New research reveals the identification of a newly discovered compound resulting from the breakdown of inorganic chloramine disinfectants in drinking water. A team of researchers from the United States and Switzerland has reported the discovery of a previously unknown compound in … | Continue reading
He's seeking $997,000 for pain and suffering, along with payment for medical bills. Cyclist files lawsuit after receiving transport bill from the same ambulance that struck him: 'Couldn't imagine that happening anywhere else in the world' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
"Has anyone else seen this [before]?" Homeowner concerned after noticing troubling detail in landscaper's yard work: 'Is this normal?' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
This week on Mac Power Users, David and I start our annual tour through Apple’s products, talking about hardware and software, and our feelings about both. | Continue reading
"Is there a local ordinance on [this]? Gather the evidence and file a complaint." Resident shares photo after obnoxious sign gets installed right outside street-view window: 'Guess I'll get curtains' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
Often, you are told to do this by treating AI like an intern. In retrospect, however, I think that this particular analogy ends up making people use AI in very constrained ways. To put it bluntly, any recent frontier model (by which I mean Claude 3.5, ChatGPT-4o, Grok 2, Llama 3. … | Continue reading
Some thoughts about Bluesky, many thoughts about Glass Series, loving using the iPad on the plane, and many more digital tidbits. Plus, a tweaking visual styling of this newsletter. | Continue reading
The first direct visualization of the shape of a photon has been created. These particles of light are impossible to photograph, but physicists at the University of Birmingham have now calculated their wave function to produce an accurate image of a photon as it’s emitted. Contin … | Continue reading
"You're in their space, and whatever happens in their space, stays in their space!" Heart-pounding footage catches parents letting children play near crocodile-infested waters: 'We've got to stop [behavior] like this' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
I think routine and repetition are scaffolds we build around ourselves to climb higher. The post Repetition appeared first on thejaymo. | Continue reading
iReader has introduced a significant update for its e-reader and e-note devices. The update, which brings the operating system to version SmartOS 2.4, boosts the device performance while introducing new features and other enhancements. For instance, the new Fast Refresh Mode ensu … | Continue reading
It’s been a long day of driving around Ireland, scrambling through forests, navigating to a hashpoint, exploring a medieval castle, dodging the rain, finding a series of geocaches, getting lost up a hill in the dark, and generally having a kickass time with one of my very favouri … | Continue reading
They are seeking "potentially millions of dollars in damages" to cover medical costs and loss of property value. Poultry giant Perdue faces class-action lawsuit after facility's neighbors make toxic discovery: 'This is very much an emerging issue' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
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I updated my /now page - What I’m reading and watching, plus links to this week’s blog posts, the week’s best purchase, and the links I added to my personal bookmarks. | Continue reading
Tim Cook and then-President Donald Trump, speaking to the Press in Austin, Texas in 2019. | Photo: Mandel Ngan / AFP via Getty Images Apple CEO Tim Cook managed to forge a personal relationship with Donald Trump during his first Presidential term that other tech firms struggled t … | Continue reading
Sam Wilson may be just a guy, but Brave New World will show why he's the right guy to pick up Steve's mantle. | Continue reading
A busy week in all senses: It's been hecking cold this week - we had some significant snow on Monday night that impacted Anna's work trip to Birmingham on Wednesday, and left the week as mostly indoors - although this weekend it's been back to ~15 degrees Cookie's done very well … | Continue reading
💻My work laptop was super slow and crashing a lot, especially after the company installed a zero-trust service called Zscaler on all computers. After complaining with IT, they said I was due for a laptop update anyway, because my current one was 3 years old. They issued m … | Continue reading
This is what it looks like when what was supposed to be an 18 minute fireworks show accidentally goes off in 25 seconds. This is exactly how it felt in my brain one time when I drank what I thought was a single cup of coffee, but it turned out to be 8 cups worth of coffee concent … | Continue reading
The Steadfast diagnostic kit, developed by DxD Hub, NIES, and A*STAR BII, rapidly detects and distinguishes H5N1 AIV strains, improving outbreak response and global pandemic readiness. The Diagnostics Development Hub (DxD Hub), a national platform hosted by the Agency for Science … | Continue reading
Paul Kafasis concluded a post about the recent elections in the US with this, but I think it broadly applies: Even as cruelty is ascendent, we must not be done with kindness. Let us also not be done with joy. Instead, we should locate humor wherever we can and revel in it. The da … | Continue reading
This checkin to GC6VYP1 Congratulations reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. We really wanted to attempt this one, but it wasn’t to be. We added up all the numbers we’d collected on our journey but got a number three out from the requisite checksum. … | Continue reading
"A warning of the growing vulnerability of forests." New study highlights alarming trend in forest fires with far-reaching consequences: 'Poses a significant challenge' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
I saw a post recently by a person from a younger generation asking if parents in the 80s and 90s really let their kids just roam around freely. Yeah, dude. We drank from the hose, too. I remember being a child, growing up in the Riverside neighborhood of Buffalo, on Tonawanda St, … | Continue reading
As I noted earlier today, I love the way my team does standups in an asynchronous, and always-updating manner. As I've started to keep a single comment on GitHub Discussions up-to-date - be that for my daily team standup updates, or my on-call handover notes - I've been spending … | Continue reading
Revealed: The 5 glaring historical inaccuracies in the Gladiator II trailer - including American accents and a cup of TEA | Daily Mail Online Email etiquette: How to ask for things and get a response | Zapier Leonardo da Vinci | PBS TSA’s New Facial Recognition PreCheck Becomes G … | Continue reading
"Plant once and you can grow it forever!" Gardener shares money-saving method to grow the most expensive spice in the world in your own garden: 'I never knew' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
“If you feel like a color change needs to be done, don’t be afraid!” this DIYer says. READ MORE... | Continue reading
Now I've been a-lookin' for a job, but it's hard to find. There's winners and there's losers. And I am south of the line. Well, I'm tired of gettin' caught out on the losin' end. But I talked to a man last night. Gonna do a little favor for him. Atlantic City by Bruce Springsteen … | Continue reading
Now I've been a-lookin' for a job, but it's hard to find. There's winners and there's losers. And I am south of the line. Well, I'm tired of gettin' caught out on the losin' end. But I talked to a man last night. Gonna do a little favor for him. Atlantic City by Bruce Springsteen … | Continue reading
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Sometimes I look out the window and think of how many babies are now part of a personal brand. Today's News: | Continue reading
Online publishing platform Substack, founded in 2017, was all anyone could talk about by 2022. Writers were scrambling to jump on the bandwagon, having heard tales of six-figure revenues being earned by some publishers. Even though we’ve heard those sorts of stories before. I eve … | Continue reading
The researchers noted that the results are similar to those of studies done with humans and hospitalizations. Researchers discover worrisome cause behind uptick in vet visits: 'Particularly concerning' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! This fish owner feeds her tiny little sausages. The fish is cute beyond words, and appears to smile after he gulps down the sausage. Feeding my pet fish wouldn't feel like a chore at all if this is what the situation loo … | Continue reading
New research by Northwestern Medicine reveals how humans have evolved advanced brain regions to interpret others’ thoughts, connecting these areas with the amygdala, a part of the brain involved in emotional processing. Study sought to better understand how humans evolved to beco … | Continue reading
My thanks to WorkOS for sponsoring last week at Daring Fireball. With WorkOS you can start selling to enterprises with just a few lines of code. It provides a complete User Management solution along with SSO, SCIM, and FGA. The APIs are modular and easy-to-use, allowing integrati … | Continue reading
My post this week about Shazam’s history got me thinking about Apple’s track record with acquired apps. Apple acquired Shazam in 2018, and soon integrated its capabilities into Siri. But they’ve also kept the Shazam app going, including the Android version. They even still have a … | Continue reading
These clever finds will make you fall in love with your space again, and since they're all $30 or less, you might want to pick up more than one. | Continue reading
Scaling laws were supposed to be, well, laws. | Continue reading
Here are the slides from from my keynote at the 8th International Conference on Education and E-Learning in Tokyo yesterday. Sadly I was not actually in Tokyo for this but the online integration was well done and there was some good audience interaction. I am also the conference … | Continue reading
Love 'em or hate 'em, the pop-rock band helped lay the foundation for what Arcane and its music would become. | Continue reading
They ordered them for an electronics project in their technology class. Teacher baffled after opening unbelievable contents of online order for classroom supplies: 'They realized it's quicker and easier' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
follow_theirs.py Hamel Husain wrote this Python script on top of the atproto Python library for interacting with Bluesky, which lets you specify another user and then follows every account that user is following. I forked it and added two improvements: inline PEP 723 dependencies … | Continue reading
The Art of Storytelling analyzed the chords of "The Matrix", determining that the same dissonance was reflected in the plot. | Continue reading
Recent advancements at the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility have enabled physicists to explore the internal structure of neutrons in unprecedented detail. Using a new detector, researchers have achieved a deeper understanding of how quarks and gluons contribute to t … | Continue reading
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There are several things I really love about working in my team at Elastic, but one of the things I really enjoy is how we run our standups in my team. Working in a globally distributed, asynchronous-first team with team members across three continents, and ~8 timezones is that, … | Continue reading