Nostr notes by Paul Houle

Snowdrops: another very early flower on my farm #photo ...

2026-03-16T13:44:48Z

Snowdrops: another very early flower on my farm

#photo #photography #plants #flowers #bloomscrolling #flower #snowdrops #spring #forest #472central

... circa 2009 or so I was frustrated with RDF inference methods ...

2026-03-10T14:20:12Z

In reply to nevent1q…ur4x
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... circa 2009 or so I was frustrated with RDF inference methods and very interested in Datalog but found there was very little literature, 10 years later the commercial interest was almost overwhelming

the compiler methods used to implement Prolog are pretty ...

2026-03-10T14:19:15Z

In reply to nevent1q…newn
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the compiler methods used to implement Prolog are pretty fascinating, I mean the first time you look at Prolog you might not believe you could get it to run at a speed similar to other programming languages but you can... on the other hand that clever way you write imperative programs by taking advantage of backtracking, cuts and such seems more awkward than clever after you do it for a while...

it's a paper from the golden age but there are definitely ...

2026-03-10T13:11:39Z

In reply to nevent1q…99q2
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it's a paper from the golden age but there are definitely still FORTH enthusiasts around

💡Compiling Prolog to Forth ...

2026-03-09T22:00:20Z

💡Compiling Prolog to Forth

https://vfxforth.com/flag/jfar/vol4/no4/article4.pdf

#prolog #forth #programming #software #compilers #computerscience #sc #logicprogramming

well I remember an Indian politician who would wax delirious ...

2026-03-09T16:17:22Z

In reply to nevent1q…5aqh
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well I remember an Indian politician who would wax delirious about urophagy

https://theconversation.com/drinking-pee-to-improve-health-is-an-ancient-practice-but-the-risks-outweigh-the-evidence-253353

it was originally discovered in urine by an alchemist looking for ...

2026-03-09T13:07:29Z

In reply to nevent1q…ugam
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it was originally discovered in urine by an alchemist looking for the philosopher's stone -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hennig_Brand

Old Railroad bed converted to trail by Massabesic Lake east of ...

2026-03-06T01:39:55Z

Old Railroad bed converted to trail by Massabesic Lake east of Manchester, NH where I wandered as a cub

#photo #photography #landscape #newhampshire #trail #hiking #manchester #massabesiclake #fall

🦇 Humans show bat-like skills using mouth-click echolocation ...

2026-03-05T17:37:02Z

🦇 Humans show bat-like skills using mouth-click echolocation

(... and where is the bat-man?)

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-02-humans-skills-mouth-click-echolocation.html

#senses #echolocation #ability #research #bats

🧻 Converting human urine into clean energy: Researchers ...

2026-03-04T20:56:58Z

🧻 Converting human urine into clean energy: Researchers optimize the process

https://techxplore.com/news/2026-02-human-urine-energy-optimize.html

#urine #energy #fuelcell #chemistry #waste #circulareconomy

🪤 France Bets on Carbon Capture as North Sea Rivals Surge ...

2026-02-25T16:01:41Z

🪤 France Bets on Carbon Capture as North Sea Rivals Surge Ahead

https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/France-Bets-on-Carbon-Capture-as-North-Sea-Rivals-Surge-Ahead.html

#france #europe #climatechange #carboncapture #environment #business

When other people were stressin' it in the blizzard this ...

2026-01-29T03:22:27Z

When other people were stressin' it in the blizzard this weekend I stayed by the wood stove and popped my head out just to take this picture

#photo #photography #landscape #snow #winter #tree #barn #472central #caroline

💸 Why the price of coffee has skyrocketed: from Brazilian ...

2026-01-26T00:21:02Z

💸 Why the price of coffee has skyrocketed: from Brazilian plantations to specialty coffee houses

https://english.elpais.com/economy-and-business/2025-12-28/why-the-price-of-coffee-has-skyrocketed-from-brazilian-plantations-to-specialty-coffee-houses.html

#coffee #inflation #resources #globalsouth #business #costofliving #caffeine

Bee hovers near small flower deep inside Mulholland Wildflower ...

2026-01-02T21:54:33Z

Bee hovers near small flower deep inside Mulholland Wildflower Preserve inside Sixmile Creek

#photo #photography #flowers #bloomscrolling #insects #bee #bug #ithaca #sixmilecreek #pollinators

🫧 Ancient seafloor lava rubble stores vast amounts of carbon ...

2026-01-02T20:16:52Z

🫧 Ancient seafloor lava rubble stores vast amounts of carbon dioxide, researchers discover

https://phys.org/news/2025-11-ancient-seafloor-lava-rubble-vast.html

#geology #ocean #carbon #climatechange #carbonstorage #lava

⚗️ Modular system simultaneously produces purified water and ...

2025-12-26T00:21:06Z

⚗️ Modular system simultaneously produces purified water and hydrogen

https://techxplore.com/news/2025-12-modular-simultaneously-purified-hydrogen.html

#energy #hydrogen #water #chemistry #sustainability

🪏 Locking carbon in trees and soils could help 'stabilize ...

2025-11-08T20:52:43Z

🪏 Locking carbon in trees and soils could help 'stabilize climate for centuries'—if done correctly

https://phys.org/news/2025-10-carbon-trees-soils-stabilize-climate.html

#environment #climatechange #carboncapture #climate #trees #soil #ecology

Pair of small cosmos, what I liked about this batch was seeing ...

2025-10-23T03:01:37Z

Pair of small cosmos, what I liked about this batch was seeing the little grains of pollen that had migrated to the petals

#photo #photography #flowers #bloomscrolling #cosmos #petals #pollen

🚬 Manipulating the body's endocannabinoid receptor may ...

2025-10-05T12:35:34Z

🚬 Manipulating the body's endocannabinoid receptor may result in neuropsychiatric issues

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-09-body-endocannabinoid-receptor-result-neuropsychiatric.html

#drugs #thc #cannabis #pharmacology #mentalhealth #brain #neuroscience #biology #medicine #research

🧋 Study: There is less room to store carbon dioxide, driver of ...

2025-10-04T01:17:49Z

🧋 Study: There is less room to store carbon dioxide, driver of climate change, than previously thought

https://phys.org/news/2025-09-room-carbon-dioxide-driver-climate.html

#co2 #climatechange #carbonstorage #geology #environment

🚀 Powering a path to Mars with reactor test bed ...

2025-10-03T14:04:28Z

🚀 Powering a path to Mars with reactor test bed

https://techxplore.com/news/2025-09-powering-path-mars-reactor-bed.html

#space #nuclear #energy #engineering #research

🌡️ Breakthrough carbon nanotube material sets new thermal ...

2025-10-01T17:35:10Z

🌡️ Breakthrough carbon nanotube material sets new thermal insulation record

https://phys.org/news/2025-09-breakthrough-carbon-nanotube-material-thermal.html

#materials #heat #thermal #insulation #carbon #technology #nanotechnology #nanotube

📒 ‘Independent’ auditors overvalue credits of carbon ...

2025-10-01T17:08:51Z

📒 ‘Independent’ auditors overvalue credits of carbon projects, study finds

https://news.mongabay.com/2025/09/independent-auditors-overvalue-credits-of-carbon-projects-study-finds/

#climatechange #finance #carboncapture #politics #corruption #accounting #environment

Heavy on the flowers today because it's getting late and I ...

2025-09-29T02:50:48Z

Heavy on the flowers today because it's getting late and I haven't finished developing today's batch -- hear are some peach colored Sakura from last April

#photo #photography #flowers #bloomscrolling #sakura #rose #prunus #tree

The paw up close with Kimball in the background, still in the ...

2025-09-28T01:10:00Z

The paw up close with Kimball in the background, still in the kitchen

#photo #photography #cats #caturday #CatsOfMastodon #CatsOfFediverse #kimball #bigpaw

🤢 Acid-resistant artificial mucus improves gastric wound ...

2025-09-25T17:14:57Z

🤢 Acid-resistant artificial mucus improves gastric wound healing in animals

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-09-acid-resistant-artificial-mucus-gastric.html

#materials #chemistry #biomimetic #healthcare #health #medicine #gastroenterology

🔥 Climate-driven wildfires reversing pollution progress in N. ...

2025-09-12T13:03:27Z

🔥 Climate-driven wildfires reversing pollution progress in N. America: study

https://phys.org/news/2025-08-climate-driven-wildfires-reversing-pollution.html

#usa #northamerica #environment #pollution #airpollution #airquality #fires #wildfires #climatechange

🌽 To get that perfect ear of corn, weather has to cooperate. ...

2025-09-11T19:33:22Z

🌽 To get that perfect ear of corn, weather has to cooperate. But climate change is making it dicier

https://phys.org/news/2025-08-ear-corn-weather-cooperate-climate.html

#corn #farming #agriculture #weather #good #climatechange #environment

⚡ Under-the-skin electrode allows for real-world epilepsy ...

2025-09-10T05:11:20Z

⚡ Under-the-skin electrode allows for real-world epilepsy tracking

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-08-skin-electrode-real-world-epilepsy.html

#brain #sensors #eeg #epilepsy #health #disease

... and making cement, cutting down tropical forests, etc. I used ...

2025-09-07T23:17:44Z

In reply to nevent1q…vu66
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... and making cement, cutting down tropical forests, etc. I used to be one of those people who said "who the hell cares about gases like SF6 and methane" too.

🌵 Climate models reveal how human activity may be locking the ...

2025-09-07T04:20:47Z

🌵 Climate models reveal how human activity may be locking the Southwest into permanent drought

https://theconversation.com/climate-models-reveal-how-human-activity-may-be-locking-the-southwest-into-permanent-drought-262837

#climatechange #uswest #water #drought #environment

Queen Jane, our official barn cat, is the best confirmed mouser ...

2025-09-06T16:19:44Z

Queen Jane, our official barn cat, is the best confirmed mouser of all our cats

#cats #photo #photography #caturday #animals #queenjane #CatsOfMastodon #CatsOfFediverse

I think this is 𝐿𝑎𝑝𝑠𝑎𝑛𝑎 ...

2025-08-27T01:34:25Z

I think this is 𝐿𝑎𝑝𝑠𝑎𝑛𝑎 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑚𝑢𝑛𝑖𝑠, the common nipplewort, one of many aster-family flowers I see in Shindagin Hollow State Forest

#photo #photography #bloomscrolling #flowers #nature #forest #stateforest #shindaginhollos #caroline #upstateny

📈 Global Energy Demand Outpaces Renewable Expansion ...

2025-08-26T23:53:35Z

📈 Global Energy Demand Outpaces Renewable Expansion

https://oilprice.com/Alternative-Energy/Renewable-Energy/Global-Energy-Demand-Outpaces-Renewable-Expansion.html

#energy #renewables #climatechange #economics #environment

🚀 The real nuclear moonshot is here on Earth ...

2025-08-25T16:35:58Z

🚀 The real nuclear moonshot is here on Earth

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2025/08/13/world/the-nuclear-moonshot-is-on-earth/

#energy #space #moon #lunar #nuclear #technology #business

🆓https://archive.ph/JVl9T

Peach colored rose-like flowers from a 𝑃𝑟𝑢𝑛𝑢𝑠 ...

2025-08-24T23:46:33Z

Peach colored rose-like flowers from a 𝑃𝑟𝑢𝑛𝑢𝑠 family tree (aka Sakura)

#bloomscrolling #photo #photography #trees #flowers #rose #flower #spring

🌞 Sunlight-activated material turns PFAS in water into ...

2025-08-24T01:01:53Z

🌞 Sunlight-activated material turns PFAS in water into harmless fluoride

https://phys.org/news/2025-08-sunlight-material-pfas-harmless-fluoride.html

#chemistry #pfas #catalyst #waste #poison #environment

📉 Here's what I think about Curtis Yarvin ...

2025-08-22T02:00:41Z

📉 Here's what I think about Curtis Yarvin

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44980305

#politics #civilization #history #philosophy #degrowth

I think a great big Rose of Sharon in the Ithaca Flats #flowers ...

2025-08-12T02:11:52Z

I think a great big Rose of Sharon in the Ithaca Flats

#flowers #photo #photography #bloomscrolling #ithaca #downtown

😮‍💨 Carbon 'offsets' aren't working: ...

2025-08-10T17:16:00Z

😮‍💨 Carbon 'offsets' aren't working: Researchers offer a 'roadmap' to improve nature-based climate solutions

https://phys.org/news/2025-07-carbon-offsets-roadmap-nature-based.html

#climatechange #politics #climate #carboncapture #regulatorycapture #environment #forests #agriculture #ecology

A cluster of Daffodils that I saw out on the Commercial Strip ...

2025-08-08T01:17:56Z

A cluster of Daffodils that I saw out on the Commercial Strip (near Chipotle's which is right near Taco Bell and the closest thing to a Los Angeles taco stand I've ever seen outside Los Angeles... gotta get a photo of that, don't I?)

#photo #photography #bloomscrolling #flowers #daffodils #ithaca

Faced with US heat waves, the Navajo push for power—and A/C ...

2025-08-06T20:28:22Z

Faced with US heat waves, the Navajo push for power—and A/C

https://sg.news.yahoo.com/faced-us-heat-waves-navajo-011313852.html

#energy #usa #navajo #indigenous #climatechange

Conservatives Are Losing It Over Superman’s Basic Morality (... ...

2025-08-05T20:42:42Z

Conservatives Are Losing It Over Superman’s Basic Morality

(... funny my autoposter posted this to 𝐻𝑎𝑐𝑘𝑒𝑟 𝑁𝑒𝑤𝑠 when I was at the theater with my family to see it)

https://jacobin.com/2025/07/superman-reactionary-morality-film-review/

#superman #comics #movies #politics #superhero #morality #values

🍸 'Super alcohol' created in space-like lab reveals ...

2025-08-02T01:13:56Z

🍸 'Super alcohol' created in space-like lab reveals cosmic secrets

https://phys.org/news/2025-07-super-alcohol-space-lab-reveals.html

#chemistry #space #astronomy #alcohol

⚡ EEG-Based Analysis of Neural Responses to Sweeteners: Effects ...

2025-08-01T17:19:53Z

⚡ EEG-Based Analysis of Neural Responses to Sweeteners: Effects of Type and Concentration

https://www.mdpi.com/2304-8158/14/14/2460

#brain #eeg #neuroscience #sweeteners

Single-type Zinnia #photo #photography #flowers #flower #zinnia ...

2025-08-01T01:50:15Z

Single-type Zinnia

#photo #photography #flowers #flower #zinnia #summer #bloomscrolling #ithaca

🤦🏿‍♂️ A company tried to put real estate on the ...

2025-07-30T00:08:13Z

🤦🏿‍♂️ A company tried to put real estate on the Blockchain and now it's facing a lawsuit from the city of Detroit

https://futurism.com/detroit-crypto-realtoken

#detroit #housing #fraud #scam #slumlord #blockchain #crypto #cryptocurrency #tokenization #fail

I caught this just down the street from that garden, that's ...

2025-07-25T02:14:36Z

I caught this just down the street from that garden, that's the facade of the Vet Research Tower in the background

#photo #photography #cornell #bloomscrolling #flowers

I think this is a New England Aster, seen in that same garden ...

2025-07-25T02:05:23Z

I think this is a New England Aster, seen in that same garden

#photo #photography #flowers #bloomscrolling #cornell #ithaca #summer

Daffodils in Front of Taco Bell #photo #photography #flowers ...

2025-07-21T02:36:28Z

Daffodils in Front of Taco Bell

#photo #photography #flowers #bloomscrolling #tacobell #fastfood #yellow #ithaca

‘As thrilling as driving a sports car’: the Tokyo capsule ...

2025-07-18T14:08:43Z

‘As thrilling as driving a sports car’: the Tokyo capsule tower that gave pod-living penthouse chic

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2025/jul/07/pod-living-nakagin-capsule-tower-tokyo-architectural-marvel-penthouse

#tokyo #japan #buildings #architecture #housing #culture

Close up of seed head in grassy field east of Belle Sherman ...

2025-07-18T02:02:10Z

Close up of seed head in grassy field east of Belle Sherman Elementary School

#plants #bloomscrolling #monocots #seeds #grassland #grass #outdoors #ithaca #photo #photography #ithaca #bellesherman #summer

You can take a picture of flowers... or you can take a picture of ...

2025-07-18T01:48:46Z

You can take a picture of flowers... or you can take a picture of flowers and bugs

#photo #photography #flowers #bugs #insects #bee #pollinators #bloomscrolling #echinacea

📉 Bitcoin's 'Mempool' Nearly Empty as Prices Trade ...

2025-07-17T23:55:33Z

📉 Bitcoin's 'Mempool' Nearly Empty as Prices Trade Near Lifetime Highs

... although Bitcoin's price remains high, the evidence is the Bitcoin network is dying as transaction volume collapses and miners struggle

#bitcoin #crypto #cryptocurrency #blockchain #technology #finance #fail

https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2025/07/06/bitcoin-s-mempool-nearly-empty-as-prices-trade-near-lifetime-highs

🌰 Offsetting fossil fuel reserves by planting trees is not a ...

2025-07-16T13:29:10Z

🌰 Offsetting fossil fuel reserves by planting trees is not a viable strategy, analysis finds

https://phys.org/news/2025-06-offsetting-fossil-fuel-reserves-trees.html

#climatechange #carboncapture #forests #trees #environment

I think somebody spray-painted this Allium flower I caught in ...

2025-07-16T02:33:17Z

I think somebody spray-painted this Allium flower I caught in Minns Garden looking across Tower Road towards the Biotech building

#flower #bloomscrolling #ithaca #cornell #photo #photography #allium #onion

🛡️ RNA interference and nanomedicine join forces to fight ...

2025-04-15T21:13:59Z

🛡️ RNA interference and nanomedicine join forces to fight dangerous fungal infections

https://phys.org/news/2025-03-rna-nanomedicine-dangerous-fungal-infections.html

#healthcare #medicine #biotech #rna #nanoparticles #biology

daytime emmies?

2025-04-10T22:32:09Z

In reply to nevent1q…mkdp
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daytime emmies?

Queen Jane is our most productive mouser, but she lives in the ...

2025-04-05T15:15:24Z

Queen Jane is our most productive mouser, but she lives in the barn and can't help us with the situation in our kitchen

#cats #photo #photography #caturday #sliceoflife

Why I don't discuss politics with friends ...

2025-04-02T18:31:00Z

Why I don't discuss politics with friends

https://shwin.co/blog/why-i-dont-discuss-politics-with-friends

#politics #friendship #philosophy #attitudes #communication #psychology #centrism

also the Uranium and Plutonium in the spent fuel is still ...

2025-03-20T15:03:06Z

In reply to nevent1q…hvq4
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also the Uranium and Plutonium in the spent fuel is still perfectly good fuel which could give about 50x the energy that the LWR got out of it -- it's amazing that we have energy for hundreds of years already mined and sitting above ground

🧮 The math behind social distancing: The rules that influence ...

2025-03-15T22:12:52Z

🧮 The math behind social distancing: The rules that influence epidemic behavior

https://phys.org/news/2025-03-math-social-distancing-epidemic-behavior.html

#health #disease #socialphysics #socialscience #behavior

💎 New England's salt marshes store 10 million cars' ...

2025-02-27T00:22:45Z

💎 New England's salt marshes store 10 million cars' worth of carbon—and add another 15,000 cars' worth every year

https://phys.org/news/2025-02-england-salt-marshes-million-cars.html

#newengland #bluecarbon #environment #saltmarsh #satellite #climatechange #carboncapture

🪦 Google's 10-year Chromebook lifeline leaves old laptops ...

2025-02-05T12:42:19Z

🪦 Google's 10-year Chromebook lifeline leaves old laptops headed for silicon cemetery

https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2025/01/06/chromebook_end_of_life/

#google #chromebook #hardware #obsolescence

🤯 Scientists create comprehensive map of protein locations ...

2025-02-05T01:31:52Z

🤯 Scientists create comprehensive map of protein locations within human cells

https://phys.org/news/2025-01-scientists-comprehensive-protein-human-cells.html

#omics #biology #proteins #molbio #biotech #research

🌧️ Western meritocracy traps people in emotions of envy, ...

2025-01-16T23:29:08Z

🌧️ Western meritocracy traps people in emotions of envy, shame and fear, philosophers say

https://phys.org/news/2024-12-western-meritocracy-people-emotions-envy.html

#culture #philosophy #emotions #psychology #competition #inequality #capitalism #envy

it's been 25+ years since I've made soy milk. If you are ...

2025-01-06T19:48:31Z

In reply to nevent1q…kymk
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it's been 25+ years since I've made soy milk. If you are making it yourself it goes straight to the fridge and you'll drink it quick.

In some countries people drink UHT milk (H-Milsch in Germany) primarily. It tastes off to me but I think that's a matter of what you're used to.

One of these days I should try making soy milk and turning it into tofu

💔 How chemical reactions deplete nutrients in plant-based ...

2025-01-06T14:17:23Z

💔 How chemical reactions deplete nutrients in plant-based drinks

https://phys.org/news/2024-12-chemical-reactions-deplete-nutrients-based.html

#nutrition #food

🍡 Nature inspires self-assembling helical polymer ...

2024-12-27T18:01:41Z

🍡 Nature inspires self-assembling helical polymer

https://phys.org/news/2024-12-nature-helical-polymer.html

#materials #chemistry #plastics

💔 Iowa is “in crisis” due to illegal manure discharges ...

2024-12-27T15:27:31Z

💔 Iowa is “in crisis” due to illegal manure discharges into waterways, new report says

https://www.thenewlede.org/2024/12/iowa-is-in-crisis-due-to-illegal-manure-discharges-into-waterways-new-report-says/

#iowa #agriculture #pollution #environment #waste #farming

A ceiling in the Library of Congress in Washington, DC #photo ...

2024-12-20T15:17:31Z

A ceiling in the Library of Congress in Washington, DC

#photo #photography #architecture #building #library #washingtondc

🧬 RNA-targeting CRISPR reveals that hundreds of noncoding RNAs ...

2024-11-28T18:03:18Z

🧬 RNA-targeting CRISPR reveals that hundreds of noncoding RNAs are essential—not 'junk'

https://phys.org/news/2024-11-rna-crispr-reveals-hundreds-noncoding.html

#molbio #biology #rna #biotech #omics

🎮 Someone Found A Hidden Cheat Code In A 28 Year Old Donkey ...

2024-11-28T16:59:39Z

🎮 Someone Found A Hidden Cheat Code In A 28 Year Old Donkey Kong Game

https://kotaku.com/cheat-code-dkc2-donkey-kong-country-diddy-secret-found-1851693753

#games #nintendo #retrogaming #donkeykong

I’ve been training the cats to eat nicely together; they ...

2024-11-25T17:23:19Z

I’ve been training the cats to eat nicely together; they don’t always like to do it but last night they insisted of it

#cats #animals #photo #CatsOfMastodon #feeding

🗃️ NOAA finds 77% of world’s corals exposed to ...

2024-11-22T09:11:39Z

🗃️ NOAA finds 77% of world’s corals exposed to bleaching-level heat

https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2024/11/noaa-finds-77-of-worlds-corals-exposed-to-bleaching-level-heat/

#oceans #corals #climatechange #environment #conservation

there is quite a literature on caffeine-naps such as ...

2024-11-20T00:07:55Z

In reply to nevent1q…x2q2
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there is quite a literature on caffeine-naps such as

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32819191/

🔥 Extreme drought wrecks rivers and daily life in Amazon’s ...

2024-11-05T16:30:10Z

🔥 Extreme drought wrecks rivers and daily life in Amazon’s most burnt Indigenous land

https://news.mongabay.com/2024/10/extreme-drought-wrecks-rivers-and-daily-life-in-amazons-most-burnt-indigenous-land/

#brazil #southamerica #forests #environment #conservation

My son Elliot looks like James Bond in a culvert pipe underneath ...

2024-10-30T02:21:55Z

My son Elliot looks like James Bond in a culvert pipe underneath I-81 a few miles south of Whitney Point, NY

#photo #photography #infrastructure #family #pipe

🫧 Engineers develop scalable process to decarbonize cement ...

2024-10-30T02:11:04Z

🫧 Engineers develop scalable process to decarbonize cement production

https://techxplore.com/news/2024-10-scalable-decarbonize-cement-production.html

#decarbonization #cement #climatechange #materials #construction #buildings #concrete

🐝 Stressed bees make pessimistic choices and may experience ...

2024-10-24T00:29:04Z

🐝 Stressed bees make pessimistic choices and may experience emotion-like states, new research suggests

https://phys.org/news/2024-10-stressed-bees-pessimistic-choices-emotion.html

#bees #insects #animals #psychology #stress #emotions

🧧 Why the ancient power of the Dao De Jing is more important ...

2024-10-11T11:11:22Z

🧧 Why the ancient power of the Dao De Jing is more important than ever

https://bigthink.com/thinking/why-the-ancient-power-of-the-dao-de-jing-is-more-important-than-ever/

#china #philosophy #classics #literature

🔌 Georgia’s Clean Energy Outpaces Fossil Fuels with New ...

2024-10-06T00:24:10Z

🔌 Georgia’s Clean Energy Outpaces Fossil Fuels with New Nuclear Boost

https://oilprice.com/Alternative-Energy/Nuclear-Power/Georgias-Clean-Energy-Outpaces-Fossil-Fuels-with-New-Nuclear-Boost.html

#georgia #energy #decabonization #nuclear #fission

I remember playing a Flight Simulator with polygonal graphics on ...

2024-10-03T17:55:37Z

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I remember playing a Flight Simulator with polygonal graphics on the TRS-80 Color Computer; they even had it for the original TRS-80 in 1980

http://www.trs-80.org/t80-fs1/

Sublogic could make it work on anything with a framebuffer but 1980s consoles used tile and sprite systems or the even stranger line-by-line synthesis of the Atari 2600.

🌽 Injecting manure into growing cover crops can cut pollution, ...

2024-09-29T18:21:36Z

🌽 Injecting manure into growing cover crops can cut pollution, support corn crops

https://phys.org/news/2024-09-manure-crops-pollution-corn.html

#corn #agriculture #agronomy #manure

💔 Mexico’s Slide From Democracy Toward Tyranny ...

2024-09-29T16:27:00Z

💔 Mexico’s Slide From Democracy Toward Tyranny

https://www.noemamag.com/mexicos-slide-from-democracy-toward-tyranny

#mexico #politics #courts

🐦 Hummingbirds thrive on extreme lifestyle. Here’s how. ...

2024-09-29T14:46:20Z

🐦 Hummingbirds thrive on extreme lifestyle. Here’s how.

https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/living-world/2024/how-hummingbirds-adapt-to-an-extreme-lifestyle

#birds #hummingbirds #biology

🥊 With Granite Rapids, Intel is back to trading blows with AMD ...

2024-09-29T13:44:43Z

🥊 With Granite Rapids, Intel is back to trading blows with AMD

https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2024/09/24/intel_xeon_6p/

#intel #amd #cpu #electronics #microprocessor #cpu

🔐 Antarctic krill can lock away similar levels of carbon as ...

2024-09-27T23:54:31Z

🔐 Antarctic krill can lock away similar levels of carbon as seagrass and mangroves, finds study

https://phys.org/news/2024-09-antarctic-krill-similar-carbon-seagrass.html

#carboncapture #nature #oceans #climatechange

🥑 12,000 tons of food waste transformed a barren landscape in ...

2024-09-27T15:57:36Z

🥑 12,000 tons of food waste transformed a barren landscape in Costa Rica

https://www.metafilter.com/205526/12000-tons-of-food-waste-transformed-a-barren-landscape-in-Costa-Rica

#forests #waste #agriculture #reforestation #costarica #globalsouth #goodnews

💍 Do people act ethically out of true morality or fear of ...

2024-09-25T20:33:32Z

💍 Do people act ethically out of true morality or fear of consequences?

https://www.metafilter.com/205559/Do-people-act-ethically-out-of-true-morality-or-fear-of-consequences

#philosophy #morality #ethics #psychology #classical

🧮 Soil treated with organic fertilizers stores more carbon, ...

2024-09-23T20:31:56Z

🧮 Soil treated with organic fertilizers stores more carbon, study finds

(…not a surprise because many organic fertilizers are carbon rich and don’t send bacteria on a nitrogen-induced rampage but it’s a case of somebody having an X-ray source having a PR function)

https://phys.org/news/2024-09-soil-fertilizers-carbon.html

#carboncapture #climatechange #agriculture #xray #bigscience

Coiled vine hanging from a large Maple tree in Monkey Run Natural ...

2024-09-22T19:30:37Z

Coiled vine hanging from a large Maple tree in Monkey Run Natural Area in Varna, NY. This part of Monkey Run is like the TARDIS is that you can go for a walk of a few miles in the woods between two trail heads that are 0.5 mi apart on the road.

#photo #photography #trees #plants #vine #spiral #drills

🌮 App helps Mexican tortilla makers join digital economy ...

2024-09-22T13:15:18Z

🌮 App helps Mexican tortilla makers join digital economy

https://techxplore.com/news/2024-09-app-mexican-tortilla-makers-digital.html

#tortilla #food #mexico #apps #finance #business

💯 Massachusetts Bill Could Fully Legalize Kei Cars and ...

2024-09-21T19:35:32Z

💯 Massachusetts Bill Could Fully Legalize Kei Cars and Override RMV Ban

https://www.thedrive.com/news/massachusetts-bill-could-fully-legalize-kei-cars-and-override-rmv-ban

#goodnews #cars #transportation #Massachusetts

the real frontier in AI is not making bigger models but rather ...

2024-09-20T13:24:36Z

In reply to nevent1q…xs42
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the real frontier in AI is not making bigger models but rather understanding how they work enough to make smaller models that are more affordable (and ecological) to run. The future is not a model 100x bigger than ChatGPT 4 because nobody could afford it.

I work on a web site for a public opinion data archive where you ...

2024-09-20T13:22:33Z

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I work on a web site for a public opinion data archive where you never see anything as one-sided as a discussion like

https://arstechnica.com/civis/threads/meta%E2%80%99s-pay-for-privacy-plan-falls-afoul-of-the-law-eu-regulators-say.1501559/

or

https://arstechnica.com/civis/threads/how-to-stop-linkedin-from-training-ai-on-your-data.1503043/

but I guess professionals just don't ask a question where 99% of the public agree on something except for the C-levels at a company and their lawyers and lobbyists.

there's also the interesting idea that Strings ought to be ...

2024-09-19T19:54:31Z

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there's also the interesting idea that Strings ought to be tagged at compile time or inference with information about their semantics w/ many variations such as taint in Perl. If you had StringEscapedForHtml that might not be a bad idea; Python lets you do it but it doesn't enforce it, Typescript's restriction types don't quite do it, ...

I think of Korzybski's time indexing. There is You_20240919 ...

2024-09-19T19:43:54Z

In reply to nevent1q…x3z3
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I think of Korzybski's time indexing. There is You_20240919 and You_20250715 and those are (in a certain sense) not the same developer.

Subsystems ought to handle escaping, you don't write "dynamic SQL" but use placeholders. (or JooQ!) Unfortunately the industry is stuck on text-based templating for HTML which is always half baked; I've experimented with DOM-based templating but my naive versions lose 50x the speed

one of the weirdest cases I encountered is that, unless you turn ...

2024-09-19T19:10:02Z

In reply to nevent1q…762c
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one of the weirdest cases I encountered is that, unless you turn the behavior off, POST variables get sanitized automatically in ASP.NET; at one place I worked we found that users sometimes couldn't log in because ASP.NET didn't like the passwords they were using and chose to mangle them

(the justification for the strange behavior was that it is really difficult to sanitize text that might be HTML rendered because of the all the weird ways you can run JS)

sanitize on the way in tends to trouble in the long term because ...

2024-09-19T17:10:06Z

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sanitize on the way in tends to trouble in the long term because you usually need different sanitization rules for various out(s)