2026-08-04
Beast of Reincarnation review
It's not perfect, but this parry-centric scrapper has a distinctive mood and often excellent combat.
Henry Cavill confirms he'll star in the live action Warhammer 40K series written by Mike Flanagan, but his character 'shall remain a secret for now'
Will Cavill play Titus? Cain? Eisenhorn? Or a brand new 40K character?
America Has a South China Sea Problem
On July 20, a China Coast Guard team in a small boat closed on Philippine sailors near Second Thomas Shoal and repeatedly struck one of them on the head with...
Don't be a meat proxy
Don't be a meat proxy Niklas Gruhn coins an excellent new term - meat proxy - for people who blindly copy and paste the output of AI systems to their...
Don't be a meat proxy
Don't be a meat proxy Niklas Gruhn coins an excellent new term - meat proxy - for people who blindly copy and paste the output of AI systems to their...
The rules change when you become top dog
M.G. Siegler: What if Anthropic is Right?Certainly part of it is just the shift from underdog to presumed leader in AI. But a lot of it has to do with...
Hybrid Cloud: Is It the Worst Possible Option?
In this blog, I compare hybrid cloud to hybrid cars, then preview my newly-published O'Reilly book on network telemetry, co-written with Kentik's Avi Freedman.
US Patriot Interceptor Stocks Have Fallen From About 2,300 to Under 1,000, Analysts Estimate. Rebuilding Is Likely to Take Years.
The United States has signed deals with Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman to boost Patriot and THAAD production, The Independent reported, after weeks of reporting that stockpile shortages were shaping...
Why Does It Cost That Much? Cause it Takes Me F***ing Hours
People complain that vendors are charging money for services which seems like a weird thing to do, since nobody wants to build it themselves, either.
Electric Boat’s 27,000 Workers Are What Makes the US Navy’s Nuclear Submarine Force One Of A Kind
General Dynamics Electric Boat received the largest award in its 127-year history on July 29, 2026: a $76.6 billion package that includes $42.1 billion for nine Virginia-class attack submarines, $29.5...
US Navy Iowa-Class Battleship USS Wisconsin: 57,000 Tons, 9 Sixteen-Inch Guns, and Not One Round Ever Fired at an Enemy Battleship.
USS Wisconsin was built in Philadelphia in 1,177 days and launched on December 7, 1943, two years after Pearl Harbor. The Iowa-class battleship screened Halsey's carriers and shelled Japan, fired...
Energizing a Vacuum Tube Flip-Flop Module of the IBM 604
Taking a break from ogling microscopic features in Intel’s semiconductor processors, [Ken Shirriff] is back to instead poking at decidedly macroscopic pluggable modules from the 1948 IBM 604 Electronic Calculator....
Dave Bautista reportedly 'in talks' to take over the role of Kratos in Amazon's God of War series
Ryan Hurst had to leave the show after a severe on-set injury.
Dia becomes Arc
On Friday, I had an automatic update install for Dia, and it brought keyboard shortcut and trackpad gestures for switching between spaces. As someone who uses Dia on a daily...
US Navy Battleship USS Tennessee Survived Pearl Harbor Because USS West Virginia Was Moored Beside Her and Took the Torpedoes Hits
USS Tennessee was moored inboard of USS West Virginia on December 7, 1941, and survived because her neighbor absorbed the torpedoes. Two armor-piercing bombs struck her turrets, fires from USS...
China turns up the heat with open model blitz as US model makers panic
For the first time, Alibaba's Qwen team is letting its 'Max' model out of the API pen; meanwhile, DeepSeek V4-Flash gives new meaning to cheap and cheerful competition
This Is How Observability Starts - With Modeling Pipeline Runs
Learn why modeling pipeline runs as first-class entities is the missing foundation for reliable observability in ETL and data processing systems.
The original ethernet cable was canonically '1968 Corvette yellow' to distinguish it from a power cable—because you literally had to drill into it to install it
Accidental electrocutions were on the mind back in the 1980s.
[Sponsor] MCP vs. REST: The Right Way to Connect Agents to Your API
REST serves the developers building against your API. MCP serves the agents now trying to use it. Most teams treat these as competing standards and have to pick one. They’re...
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