"You never really know what's gonna happen when you eat out these days." Cook shares concerning video showing how food gets contaminated in prep: 'Bring it up to management' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
Conservation efforts like this one are critical to the region because of devastating extreme weather events. Conservation efforts reverse decades-long decline of critical mangrove forests: 'The lifeline for the fishing community' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
The Left will soon present a proposal to the Bundestag calling for Germany to introduce a Dönerpreisbremse, which would cap the cost of a sandwich at 4,90 euros and 2,90 euros for... | Continue reading
A microneedle patch that delivers immune-regulating molecules can teach T cells not to attack hair follicles, helping hair to regrow. | Continue reading
"Fetal DNA is being shaped by these exposures." Study reveals concerning trend in urine samples of pregnant women: 'This is not benign exposure' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
I’ve been hard at work in recent months on a new textbook on electromagnetic waves, and that has led me to dig deep into understanding a number of subjects, and their history, that I have only really casually considered in … Continue reading → | Continue reading
Today, we are announcing the general availability of the generative engine of Amazon Polly with three voices: Ruth and Matthew in American English and Amy in British English. The new generative engine was trained with publicly available and proprietary data, a variety of voices, … | Continue reading
This experience is proof that environmentally responsible practices can benefit both renters and landlords. Tenant retaliates against landlord for taking advantage of their property upgrades: 'I took my whole garden with me' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
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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 reasons why anyone in the administration thought that this executive would be an ideal person to address the graduating students are a mystery. University students loudly protest commencement speaker who heads dirty-energy company: 'This is such a disgrace' first appeared on … | Continue reading
"Go pick up some trash at your local mountain or park." Hiker shares frustration after encountering upsetting scene on trail: 'Do better' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
My "this is not an NFT scam" T-shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my shirt The post AI-Riddled Card Game With NFTs Raises $1.5 Million On Kickstarter Before Getting Binned appeared first on Aftermath. | Continue reading
"Food was a big part of our family, but not in the way of this romanticized view of food." James Beard–nominated chef shares how his culture influenced cuisine based on invasive species: 'Our people have been doing that in the mountains for thousands of years' first appeared on T … | Continue reading
It's up to everyone to educate those who might engage in these potentially devastating behaviors, which can quickly turn horrifying and deadly. Homeowner horrified after finding unattended fire left in dry woods near home: 'The fire marshal will be very interested in checking tha … | Continue reading
The scientists are improving the technology while also making the cells easier to place. Scientists make advancements with groundbreaking binary organic solar cell technology: 'Highly efficient and stable' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
Tandem OLED display panels were new to me when Apple mentioned them during the “Let Loose” event yesterday. I figured it was another marketing term like Ultra Retina XDR, but it’s not. As Quinn Nelson of Snazzy Labs explains in his excellent video, tandem OLED is a technology tha … | Continue reading
TLDR: Thanks to José Exposito, libwacom 2.12 will support all [1] Huion and Gaomon devices when running on a 6.10 kernel. libwacom, now almost 13 years old, is a C library that provides a bunch of static information about graphics tablets that is not otherwise available by lookin … | Continue reading
Following the stone steps toward the sea from Ayia Thekla chapel, visitors will find a cross on the left-hand side carved into the stone bedrock. Underneath is an open doorway leading into a small cave entrance which leads to a candle-lit shrine. Believed to have been carved in t … | Continue reading
"Land managers can proactively identify areas that will be key for wildlife conservation while protecting coastal communities." Conservationists sound alarm over concerning trend in Maryland wetlands: 'It's more critical than ever' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
Heat waves and coastal floods are increasingly striking at the same time. Scientists sound alarm over weather events 'rapidly increasing' globally: 'Tropical coastlines were the hardest hit' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
The flooding damaged roads and infrastructure. Experts raise alarm as death toll surpasses 100 after atypical storms: 'This is exactly what we've been warning about' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
This morning came my brother John to take his leave of me, he being to return to Cambridge to-morrow, and after I had chid him for going with my Will the other day to Deptford with the principal officers, I did give him some good counsell and 20s. in... | Continue reading
The weather is becoming more Spring like here in Montague. | Continue reading
I haven’t changed my desktop manager for over a decade now, but I change wallpapers from time to time. Awesomewm is still my main window manager, with one terminal, and tmux only. As I wrote before, I mainly use only a couple of tags like this: Terminal Librewolf Signal Darktable … | Continue reading
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I lost my wedding ring on Sunday and it turned up three days later, five miles from my house, and full circle back on my finger. ✏️ Handwritten by Geoff Graham on May 8, 2024 Post navigation 👈 Previous | Continue reading
Let's make a duplicate finder for documentation together – a tool to quickly detect non-exact, or fuzzy, matches in large text repositories. The post Duplicate Finder for Documentation appeared first on foojay. | Continue reading
"You're pretty guaranteed that it's ready." Plant expert shares simple trick to ensure ripe watermelon pick every time: 'They're so yummy' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
All the warmth and comfort of a heritage wool blanket with the easy care of modern bedding. | Continue reading
Mark Gurman, writing at Bloomberg, about who could be the next CEO of Apple, assuming Tim Cook sticks around long enough for the torch to pass over Jeff Williams, who is 61 years old, just two years younger than Cook: If Cook were to stay that long, people within Apple say, the m … | Continue reading
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Over the course of my years as a software engineer, I’ve slowly become more curmudgeonly deliberate about how to structure a codebase, and how to gauge its relative success. In my early days I was myopically focused on what the code can do today. It was all about speed, and crank … | Continue reading
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If you use Ubuntu 22.04 LTS or later and want to access the Google Gemini AI chatbot straight from your desktop outside of a web browser, you’re in luck! The Gemini AI ChatBot GNOME Shell extension (unaffiliated with Google; it’s not an official thing) gives you immediate access … | Continue reading
In a comment on "Inerrancy and prescriptivism", Philip Minden wrote that "'just because… doesn't mean' is chalk drawn slowly down the blackboard", referring to the panel on the right. The traditional reference is to fingernails on a chalkboard, not chalk on a blackboard — if chal … | Continue reading
A screen cap of disassociated’s links page, circa November 1999. Them were dark days… Daniel Prindii asks, could blogrolls form the basis of community building online? Well, once upon a time, when they were known as links pages, that’s exactly what they did. But with the developm … | Continue reading
Skeletal remains with rods clamped across their necks, dirt in their mouths, or spears pinning down their body: These are just a few tactics that Europeans of the past used to ward off the resurrected dead—or zombies, if you will. Several archaeological sites have pointed to “rev … | Continue reading
In the far northwestern corner of Italy, the small city of Aosta is situated in a stunning Alpine setting. Founded in 25 B.C. and nestled in a long, steep-sided valley, the city has long been a stopping point on the Via Francigena, the ancient Roman road and pilgrimage route betw … | Continue reading
In this case, one wrong step could have spelled the end. Spectator shares frustrating photo of visitor ignoring national park warnings: 'Too many people not following rules' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
Harrison's lighthouse stands looking over the Caribbean Sea on the northwest coast of Barbados. The building has been abandoned since circa 2007, but was constructed around the 1920s, some of the outbuildings remain including the keeper's house. | 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
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It should be noted that no ethically-trained software engineer would ever consent to write a DestroyBaghdad procedure. Basic professional ethics would instead require him to write a DestroyCity procedure, to which Baghdad could be given as a parameter. — Nathaniel Borenstein | Continue reading
Here comes the iReader Smart X3 Pro E Ink tablet which its makers claim offers class-leading experience whether for work, education, or simply entertainment. The e-note comes with a custom-sized 10.65-inch Carta 1300 display having 300 PPI resolution. The Kindle Scribe sports a 1 … | Continue reading
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This week on MPU: Apple has unveiled new iPad Pro and iPad Air models. Stephen and David talk through the news and discuss why hardware isn’t at the heart of the iPad’s struggles. | Continue reading
"Tide evo embodies over a decade of research and development." Tide launches new form of laundry detergent without any plastic — here's how it could rattle the industry first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading