Holly Ann WilliamsKelly Ann CatlinYou can see the similarities but also the differences in name alone. Kelly was my twin sister, center of my life, who committed suicide. Holly was my best friend, sometimes my girlfriend, and we had a bit of Sherlock and Watson routine going. Ultimately, Holly was my replacement twin sister. For […]
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A bit over year ago, I built a small dam across the ravine’s stream bed to reduce erosion. The dam, failed. And now, I have figured out why. It was pretty simple to figure out, and just involved standing around a bit in heavy rain. The water coming from the side (up where the house
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One of my coworkers had setup a nice webcam, and looking at it, I thought, wow, that makes a big difference. In the world of working fully remotely, it seems like something worth having myself. I have been relying on built in webcams for ages, and it works, but it could be much better! I
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I was not particularly impressed with this book. Now, since this book is known as a feminist book, your first thought is probably, ‘that’s because you are not female’ and sure. It’s a world in which the women are stripped of all rights except producing children, and how evil that is. The problem is that
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If you have no idea what AVX-2 and AVX-512 are, they are names for instruction sets, a combination of CPU design and language that help execute, in this case, math. AVX512 is a newer 512-bit instruction set promising faster performance. Since data science can sometimes be rather slow, faster math sounds very promising. Overall, the
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Mini PCs are amazing! But most people will probably have difficulty getting too excited about them, because they are pretty much just small black boxes. TLDR: Mini PCs are probably the desktop of choice for most people these days. Mini PCs (sometimes referred to as Nuc Boxes) are what happens when you take components designed
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My mom and I both ordered rather more fruit trees than we really needed. In particular my mother ordered four Yellow Transparents, because she really wanted to make sure we had something like the old yellow apple which we love but is aging. I got quite a few more than four trees, but most were
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This book is science fiction, a space opera, and the follow up to the successful, Hugo-award-winning predecessor A Memory Called Empire. I found the sequel to be an easier read, as most of the world-building was accomplished in the previous book. The plot was predictable, but the world it runs through is full of brain
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Strength and honor! I have chanted this to myself tens of thousands of times over the years, day after day. It is a rallying cry, a reminder never to stop. To hold the line, no matter the cost. I share with you now the single great secret to success that I have learned, and seen
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The Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings by Neil Price attempts the impossible, a synthesis of all there is to know about the Viking Age presented in a way that anyone could read. I found it to be a great success, and a parallel to SPQR by Mary Beard for the
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