Two days ago I decided to try out Apple's own container tool, which enables Apple Silicon Macs to run GNU/Linux in a container. I did this because I really wanted to try Claude Code's --dangerously-skip-permissions mode, but didn't want to automatically clean out my home directory either. Things mostly went ok, but there are caveats!
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The question of abiogenesis links to the Fermi Paradox: "If the Universe is so big, why are we the only ones here?". Out of all of the potential great filters ("technological civilizations are doomed to collapse", "intelligent life is rare", "multicellular life is rare") the first filter is that maybe life itself is very rare.
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You know what's easy to find in app icons these days? Squircles and "AI sparkle" stars.
How do you get the squircle? Well, we know the formula for the unit circle is
But we can generalize to any positive real power of , with a radius of :
Here's what you'll get when you let :
As goes higher, the shape becomes a closer approximation of a rectangle. (Interestingly, if you let you get an actual rectangle, but tilted 45 degrees like a diamond.)
It's when is fractional that you get the sparkle. Here's what you'll get when you let :
With the help of Claude Code, a made an Icon Builder Web App. It can export SVGs, a favicon.ico, and an iOS-ready PNG for the homescreen.
You can find the code on GitHub.
In "Pirate Lady" (S1E2), we see Zosia (played by Karolina Wydra) act with the kind of quiet confidence of someone who can pull a dead body out of wreckage and then motor scooter along to fly a plane with a short take off runway by herself.
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The best time to start a blog may have been twenty years ago, but the second best time to start a blog is today.
For me, today is that very today.
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