warning, plenty of time for one to swing left, one to swing right
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Choosing a place to travel for a week or two is not usually a big challenge. With tens of thousands of awesome places to go to, it is likely that many will be equally satisfying, give or take whatever fate may throw at you. I won’t say it is easy to choose, but rather that
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You shall soon all be able to see 12 mb photos on this blog! Yes, I finally decided I was sick of 2 mb photo uploads, and upped the level. It was slightly complicated, which is why I haven’t done it before. I am posting the details for future reference.
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Having a server at home or even at an office is so old school. All the cool kids host their servers in the clouds somewhere. Even this blog is hosted in the cloud, or rather an ocean, Digital Ocean. Of course, quite a lot of the ‘cloud, cloud, cloud!’ hosting chants come from people with
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I really like buying computers. Or perhaps more accurately, I really like researching to buy a computer – it is satisfyingly quantifiable. Since I already have two perfectly good laptops, and feel I should wait for the release of new RTX 3xxx series graphics cards anyway, I need a different kind of computer to buy.
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Sewing has never been a particularly strong hobby of mine. The actual sewing is easy enough, but all the other parts – sizing, cutting fabric, and so on, make it all terribly difficult. Still, here we have me investing a few hours after which I felt immensely satisfied. Something broken was made a useful tool
A Little Patchwork Read More »
This release represents several months of fairly hard work for me. It even has a pretty, if simple documentation website that you can check out here. It features quite a number of bug fixes, including several rather critical ones that fixed cross validation not actually cross validating. As always, my biggest focus was on data
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My largest and grandest outdoor project to date, I give you: a dam! Now, first, let’s be clear. This is a check dam. So not Hoover Dam, but something smaller meant for water to go over. The general purpose is to slow the water. In low water flow, water will pool behind and gradually be
