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“West with the Night”, a memoir by Beryl Markham; she was the first person to fly across the Atlantic Ocean from east to west in a non-stop solo flight.


Happy 10 + 9 - 8 + 7! / 6 / 5 * 4 * 3 - 2 * 1!



We do get tornados in NJ. About 3 per year.


Happy 10 - 9 + 8 * 7 * 6! / 5 / 4 + 3 * 2 + 1!


“Think of SmoothLLM as a security protocol that scrutinizes each request made to the LLM. It checks for any signs of manipulation or trickery in the input prompts. This is like having a security guard who double-checks each question for hidden meanings before allowing it to answer.”


Only professional, human narrators are acceptable to me. With few exceptions (e.g., Jimmy Carter), I can’t listen to an audiobook that was narrated by the author.


“This assumes MySQL, PHP, the web – and humanity – will be around that long”


Sort of like FORTRAN and COBOL on Mainframes was. Still in use but old standards.

Old tech doesn't die, it just gets reused. Look at Commodore 64 systems being recapped and sold on eBay. Can even run in an emulator if need be.

Heck I got Windows 95 in a VM, runs really fast on modern hardware.


This guy was at least 400 km from anyone else while alone on the ISS: https://www.insidehook.com/article/science/nasa-chris-cassid...


> This guy was at least 400 km from anyone else

Well, apart from the two Russian cosmonauts also on board. He was the sole American, not the sole human. Cassidy, however was part of the largest group in space, 13 people, when a Shuttle with 7 crew joined the 6-person ISS Expedition 20.

[Edit] The astronauts who have been genuinely alone and far from the rest of humanity were the Apollo command module pilots who stayed in lunar orbit while the other two crew descended to the surface.


That’s the bee’s knees!


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