William Deringer studies “very old things and very technical things” — that have never been more relevant. | Continue reading
"Right as I approach the intersection, they decide to gun it." Cyclist baffled by driver's inexcusable actions and police response: 'I think about this nearly every day' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
People in the Netherlands are increasingly trying to make their gardens, terraces and balconies greener by growing plants, flowers and shrubs, after years of gravel, tiles and... | Continue reading
"So beautiful!" Gardener shares 'gorgeous' photo of their colorful, low-maintenance lawn meadow: 'This view never gets old' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
This is one of many restoration efforts worldwide to reverse natural changes made by humans that have negatively impacted ecosystems. Massive 50-year restoration project to give new life to west coast shoreline: 'It's just learning, and applying what you learn' first appeared on … | Continue reading
The life-saving impact these devices can make is immeasurable. 'Life-saving rollout' of solar-powered refrigerators transform health care around the world: 'There's been quite a lot of innovation in the space' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
"Nothing like welcoming a new child into the world like destroying the environment." Park visitor infuriated after stumbling across hazardous mess left by gender reveal party: 'It's been here for a few days' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
I am a perfectionist by nature. Releasing software in to the wild that has imperfections annoys me. For that matter, doing anything that is imperfect annoys me. Thankfully, there is this little thing called reality that I sometimes get smacked around by and learn from. One of my … | Continue reading
"It is as simple as that, yes." Resident questions taking action to correct flawed plan approved by new development: 'Better than leaving it like it is' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
Recently I chanced upon a tweet stating that highly sensitive persons (HSPs) are basically autistic without admitting it. It surprised me, since the traits of HSPs as I know it seem to be the... | Continue reading
The crabs have also been responsible for coastal erosion, excavating parts of marshlands. Chef cooks meals with unexpected invasive species: 'There's nothing to really keep their populations in check' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
Almost six in 10 pathogens that affect humans will cause more harm as the planet continues to heat up, according to one study. Scientists sound alarm over spread of uncommon pathogen: 'An infection can be difficult to diagnose' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
In the morning to my Lord's, and there dined with my Lady, and after dinner with Mr. Creed and Captain Ferrers to the Theatre to see "The Chances," and after that to the Cock alehouse, where we had a harp and viallin played to us, and so home by... | Continue reading
Seventy percent of southern Africa's maize comes from South Africa. Drought devastates crops in southern Africa: 'The grain I have is only enough for the next two months' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
In a step in a different direction from some of my previous posts, I offer Richard Eaglespoon with a lengthy piece on making New York style pizza (yum!) (via Scripting News). Eaglespoon also has a post on making hamburgers which also appears very tasty… | Continue reading
What can I say, this was a dream come true! We got into Hololive during Covid, so to see them iRL (in a matter of speaking) was incredible and a bit unbelievable. This was their first performance in Australia, and they slayed it. Bae hails from here, and got emotional talking abo … | Continue reading
Mike Pinder, a founding member of The Moody Blues and the band's long-time keyboardist, died on April 24 2024 at the age of 82. He had been suffering for many years from dementia.Mike Pinder was born on December 27 1941 in Erdington, Birmingham. As a young adult he joined the ban … | Continue reading
"It's a labor of love." Homeowner shares stunning progress video of unusual lawn transformation: 'This looks so much better' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
This weekend, my Mastodon and Thread timelines exploded with people being locked out of their Apple IDs. While it didn’t happen to me, it did to Michael Tsai: I had another instance of my Apple ID mysteriously being locked. First, my iPhone wanted me to enter the password again, … | Continue reading
I spent the week with ALSAC — the fundraising organization at St. Jude — with half a dozen Relay folks and a few hundred other content creators who are using their platforms for fundraising. View this post on Instagram A post shared by St. Jude PLAY LIVE (@stjudeplaylive) (Most o … | Continue reading
It's important for parents to teach their children to respect wildlife. Video of young girl's attempt to pet wild deer sparks online debate: 'Leave these animals alone' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
I’ve seen a disturbing trend recently in public broadcasting and in left-leaning media in general that I think we need to take a deeper look at. While it’s definitely true that we can’t only tackle climate change and other environmental issues with individual actions, I’ve seen s … | Continue reading
The company behind one of the biggest projects in the Fediverse has migrated as an entity to the United States as a 501c3. The post Mastodon Incorporates as a Non-Profit in the US appeared first on We Distribute. | Continue reading
Tokyo Disney Resort has announced the “Buzz Lightyear’s Astro Blasters” attraction at Tokyo Disneyland Park will be getting a transformation with a new “Wreck-It-Ralph” theme. The Details A new attraction based on the world of the Walt Disney Animation Studios film “Wreck-It Ralp … | Continue reading
Climate advocates argued for a national research program as early as 1971 when Richard Nixon was in office. It never happened. The post In 1971, The Nixon Administration Punted On A Revolutionary Climate Study appeared first on CleanTechnica. | Continue reading
I usually can’t write the Tuesday newsletter until I know the image it’s going to start with, but I often start Friday’s newsletter without any idea what’s going to go at the top. Eventually, a theme emerges, or I come across something that will work, like this image of a snail o … | Continue reading
We have a mix of devices at home ranging from Linux workstations, servers, Macbooks, a Mac Mini and a Windows PC. Up until now, I was using Samba for a home “share” folder which was also used to do backups of the Windows PC (family photos and videos). But it was always a pain, sm … | Continue reading
A few months ago, our company won tender in Rome for delivery of 110 mild hybrid buses. In recent days, Solaris has won the order for the delivery of 244 CNG buses for the ATAC carrier in Rome. With the maximum use of options by the ordering party, both contracts ... [continued] … | Continue reading
Fallout’s a pretty good show, and one of the big reasons why is the ever-reliable Walton Goggins. As the Ghoul—or Cooper Howard, once upon a time—he’s a menace to Lucy and everyone else throughout the season, while being enjoyable to watch both in the irradiated present and the p … | Continue reading
The land for Villa Austevoll has familial roots, being owned by the family of Gundersen and Fagerbakke, a couple with backgrounds in engineering and civil engineering, respectively. Continue reading | Continue reading
I've worked out why I don't get much value out of LLMs. The hardest and most time-consuming parts of my job involve distinguishing between ideas that are correct, and ideas that are plausible-sounding but wrong. Current AI is great at the latter type of ideas, and I don't need mo … | Continue reading
"We have to believe, and we have to work." Brazil's environment minister makes incredible strides in restoring Amazon rainforest: 'We need a civilizational change' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Ten points if you try this. Fifteen if it ruins your relationship. Sixteen if it ruins your life. Today's News: | Continue reading
The Power Rangers have been doing their thing for decades, but recent times have been kind of all over the place. While the Boom! comics have been going for nearly a decade in the Mighty Morphin time period under a rotating roster of creators, Hasbro hasn’t done a lot with the la … | Continue reading
I’ve been thinking a lot about how to evaluate MCMC samplers. A common way to do this is to run one or more iterations of your contender against a baseline of something simple, something well understood, or more rarely, the … Continue reading → | Continue reading
I recently came across a few interesting and previously unseen rejected artwork examples from the original cabinet design of Puck Man. So this week, I figured I’d do a follow up to the last blog entry about the Puck Man PCB, by sharing some of the great artwork originally created … | Continue reading
Yeah. I did it again! I’m feeling real good about the 3rd version of my desktop and I’m ditching the project (for now anyway). Clean. Minimal. Usable. Yay! Here’s all three versions if yer interested (the 2nd and 3rd versions are viewable at full resolution): Version 3 Version 2 … | Continue reading
Everything Google's Python team were responsible for Google laid off the majority of their internal Python team a few days ago. Someone on Hacker News asked what the team had been responsible for, and team member zem relied with this fascinating comment providing detailed insight … | Continue reading
A recent video from Out of Spec Dave on YouTube shows us something cool that happened at a Tesla Supercharger: drivers figuring out how to deal with a busy charger on the fly. I don’t mean to bag on the kindness of strangers, because ultimately that’s kind of what makes ... [cont … | Continue reading
The cheapest car in Norway will be electric when the Dongfeng Box arrives later this year. The post Dongfeng Box Coming To Norway, Denmark Introduces Interactive Charging Parks appeared first on CleanTechnica. | Continue reading
Public debt ratios in Portugal and Greece have declined at an unprecedented pace from their pandemic peak. via @DanielKral1 pic.twitter.com/D6Dux8zJsL — Philipp Heimberger (@heimbergecon) April 27, 2024 Greece of course did break the bank, but note the United States is much riche … | Continue reading
Neil C. Young makes music together with his brother Richard Young, as well as good friends Alan Whitham and Ben Gonzalez. When together, rather magical things tend to happen in the lines of "I don't know what exactly is happening, but I like it!" | Continue reading
Sending a message, or two, then back on page. Thinking over and over about some things, what I […] | Continue reading
4-27-24 In my head. How can I not be. I write. Leaning on the latte, and sparkling water […] | Continue reading
Michael Tsai: I had another instance of my Apple ID mysteriously being locked. First, my iPhone wanted me to enter the password again, which I thought was the “normal” thing it has done every few months, almost since I got it. But after doing so it said that my account was locked … | Continue reading
It took a very long time to finally add a new entry in the personal phone history matrix, and I’m quite proud of that. My last smartphone, a hand-me-down Sony XZ1 Compact, was eventually rooted and flashed with LineageOS, significantly prolonging its lifespan. In fact, the phone … | Continue reading
You’ve gotta hand it to Marvel Studios: it sure knew how to make its movies feel like big events back in the day. After the original Avengers dropped in 2012, nearly every entry aimed to be bigger in some way, like the entire enterprise was obsessed with topping itself. Sometimes … | Continue reading