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Vacation week. I did nothing. Perfection!

Articles

• Lunar reflections during SLIM landing – Daniel Estévez
• Why Software Engineers like Woodworking: not very content-ful, the answer found here is essentially "because it's making something"
• Switching from S3 to Tigris on Fly.io
• How To Center a Div: here are four simple methods for this extremely complicated problem
• The catalogue of UK Entrances to Hell
• "Zoozve": Quasisatellit der Venus bekommt Namen nach Fehler auf Kinderposter -- heise online
• Copyright Easter Eggs – OpenStreetMap Wiki
• Nokia Made Too Many Phones
• EncroChat - Wikipedia: Hilarious!
• Curvature – Find twisty roads.
• Car Seats as Contraception by Jordan Nickerson, David H. Solomon :: SSRN
• My Notes on GitLab Postgres Schema Design – Shekhar Gulati
• Representation Engineering Mistral-7B an Acid Trip: Super interesting! Gotta try it, too!
• Outside
• I have a cookie delivery company[1] that I started with my sister. It’s doing we... -- Hacker News: "I have a cookie delivery company[1] that I started with my sister. It’s doing well but I personally only take out $50k/yr. completely supplemental to my main job."

Books

• Revelation Space by Alastair Reynolds: This is the kind of book that can just casually drop a short discussion on the entity of simulated agents in the middle of it, and debating whether it would be murder to destroy the only extant copy, even if the destroyer believes there to be another copy. Oh, and the character discussing it is the (obviously not-destroyed) simulated character himself. But a few pages later, we're back to miniature atomic bombs and civilisation-ending AIs. 10/10

Games

• Neptune's Pride with a friend: The game is just too intense, because you need to check it all the time.
  Naturally, I started a new game.

Other media

• I Built a Lego Water Park Rapids Ride! - YouTube
• Real vs. Lab Diamonds -- What's The Catch - YouTube: Spoiler: there is none.
• Animation of the Callide Unit C4 incident - YouTube
• Can you tell what's real? - AI Generated Videos - YouTube
• These crows removing bird spikes in North Park, San Diego - YouTube
• I Built Motorized Mantis Blades (Cyberpunk 2077) - YouTube
• Weird POV effect - YouTube: super-cool persistence-of-vision/movement-detection effect.
• What's inside this crater in Madagascar? - YouTube
• UV light kills viruses. Why isn't it everywhere? - YouTube
• How to Use MetaHuman Animator in Unreal Engine - YouTube