Month: October 2022
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WMI Performance Anomaly: Querying the Number of CPU Cores
As one of the few devs that both likes and is reasonably well-versed in PowerShell I became the point of contact for a colleague that was bemused by a performance oddity when querying the number of cores on a host. He was introducing Ninja into the bui…
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WMI Performance Anomaly: Querying the Number of CPU Cores
As one of the few devs that both likes and is reasonably well-versed in PowerShell I became the point of contact for a colleague that was bemused by a performance oddity when querying the number of cores on a host. He was introducing Ninja into the bui…
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How to build/upgrade emacs-mac using homebrew
In the time honored tradition of using one’s blog as an Internet-enabled notepad, here’s a quick not on how I build GNU Emacs on macOS using homebrew and the emacs-mac port cask: brew upgrade -s railwaycat/emacsmacport/emacs-mac –with-mac-…
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The Tims by Eleanor Farjeon
From The Little Bookroom by Eleanor Farjeon via Eldrbarry There were five Tims all told, Old Tim, Big Tim, Little Tim, Young Tim and Baby Tim, and they were all born wise. So whenever something was the matter in the village, or anything went wrong, o…
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The Tims by Eleanor Farjeon
From The Little Bookroom by Eleanor Farjeon via Eldrbarry There were five Tims all told, Old Tim, Big Tim, Little Tim, Young Tim and Baby Tim, and they were all born wise. So whenever something was the matter in the village, or anything went wrong, o…
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A Review: Eversion by Alastair Reynolds
Eversionby Alastair ReynoldsISBN-13 : 978-0575090781There’s little to no sci-fi in the first 30% of this book and you’d be forgiven for thinking Reynolds was just indulging himself in a seafaring romp. There’s only a hint of sci-fi up to about half…
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A Review: Eversion by Alastair Reynolds
Eversionby Alastair ReynoldsISBN-13 : 978-0575090781There’s little to no sci-fi in the first 30% of this book and you’d be forgiven for thinking Reynolds was just indulging himself in a seafaring romp. There’s only a hint of sci-fi up to about half…