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Climate change is one reason for hotter oceans. But there are others


Hurricane season is heating up: Hurricane Francine hit Louisiana last week and dumped rain across the South, and forecasters expect more stormy activity in the Atlantic in the next few weeks.

A big factor in this stormy weather is our extremely warm oceans. Scientists know climate change is the main culprit, but NPR climate correspondent Rebecca Hersher has been following the quest to figure out the other reasons. Hint: They may involve volcanoes and the sun.

Read moreof Rebecca's reporting on this topic.

Questions about hurricanes or other weather disasters? Email us at_[em]shortwave@npr.org _– we'd love to hear your ideas![/em]

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🔖 Degrees of deception: How America’s universities became debt factories | Anand Sanwal anandsanwal.me/college-student… #BookmarkShare





dont we have good #pdf readers for #linux? that work on wayland natively, are light-weight and are not bugged? couldn't find any, and dont want to use firefox for pdf. gnome's Evince cant switch pages with mouse scroll (it skips slides sometimes). maybe there are some gtk3 apps from cinnamon or mate or xfce?


Hey, #Python friends, I'm still learning... A question...

If you're using virtual environments - what do you do?

I keep finding documents that suggest either is fine (of course), but I wonder if there is some logic behind the choice.

I sometimes forget which one I used and then have to check first, which seems inefficient.

  • python -m venv ./venv (50%, 2 votes)
  • python -m venv ./.venv (50%, 2 votes)
  • Something else? (0%, 0 votes)
4 voters. Poll end: 1 year ago

in reply to popey

Speaking as someone reasonably well versed in the arts of Python packaging and virtual environment management: it really doesn't matter. I mean, it doesn't make a whit of difference for the "machinery" of virtual environments; it's your choice whether you want your venvs hidden or not. (Be wary of anyone trying to tell you that there is a standard practice on this.)

It can be convenient to let a higher-level tool manage venvs for you: pipenv, pdm, hatch, poetry, uv, etc. I would definitely endorse the idea of trying out these tools to understand how they work, and then if you want to use them, go ahead; if not, manually creating a venv works too and is sometimes easier. Personally I use a mix.

Though, the one kind of special case I'd call out is that, if you're installing a Python application, pipx (or some equivalent) is *so convenient* compared to manually managing the venv that I would highly recommend it.

#Python



David Lammy to appoint UK’s first special envoy for nature - theguardian.com/environment/20… "Labour will also boost environmental efforts by reestablishing climate role cut by Rishi Sunak" that's good


Jesus Fucking Christ.

One day they will allow you to finally rest in peace instead of taking the blame for every one of their sins.



‘I’ve never been so driven’: Led By Donkeys on mocking Liz Truss, duping Matt Hancock and renaming Michelle Mone’s yacht - theguardian.com/politics/2024/… modern heroes...

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Luxembourg's Ministry for Digitalisation is contributing to the LibreOffice and Open Source Conference 2024! blog.documentfoundation.org/bl…


Valued GP ‘will be forced to leave UK’ after autistic daughter refused visa - theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/s… "London-based doctor Tajwer Siddiqui says Home Office rules are separating him from his wife and Alina, 19" of course...


How many of these chicken facts were you already aware of? 🐔

🎨 Mercy For Animals

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#WritersCoffeeClub
Name-check your cover artist, even if it's yourself. Share your best cover.

Actual, physical books, covers by me! Some of this was experimenting with the process of producing a book, this being my first. The second, Somebody Keeps Callin' will be on KS soon, sign up here (and also check out the cover): kickstarter.com/projects/dharr…

Images from Pexels, adjustments in Affinity Photo, layout in Affinity Publisher.

#books #reading @bookstadon #WritingCommunity #writing #AmWriting

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Le format texte (plain text) est simple, universel, sobre (comparez le poids d'un fichier avec seulement "bonjour" écrit avec Word ou votre bloc-note), le format texte peut facilement être présenté dans une syntaxe simple à apprendre et simple à adapter en fonction du résultat demandé (html, pdf, word, epub...). Cette syntaxe légère est le markdown et les doctorants bretons peuvent désormais s'initier à ce style d'écriture en s'inscrivant sur Amethis amethis.doctorat-bretagneloire…
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in reply to Science ouverte UnivRennes

Il n'y a pas d'un côté l'idée immatérielle et platonique de votre thèse et de l'autre côté la tâche subalterne de l'écrire sur un support numérique. L'idée s'incarne dans du texte, les outils d'écriture influencent l'idée. Adoptez tout de suite les outils d'écriture qui vous rendront libres et en tout cas moins dépendants des standards d'édition auxquels les GAFAM nous contraignent.


Things you should describe in your study if you need to process data with an #AI tool in order to make it #reproducible as much as possible according to @bortzmeyer :
- software used (easiest part)
- training set (hard to find, even for so-called "open source" LLM
- training parameters (weight...)
- hardware (GPU type and core number)
- durability (this LLM won't be available on huggingface forever, is there an alternative and more durable deposit somewhere?
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Bah “software used" (easiest part)“ is already a thing. ;-)

For instance: « What’s in a package ». Considering the well-know PyTorch AI framework.

hpc.guix.info/blog/2021/09/wha…



Palestinian doctor mourns five members of her family killed in Israeli attack

At least five Palestinians were killed in an Israeli raid on Salah al-Din Street in the Zeitoun neighbourhood of Gaza City.

The AFP news agency is now reporting that the five people were all from the Alborno family, who were returning to the neighbourhood to check on their home after Israeli forces withdrew from the area.

@palestine
#Gaza
#doctors



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