The spacecraft survived scorching temperatures at a record proximity, and is expected to send details of its close call in the new year. | Continue reading
Every year around the holidays, memories of the times I’ve spent up north at Christmas and New Year’s inevitably surface.… The post Mrs. Menzi’s Magic appeared first on Maureen Abood. | Continue reading
Key takeaways Early adopters of charging microgrids can gain a competitive edge with flexible pricing Solar-powered microgrids cut costs with zero marginal cost energy Collaboration on green corridors boosts savings and revenues First movers with electric truck charging microgrid … | Continue reading
More than ten percent of Canadians want the new president to make good on his troll. Rupa meets the people sick of life under Trudeau. | Continue reading
By combining photochemical reactions with molecular self-assembly, scientists have achieved the impossible: using light to create molecular fits that defy thermodynamic equilibrium. This groundbreaking approach could revolutionize technology and medicine by leveraging sunlight to … | Continue reading
'It’s a piece of our history now. Our very recent history; it’s defined us.' | Continue reading
The Quiapo district of Manila is located just outside the walled city of Intramuros. It became a natural extension when the city was expanding during the Spanish colonial times, and it was the address of choice for the well-heeled Filipino mestizo families, especially at Hidalgo … | Continue reading
Countries such as Fiji, Panama, and Rwanda are fighting for a treaty that focuses on solutions. Nations deadlock in negotiations over proposed solution to global crisis: 'This treaty has to be bigger than all of us' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
Hoka Bondi 8: a reliable everyday runner with great cushioning and bounce. | Continue reading
From Google's AI to quantum computing, how much do you know about the year's biggest breakthroughs in tech? | Continue reading
So began the abstract of Bill Labov's 1972 paper "Some principles of linguistic methodology": Current difficulties in achieving intersubjective agreement in linguistics require attention to principles of methodology which consider sources of error and ways to eliminate them. The … | Continue reading
Jack Quaid and Tawny Newsome amusingly shared what they did to prepare for recording the final episode of "Star Trek: Lower Decks". | Continue reading
A few days ago, I noticed an error in this Scientific American article (that’s an Apple News link). It led me to thinking about how I use Jupyter Console as a calculator on my Mac. | Continue reading
The Good, the bad and the ugly side of Medium. | Continue reading
Yesterday's Frazz: That's a pun on "Boxing Day", ICYMI… | Continue reading
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A group of Costco shareholders, emboldened by the Supreme Court’s continued assault on the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment, called on the company’s board to “conduct an evaluation and publish a report” on the risks involved in maintaining their DEI program, which th … | Continue reading
BTW, as a longtime speaker of English and programmer, I think the term refactoring is re-dundant. The term comes from mathematics where you simplify a statement without altering its truth. Factoring is a repetitive process. You factor, and then factor some more if you can. | Continue reading
By popular demand, added a sign-up form to the Micro.one teaser home page. I’ll send an email to everyone at launch on January 2nd. Then I’ll sell the mailing list to the highest bidder and you’ll get spam for life. (Just kidding. It’ll be a one-time email.) | Continue reading
And just like that.. it’s time for our annual travel wrap up! Where has the time gone? Oh right.. adventures! And lots of them. 2024 wraps up 18 years on the road for us together! This year started with Zephyr going right into storage back in our lot in Benson, AZ and setting off … | Continue reading
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Human beings have imagined many ways to organize themselves. From hunter-gatherers to global-spanning empires, we have invented political and economic forms and later abandoned those in favor of something new. Now, a quarter into the 21st century, our global project of “civilizat … | Continue reading
If not for a busted bike chain, I would never have met Rick Doblin. In 2021, I was heading back to the INSIGHT Psychedelic Research Conference in Berlin trying to catch Johns Hopkins scientist Matthew Johnson’s talk. Fated with a twisted chain, I was late. Moments after staff ush … | Continue reading
We should be thinking about a new SQL that's much higher level. It's time for another layer. Get all the efficiencies of a 50+ year platform, with all the understanding gained at the top level in all the time. Most of the learning I did in the last five years can be hidden behind … | Continue reading
Book 21 of 26 books for 2024! I should be able to reach 22, maybe 23, because I can read a book every 2 days, roughly… I was browsing my shelves for books to read that wouldn’t take that much time, … Continue reading → | Continue reading
Having run promising to bring world peace in the first 24 hours, Trump has, weeks before taking office, threatened invasion of Mexico, Annexing Canada, and the Panama Canal. Deranged Christmas post by the incoming President again asserts the “need” for the United States to contro … | Continue reading
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Redmond's packing of Office with security, cloud computing services under scrutiny. | Continue reading
My initial approach on libdav was to always decode percent-encoded paths, and return them un-encoded. Likewise, paths passed as arguments should be provided un-encoded , and libdav would deal with encoding them itself. My mindset was “consumers should not need to worry about perc … | Continue reading
If you're looking for something to sink your brain into during this final week of the year, then check out chavenet's post about the first 300 years of data visualization and information graphics. Gorgeous graphics mixed with interesting historical bits? YES, PLEASE! | Continue reading
Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles and commentary related to the Supreme Court. Here’s the Friday morning read: From Trump Immunity to Broadway: Top 2024 Supreme Court Moments (Lydia Wheeler, Bloomberg Law) The Universe of TikTok v. Garland in a Nutshell... The … | Continue reading
Trap doors, low-profile stealth camping packages, electric expansion systems, all-terrain minivans and fully electric amphibious bicycles ... those are just a few of the ideas we saw pushed across the RV market in 2024. In fact, we found them all in the tiniest corner of the camp … | Continue reading
A rescued pigeon became an adopted competitive sibling to the Corgi who found her in the street as a newly-hatched squab. | Continue reading
He packed a lot into a short time. The post Timothee Chalamet: A Fugtrospective first appeared on Go Fug Yourself. | Continue reading
After years of planning, building, geopolitical wrangling, and workforce challenges, the world’s largest semiconductor foundry, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) is officially starting mass production at an advanced chip-manufacturing facility in Phoenix in 2025. The … | Continue reading
Wielding a shiny chrome scoop, Michael Rosenthal leans over and digs into the powder in a half-filled 55-gallon drum. He holds up the scoop and takes a pinch in his fingers and smooshes it to show me the texture. It’s like talc, but it’s an odd, beautiful shade of pale green-gray … | Continue reading
I’ve finally had a chance to test out the new hybrid powerhouse from Canon, the R5 Mark II. The camera comes with much-improved autofocus powered by the new Digic X processor, new eye-controlled autofocus, a backside illuminated sensor capable of faster readout and better low-lig … | Continue reading
Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images From postapocalyptic wastelands to cozy sci-fi futures, there’s a lot to dig into on Microsoft’s subscription service this year. Read the full story at The Verge. | Continue reading
"This is so cool!" Resourceful pet owner shows off surprising use for pet food packaging: 'Wow, I love this idea' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
A rugged and very easy-to-use 10x42 nitrogen-filled monocular. | Continue reading
There was a time when a company like Volkswagen could commission various luminaries to write letters to the future, then publish them in Time magazine as part of an ad campaign. In fact, that time wasn’t so very long ago: it was the year 1988, to be precise, when no less an optim … | Continue reading
Absolutely brilliant interactive explainer on everything about the Moon: how it moves, how it formed, what causes tides, solar eclipses, etc. So fun to play with all the gravity widgets in this. 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org → | Continue reading
A look at some of the current thinking around chunking data for retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems. | Continue reading
Snag a KitchenAid stand mixer, a Nespresso, and a Le Creuset Dutch oven for less right now! READ MORE... | Continue reading
[Let me know when they pay you to take.] Hertz is moving away from EVs in their rental fleet, and they’re apparently trying to offload their existing inventory onto customers who currently have them in their possession. Despite Hertz’s statement that they’re expanding customer ch … | Continue reading
If you died in an airplane in 2024, chances are you were hit by a missile. Wednesday's crash of an Azerbaijani jet, taken out by an air defense system in Russia, gave that cause the largest slice of the pie in the chart. — Read the rest The post Missiles now biggest killer of air … | Continue reading
Whenever I’m in need of a serious pick-me-up, I make this homemade Nacho Cheese Sauce recipe and all feels right with the world again. It’s perfect for those “Ugh, I give up. Just give me some chips and nacho cheese.” moments. This easy recipe is creamy, cheesy, and made with sim … | Continue reading