Living in Nashville, born here, but lived all over North America. Author, coder, gamer (the tabletop kind), and widower who has learned what is best in life is to have gratitude, experience joy, help everybody as best you can, and accept help as in the manner in which it comes.
Professional PHP developer since the 1990s.
I was there when Canter & Siegel posted the first notable spam. When you could openly telnet into friendly systems. Then it ended. This reminds me of the start of the Eternal September: https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/pull/31132
This PR addresses issue #31130 by replacing specific safe occurrences of np.column_stack with np.vstack().T for better performance. IMPORTANT: This is a more targeted fix than originally proposed. ...
(h/t @lea ) An AI agent writes code, AI does a pull request, gets rejected by a human (with a rational reason). Then the AI agent writes a flame post on a blog about it being discrimination against AI. The very bullet-pointy, highly questionable screed:
One day, she called me "biscuit face" - clearly extending the pet name in an endearing way in her mind. But my mind lept to Red Foxx yelling, "You so ugly, I could stick your face in some dough and make gorilla cookies!" The third time, I had to explain that in no way, shape, or form did I enjoy that term of affection. I had a look or tone I didn't intent, as she was taken aback. I apologized, she apologized, and it was a sweet moment.
It's a married couple thing. She understood. She was bean.
The show also sparked a moment between my late wife and I. I used to call her bean (as in "human bean," from Roald Dahl's The BFG). At some point she started calling me her Bo-berry-biscuit, or just biscuit. Which was fine by me; she loved biscuits and had half a dozen shirts and hoodies from Nashville Biscuit House, one of her favorite places (only outnumbered by her Hooters gear... and her WKU apparel, of course).
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https://apnews.com/article/demond-wilson-death-667a2715e8b967d6d484bfc572dda9f7
As a little kid I spent many a day after school watching Sanford & Son, as it was on either before or after Star Trek. To this day, the theme song (along with Night Court and Taxi) makes me wonder why today's theme songs ain't got no soul.
Best use of a bass harmonica, along with The Boxer by Simon and Garfunkel.
Demond Wilson, the actor who played the son on the seminal 1970s sitcom “Sanford and Son,” has died. He was 79. Wilson's Lamont character was the subject of endless insults from Redd Foxx's Fred Sanford in an early sitcom that focused on Black characters. The Vietnam War veteran was born in Georgia and grew up in Harlem. He had starring roles in a few more short-lived shows and returned to acting occasionally. Starting in the mid-1980s, he focused on his role as a minister and had mostly disdain for Hollywood.
