"The Thinker," Auguste Rodin (The worst possible way to think?) "(S)it as little as possible," writes German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, "do not believe any idea that was not born in the open air and of free movement." Nietzsche was notorious walker and hiker, a man seemingl … | Continue reading
I spotted this CSS used in a very popular WordPress theme: Those .specificity and .extra-specificity classes sure pop off the page, don’t they? I wonder what they do. Asking the author directly would be a good way to find out, but who wants facts when we can make wild assumptions … | Continue reading
TUESDAY, APRIL 23, 2024 The doorman knocks early and often: Journalistically speaking—and "at long last"—is it time for her to go? Journalistically speaking, we refer to Lisa Rubin. She's either "an MSNBC legal analyst" or "an MSNBC legal correspondent," depending on which part o … | Continue reading
As companies work to develop and implement cleaner energy technologies, more jobs should emerge, creating demand for the supply. New government program aims to boost technologies in growing field of offshore wind: 'Exciting and rewarding for a lot of different reasons' first appe … | Continue reading
From Death's mechanic to questing knights, dragon-slayers to evil queens, everybody loves an upbeat ending! The post Eight More Short Fantasy Stories With Happy Endings appeared first on Reactor. | Continue reading
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The big news is that Indieseek.xyz has surpassed 1500 links! 1,501 links in 19 categories, with 65,430 clicks. Directory last updated Apr 23, 2024. These were all added manually by me or submitted by webmasters. I don’t scrape links nor do I have a crawler. I find links all over … | Continue reading
COROS has settled into a roughly quarterly-ish update cycle, and their latest public beta launched today brings a number of new features to the platform, including expanding on some that their competitors have and some they don't. I’ll be diving … Read More Here → | Continue reading
Pop megastar Billie Eilish has arrived in Fortnite (Festival at least) and, just as the roadmap leak suggested, she is… Continue reading How to get the Billie Eilish skin in Fortnite The post How to get the Billie Eilish skin in Fortnite appeared first on ReadWrite. | Continue reading
We’ve refreshed the look and feel of both the Piccalilli site and the brand so wrote up a little about that and the future of the platform. | Continue reading
A rocking mature lady belting out a great singalong pop song, Anastacia had a big hit with this in 2000, and followed it up later with other hits. I only ever bought this CD single, and after more than two decades I still enjoy hearing it. Having suffered twice with breast cancer … | Continue reading
Not gonna myth it this time The post I’m Excited To Play Hades 2 The Way God(s) Intended: Early Access appeared first on Aftermath. | Continue reading
Twenty-five years after Castlevania: Legacy of Darkness launched for Nintendo 64, someone has discovered a new Konami code lurking within… Continue reading Konami code found in Castlevania N64 game 25 years after release The post Konami code found in Castlevania N64 game 25 years … | Continue reading
After writing this post, I was thinking that my superpower as a researcher is my willingness to admit I’m wrong, which gives me many opportunities to learn and do better (see for example here or here). My other superpower is … Continue reading → | Continue reading
HW Studio's Shi House is masterfully positioned on the incline of a picturesque ravine, perfectly poised to capture the enchanting sunset that dips behind the mountain each evening. Continue reading | Continue reading
Current conditions: A cold front brought an enduring heat wave in Mexico to an end • Northwest Texas could see large hail this afternoon • It will be 60 degrees Fahrenheit and rainy in Ottawa, where delegates are gathering this week to hammer out a global plastics treaty. THE TOP … | Continue reading
This question may be more heated, more debated, and more relevant than I’ve ever seen it: Should Elon Musk remain the CEO of Tesla? This question has been raised for years by some, mostly people who have never liked him and have generally predicted he’d fail. In my opinion, looki … | Continue reading
NASA engineers have fixed a computer error that caused the interstellar Voyager 1 probe to glitch and stop transmitting data back to Earth for five months. | Continue reading
Fallout is, to put it mildly, having a bit of a moment. The success of the Amazon TV show has… Continue reading Fallout 5 release: What, if anything, do we know so far? The post Fallout 5 release: What, if anything, do we know so far? appeared first on ReadWrite. | Continue reading
One of the things we’re tackling as part of the STF infrastructure initiative is improving notifications. Other platforms have advanced significantly in this area over the past decade, while we still have more or less the same notifications we had since the early GNOME 3 days, bo … | Continue reading
Is your guy a real "man's man?" Does he enjoy grunting, beer-can-crushing, and flexing? THEN DO I HAVE THE CAKES FOR YOU! Remember, pretty colors are for GIRLS. Singed poop and "I love hunting" flotsam is for MEN. HOOAW! And you know what else is manly? DEAD ANIMALS. Make it a bl … | Continue reading
Sébastien Vaniček keeps teasing his Evil Dead spinoff. Get a new look at Dakota Fanning’s creepy new horror, The Watchers. James Gunn has a Creature Commandos update. Plus, what’s to come on Chucky. Spoilers, away! Read more... | Continue reading
When COVID struck Rebecca Saltzman’s family, the virus unmasked a life-changing discovery: her husband and two of their kids had genetic heart disease. The kind where people drop dead. As their healthy wife and mother, Saltzman had a new role too—guiding her family through what S … | Continue reading
Net-zero, sustainable homes like these are popping up everywhere. Architectural studio designs climate-proof mirrored homes with surprising energy feature: 'Better suited to our future' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
I was on a plane, the regular shuttle between Boston and Washington, DC, sitting next to Steve, who had been my mentor since the day I joined BCG (Boston Consulting Group). We were in the bulkhead seats, on the right side of the plane. Yes, I do recall this detail; it was a vivid … | Continue reading
Fiction Read in March 2024 Liberty’s Daughter – Naomi Kritzer Liberty’s Daughter follows Beck Garrison, who was kidnapped by her father to live on a techno-libertarian seastead. We get to follow Beck as she reunites with the mother she thought was dead, and finds “stuff” for peop … | Continue reading
MEPs of the research and industry committee during a voting procedure. Photo credits: Eric Vidal / European Union MEPs are gathering in Strasbourg this week for the last plenary session in the current EU legislature, with many of them about to enter into campaign mode ahead of th … | Continue reading
The latest version of Genshin Impact will soon be upon us – tomorrow in fact (April 24th) and as ever… Continue reading Genshin Impact 4.6 – release date, how to pre-install, download size and downtime The post Genshin Impact 4.6 – release date, how to pre-install, download size … | Continue reading
In the first regulation of its kind in South Africa, the Remote Gambling Bill includes various measures that would apply… Continue reading South Africa’s Remote Gambling Bill seeks to reduce harm from online gambling The post South Africa’s Remote Gambling Bill seeks to reduce ha … | Continue reading
Back in 2022, the strange-looking prototype igus:bike rolled into the spotlight boasting an angular frame, funky wheels and even bearings made using recycled plastic. Now the newly-named RCYL bike is riding into production. Continue Reading Category: Bicycles, Transport Tags: Mob … | Continue reading
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Gemini, Google’s answer to ChatGPT, is set to get an update to its app that enables real-time responses, bringing it… Continue reading Google AI Gemini to receive real-time responses in app The post Google AI Gemini to receive real-time responses in app appeared first on ReadWrit … | Continue reading
German chancellor Olaf Scholz. Photo credits: Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung / Flickr German chancellor Olaf Scholz has thrown his weight behind an EU capital markets union to close the bloc’s innovation gap with the US by allowing far more private funding to flow into European start-ups … | Continue reading
I recently noticed a new folder in the root level of my Home directory, named ai_overlay_tmp: In preparation for a future Mac Power Users episode, I’ve been playing with a bunch of AI software, and I assumed something I downloaded generated this folder. I deleted it, just to be f … | Continue reading
Microsoft’s AI chief said those building AI should make sure it’s easy for the public to comprehend it—and offered his own analogy to help do so. Read more... | Continue reading
Ed Simon at The Hedgehog Review: Facing west from his white clapboard Victorian house, surrounded by acres of skeletally bare oak, maple, and hickory reaching up from the snow-covered New Hampshire woods, Robert Frost might have gazed at the granitoid solidity of Ryan’s Hill whil … | Continue reading
Microsoft has launched its smallest AI model yet, Phi-3 Mini, the first of a trio of lightweight models. With more… Continue reading Microsoft launches its smallest AI model yet: Phi-3 Mini The post Microsoft launches its smallest AI model yet: Phi-3 Mini appeared first on ReadWr … | Continue reading
Jackson Arn at The New Yorker: Imagine you’d been born in 1899. Imagine living through the invention of the Model T, the jet aircraft, the liquid-fuelled rocket, and the computer chip. Now imagine looking back on all this in 1965 and writing, as though with a shrug, “How slow wil … | Continue reading
Anni Albers’s Warp Families Posted on Tuesday, Apr 23, 2024 8:30AMTuesday, April 23, 2024 by Morgan Meis | Continue reading
WaterPACT Project To Quantify and Reduce Plastic Waste in US Rivers Rivers are nature’s highways, supplying nearby areas with life-sustaining water, nutrients, and biodiversity on their journeys to larger bodies of water. These days, however, they are far from pristine. A harmful … | Continue reading
Mathieu Michel, state secretary for digitalisation, has championed blockchain as a priority for the Belgian EU presidency. Photo credits: European Union Belgium has made blockchain one of the priorities of its EU presidency, in particular the relaunch of the European Blockchain S … | Continue reading
The House Slave The first horn lifts its arm over the dew-lit grass and in the slave quarters there is a rustling— children are bundled into aprons, cornbread and water gourds grabbed, a salt pork breakfast taken. I watch them driven into the vague before-dawn while their mistres … | Continue reading
And I find I’m not broken bytradition, but simply want to unfurlmy wings from the pattern ofbeing human, whilst maintainingsimplicity. | Continue reading
The new electric Porsche Macan starts at $78,800, deliveries begin later this year. | Continue reading
1. Patience is key. 2. Remember to take breaks for self-care. 3. And don’t forget to go to the bathroom. 4. It’s better to make slow progress with the pieces than no progress on the puzzle at all. 5. Accept the pieces the way they are. A turtle piece can never be a camel puzzle. … | Continue reading
The near-Earth asteroid Kamo'oalewa, which orbits alongside our planet as a 'minimoon,' may have originated from Giordano Bruno crater on the far side of the moon, new research suggests. | Continue reading
“Now we’re cookin’ — Tesla the Energy Company." Tesla partners with manufacturer on development of revolutionary solution to reduce cost of rooftop solar — here's how it works first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
重要：我們建議所有使用者立即更新他們所使用的輸入法軟體以及作業系統。並建議高風險使用者停止使用任何輸入法提供的雲端建議功能，改為使用完全離線的輸入法，以避免資料外洩。 | Continue reading