"All in good time." Homeowner shares 'lovely' before-and-after photos after swapping grass yard for drought-resistant plants: 'What a dream' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
Amazon has been offering attractive discounts on its flagship Kindle device, the Kindle Scribe for some time now. The good thing here is that the price now has hit an all-time low of $240. This translates to a flat $100 discount or 29 percent off the original price of $340. What … | Continue reading
Where there's relative movement, there's a chance to generate electricity, and vehicle wheels move up and down on their suspension the entire time they're in motion. We first encountered regenerative suspension 15 years ago – so how's it going? Continue Reading Category: Automoti … | Continue reading
While Marvel’s had no trouble incorporating unresolved material from previous movies into its recent fare, the studio took its sweet time bringing back threads from 2008's The Incredible Hulk. Abomination showed up in She-Hulk after a brief punch of a cameo in Shang-Chi, and next … | Continue reading
No, there hasn’t been much activity on this blog lately; since getting back from holiday at the end of last month, I’ve been reaping the consequences of managing more or less to stay off work email during the holiday, namely a terrifying backlog of things to do and respond to at … | Continue reading
Father, I’m here again after my last,what is it called?Prideful exit. I find myself on my kneesat the end of my bed,wearing the dress of last night,perhaps my favorite for the memoriesattached to it, the caress it gives.The touch of having belonged at a time,a time of laughter an … | Continue reading
AI counter app from my PyCon US keynote In my keynote at PyCon US this morning I ran a counter at the top of my screen that automatically incremented every time I said the words "AI" or "artificial intelligence", using vosk, pyaudio and Tkinter. I wrote it in a few minutes with t … | Continue reading
Álvaro García Linera in Metapolis: “Nearly all the economic forces that powered progress and prosperity over the last three decades are fading.” World Bank, March 2023Symptoms of a Torn Time For 35 years, from 1980 to 2005, the moral and labour order of much of the world was gove … | Continue reading
No one should be buying a gas car these days. Here’s a list of reasons you can use to convince your family, friends, and neighbors to buy an electric car next time they need a new vehicle. Electric cars are a new, soon-to-be-dominant technology. Once you drive and own an ... [con … | Continue reading
Last night, my Aunt Mary accompanied me to an exhibition for a spoken word artist whom I enjoy. We got there just in time to see him perform a few poems and explain the art that adorned the room. Most of it was focused on the home and church in which he grew up. This … Continue r … | Continue reading
Justin Savoie came across this webpage on “Abacus Data MRP: A Game-Changer for GR, Advocacy, and Advertising”: We should get these people to write our grant proposals! Seriously, we should tap them for funding. They’re using MRP, we’re developing improvements … Continue reading → | Continue reading
Today Ben Lovejoy posted Touchscreen Macs: The idea that will not die on 9to5Mac and as someone who has weighed in here more than a few times, I figured I’ll do it one more time and then let this topic rest for a while. First, we bust out | Continue reading
This one . . . , , , this one right herecomes from the deepest place in my heartand as for you,this one is for you,and me too. I go back to a morning after a long night, which took place at a time when everything in my life was in the midst of a […] | Continue reading
I think the last time these saw vises got used was during Matt Cianci’s last saw sharpening class in our shop. In 2019. We unearthed them from our respective basements for Matt’s class going on today and tomorrow – and we will have our ear plugs at the ready. (It is not a quiet c … | Continue reading
This is a good overview of how badly forms fail. I’d add that the amount of development and testing time they eat up is quite something. Whereas emails take less than a minute to add to a site, and just work. Mostly. Anyway, when one understands the real purpose of a form all thi … | Continue reading
"I'm definitely doing this this year." Plant expert demonstrates ancient gardening method to keep plants hydrated: 'A time-tested watering solution' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
Here are this weekend’s Mac riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: A patterned […] | Continue reading
This week I’m midway through my now-annual lecture series on folktales from the history of computing at AHO (the Oslo School of Architecture and Design). The idea is that I trace an admittedly idiosyncratic path through the history of the personal computer by focusing on certain … | Continue reading
The Cicadas are Here There are annual cicadas. Then there are 13-year cicadas. And 17-year cicadas. Then there are days like today when 13 and 17 year cicadas emerge from the ground around the same time, creating a fairly odd event in our backyard. My daughters are helpfully poin … | Continue reading
It was a research document far ahead of its time. Newly obtained Nixon-era document uncovers missed opportunity to monitor air pollution: 'Who knows what would have happened' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
Is there a hard time stamp on how long a cup of coffee retains its freshly brewed flavor before it's past saving and might as well be thrown away? We investigated. | Continue reading
Conspicuously absent from the incredible news this week that Nicolas Cage was coming to Prime Video to play Spider-Man Noir was a single mention of Silk: Spider-Society, another Spider-Verse show that has been in the works for a long, long time. Read more... | Continue reading
In 2010, I was consulting to Canadian National Railroad, at the time with the legendary Hunter Harrison as CEO. It was one of many times my decarbonization proposals bounced off of organizations, something that’s been inordinately useful in helping me understand how hardcore busi … | Continue reading
"Not being able to give up is not to be able to allow for loss, for vulnerability; not to be able to allow for the passing of time, and the revisions it brings." | Continue reading
"Static recompilation" is "the difference between weeks of work and years of work." | Continue reading
Sci-fi Western Outer Range released its second season on Prime Video this week, bringing more time-travel shenanigans for the people of Wabang, Wyoming—especially the families of Royal Abbott (Josh Brolin) and Wayne Tillerson (Will Patton). The show’s giant hole still contains mo … | Continue reading
In Gaza, psychological first aid projects like the Free Gaza Circus are providing play, support and laughter amid a bitter war The post Gaza’s children: play in a time of crisis appeared first on Positive News. | Continue reading
Roger Corman, one of the most prolific, influential filmmakers of all time, died last weekend at the age of 98. Prominently known for his campy, 1960s horror films (his nickname was “King of the B’s”), Corman was far more than a small-time B-movie director. He helped launch the c … | Continue reading
My wife bought a 12” MacBook in 2016. It was her first Mac. She loved how thin it was and that it looked great, but it ran terribly and only got slower with time. In early 2020 she upgraded to a Dell XPS 13 with a 10th gen Core | Continue reading
Sega and Amplitude Studios are offering Endless Legend, the brilliant 4X game that’s part of the wider Endless universe, for free. Again. This is the second time this year Endless Legend is being offered for the low, low price of free. But this time, it’s less of a hassle. All yo … | Continue reading
It’s that time of year again. There’s a new Guy Ritchie film in theaters. Last year, I went to the movies and experienced the soul-warming balm of the nearly-incoherent heist movie Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre, and this year, I wanted to experience that again. So, I took mys … | Continue reading
The material could be made as a thin coating to analyze air quality in industrial or home settings over time. | Continue reading
Waymo has spent most of my adult life working on self-driving vehicles (originally under the Google brand, until about 7½ years ago). For a long time after it finally started offering robotaxi service for non-employees, the service was free. Since December 2018, though, Waymo has … | Continue reading
Strava has just announced a slate of updates at their annual Camp Strava event, where they show off a bunch of newness. This years event is the first time new CEO, Michael Martin, is at the helm, after starting … Read More Here → | Continue reading
"Once I reopen the book on Stardew, I always have a hard time closing it again" The post Eric “ConcernedApe” Barone Can’t Let Go Of Stardew Valley appeared first on Aftermath. | Continue reading
New observations with the James Webb Space Telescope reveal the most distant pair of merging black holes ever spotted. The discovery further challenges leading theories of cosmology. | Continue reading
Photo credits: Flickr Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has published the costs of its $36 million tuberculosis trial and wants other research funders to follow suit, in a bid to foster transparency around drug development. It says it is the first time detailed costs of an individua … | Continue reading
Photo credits: Flickr Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has published itemised costs of a $36 million trial it conducted comparing different drug combinations for treating tuberculosis and wants others to follow suit, in a bid to foster transparency around the cost of clinical resea … | Continue reading
For context and background information, see my original post on keeping an SMB share mounted and alerting when it does down. Since my first post on this topic, I’ve iterated on the SMB mount maintenance script; in particular, it now gracefully handles the case where macOS decides … | Continue reading
In her own time. Those four words are more important than I can express. I am not sure I can put into words the incredible moment my autistic daughter had yesterday, but I am going to try. Yesterday, Kya asked to “go in the car to the dollar store for Elmer’s glue.” So we headed … | Continue reading
I think about this question from time to time. We don’t celebrate our successes, no matter the size. Tomorrow, Camren has his last IB exam, effectively ending not just three weeks of the hardest exams … | Continue reading
[If H5N1 is the next global pandemic, let’s be sure to blame these dopes.] For the first time, the H5N1 bird flu has been found in US dairy cows. That’s not great. As a result, health experts have increased their warnings against drinking raw milk. It’s not going well. The Califo … | Continue reading
The cutting-edge Webb Space Telescope has spotted the most distant black hole merger yet, which occurred when the universe was just 740 million years old. It’s the first time astronomers have seen a merger so early in the universe’s history, making it a record breaker. Read more. … | Continue reading
By Dominik Klemba and Dominik Czarnota This post will guide you through using AddressSanitizer (ASan), a compiler plugin that helps developers detect memory issues in code that can lead to remote code execution attacks (such as WannaCry or this WebP implementation bug). ASan inse … | Continue reading
It’s time to crack open a canned margarita and whip up some candy salad: Evil is back for its fourth and final season. All signs have been pointing to an impending doomsday since early in the show’s first season—and really, there’s no other horror show we’d rather be watching as … | Continue reading
I know we're not supposed to be wearing skinny jeans anymore. The wide leg is what's cool. But every time I pull on a pair of jeans that are not skinny this is entirely the vibe: Play Video: Mom Jeans - SNL Thanks for reading this post via RSS! Let me know your thoughts by leavin … | Continue reading
Home renovations can often be costly, with custom-built features racking up thousands in expenses. Instagram DIYer Vicky and her husband show that with a bit of elbow grease and can-do spirit, gorgeous modifications can be achieved without breaking the bank. The first-time DIYers … | Continue reading
Lilacs, rain, a hint of bitter chocolate: Stella sniffed the air as she entered the small shop, enjoying the soft golden light that enfolded her. A bell pealed, an old-fashioned sound that gave her the oddest feeling, as if she had stepped off the Paris sidewalk and straight out … | Continue reading