Born in 1750, Caroline Herschel worked as assistant to her astronomer brother William. But she also made her own discoveries of nebulae, stars & 8(!) comets.
In 1787, King George III employed Caroline as her brother's assistant, including a small salary that made her one of the first women paid for their contributions to #science.
Caroline submitted over 550 stars to the existing star catalog & received honorary membership in the Royal Society. space.com/17439-caroline-hersc… #history
For the past 6 years we've been dealing with the Spectre vulnerability and it's following mitigation implementations and people complain and performance bein...
Given how fast CPUs have become, I honestly think that speed should no longer be a main concern for most people and Intel should probably not market processors based on speed alone. In fact, I'd argue that most people's systems are probably over-specced for what they actually use.
I'd much rather these chip manufacturers actually focus on things like security and stability and market that instead. Though I guess it's easier to market raw performance.
In which @ntnsndr, in conversation with David Bollier – overcast.fm/+YVzymNQfY – does that thing where someone points out a dynamic that should be obvious, but it needs that someone to point it out to you:
Namely, that the client-server model of online infrastructure is inherently antithetical to democratic governance.
In our online lives, “we are in some sense being trained *out of* the democratic practices that have been so essential to practices of political democracies”
all those closed ticket windows below lettering telling travellers to use machines instead. Guess they have to keep the wickets there due to the historical nature of the building.
Some people on Kauai just paid $40k for annual leases of dilapidated cabins up in Waimea Canyon. It's a special place but these cabins are in terrible shape. They're up near 4000 feet elevation, so a good place to escape the heat in the summer, but...that's a lot of cheddar.
i lived in Honolulu for several years - the cost of living was insane. I lived in a 400 sqft apartment that sold as a condo for $400,000 when I left....
Quick site notes: 1. you can now edit comments for 10 min after posting, 2. there’s a new comment posting interface that’s hopefully less confusing, 3. the front page comment widget shows threads you’ve posted in. Come try it out! kottke.org/24/04/0044446-quick…
The Wine 9.7 development release is out now bringing with it the usual bug fixes, plus some ARM platform improvements for this Windows compatibility layer used in Proton.
The SIDEWALK is a tricky invention - but with a little practice, you can master it. Here are a few helpful tips guaranteed to transform you into a sidewalk P...
@Muse Very good. When I was a child I was taught never to step on a sidewalk crack. There was even a little rhyme that went with it. *"Step on a sidewalk crack, break your mother's back." In the video, the young lady stepped on the sidewalk crack. Even after a lifetime - I noticed.
There was also the sidewalk etiquette that included the man/boy always walks on the outside, streetside. This was to protect the woman/girl from water, mud, rocks and debris being splashed on her by passing vehicles. To this day, when I see couples walking on a sidewalk, and the man walks on the inside, I know they were never taught that particular sidewalk etiquette. I believe it's as old as the horse and buggy days, perhaps even an older tradition. In the South states in America, as I remember, etiquette was a very important issue. Many of the rules are very charming and civilized. But of course, that is hardly the case in our modern society, no matter the location. This point of S
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@Muse Very good. When I was a child I was taught never to step on a sidewalk crack. There was even a little rhyme that went with it. *"Step on a sidewalk crack, break your mother's back." In the video, the young lady stepped on the sidewalk crack. Even after a lifetime - I noticed.
There was also the sidewalk etiquette that included the man/boy always walks on the outside, streetside. This was to protect the woman/girl from water, mud, rocks and debris being splashed on her by passing vehicles. To this day, when I see couples walking on a sidewalk, and the man walks on the inside, I know they were never taught that particular sidewalk etiquette. I believe it's as old as the horse and buggy days, perhaps even an older tradition. In the South states in America, as I remember, etiquette was a very important issue. Many of the rules are very charming and civilized. But of course, that is hardly the case in our modern society, no matter the location. This point of Sidewalk Etiquette was not shown in the video, so of course, it was probably not known. -ORIGIN: The tradition of men walking on the streetside of the sidewalk when escorting a lady dates back to medieval times and has roots in both practicality and chivalry.
One practical reason for this tradition is related to historical sanitation practices. In medieval times, people would throw waste and garbage out of windows into the streets. By walking on the outside of the sidewalk, men were shielding women from any debris that might fall from above.
Another reason is related to the dangers of the streets. In the past, streets were not as safe as they are today, with risks such as horse-drawn carriages, mud, and even criminals. By walking on the streetside, men were better positioned to protect women from these potential dangers.
Chivalry also played a significant role in this tradition. In medieval and Renaissance Europe, chivalry was an important code of conduct that emphasized courtesy, honor, and protecting the weak. Walking on the outside of the sidewalk was seen as a way for men to demonstrate their willingness to protect and care for women. While the reasons for this tradition may have evolved over time, the practice itself has persisted as a symbolic gesture of respect and protection towards women.
* Someone posts an extremely spicy implementation of a basic app on r/androiddev that essentially says, "All recommended best practices for Android dev are trash, just use Java and ditch all of Google's compat APIs": reddit.com/r/androiddev/commen… * Everyone laughs at this person for being a crank * Turns out: They are the author of mastodon-android! github.com/mastodon/mastodon-a… * Aaaaaand this extremely dubious fork of AndroidX: github.com/grishka/LiteX
It would be nice if Mastodon's Android client weren't written and maintained by a crank who is unable to collaborate effectively or distinguish between good and bad dependencies. (Same problem, honestly)
It's been a while in the making but today it's finally happening, today the one and only Jay LaCroix better known online as Learn Linux TV, who you may know ...
man your show is one of the best out there. I love the format. You get so many different and interesting people on there. This episode in particular was crazy good. Never perceived Jay as this in-depth guy. I always thought he makes only superficial distro-first-look videos. Too bad he doesn't have a mastodon account, or does he?
Two lifeforms merge in once-in-a-billion-years #evolutionary event Scientists have caught a once-in-a-billion-years evolutionary event in progress, as two lifeforms have merged into one organism that boasts abilities its peers would envy. Last time this happened, Earth got plants. The #algae Braarudosphaera bigelowii has been found to have absorbed a #cyanobacteria called UCYN-A, which may be a huge step forward for #evolution. newatlas.com/biology/life-merg…
Scientists have discovered that a once-in-a-billion-years evolutionary event is underway, as two lifeforms have merged into one organism that boasts abilities its peers would envy. Last time this happened, Earth got plants.
Under NASA’s Artemis campaign, the agency and its partners will send large pieces of equipment to the lunar surface to enable long-term scientific exploration
Writ Small is a newsletter highlighting kids’ media — “think Bluey, but stuff that isn’t Bluey” — and so far the worst part is that I want to buy all the things it recommends. kottke.org/24/04/writ-small-a-…
NASA and Slovenia affirmed their cooperation in future space endeavors on Friday as Slovenia became the 39th country to sign the Artemis Accords. The signing
Humans aren’t the only mammals working to mitigate the effects of climate change in the Western United States. People there are also enlisting the aid of
Two interesting picks from Humble Bundle to go over for the weekend. First is the Down on the Farm bundle which has some sweet picks, plus one for game devs!
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La Secretaría de Cultura del Gobierno de México, a través del área de Inclusión y Comunidades del Centro de Cultura Digital (CCD) invitan a integrantes de proyectos autogestivos, colectivas independientes, activistas y ONGs a formarse en e…
The US food and drink giant PepsiCo has been linked through its supply chain to Amazon deforestation and the invasion of Indigenous lands in Peru, the Bureau of Investigative Journalism (TBIJ), Mongabay and Peruvian outlet Ojo Público can reveal.
#AMRO24 – Dancing at the Crossroads 8th–11th May 2024, Linz (AT)
“Dancing at the crossroads” and invites its community of artists and technologists, activists and developers to focus on the consequences of work automation and data extraction, the environmental impact of pervasive and all-encompassing computing, and the social consequences of a perhaps resistible rise of total AI.
NASA invites you — and everyone else on the planet — to take part in a worldwide celebration of Earth Day with the agency's #GlobalSelfie event. While NASA
NASA has selected six new airborne missions that include domestic and international studies of fire-induced clouds, Arctic coastal change, air quality, landslide hazards, shrinking glaciers, and emissions from agricultural lands.
This image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope features NGC 3783, a bright barred spiral galaxy about 130 million light-years from Earth that also lends its name to the eponymous NGC 3783 galaxy group.
The enchanting Groves Titi Monkey, also referred to as the Alta Floresta titi monkey or Mato Grosso titi monkey made a remarkable entry into the spotlight only recently in 2016 when they were class…
The world lost 10 football fields of old-growth tropical forest every minute in 2023 and despite uplifting progress in the Amazon, the picture elsewhere is less rosy, researchers said on Thursday.
JAKARTA — The tropics continue to lose primary forest at an alarming rate, with an area of tree cover half the size of Panama disappearing in 2023, new data from the University of Maryland’s GLAD lab show. Primary forest loss last year amounted to 3.
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