Dolt Gets a cgo Dependency

At DoltHub, we're building Dolt, a MySQL-comptaible SQL database with Git-like functionality, including branch, diff, merge, push, pull and… | Continue reading


@dolthub.com | 31 minutes ago

Botanical garden pleads with visitors to spare plants after spotting signs of intentional damage: 'It should be common sense'

"This is one of the most infuriating things I've seen." Botanical garden pleads with visitors to spare plants after spotting signs of intentional damage: 'It should be common sense' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading


@thecooldown.com | 31 minutes ago

How Conferences Are Failing Their Attendees

Logistics are important when planning conferences but often overshadow what most are in the room for, content. -Andrea Doyle | Continue reading


@meetings.skift.com | 48 minutes ago

The New Look: It’s A Good TV Show!

An agonising exploration of what it means to find justice after defeat The post The New Look: It’s A Good TV Show! appeared first on Aftermath. | Continue reading


@aftermath.site | 1 hour ago

Strum Machine

I mostly play old time and bluegrass music. Particularly in old time and fiddle songs, the songs have a fairly rigid and repetitious structure. That’s not to say players don’t do interesting things with it, but unless a song is intentionally crooked, the structure of the song rem … | Continue reading


@chriscoyier.net | 1 hour ago

IEEE Electrical Energy Storage Applications & Technologies (EESAT 2025)

The IEEE Electrical Energy Storage Applications and Technologies (EESAT 2025) conference will be held January 20–21, 2025, at the Embassy Suites by Hilton Charlotte Uptown, in Charlotte, NC. This technical conference will be co-located with the IEEE Energy Storage and Stationary … | Continue reading


@cleantechnica.com | 1 hour ago

The All-New Audi Q6 SUV e-Tron & SQ6 SUV e-Tron: UK Pricing & Specification Confirmed

New fully-electric Q6 SUV e-tron quattro available to order now priced from £68,975 MDP (manufacturer direct price) New PPE platform, new interior design philosophy, and many technological advances Twin-motor Q6 SUV e-tron quattro and SQ6 SUV e-tron quattro available from launch … | Continue reading


@cleantechnica.com | 1 hour ago

Tuesday 30 April 1661

This morning, after order given to my workmen, my wife and I and Mr. Creed took coach, and in Fishstreet took up Mr. Hater and his wife, who through her mask seemed at first to be an old woman, but afterwards I found her to be a very pretty modest... | Continue reading


@pepysdiary.com | 1 hour ago

Scientists address speculation that extreme weather event in Dubai was manipulated: 'Show me the analysis'

"Without seeing some analysis, your null hypothesis has to be that it did not contribute." Scientists address speculation that extreme weather event in Dubai was manipulated: 'Show me the analysis' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading


@thecooldown.com | 1 hour ago

What’s old is new and what’s new maybe isn’t what we want

Joshua Topolsky: Rabbit’s R1 AI Companion Is Not the Future You Were Promised Right now, every time you want to do something like that with your phone, you’re jumping into and out of individual apps; the r1 supposes a future where all your apps connect into | Continue reading


@birchtree.me | 1 hour ago

fluffy rambles: Trees! Car! Health! Oh my!

Stuff continues to happen! | Continue reading


@beesbuzz.biz | 1 hour ago

What I read in April 2024

Bookshops & Bonedust (Legends & Lattes #0) by Travis Baldree, 339p: I loved going back to this cozy fantasy world with a younger Viv. We can see how her experiences in this book lead to her choices in the first book. Viv is injured on a fight, and she must stay in this small town … | Continue reading


@noisydeadlines.net | 1 hour ago

Mr. Yuk [EPISODE]

Some of you may be familiar with a figure called Mr. Yuk, depending on your age and where you grew up, but for rest of you: Mr. Yuk is a neon green circular sticker with a cartoon face on it. His face is scrunched up with his eyes squeezed tight and his tongue is sticking The pos … | Continue reading


@99percentinvisible.org | 1 hour ago

Add your Ruby gems to AWS CodeArtifact

Ruby developers can now use AWS CodeArtifact to securely store and retrieve their gems. CodeArtifact integrates with standard developer tools like gem and bundler. Applications often use numerous packages to speed up development by providing reusable code for common tasks like ne … | Continue reading


@aws.amazon.com | 2 hours ago

Star Wars' Diana Lee Inosanto Digs Deep Into Tales of the Empire

Star Wars loves nothing more than understanding a villain. Part of the reason the franchise’s greatest evils are also some of its most compelling characters is because it loves to dive deep into understanding why these figures are the way they are. The time has come for Morgan El … | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 2 hours ago

Games Used To Have More Orbs. What Happened?

We used to be a real country. The post Games Used To Have More Orbs. What Happened? appeared first on Aftermath. | Continue reading


@aftermath.site | 2 hours ago

New Latrodectus malware attacks use Microsoft, Cloudflare themes

Latrodectus malware is now being distributed in phishing campaigns using Microsoft Azure and Cloudflare lures to appear legitimate while making it harder for email security platforms to detect the emails as malicious. [...] | Continue reading


@bleepingcomputer.com | 2 hours ago

Two ways of viewing Donald J. Trump!

TUESDAY, APRIL 30, 2024 George Conway, One Other Guy: We just saw George Conway on Deadline: White House refer to Donald J. Trump as "a narcissistic sociopath." He also used the term "psychopathy" as he discussed Trump's mental / emotional state. As we've recently noted, Conway h … | Continue reading


@dailyhowler.blogspot.com | 2 hours ago

Agnes Moorehead in Dark Passage (1947)

(This post is part of the Third Agnes Moorehead Blogathon hosted by In the Good Old Days of Classic Hollywood) There can be no doubt that Agnes Moorehead was one of the greatest character actresses of all time. While she is best known today as Endora on the classic television sho … | Continue reading


@mercurie.blogspot.com | 2 hours ago

Writing spot in Vacaville after having a quick lunch with Nurse.  

Content, Content, Content… stories, MY story. Looking for the next story and in bit of a holding pattern. […] | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 2 hours ago

Last century, we extended our lives. This century, we need to shorten our deaths.

We are living longer lives, while also spending more years sick than ever before — but there are ways to close the lifespan-healthspan gap | Continue reading


@freethink.com | 2 hours ago

Expert gardener shares simple method to growing seemingly endless supply of kitchen staple vegetable: 'I didn't know this'

"That's brilliant!" Expert gardener shares simple method to growing seemingly endless supply of kitchen staple vegetable: 'I didn't know this' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading


@thecooldown.com | 2 hours ago

Here’s your chance to own a decommissioned US government supercomputer

145,152-core Cheyenne supercomputer was 20th most powerful in the world in 2016. | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 2 hours ago

Stainless Steel Manicure Set with PU Leather Pouch

You can piece together a collection of grooming tools yourself, or you can go the easy route with a comprehensive kit like this one. | Continue reading


@toolsandtoys.net | 2 hours ago

HPAI [pestilence, curr ev, Patreon]

Canonical link: https://siderea.dreamwidth.org/1839096.html Good news everybody! Apparently it's safe to drink milk from HPAI infected cows, at least if it's pasteurized, as evidenced by the fact that if you are an American and not a vegan, you, along with millions of other peopl … | Continue reading


@siderea.dreamwidth.org | 2 hours ago

HPAI [pestilence, curr ev, Patreon]

New post imminently, watch this space. comments | Continue reading


@siderea.dreamwidth.org | 2 hours ago

Tesla’s Identity Crisis Gets Hardcore

Chaos at Tesla is nothing new. But the company now appears to be going through something of an identity crisis, with its future at war with its past. Let’s just recap the past few weeks: First, Tesla released first-quarter delivery numbers that came up well short of even analysts … | Continue reading


@heatmap.news | 2 hours ago

My New Book Comes Out Next Week!

Preorder my upcoming book, Get Better At Anything, and get $400+ worth of bonuses! The post My New Book Comes Out Next Week! appeared first on Scott H Young. | Continue reading


@scotthyoung.com | 2 hours ago

Go workshops that work

What makes a good, bad, and truly great workshop? How do you put together a Go workshop that works, and how do you get the most out of workshops you attend? | Continue reading


@changelog.com | 3 hours ago

Francis Ford Coppola's Megalopolis Might Have Some Sci-Fi Among Its Many, Many Elements

In his vast career, Francis Ford Coppola has made masterpieces (Apocalypse Now, The Godfather and The Godfather Part II, The Conversation), cult classics (Bram Stoker’s Dracula, The Outsiders), and curious whatsits (The Godfather Part III, Peggy Sue Got Married). Which will Megal … | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 3 hours ago

Linux Mint 22 Will Include Preinstalled App for Matrix

Linux Mint 22 will include a Matrix web client preinstalled when released later this year. The IRC-based desktop chat app Linux Mint has been building, Jargonaut, to replace Hexchat and provide real-time communication for its users, will no longer be included (the status of any f … | Continue reading


@omgubuntu.co.uk | 3 hours ago

Report: DEA Plans to Reclassify Cannabis as Less Dangerous

Cannabis is expected to officially become a less dangerous drug in the eyes of the U.S. government. The Associated Press reported Tuesday that the Drug Enforcement Administration will soon propose to reclassify cannabis. The change will likely still take some time to come into ef … | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 3 hours ago

The iPhone’s next AAA game, Assassin’s Creed Mirage, gets a release date

The game launched on consoles and PC months ago. | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 3 hours ago

DEA to reclassify marijuana as a lower-risk drug, reports say

Marijuana to move from Schedule 1, the most dangerous drug group, to Schedule 3. | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 3 hours ago

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Commute

Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: AM I RIGHT?! Today's News: | Continue reading


@smbc-comics.com | 3 hours ago

Villa near Mount Vesuvius may be where Augustus, Rome's 1st emperor, died

Researchers say a villa buried by the eruption in A.D. 79 corresponds with records of the Roman emperor's death in A.D. 14. | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 3 hours ago

It is a mistake to think all mistakes have a silver lining

Social media is awash with motivational quotes extolling the virtues of making mistakes. I probably glanced sideways at some quote or other on Instagram — like, five years ago — because now my search tab is full of the things. Daily I’m reminded that experience is simply the name … | Continue reading


@disassociated.com | 3 hours ago

What's new in Svelte: May 2024

Svelte 5 Release Candidate and all the other highlights from Svelte Summit Spring | Continue reading


@svelte.dev | 3 hours ago

Bystander captures video of tourists smashing rock formation at national park: 'Destroying what nature created over thousands of years ago'

"Great metaphor for how humans are treating the planet." Bystander captures video of tourists smashing rock formation at national park: 'Destroying what nature created over thousands of years ago' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading


@thecooldown.com | 3 hours ago

Desalination could avert one of the top 10 threats facing the world

Desalination — changing seawater into safe drinking water — could avert a crisis. Here's how to make it less costly and labor-intensive. | Continue reading


@freethink.com | 3 hours ago

Binance’s billionaire founder gets 4 months for violating money laundering law

US prosecutors sought 3-year sentence for Binance founder Changpeng Zhao. | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 3 hours ago

Ivory-scanning lasers used to illuminate the illegal elephant in the room

Although wooly mammoths are long gone, their recovered ivory lives on as a legal alternative to banned elephant ivory. Scientists can now use lasers to differentiate between the two materials, hopefully reducing the revenue stream for poachers. Continue Reading | Continue reading


@newatlas.com | 3 hours ago

Folding rack reshuffles pickup camper into gear-stacked micro-RV

A simple product built to completely reorganize your truck camping experience, the Pack Rack will debut as a multifunctional piece of indoor/outdoor camping furniture. It rides in a pickup truck bed as an adjustable-height shelf for holding gear and cargo, turning what might othe … | Continue reading


@newatlas.com | 3 hours ago

As heard on yesterday's Deadline: White House!

TUESDAY, APRIL 30, 2024 Suppressing the doorman's (false) tale: Once again, it's time for us to fess up. We'll start by quoting the first paragraph of the guest essay we discussed in this morning's report. The essay appeared in the New York Times. Headline included, it starts exa … | Continue reading


@dailyhowler.blogspot.com | 3 hours ago

Private, open source chat UIs

We recently gathered some Practical AI listeners for a live webinar with Danny from LibreChat to discuss the future of private, open source chat UIs. During the discussion we hear about the motivations behind LibreChat, why enterprise users are hosting their own chat UIs, and how … | Continue reading


@changelog.com | 3 hours ago

Health care giant comes clean about recent hack and paid ransom

Ransomware attack on the $371 billion company hamstrung US prescription market. | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 3 hours ago

Quoting LMSYS

We collaborate with open-source and commercial model providers to bring their unreleased models to community for preview testing. Model providers can test their unreleased models anonymously, meaning the models' names will be anonymized. A model is considered unreleased if its we … | Continue reading


@simonwillison.net | 3 hours ago

McMillan Shakespeare Office / Gray Puksand

The design vision for the McMillan Shakespeare office was to create a contemporary and unique space that emphasized the integration of cutting-edge technology, connectivity, and employee well-being. Continue reading | Continue reading


@homeworlddesign.com | 3 hours ago