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GOBE - Definition Concept Duration

GOBE - Definition Concept Duration

I read yet another paper about the Ordovician period:

The Great Ordovician Biodiversity Event (GOBE): definition, concept and duration by Thomas Servais and David A.T. Harper, Lethaia, vol 51, pp 151-164

There is a PDF of it.

Three books by Eric Frank Russell

Three books by Eric Frank Russell

I’ve read Men, Martians and Machines, and another Ace Double with Six Worlds Yonder and The Space Willies. many times since I was a child. The unifying theme here is: written by English sci fi humorist Eric Frank Russell.

GPS PPS Separation

GPS PPS Separation

I set up two Raspberry Pi SBCs with GPS boards as NTP servers earlier this year. I used an oscilloscope to see how far apart the “pulse per second” (PPS) pulses that the GPS boards output.

Goofing on Meta's AI Crawler

Goofing on Meta's AI Crawler

Early in March 2025, I noticed that a web crawler with a user agent string of

meta-externalagent/1.1 (+https://developers.facebook.com/docs/sharing/webmasters/crawler)

was hitting my blog’s machine at an unreasonable rate.

2025-11-29: Hacker News and Slashdot comparison for this post.

Pacman Fix up

Pacman Fix up

What happens when pacman fails when you’re trying to recover from uninstalling a package that pacman needs?

1023 % sudo pacman -Syu
[sudo] password for bediger: 
pacman: error while loading shared libraries: libicuuc.so.78: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
What To Do When Nothing Has Happened

What To Do When Nothing Has Happened

What To Do When Nothing Has Happened?
Raymond “Randy” Freeman
Process Safety Progress September 2011 (Vol. 30 No. 5)

How should you estimate the probability of some catastrophic event that hasn’t happened yet?

Impact Induced Snowball Earth

Impact Induced Snowball Earth

Interesting paper:

Impact-induced initiation of a Snowball Earth: A model study
Minmin Fu, Dorian S. Abbot, Christian Koeberl, Alexey Fedorov
Science Advances, 10 eadk5489 (2024) 9 February 2024