stephen ryner jr

Timelapse experiment. It is… subtle. And, sadly, no HDR.

We missed the sunset but caught the afterglow

Do average people understand how much money a million million dollars is? $500M out of $1T is 0.05%, or 1 in 2,000. It’s like an average household spending $100. Except the average household would notice the expense. It’s imperceptible when you basically have unlimited funds.

Someone described English as “three languages in a trenchcoat,” and they’re not wrong.

So, funny thing, I shared this old (but still funny to me) expression and some troll dusted themselves off and took the time to insult me. They’d seen it before, apparently.

“Oh, I majored in Computer Science but I don’t really care much about implementation details.” * reads Wikipedia article about cache replacement policies *

I once worked with a guy who would greet minor setbacks by yelling out “CACHE MISS!” and anyway that one stuck with me.

“The alternative situation, when the cache is checked and found not to contain any entry with the desired tag, is known as a cache miss. This requires a more expensive access of data from the backing store. (1/2)

Linguistic theory suggests the earliest, most commmon words in a language are the shortest. English famously has “I” and “me”. The French word for gold is “or” and fire is “fir”

Visiting my aunt in her 80’s, we rotated some passwords. We’d already migrated her years ago from a paper list to Apple’s Passwords app. I’m still hesitant to use passkeys for myself, but I absolutely think they’re a good idea for her. (1/2)

Once again someone shared a “free to read gift article” that requires an email register to read. That’s… not free.

All set for my next long run! …and the next few after that

Longer runs (ultras, trail runs) often have snack breaks for real, actual food because even the finest gels like Huma get disgusting after a few hours of nothing but.

All set for my next long run! …and the next few after that

“You snooze, you lose,” I tell myself tiredly.

Getting up at dark o’ clock was worth it!

“You snooze, you lose,” I tell myself tiredly.

The heatwave has finally broken in the Bay Area

There, I fixed it. (The buttons are virtual. They can always face the correct direction.)