Professor A. (Tom) Veldkamp will remain rector magnificus of the University of Twente for the next four years. The Supervisory Board has decided on his reappointment, which takes effect on 1 October 2024. Veldkamp has been part of the UT's Executive Board since 2020, which furthe … | Continue reading
I have a system I've been using since 2019 for taking notes at work. I use an Arc notebook that I got from Staples that has refillable pages. It's a customizable system, so I can remove pages and insert them elsewhere in the book by simply pulling out the sheet. It’s really nice … | Continue reading
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Laurence Stephen Lowry RBA RA; 1 November 1887 – 23 February 1976 was an English artist. His drawings and paintings mainly depict Pendlebury, Greater Manchester (where he lived and worked for more than 40 years), as well as Salford and its vicinity. Lowry painted scenes of life i … | Continue reading
When Roger Waters left Pink Floyd after 1983’s The Final Cut, the remaining members had good reason to assume the band was truly, as Waters proclaimed, “a spent force.” After releasing solo projects in the next few years, David Gilmour, Nick Mason, and Richard Wright soon discove … | Continue reading
David Stile knew his air conditioner wasn’t long for this world. It was already 24 years old — ancient for an AC — and he wanted to replace it before it broke. The project would come with hassle and expense, but in it Stile also saw an opportunity. He could switch over to a heat … | Continue reading
This photo is from 13 years ago today in Saskatoon, CA. Things, Reeder, and Instapaper are in my iPad’s Dock. | Continue reading
A couple of years ago I wrote a somewhat controversial article on the topic of Bringing the Unix Philosophy to the 21st Century by adding a JSON output option to CLI tools. This allows easier parsing in scripts by using JSON parsing tools like jq, jello, jp, etc. without arcane a … | Continue reading
Hardika Singh, Wall Street Journal: Bartash isn’t alone. Scores of individual investors have piled into Tesla shares in recent years, lured by the company’s technology, visionary chief executive and mammoth stock market gains. Through the end of last year, the stock was one of th … | Continue reading
For nearly two years, an Australian billing company (pardon, an “energy retailer”), has been sending threatening letters about cutting off our non-existant gas supply. This is the most recent letter we’ve received: DISCONNECTION WARNING NOTICE TO THE UNREGISTERED ENERGY USER Impo … | Continue reading
I committed a pretty big social media mistake once. Well, way more than once since then, but I remember this one specifically because it was my first. It was well over 6 years ago, but I still shake my head at how tone deaf I was. I posted a quote on Instagram to my hundred follo … | Continue reading
A few weeks ago, Moses, Rob, Stefanni, and Svenja met to discuss how Team Leads work at thoughtbot. You can find it on our YouTube channel if you missed the chat. Below is a summary of everything we discussed. Team Leads at thoughtbot The concept of Team Leads is new to thoughtbo … | Continue reading
When we first met General Grievous 20 years ago this month in Genndy Tartakovsky’s Clone Wars microseries, it gave him an immediate, chilling presence. But then Revenge of the Sith, and with it the Clone Wars 3DCG series, constrained what could be done with the character. Grievou … | Continue reading
The American solar industry is in a tizzy over tariffs. On one side are the companies that develop, finance, and install solar systems. On the other, the American (or American-located) companies that manufacture them. China’s solar panel industry has been a combination of boon an … | Continue reading
Comer and Fiennes have just been confirmed by Deadline. However, it seems as though Hunman has been replaced by — him again — none other than Aaron Taylor-Johnson. | Continue reading
Director Danny Boyle and writer Alex Garland are not screwing around when it comes to their upcoming zombie film, 28 Years Later. Jodie Comer, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, and Ralph Fiennes are the first three actors who’ve joined the film, a follow-up to the cult classics 28 Weeks Late … | Continue reading
Many of us watch The Office more often than we care to admit. We’ve spent so much time with the series that, over the years, the characters and the actors who portray themhave almost become family. So when a video like this comes online, it’s more than just delightful. It’s catha … | Continue reading
A new version of Clapper, a GTK4-based video player for Linux desktop has been released — the first major update in nearly 2 years. I first wrote about Clapper back in 2021 having been seduced over by its slick user interface (a superficial reason to like a media player, I know), … | Continue reading
Crooks and Liars.com: Four years ago yesterday, Donald Trump announced that “injecting bleach and shining light into the body would cure COVID-19” – it’s amazing we survived Trump, much less COVID-19! | Continue reading
It took 40 years, but recently one of my toy dreams came true. After writing this article about toys that you always wanted, but could never have, I was contacted to see if I’d be interested in receiving and writing about a brand new set of Voltron toys to celebrate the franchise … | Continue reading
Source: Summaries, Custom Article Actions, Obsidian… I’m glad to be paying for Instapaper. It’s a solid service that works beautifully! I’m glad that after years of banging around uncaring owners, it’s self-owned now, because it can finally work on user-centric features! It’s lau … | Continue reading
I’ve noticed that the two most common sources of regret for my last 20-30 years of experience are: The risks taken that paid off – what would I regret? For example, when taking my first mortgage, it felt like a great risk. The payment was a significant portion of my salary at the … | Continue reading
A new study, drawing on five years of data collected across 84 countries, proves what seems self-evident. | Continue reading
The former vice chancellor for undergraduate and graduate education will leverage more than 30 years of experience at the Institute to oversee MIT’s research activities. | Continue reading
The oldest firm age yet for Earth's magnetic field suggests that it developed before a solid planetary core, 3.7 billion years ago. | Continue reading
At some point, our phone habits changed. It used to be that if the phone rang, you answered it. With the advent of caller ID, you’d only pick up if it was someone you recognized. And now, with spoofing and robocalls, it can seem like a gamble to pick up the phone, period. In 2023 … | Continue reading
When I said “Send a text message to Julian Chokkattu,” who’s a friend and fellow AI Pin reviewer over at Wired, I thought I’d be asked what I wanted to tell him. Instead, the device simply said OK and told me it sent the words “Hey Julian, just checking in. How's your day going?” … | Continue reading
Here’s an example of some icons that transitioned well in the Big Sur-ification of macOS icons: And just for good measure, here’s a few more — I love this stuff. While some apps made this transition fun (and further infused their brand with character), others did not. They did th … | Continue reading
I first became interested in the cost of being a public figure when I read Corruptible by Brian Klaas a few years ago. Klaas argues that perverse systems in society cause us to end up with leaders who exhibit a dark triad of characteristics — narcissism, Machiavellianism, and psy … | Continue reading
From Digiday: “Newsletters are the darling of the digital media industry again. Publishers like Axios, Eater, The Guardian, theSkimm and Snopes are either growing or revamping their newsletter offerings, tailoring new emails to specific audiences with more personality-driven cont … | Continue reading
Cookware, in particular, is something that can last for years, and buying secondhand is a great way to get quality items. Shopper blown away after investigating cookware purchased from thrift store: 'Like blindly buying a Ferrari for next to nothing' first appeared on The Cool Do … | Continue reading
The 3.7 billion-year-old rocks may extend the magnetic field’s age by 200 million years. | Continue reading
Generative AI is attracting attention as the technology has progressed in leaps and bounds in recent years, offering fresh ways to solve user problems. Since it's a relatively new area in terms of its practical application, figuring out how to start building with LLMs (large lang … | Continue reading
Both in Europe and beyond, policy makers are striving to increase the sustainability and resilience of their economies and societies, in the face of a complex array of macro trends and crises. In recent years, the concept of regional innovation ecosystems (RIEs) has come to the f … | Continue reading
Elections for the state's Public Service Commission have been on hold for years. | Continue reading
"It's taken me years to painstakingly remove [what] the previous owners installed in my yard." Homeowner learns from others' mistakes using 'terrible' gardening method: 'It's a total mess' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
Back in 2013 when I started using Fedora Core 1, I had no idea I’d still be on Fedora when it reached its 40th release 11 years later. Congrats to the team and here’s the official announcement. | Continue reading
Re-creating the steps from 7 years ago the first phase was to build the Darwin kernel. Like everything else, once you know what is involved, it’s not all that difficult. But as always finding out the steps to get there … Continue reading → | Continue reading
Bioluminescence traces back to the Cambrian era — 540 million years ago — and could have been used for communication, courtship and camouflage among the earliest ocean creatures. | Continue reading
Bioluminescence, the eerie, beautiful phenomena that allows living things to glow, is way more ancient than previously thought, according to a team of researchers that recently studied the ability in octocorals. Read more... | Continue reading
A new type of brain implant technology has given a man with total blindness a kind of “artificial vision.” | Continue reading
eScan AV updates were delivered over HTTP for five years. | Continue reading
Every single iPhone and Mac has come with a calculator app, but not the iPad. | Continue reading
It's one small, generational "secret" that keeps my kitchen running smoothly. READ MORE... | Continue reading
CATL has unveiled a new grid-scale energy storage battery it claims will have high density and zero degradation for the first five years. The post CATL Claims New Grid Battery Will Experience No Degradation In First Five Years appeared first on CleanTechnica. | Continue reading
John Lennon's 1964 Framus 5/024 Hootenanny famously played on the title track of The Beatles' 1965 album Help! – and believed lost for more than 50 years – is heading to auction next month, where it's expected to break records. Continue Reading Category: Music, Technology Tags: A … | Continue reading
Today we’re announcing $18M in new funding from an incredible set of investors, with a $17M Series A-1 round led by Spark Capital, with Buckley Ventures, Anzu Partners, Cooler Master, and Pathbreaker Ventures participating. We started just over four years ago with a vision to rem … | Continue reading
[Look at what we can do.] Back in February, I noted that after nearly 47 years, Voyager 1 may be dying. But Goonies NASA nerds never say die. After months of meticulous debugging work, we are once again receiving valid data from Voyager. On April 18, 2024, the team began sending … | Continue reading