Wartością comfort food jest nie tylko smak, ale i proces przygotowywania posiłku. To dania, które można przygotować powoli i z pełnym zaangażowaniem, ciesząc się każdą chwilą. Czy zatem gotowanie można traktować jak medytację? Jeżeli daje poczucie satysfakcji — nie tylko z kulina … | Continue reading
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“When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.” It’s called Goodhart’s Law, and it explains why good intentions can lead … The post What Matters Not What’s Easy appeared first on Gapingvoid. | Continue reading
When disaster strikes, drones and robots can be sent into danger zones to scout for survivors. The RoBoa from a student team at ETH Zurich is designed to snake its way through debris that would stop other solutions in their tracks. Continue Reading Category: Robotics, Technology … | Continue reading
In an effort to better understand + instrument tools I work on (both in and out of work) I've recently been introducing OpenTelemetry support to Dependency Management Data. This is something that I've been meaning to do for a while, and as part of looking to do some telemetry set … | Continue reading
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Give another life to that piece of plastic you were resolved not to throw away, knowing too well where it might end up. Pool-goer sparks discussion after sharing unorthodox method for carrying wet clothes: 'Love it' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
Kitchy and quasi-totalitarian ghastliness, USA (from 2008) | Continue reading
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Any swear words you notice are pareidolia. Today's News: | Continue reading
In 1984, author Ray Hammond reminded readers that ‘the computer has no power to write words.’ The post The Processing of Words | 2429 appeared first on thejaymo. | Continue reading
This week, I found out about a concept called “right to light”: Right to light is a form of easement in English law that gives a long-standing owner of a building with windows a right to maintain an adequate level of illumination. The right was traditionally known as the doctrine … | Continue reading
It'll be a while before the next mainline Fallout game, but the Prime Video show's making the most of the situation. | Continue reading
A new AI model leverages deep learning to understand the binding of transcription factors to DNA, focusing on the process of DNA breathing. This innovative approach has led to a 9.6% improvement in predicting transcription factor bindings, offering insights that could revolutioni … | Continue reading
Danny from Weird & Wired Creations very cleverly integrated a rotary phone into the wiring of guitar pedal for a cool stuttering effect. | Continue reading
The star (so far!) of the Dudley/Hefling collection, a Parker Duofold Centennial in Jade Green, with an italic nib, here inked with Diamine Meadow. I am not a Parker guy in general — I respect most of their pens, but they typically don’t sing to me the way other pens do. This pen … | Continue reading
That silicon stuff. Sand, right? Right. It takes coal and charcoal, multiple metals and materials, and over 400 toxic chemicals, to make a silicon chip—the foundation of everything that happens in clean tech. “The environmental impact of chip making is huge,” Ian Williams, profes … | Continue reading
The federal tax incentives and rebates contained in the Inflation Reduction Act are likely to be eliminated soon. Now is the time to act. The post Federal Incentives & Rebates May End Soon. Now Is The Time To Act! appeared first on CleanTechnica. | Continue reading
Cardiovascular disease develops and presents differently in women and men. But medical guidelines are often based on studies that excluded women. | Continue reading
Eating with your hands is encouraged. READ MORE... | Continue reading
At least, that’s what I did this morning. I did run short bits, but my body didn’t want to; I’d get a twinge in my knee, or ankle, or the place where I tied my trainers too tight (before I un- and retied them about a half mile in). And I didn’t want to try… | Continue reading
Thank you to all of you who have reached out asking for a micro blog tutorial. I have many more ideas, like an Apple shortcut for easy posting, a Bearming Theme version, and a footer widget. Subscribe to the newsletter or RSS feed to stay updated. Anyway, here's a first version o … | Continue reading
In 2018, when I added ActivityPub support to Micro.blog, I faced a choice: do I fight other “competing” platforms or do I embrace them? In hindsight that decision is obvious. I support anything that makes the web better. Twitter / X migration to Bluesky at scale makes the web bet … | Continue reading
Illustration by Kristen Radtke / The Verge; Getty Images Elon Musk’s X may have tweaked its algorithm to boost his account, along with those of other conservative-leaning users, starting around the time he announced his support of Donald Trump’s presidential campaign. That’s acco … | Continue reading
Posts this past week included (with a message on Second Avenue) ... • After over 50 years, Ludlow Garage on the Lower East Side to close its doors (Thursday) • Lower East Side indie mainstay Rockwood Music Hall abruptly closes, musicians say (Monday) • When is the 2024 Cookie Wal … | Continue reading
Jennifer Szalai in The New York Times: The Science Museum in Britain holds numerous items associated with the Nobel Prize-winning mathematical physicist Sir Roger Penrose: books on consciousness and the nature of space and time; a set of wooden puzzles made by his physician fathe … | Continue reading
Thomas Floyd in The Washington Post: Most conversations about Eddie Redmayne’s craft, whether you’re chatting with the Oscar winner himself or one of his collaborators, will invariably include the word “meticulous.” Or “granular.” Maybe “methodical.” One way or another, expect to … | Continue reading
People seem to misunderstand Bluesky. Imagine if a few years ago instead of Twitter crippling their API, they totally opened it up, and at the same time built a distributed platform where you could host your tweets on any server, with usernames tied to your own domain name. Sound … | Continue reading
Encounter Blew Away Most of Smaller Galaxy’s Gaseous Halo In a dramatic tale of survival captured by the Hubble Space Telescope, one of our closest galactic neighbors, the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), has plunged through the Milky Way’s vast gaseous halo and emerged intact. Howe … | Continue reading
LG Display has built on the technology powering its flexible screen prototype that stretched by 20% in 2022, announcing what's claimed to be the world's first stretchable display capable of expanding up to 50%. Continue Reading Category: Technology Tags: LG Display, Display, Stre … | Continue reading
This is the twenty-first part of a fiction serial, in 853 words. Another period of darkness had descended, and Jake was roused from it by the sound of Clive’s voice. “Jake Geddes, can you hear me? I don’t know where you have gone, but only three investigators are left. The others … | Continue reading
"Same spot in 1999 versus 2024." Homeowner shares before-and-after photos of front yard transformation 25 years later: 'What a difference' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
When my son was in the third grade, we joined the Cornell Lab of Ornithology’s Backyard Bird Count. A form of community science — research in which volunteers gather or analyze data — the event has hundreds of families observing and recording the birds they see in their neighborh … | Continue reading
Science News, Physics, Science, Philosophy, Philosophy of Science | Continue reading
like i said, life is bad. just a fleeting thing – happiness, there are so many circles you have to complete before you meet even a fraction of it. isn’t it bad? | Continue reading
Micro.blog integrates with Bluesky in a few ways that people don’t know about, so I collected a summary of each feature together in a single help page. Also, new feature coming tomorrow that I’ll add to this page. | Continue reading
Christian Mackie is my coworker at Shopify. He’s also a prolific photographer, and one I admire because of how he is able to package his work. | Continue reading
Michael A. McCarthy in Sidecar: Trump’s crushing victory over Harris casts serious doubt on one of the darling concepts of American political science: ‘polarization’. As of the latest count, Trump won the popular vote by over 3.5 million, capturing most swing states and flipping … | Continue reading
Hans Kundnani in Dissent: During the past year, as the reality gradually dawned on them that Donald Trump might be re-elected as U.S. president, European foreign policy analysts coalesced around the conventional wisdom that Europe must unite and “Trump-proof” itself. This new con … | Continue reading
Iza Ding in The Ideas Letter: Sometime in the mid-12th century, a Chinese poet named Lin Sheng traveled 365 kilometers from his hometown Pingyang to Lin’an—what is now Hangzhou, a city on the southeast coast, where the tech giant Alibaba is based. Lin stayed at a B&B and roamed t … | Continue reading
Two and a half years ago, almost to the day, I bought my Sony WF-1000XM4 ear buds, but now they won't hold a charge, so I'm on the hunt for new ones. I started off with standard AirPods, but couldn't get a long with them, so I replaced them with the Sony buds which have served my … | Continue reading
Jack Gross and Dylan Saba interview Lisa Bhungalia in Phenomenal World: On October 28, the Israeli Knesset voted to shut down the operations of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) and to designate it as a terrorist organizati … | Continue reading
Movies Insider took a look at the most pivotal car chase scenes to show how the genre evolved over a century of moviemaking. | Continue reading
All these spinoffs and being a major TV brand for Amazon doesn't mean you've entirely lost your way, right? | Continue reading
I’m buying extra for Christmas. READ MORE... | Continue reading
Joe Trippi posted a video to his new sez.us service where Pete Buttigieg explains what the Russians have done to the US. I see it that way too. When Brian Lehrer asked a few weeks ago how the US got so divided of his guest Bob Woodward (a fascinating time capsule, recorded before … | Continue reading
Just because the holidays are approaching doesn’t mean you have to stress yourself out by blowing your budget on decorations. You can easily get in the festive mood by visiting discount stores and foraging to find affordable yet darling gems to deck out your home.If you’re lookin … | Continue reading
Chad Holley is a dear friend of mine, but I wouldn’t say this if it weren’t true: his new novel Shield the Joyous is a beautiful and moving book. It’s most obviously a book about boyhood — boyhood in the American Deep South at a certain moment in history, yes, but more accurately … | Continue reading
Black Friday is the next big shopping event to come our way and hectic preparations are already underway at Amazon to make it a grand success. Not surprisingly, almost the entire Kindle range gets discounted during this time of the year. In fact, many put off their purchase of th … | Continue reading