<p>A <em>quincunx</em> is the X-shaped pattern of pips on the #5 face of a die.</p> <p><a href="https://pic.blog.plover.com/history/quincunx/x.png"><img border="0" src="https://pic.blog.plover.com/hi...
<p>[ Content warning: possibly amusing, but silly and pointless ]</p> <p>My wife Lorrie wrote this on 31 January 2013:</p> <blockquote> <p>I got an e-mail from Husband titled, "The mills of Fenchu...
<p>(Previously: <a href="https://blog.plover.com/politics/blago.html">[1]</a> <a href="https://blog.plover.com/law/fortunato-n-perri.html">[2]</a>)</p> <p>Welcome to Philadelphia! We have a lot of p...
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<p>AI agents are being deployed inside enterprises today to handle tasks across security operations. This shift creates new opportunities for security teams but also introduces new risks. Google Cloud...
<p>Building APIs with Laravel is a breeze—until abuse shows up.<br> You deploy a shiny new API, everything works in testing, and then… bad actors find it. Bots, scrapers, credential stuffers, you name...
<p>If you’ve just started learning Laravel, you’ve probably heard about <strong>Artisan commands</strong>.<br> But what exactly are they? And why should you use them?</p> <p>In this guide, we’ll walk...
arXiv:2509.07066v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The satellite population of the Milky Way is shaped by a range of astrophysical processes including mergers, star formation, feedback, and cosmic reion...
arXiv:2509.07090v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: With pulsar timing arrays (PTAs) having observed a gravitational wave background (GWB) at nanohertz frequencies, the focus of the field is shifting tow...
arXiv:2509.07078v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The stellar haloes and intra-cluster light around galaxies are crucial test beds for dark matter (DM) physics and galaxy formation models. We consider ...