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Physicists have created “everlasting bubbles”(arstechnica.com)
6 points by akeck 5y ago|0 comments
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Safari and iOS users: Your browsing activity is being leaked in real time(arstechnica.com)
4 points by akeck 5y ago|0 comments
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by akeck 5y ago
This reminds me of the 100 Rabbits folks having to ditch their standard creative software (Adobe) and Apple hardware during their Pacific Ocean traversal. After a month or two offline, every single token timed out and those apps and hardwar
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A behavioral scientist's advice for changing your life(npr.org)
1 points by akeck 5y ago|0 comments
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Mathematicians clear hurdle in quest to decode primes(quantamagazine.org)
251 points by akeck 5y ago|73 comments
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The Great Surrender: How We Gave Up and Let Covid Win(terribleminds.com)
20 points by akeck 5y ago|34 comments
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Israeli scientists have trained goldfish to drive, in a scene out of Dr. Seuss(npr.org)
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by akeck 5y ago
It's the land version of the Clathrate Gun.
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Lean: Time for Real(twitter.com)
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by akeck 5y ago
Exactly. I watched one of his presentations. His burn rate is quite low since he needs many fewer inputs to farm.
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by akeck 5y ago
"Dirt to Soil" by Gabe Brown might start getting more popular. He started investigating no-till, etc. after several successive years of crop failures and thus not being able to afford the normal inputs for industrial farming.
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by akeck 5y ago
Unfortunately, I haven't gotten to reading Solarpunk fiction yet. I've heard Le Guin's "The Dispossessed" is recommended as a proto-Solarpunk novel. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solarpunk#L
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by akeck 5y ago
If you're into Permaculture and Solarpunk, "Dirt to Soil" by Gabe Brown
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by akeck 5y ago
Your approach seems a little like applying certain ultra-light hiking philosophies to one bag travel. E.g., Don't buy a fancy usb-powered travel toothbrush - buy a plain manual toothbrush and cut off the handle to save space and weight
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The unexpected ways children change their parents(bbc.com)
1 points by akeck 5y ago|0 comments
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by akeck 5y ago
Building Science Fight Club (I follow on IG. There's also a website.) has made me skeptical about these kinds of articles. There's a ton of nuance to doing construction correctly for the particular environment one is building in.
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by akeck 5y ago
On the electronics side of things, I recommend "The Hardware Hacker" by bunnie.
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by akeck 5y ago
Not useful in this situation, but a friend of mine recently convinced me to buy an offline mapping app and all the maps for my country. Apparently, he was able to get out of trouble with plenty of battery to spare by turning off cell/w
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Is finding a 'new normal' in the workplace impossible?(bbc.com)
3 points by akeck 5y ago|0 comments
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by akeck 5y ago
Another McSweeney's article I love: "MEET OLIVIA! THE COVID-19-ERA AMERICAN GIRL DOLL" https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/meet-olivia-the-covid-19... Almost too close to the eventual truth.
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by akeck 5y ago
Go back to artillery, etc. mechanical targeting in WWII, just before electric computers came onto the scene. Feynman talks about those mechanical computers in Surely You're Joking Mr. Feynman. Apparently, you can do mechanical integral
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by akeck 5y ago
Is it supposed to translate or just read with the target accent? For me, it's only reading the English input text with the target accent.
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by akeck 5y ago
True. Definitely a prime candidate for authoring True Crypt though. The book The Mastermind is a wild ride.
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by akeck 5y ago
I sometimes re-read this article to chill after a stressful day: http://blog.lareviewofbooks.org/essays/self-publishing-pleas...
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by akeck 5y ago
We're in the same situation, but went with a pack of simple styluses instead of switching platforms. Working ok so far, arthritis definitely gets in the way of the iPad solution. That being said, we're definitely avoiding a pile o
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by akeck 5y ago
I've always done flat art (painting, drawing, etc.). I'm now getting into handmade books. I'm looking forward to making books of my art by hand.
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by akeck 5y ago
You can also inline images by putting base64 in img tags. Pandoc creates nice single file websites with flags to inline both CSS and images.
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The Rise of “Killer Robots” and the Race to Restrain Them(skynettoday.com)
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by akeck 5y ago
I read a post recently that said part of the open source funding issue comes down to a financial "structure" mismatch. Open source folks are often individuals or loose collections of individuals. Sometimes they have things like Pa
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by akeck 5y ago
I use the "--trim-filenames" flag to deal with this issue.

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