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Io non ho letto molto di Dino Buzzati, ma sono convinto che Sessanta Racconti sia un capolavoro assoluto, quindi quando ho scoperto che aveva scritto un romanzo “a fumetti” mi sono affrettato a comprarlo. Buzzati e fumetti Apparentemente Dino Buzzati era un appassionato di fumetti. Una sua frase spesso citata è che i personaggi disneyani … Continue reading " Mini Review: Poema a Fumetti di Dino…
Hannah Ritchie is a scottish data scientist working at Our World in Data, which is my favorite data-spreading organization. So when I discovered she wrote a book about climate change, pollution, and the other problems affecting our dear planet, I was quite happy to read it. Well, to listen to the audiobook. I think non-fiction … Continue reading " Micro Review: Not the End of the World by Hannah…
I recently read the third book in The Dark Profit Saga series of books. I was sure I wrote reviews of the first two, but apparently I didn’t. So here’s an aggregate one. This series of books started out as a kind of comedic fantasy take on the Great Financial Crisis, with the book Orconomics. … Continue reading " Mini Review: The Dark Profit Saga by J. Zachary Pike (books 1-3) " The post <span…
Some time ago I came upon someone asking what would be a good introduction to the Arthurian cycle and the matter of Britain, and the replies mentioned that this book would be a good one that covered “most of it“. Dear Reader, if you have been here me for a while you’ll know I am … Continue reading " Review: The Once and Future King, by T.H. White " The post <span class='p-name'>Review: The Once…
A premise I am writing this to clarify my ideas more than anything else. This blog has such a small following that I doubt anyone will be influenced, but if you have opinions, please share them. I will refer to AI/LLMs interchangeably in this post. I am aware the translate function in your phone, or … Continue reading " My 2c on the AI/GenAI/LLM bubble " The post <span class='p-name'>My 2c on the…
I meant to write this for a long time, but I kept putting it off, cause I’m lazy. It’s almost a year now, and I think it’s about time. 6 kids in an apartment When I was an exchange student, I had the lucky experience of living with two and a half portuguese guys (one … Continue reading " On Lisbon: of hills and water and sadness " The post <span class='p-name'>On Lisbon: of hills and water and…
Conoscevo il titolo di questo libro da sempre. È uno di quei libri del dopoguerra che hanno formato la classe degli adulti quando io ero bambino. Ho sempre evitato di leggerlo perché, fondamentalmente, ho avuto un’overdose di racconti di guerra, di olocausto, di fascismo etc.. quanto ero bambino. Col senno di poi, meglio averlo avuto, … Continue reading " Review: Il sergente nella neve di Mario…
Once upon a time, GMail had a functionality called Gmail Goggleswhich was a tool to prevent you from sending emails while drunk . If you sent a late night email, GMail would ask you to solve some math questions (64 * 34 or similar), which either stumped you because you were drunk, or gave you … Continue reading " ‘Member GMail Goggles? " The post <span class='p-name'>‘Member GMail Goggles?</span>…
Leo Ortolani è famoso per Rat-Man, il fumetto comico italiano. Io non son un lettore storico di Rat-Man, ma nel corso degli anni mi è capitato di leggere cose scritte da lui, e ho capito perché i suoi fan lo amano. Leo fa ridere. Riesce spesso ad essere profondo e commovente anche tra le battute, … Continue reading " Mini Review: Tapum di Leo Ortolani " The post <span class='p-name'>Mini Review:…
This is just a quick note to myself and to fellow people who may encounter this issue. If you use a node version manager such as nvm/asdf/mise, you may have a situation where you need a given version to work with a project, but that version is too old to support Copilot. This shows up … Continue reading " Copilot in vim when using multiple node versions " The post <span class='p-name'>Copilot in…