I’ve been lightly using Github Copilot in a personal capacity for almost a year, and I’m probably going to get to use it on work projects in the near future. I thought I’d take a moment to collect my thoughts on where I’ve found any value in using it, as well as acknowledge some … | Continue reading
It’s May, and that means we get an idea of what shows will or won’t be coming back in the next year. For Apple, the streamer has decided to call it on Constellation, ending the series after a single-season run. Read more... | Continue reading
Katharine Hepburn never did interviews. But the fiercely private four-time Academy Award-winning “Best Actress” and star of such big screen classics as African Queen, Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner, The Philadelphia Story, Bringing Up Baby and Woman of the Year suddenly broke her “ … | Continue reading
Taking to the road in a modern, high-speed version of a 40-year-old dream. | Continue reading
Ben Browne letter to his father via smithsonianmag.com chariot pulled by cassowaries posted This Is What Being in Your Twenties Was Like in 18th-Century London, a collection of letters describing a 27-year-old's office job, social life and financial concerns beginning in 1719. | Continue reading
Debbie Harry posing with her date during the 1963 Hawthorne High senior prom, radiant, way before becoming the NY new wave princess we all know her to be. Seeing another 1963 photo of her with a classmate of hers, Ernie Reamer, in which they are captioned as the ‘BEST LOOKING’ se … | Continue reading
New York Power Authority is preparing to build state-owned clean energy projects for the first time — but advocates want more transparency. | Continue reading
Investigations show the stone is inscribed with a message in ogham, an Irish alphabet used from the fourth century A.D. | Continue reading
What’s going on Internet? As it’s NZ Music Month, I figured a great post for day 11 of #WeblogPoMo2024 would be to share a favourite local album from last year. Let me introduce you to Better by Sure Boy (sorry, they don’t have a band website yet). Sure Boy, self-proclaimed as “W … | Continue reading
The city receives 30,000 calls to 311 per year reporting illegal dumping, a city worker explained. Local residents fed up with city not taking action against illegal dumping: 'I'd like to see some kind of efforts to prevent it from happening' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
(I took this post back down after I started copping some abuse. I’ve put it back in part with encouragement from Michael Wheeler and Techrights. Bad people don’t get to dictate how I talk. Thanks for your understanding). Last year a German professor reached out to ask if he could … | Continue reading
Each week, Atlas Obscura is providing a new short excerpt from our upcoming book, Wild Life: An Explorer’s Guide to the World’s Living Wonders (September 17, 2024). Most of the time, Chile’s Atacama Desert is gritty, cracked, and red. The desert gets less than 0.6 inch (1.5 cm) o … | Continue reading
It's been mind-boggling to watch the commercial internet accelerate in an ever more user-hostile direction over the last year and change. It's no longer about offering users a "free" service in exchange for their data — companies now want everything. You get a service that's stil … | Continue reading
This will be my third ColdFusion post in the past year. I'm not saying I'm going to continue the trend, but as I find interesting use cases, I'm going to share. Today, that involves the tag that I recently had a chance to play with. About two weeks ago, an old client of mine rea … | Continue reading
The Hunt for Gollum fan film racked up more than 13 million views on YouTube. | Continue reading
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Space Weather Prediction Center forecasted a “severe solar storm” that’s expected to hit Earth tonight, according to a release. These geomagnetic storms happen every so often, but as the Sun approaches the maximum of its 11-ye … | Continue reading
Exploit code for critical "use-after-free" bug is circulating in the wild. | Continue reading
Sales of electric vehicles have been very slow in South Africa, but the industry is starting to show signs of growth. Sales of battery-electric vehicles came close to breaching the 1,000 units per year mark in South Africa for the first time ever. Last year, 931 battery-electric … | Continue reading
The seasons shift. I sit at tables half exposed to the weather, one whole side of the bar opened up to the street. It will remain like this for much of the rest of the year. Outside, just past the small awning, it pours, the kind of Asian cloudburst common to this time of year. F … | Continue reading
To say people are excited for the launch of Grand Theft Auto 6 might be the understatement of the year,… Continue reading GTA 6 fans go wild over a webpage that doesn’t exist anymore The post GTA 6 fans go wild over a webpage that doesn’t exist anymore appeared first on ReadWrite … | Continue reading
We’ve teamed up with Wisconsin Cheese for an interview mini-series called Meet the Makers, featuring a sampling of the state’s finest cheesemakers and their award-winning creations. In 2019 I was lucky enough to attend the annual American Cheese Society Awards, hosted that year i … | Continue reading
Gold was struck in this area around 1860, but little activity occurred then because nearby Aurora overshadowed the location. Most of the early prospectors were Freemasons, however, and they did leave their names on the district. Masonic didn't boom until the early 20th century. A … | Continue reading
In this column, Kristen Mulrooney writes letters to famous mothers from literature, TV, and film whom she finds herself relating to on a different level now that she’s a mom herself. - - - Dear Mrs. Pike, I hope all is well in sunny Stoneybrook, Connecticut. The school year is co … | Continue reading
Nearly 33 million electric vehicles (EVs) nationwide — that is the number of vehicles the Unites States should be prepared to support through a national charging network by the year 2030, researchers at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) estimated in a recent landmar … | Continue reading
Archer’s battery pack manufacturing team has installed an “automotive style” line that is designed for high-volume production from day one with the capability of producing up to 15,000 battery packs per year This facility will produce the proprietary battery packs needed to suppo … | Continue reading
For the first year ever, renewable energy sources generated 30 percent of the globe’s electricity in 2023 — driven by a decade of consistent, spectacular growth in solar and wind power. This surge in clean generation helped slow the growth of fossil fuels by almost two-thirds ove … | Continue reading
Biggest trading sector operator in Finland, Kesko, continues its strong investments in developing the K-Lataus charging network in Finland. The charging technology is provided by Kempower. This year, K-Lataus will heavily expand its charging network in Finland in collaboration wi … | Continue reading
There’s always a photo. Yes, whenever I finished up a few painful months of smacking T-ball stands or getting beaned by soccer balls it was time for that classic end-of-the-year, middle-of-the-field photo shoot. Straighten your shinpads, comb your cowlick, and tighten your cleats … | Continue reading
None of these games are real, but they probably should be The post It Is Once Again Famicase Season, The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year appeared first on Aftermath. | Continue reading
My goal is to read 25 books per year… At least. Last year, I see only twelve books on the blog, but I’m sure some titles are missing. It’s probably an oversight, and I’ll update the list as soon as I’m done checking my list of books read last year. This year, I’m far from my goal … | Continue reading
The Scene On Thursday, the top climate diplomats from the world’s two most polluting countries are meeting in Washington, D.C. John Podesta, America’s climate envoy, and Liu Zhenmin, China’s climate envoy, will hold their first formal session and lay the groundwork for the United … | Continue reading
The Asus ROG Ally is barelya year old, but the gaming handheld built to rival the Steam Deck (at least, the one that came the closest to dethroning Valve’s handheld goliath) is coming back with an upgrade. Details are rather sparse, but the update could include a new coat of pain … | Continue reading
Get these amazing binoculars for under $90 with an Amazon coupon. | Continue reading
There’s a new report on how criminals are using generative AI tools: Key Takeaways: Adoption rates of AI technologies among criminals lag behind the rates of their industry counterparts because of the evolving nature of cybercrime. Compared to last year, criminals seem to have ab … | Continue reading
Warner Bros. has threatened for a while that it wants to keep on telling movies in Middle-Earth—and while we’re looking forward to the animated Rohan prequelWar of the Rohirrim later this year, the studio just dropped the first details on the actual first major project of this ne … | Continue reading
[“Plus, many in the neighborhood argue that the imprint was actually caused by a squirrel.”] Earlier this year, Chicago found itself with a hot new tourist attraction: the rat hole. Gaze upon it! [Photo credit: Winslow Dumaine] Though this rat-shaped hole had existed for multiple … | Continue reading
My friend Shane—who is a Gardener Extraordinaire—has an immense English garden behind his house, and every year he cuts buckets full of the… The post Trying New Things in Oil Painting appeared first on Appalachian Ground. | Continue reading
I should really have titled this column “The Best International Crime Fiction of May Plus One From April and One From Last Year”: mistakes were made in my reading preparations, and when you read two-thirds of a book that came out last year thinking it was out this month, you feel … | Continue reading
The award, presented by Smart Electric Power Alliance, recognizes the project for its innovation, collaboration, and scalability Belmont, California — Smart Electric Power Alliance (SEPA) recognized “Electrifying School Buses in the Bronx” with the 2024 Power Player of the Year a … | Continue reading
Whether you're a John Carpenter fan or a biology enthusiast, you shouldn't need much convincing to know that the melting of subterranean permafrost at the poles is not a good thing. Last year, scientists gave us one more thing to lose sleep over, reviving a 48,500-year-old 'zombi … | Continue reading
This email is from THIS podcast – iTunes – Spotify It’s 2006. My buddy Dave McClure introduced me to a guy named Aaron who was building a product called mint.com (at the time it was called MyMint). I was super impressed. “This is the best product I’ve ever seen,” I told him. I no … | Continue reading
The previous owner of the flat in which I live left a plant pot. A blue plant plot with patterns on its sides. I was left with no information about the plant. There was no message about what I could expect from the plant -- what type it was. I wondered: what would grow, if anythi … | Continue reading
I have a bunch of links saved in obsidian thinking I could do monthly digests of them, but I started that note in october last year so. | Continue reading
The Society for Information Display has recently revealed the winners of its 30th Annual Display Industry Awards. These awards recognize the best displays, components, and applications introduced in the previous year. The recipients of these awards are a testament to the dynamic … | Continue reading
Tesla is a massive company, employing 140,000 people as of late last year. But over the past month, layoffs have torn through the electric vehicle maker — and now a hiring freeze appears to be in effect in North America. Read more... | Continue reading
This year is a very important one for Star Wars, as it looks to its future in shows like The Acolyte and its plans to return to the big screen, and as it reflects on its past with the anniversary of prequel trilogy kickoff The Phantom Menace. But 2024 is also important for one of … | Continue reading
This silver pfennig from the Archbishopric of Magdeburg (1152-1192) was subject to a policy of renovatio monetae. Twice a year whoever held it had to bring it in to be changed for new coins at a rate of four old coins to three new coins. That suggests an annualized tax rate on co … | Continue reading
Audiobook downloads in the UK between 2022 and 2023 have increased by 17 percent, The Guardian reported citing data from the Publishers Association. The total number of audiobooks downloaded during the period has jumped from 50 million to 59 million during the period. This has co … | Continue reading