If you always do what you ve always done, you ll always get what you ve always got.
It surprised me to find out that some distributions of Linux don't prefer IPv6. I had assumed that given an hostname returning both A and AAAA records, IPv6 would be used for the connection. I know that browsers implement a "fastest wins" connection ...
I've been mixing music now for a long time. It's a hobby, a way of relaxing, and just a nice way to listen to music. I'm not bad - I've got all the technical skills. Despite this, I've never played in front of a crowd. So the skill that I am told is t...
Here are some amazing videos. The 8-hour hunt Hunters stealing from lions Shock and Awe - the story of electricity Semiconductors are magic
What a great idea! Get a load of batteries, speakers, and DJ equipment, and lead thousands round a city while doing a live set. Drum and bass on a bike It was so much fun.
Magnesium is a natural substance that is required by humans, and that is used in over 300 processes in the human body. It's used in a few main areas: Energy production and metabolism - it is required to unlock the energy we get from food (ATP, gluc...
I had my old TV for about 13 years, but a year ago, dark shadows appeared on the screen, and I knew its time was up. Finally one day, it turned off, and wouldn't come back on, and it was time to get a new one. After some investigation about the va...
I have been carting around some old audio cassettes with me for decades now, and I recently thought I should try and listen to them before they totally degrade. I couldn't find anyone who had a working cassette player, so I paid for someone to conver...
AI image generation is not new any more, and produces some pretty good results. I thought I'd try and get it running locally. However, I don't have an expensive GPU, so when I say locally, I mean in AWS. These are the steps I took. Create an accou...
You're in a health food shop and you see a can of Whole Earth "Organic Cranberry". Naturally you assume it's full of cranberry. But when you get it home, and look at the ingredients, they look like this: Grape juice (54%), cranberry juice (4%),...
How much code do you think it takes to calculate the power of a number? Say 6^3? (216) Can't be hard. Just loop around twice, multiplying 6 by 6, right? OK, it might be harder with negative numbers - 6 ^ -4 Oh, and with decimals - 6 ^ 2.7 And n...