My copy of MySQL Workbench doesn’t play 100% nice with my MariaDB install, so I checked out the Database Workbench software recommended by MariaDB and in the end I downloaded a trial version. It runs okay under Wine, so gonna check it out.
I read Something Pretty Right: A History of Visual Basic and found this interesting quote:
“They weren’t called ‘controls’ originally. Alan was going to call them ‘waldos’, named after remote manipulator arms. I couldn’t make sense out of that name, so I called them ‘gizmos’. Microsoft must have thought this name was too frivolous, so they renamed them ‘controls’.”
Apparently Amazon might be making a browser. Some features I would like in a web browser:
This, my friends, is my two cents. And you can not have it!
Today I read The Unpredictable Abilities Emerging From Large AI Models and clicked through to read 137 emergent abilities of large language models.
I have organised my BNC adapter drawer. I gave everything a good scrub with isopropyl too.
I wanted to get some intuition for what made a bigger difference: adding an extra item to a set, or having an extra order of magnitude of items in a set. So I created this spreadsheet and discovered that an extra order of magnitude smashes an extra item in the set.
In the spreadsheet the parameters are ‘x’, which is the size of the base set (called Set A), and ‘i’, which is the number of extra items to add into the second set (called Set B).
If you make x = 10 and i = 90 you break even, Set A and Set B grow at the same rate.
If you make x = 10 and i = 1 it’s no contest, Set A gets much bigger much faster.
I had to replace the globe in the toilet light:
But when I did I managed to snap off the tabs that hold the cover on. So I glued and bolted them back on:
You can see the screws I used are way too big. I had 6mm and 18mm in inventory and had to use the 18mm ones. Realising this gap in my inventory I have just now purchased some 8mm, 10mm, and 12mm ones to flesh out my collection.
I made some notes for my drawer:
I’m happy to report that I’ve subscribed to Silicon Chip for the year. Got a print + digital subscription. My first three copies arrived in the mail today:
I got one of their binders with my subscription:
Look forward to filling that up!