Weather troll: unbelievably clear blue skies in upstate New York today, the day before the eclipse. Forecast for tomorrow doesn’t look so promising, but 🤞


Weather troll: unbelievably clear blue skies in upstate New York today, the day before the eclipse. Forecast for tomorrow doesn’t look so promising, but 🤞


Google Calendar needs “Precise Location” on iPhone

At some point the Google Calendar app on my iPhone stopped letting me search for locations when editing events. I could type in text, but would get no suggestions and would have to type/paste in an entire street address for it to do anything useful. Today I looked into it and after some experimenting, it looks like it was broken because I had turned off “precise location” for that app in Privacy settings.

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ML/AI is the long-awaited answer to the question “what are we going to do with all these transistors, since we can’t figure out how to write programs that do something useful with more than a handful of CPU cores?”


Let's test the Tufte theme

I’ve enabled the Tufte theme on this test blog. But I’m writing in markdown and there’s some kind of non-standard tagging and, it looks like I’ll need to keep the README handy for a while. Is this a blockquote? Me, today That seems to work well enough when viewed as a blog post, but in the timeline it’s a little unclear. ⊕ Or maybe I just don’t understand what micro.

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