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Sep 27, 2026 from Isaac Clayton

Half an Umbrella

A nor’easter storm is rolling over Boston this weekend, and I sit indoors, lit by warm yellow lamps, as sheets of rain rattle against my window. The smell of rain is in the air; trees bend, branche...

Sep 27, 2026 from Julia Evans

Replacing the old battery on rechargeable bike lights

Hello! Recently I needed bike lights for my bike. And I remembered that I already had rechargeable bike lights that I bought ten years ago, that I hadn’t tried in a long time. I tried to recharge t...

Sep 27, 2026 from MacBorn

My Mac menu bar was getting crowded

As more apps added icons to my menu bar, I tried Thaw to hide the ones I do not need to see all the time.

Sep 26, 2026 from Funny & True Stories | NotAlwaysRight.com

Me, Myself, And Ideal Dating Partner

Read Me, Myself, And Ideal Dating Partner I'm ringing up a gentleman who's buying a half-bottle of sparkling wine, and I notice that he's also carrying a small bouquet of flowers from the store acr...

Sep 26, 2026 from Hackaday

Cheap Yellow Display Dreams of PDA

Everybody loves the Cheap Yellow Display (CYD) ESP32 dev boards, so why not treat yours to a little PDA? That’s right: turn it into a Portable Digital Assistant and relive …read more

Sep 26, 2026 from The Volokh Conspiracy

When Making a Statutory Argument, It Helps To Read the Statute

A quick rejoinder to Ben Zycher on the EPA's rescission of the endangerment finding.

Sep 26, 2026 from Ambient Irony

Daily News Stuff 26 September 2026

The Prisoner Of ZFS Edition Top Story In the most depraved display of shameless self-serving bullshit since the Paris Olympics, OpenAI and Anthropic CEOs have gone to the UN to beg them to squish t...

Sep 26, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Last Great Cavalry Charge Wasn’t Led by Europeans — It Was Won by Indian Lancers in WWI

India calls it Haifa Day. The regiments that get the credit are the lancers of Jodhpur, Hyderabad and Mysore — cavalry units raised not by Britain directly, but by India’s semi-autonomous princely ...

Sep 26, 2026 from Kev Quirk

The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook

The Dungeon Anarchist's CookbookAuthor: Matt DinnimanGenre: Fantasy, Sci-fiReleased: 2021Rating: ★★☆☆☆Welcome to the Gun Show! The top 10 list is populated. The sponsorship program is open. The dif...

Sep 26, 2026 from SoraNews24 -Japan News-

Japan’s Cell Phone Memory Restart event reunites users with old photos and past selves

A solution for when your trips down memory lane are blocked by a phone that won’t turn on or hold a charge. Leave a battery in an empty state for too long, and it’ll eventually lose its ability to ...

Sep 26, 2026 from Avenyora Journal

Birth Chart Degrees and Minutes: Read the Numbers Correctly

Those small numbers beside a planet are angular coordinates, not clock times. Learn to read them, compare decimal formats, and catch rounding differences.

Sep 26, 2026 from Daily Medieval

The Three-Chapter Controversy

One of Emperor Justinian's (527 - 565) goals—and it was personal as well as professional—was reconciling Chalcedonian Christianity with the non-Chalcedonians.The Chalcedonies were called so because...

Sep 26, 2026 from The Jamestown Foundation

‘China’s SpaceX’ Spins Off Amid Commercial Competition

John S. Van Oudenaren

Sep 26, 2026 from Luke Salamone's Blog

Paper Summary: The Matthew Effect in RL

Learning to Solve Hard Problems in RL for LLMs by Never Giving Up discusses an approach for countering what the authors call the Matthew Effect, the tendency for the LLM to improve much more on eas...

Sep 26, 2026 from GadgeteerZA

Microsoft going back to its roots and breaking spreadsheet compatibility

“Microsoft has ended 40 years of single-occupancy for Excel cells and is now allowing multiple values to inhabit the same home. For the time being, this capability is only available in Microsoft Ex...

Sep 26, 2026 from Merazi's blog

Surviving with low end hardware

This is a rant.

Sep 26, 2026 from Noahie's Blog

Lesser Wizards

Your browser does not support the video tag. I saw a mule the other day. For the lesser wizards out there, if you see a guy who knows just when a building puts up a for-lease sign, practices Advanc...

Sep 26, 2026 from Bobby Hiltz

BIRDCAGE

BIRDCAGE by Polygon Bird is great shmup and a fabulous homage to late-90s games

Sep 26, 2026 from Bobby Hiltz

BIRDCAGE

BIRDCAGE by Polygon Bird is great shmup and a fabulous homage to late-90s games

Sep 25, 2026 from Above the Law

12-Hour Days Are Very Much The Biglaw Norm — See Also

That Only Two Two Months: The first Milbank special bonus match has finally arrived! Laurence Tribe Says Trump Wants To Be 'Not Just King Trump, But Emperor Trump': Even Versailles had limits. It's...