"The ranger said if that had been a grizzly, it would have been a fatality." Bystanders stunned after careless tourist pushes their luck with mama bear and cubs: 'This is unbelievable to me' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
Running a colo / hosted server with Full Disk Encryption (FDE) requires logging in remotely during initramfs, to unlock LUKS. The usual setup tutorials run Dropbear on a different port, to prevent a host key mismatch between OpenSSH and Dropbear, and the scary MitM warning it imp … | Continue reading
America loves jocks, and that's why we don't have any good engineers... or something. | Continue reading
Recent research indicates that intermittent fasting could slow hair growth by causing oxidative stress and apoptosis in hair follicle stem cells. Mice studies and a small human trial show reduced hair regrowth rates, though effects in humans are less severe. Antioxidant treatment … | Continue reading
There have been over 32,000 cases of whooping cough this year, CDC data shows—the highest toll seen in a decade. | Continue reading
"We deserve better than a government that only answers to the oil industry." Community unites to sue local government over 'wolf in sheep's clothing' scheme: 'We won't accept this' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
Naturally, electric vehicle sales have gone up this year, as we’ve reported, and there are certainly a lot more electric vehicles on the road than there were a year ago. Sales numbers are just sales numbers, though. Is there evidence of a lot more electric vehicle charging? Yes, … | Continue reading
Sleepy Skunk’s end-of-the-year movie trailer mashups are always worth a look. This year’s installment got me wondering how many of these movies I’ve actually seen — not that many, I don’t think. (via @rands) Tags: movies · remix · trailers · video 💬 Join the discussion on … | Continue reading
I always promised myself that if I was ever unemployed that I’d make a video game. When life dealt me an unpaid work hiatus though, the last thing I wanted to do was code in my spare time1. I worried I would have to let that dream, that part of me, die on the vine. But as intervi … | Continue reading
Parker Solar Probe will break its silence on Friday—that is, if it survived its closest approach to the Sun. | Continue reading
You can sing along at home (and enjoy deleted scenes!) even before the new year is here. | Continue reading
In Saint-Flour, a town in the Auvergne region of central France, the highest cathedral in Europe perches at 892 meters (nearly 3,000 feet) above sea level. Saint-Pierre sits at the confluence of the dry winds blowing across the surrounding plateaus, making it, surprisingly, the i … | Continue reading
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Microsoft is warning users that some manually made Windows 11 installer media could contain a bug where new PC installs may not get future security updates. It affects USB and CD installers made with October and November release patches, wh … | Continue reading
Did you know that Los Angeles has an official Christmas song? Christmas in Los Angeles was written by the Sherman Brothers in 1980 and first appeared on Lawrence Welk’s 1980 Christmas TV Special as well as The Rockettes Radio City Christmas Spectacular. (via) The post Christmas i … | Continue reading
An indoor kitty with a strong case of FOMO had big dreams of becoming an outdoor cat — until he actually stepped out the front door. "He wanted out so badly—until the snow said hello," says the caption of his TikTok video, which shows the tuxedo cat bolting across his snow-packed … | Continue reading
"It kills me to see." Homeowner sparks debate over correct way to use washing machine detergent drawer: 'What am I doing wrong?' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
Botanists discovered a new lipstick vine species, Aeschynanthus pentatrichomatus, in the Philippine rainforest. Found during a 2022 expedition, the plant is critically endangered and underscores the need for conservation in biodiversity hotspots. Scientists have announced the dis … | Continue reading
Food historian Max Miller stumbled upon the original recipe for 1980s/90s school cafeteria pizza (you know, with the iconic rectangular slices) and decided to whip up a batch (with “pourable dough”). Tastes just like it. You can like — all of those herbs are exactly the same as t … | Continue reading
Hello, Rose again! It’s time for the last Weekly Chart of 2024. For 51 weeks... | Continue reading
Hi, Spring fans! (and happy holidays!) in this installment I talk to Intact's Luke Shannon about their use of Spring, developer portals, and so much more. | Continue reading
Enjoy the latest episodes from MacStories’ family of podcasts: AppStories This week, Federico and I round up the tech and productivity projects we have planned for our annual holiday break. On AppStories+, I explain the refinements he’s made to my reading setup. Comfort Zone Chri … | Continue reading
As the year wraps up, I wanted to jot down some quick reviews of the lesser known apps that I've come to rely on in my daily life. I looked at my phone's apps and listed things that are very good at doing just one thing | Continue reading
Bad Stan naming I realized recently that we followed the confusing terminological convention of ML in our description of Stan’s categorical_logit function. In Stan, if there’s a suffix to a distribution, it describes the scale of one or more of … Continue reading → | Continue reading
Xavier H.M., writing on his Mastodon page: Your neocities blog is cute but I can’t read the 5pt font and your cursor is the size of a bread crumb. The web page is loading so many gifs my computer sounds like a boeing 747. disassociated once, in a way, looked like a Neocities webs … | Continue reading
Bill Skarsgård, Willem Dafoe, Nicholas Hoult, and Lily-Rose Depp star in the vampire film, now in theaters. | Continue reading
"Beurre Café de Paris" is known throughout the world as an herbaceous compound butter served melted over steak, yet its origins are Swiss rather than Parisian. In 1930, chef Boubier opened the original Café de Paris in Geneva with a rather unconventional strategy: serve one main … | Continue reading
Welcome to the latest edition of Food52 Founder Amanda Hesser’s weekly newsletter, Hey There, It’s Amanda, packed with food, travel, and shopping tips, Food52 doings, and other matters that catch her eye. Get inspired—sign up here for her emails. Photo by Amanda Hesser Photo by A … | Continue reading
Located in Hangar 42 at Blackpool Airport, which was built in 1939 for the Royal Air Force, the Spitfire Visitor Centre is a museum featuring, among other attractions, full-scale replicas of World War II-era Spitfire fighter aircraft. Reconstructed using original parts, the aircr … | Continue reading
The Sony Trinitron KX-45ED1, aka the PVM-4300, is considered to be the world's largest consumer tube TV set. With a 43" screen, the hulking CRT weighed 440 pounds. Released in 1988 in Japan and the US a couple years later, the built-to-orderproduct reportedly cost $40,000. — Read … | Continue reading
✍️ Written by: Ian M. Banks 🏷 Genre: Scf-fi / fantasy 🗓 Published: 04 September 2008 📄 Pages: 514 🧐 My rating: ★☆☆☆☆ (1 star) The man known as Cheradenine Zakalwe was one of Special Circumstances' foremost agents, changing the destiny of planets to … | Continue reading
We finally have a real definition of the elusive "AGI." | Continue reading
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In 1979, a wild rabbit swam aggressively toward President Jimmy Carter's fishing boat in 1979. It quickly became known as the "killer rabbit attack," and was used against him by Ronald Reagan's campaign in the 1980 election. The incident occurred on April 20 while Carter was fish … | Continue reading
Presentify When I started working in EdTech, instructors were still using transparency based overhead projectors. When interactive white boards arrived, incorporating connected computers for use instead of grease pencils and plastic, it felt like the future, but the high cost of … | Continue reading
I know. But look, I like a good pun, and also, some really bad ones. — JS | Continue reading
Kids upstairs, relaxing. Would take them outside but, 1, I’m working, kind of, a 2 it’s raining still […] | Continue reading
Dark energy does not exist, and the universe, while continuing to expand, is not doing so in a uniform fashion. In other words, the cosmos may look more like a potato, rather than a sphere. This according to recent research by astronomers and scientists at the University of Cante … | Continue reading
"I need to do this." Homeowner demonstrates how simple ceiling fan adjustment saved them up to 30% on energy bills: 'This is new to me' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
Image: The Verge ChatGPT isn’t working for many users right now. With numerous reports on social media, we also confirmed that the chatbot loads but isn’t able to respond to queries, while others are seeing an “internal server error” message. It looks like the outage started arou … | Continue reading
You can watch the first five seasons of The Dick Van Dyke show on YouTube for free — the first season is here. 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org → | Continue reading
The imaging satellite was decommissioned two years ago and abandoned to burn up upon reentry through Earth's atmosphere. | Continue reading
Part of the Mars Trilogy Technical Commentary Series. Contains spoilers for this chapter and earlier chapters. Google Mars .kml. Literary commentary podcast. [Edit: If you enjoy this kind of thing, you may find a career at my company, Terraform Industries, rewarding. We’re hiring … | Continue reading
You can use them for so many kitchen projects. READ MORE... | Continue reading
We got a new game for the holidays: Everdell. Still figuring it out but it’s great so far. Looking forward to checking out the expansions too. | Continue reading
Everything passing quicker than I’d like. What do, change the way I think. Way I perceive time, my […] | Continue reading
Using a pair of satellites, the European Space Agency is set to be able to create artificial solar eclipses on-demand to study one of the most important features of our Sun. Lost in the sheer brightness of the star, the corona, or crown of the Sun, is hotter and larger than the S … | Continue reading
The introverts among us live almost permanently in a sort of internal exile, or a rich inner life, as Waleed Aly referred to it during the COVID-19 lockdowns. But the idea of getting away from it all, without actually going anywhere, is gaining traction more widely, writes Jacque … | Continue reading
Beyond faster data speeds and more reliable service, the next generation of wireless networks—6G—is expected to meet surging demands for data rate and coverage, plus new applications resulting from artificial intelligence. Telecommunications is one of the many industries expected … | Continue reading