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A Small DuckDB Embeddings Incident
A Small DuckDB Embeddings Incident DuckDB kept popping up in my feed, so I decided to try it for a fairly small project at work. At first it was great. I h...
Current Second Brain Setup - Obsidian as the IDE
Current Second Brain Setup - Obsidian as the IDE My current second-brain setup uses Obsidian plus Codex. I’ve used Obsidian for years as a personal wiki. No...
East India Company Trade or Seizure, and a Swarovski Nose
War elephants. Dragoons. A king with a rotten nose replaced by a diamond prosthetic. Another king blinded with needles by an opponent, then somehow outliving...
Italian Cyberpunk Albums, Somehow
Italian culture shock, in the positive sense. There are some really good Italian cyberpunk rap/hip-hop/alternative albums. A cyberpunk renaissance. Three of...
Nostalgia Town
There are probably hundreds of dead malls across the United States. At the same time, nostalgia has become a serious market force. So the obvious question ...