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21 December 2024

I got up early this morning, thanks once again to Ben; so, I made coffee and let the dogs out - in case you were wondering who. Now I'm up struggling while Ben and Charlie are fast asleep.

It is bundle up weather where I live in Louisiana (34° F or 1° C) which translates to shirt sleeve weather in Minnesota. Do you know what is weird? It is not surprising that the United States adopted the Imperial System of measurement along with the British Empire (British Weights and Measures Act of 1824), what is surprising is that after the rest of the world moved on to the metric system, the United States did not - change is difficult in the United States of America.

'Thus, the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.' - Dave Barry

#photo #photography #photographer #photographylovers #morning #imperialsystem #metric_system #foliage



One of my peeves is when an API does something useful but with obfuscated names so you don't know it is there.

I just read through the entire (big!) API for #Golang's new slices package and it has exactly what I wanted:

slices.Values(slice) // slice -> iter.Seq

slices.Collect(seq) // iter.Seq -> slice

Why not slices.AsSeq() and iter.AsSlice()? Or even slices.Seq() and iter.Slice() since they are namespaced?

No, Values and Collect it is.

Days to completely forgetting this in three.. two..

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Taleb Al Abdulmohsen und sein Verbrechen scheint mir so geeignet, von allen möglichen politischen Bewegungen vereinnahmt zu werden, wie lange nichts. Und gleichzeitig ist es damit so ungeeignet, wie nichts. Ist das die #Postmoderne?


“In 1969 Bob Gore set his mind to making PTFE more usable in a sheet form. The best way to do that was by stretching it. With thick oven mitts, he would slowly and carefully pull thin white rods of PTFE night after night. But the cords kept breaking. One evening he got so fed up that he just yanked a cord out of frustration. When he pulled quickly, he was surprised to find the PTFE cord stretched as wide as his arms. Bob had discovered the material that would become Gore-Tex almost by accident.”

sciencehistory.org/stories/mag…




És inconcebible que encara no el tinguem. Quan viatges arreu d'Europa veus aquest sistema que quan retornés l'embàs, et retornem els diners.
"Canvi històric: tornarà el sistema de retorn d'envasos als supermercats"
#residus #rrr #reutilizar #envasos
naciodigital.cat/impacte/ciuta…
in reply to Oriol Piera

El que és inconcebible és la influència que té sobre ECOEMBES.


Building A Custom Swiss Army Knife

The Swiss Army knife is the most well-known multitool, combining a bunch of functionality into a compact package. [Jeff Gough] decided to build a custom example featuring a selection of …read more
#hacking #projects
hackaday.com/2024/12/21/buildi…




Injured green sea turtle relearns how to swim thanks to 3D-printed harness
Boat collision left Charlotte stranded at the surface and in danger of predation.
arstechnica.com/science/2024/1…

in reply to Mark B Tomlinson

Intriguing as always, and your renderings are getting better and better! 👍


is anyone able to point me to any #linux distros that support armv5 processors?



The Importance of Pipelines in Complex UNIX Data Interpretations

Pipelines are a foundational feature of UNIX systems, enabling the seamless flow of data between programs. This capability lies at the heart of UNIX philosophy, emphasizing modularity, simplicity, and the use of small, reusable programs that perform specific tasks well.

Read More: machaddr.substack.com/p/the-im…

#Linux #UNIX #Computer #Science #Command #Line #OpenSource #pipeline

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With the feature code freeze continuing, the Wine team had put up a third Release Candidate for the upcoming stable main release of Wine 10.0 coming in early 2025.
gamingonlinux.com/2024/12/wind…

#OpenSource #Wine #NewRelease #Misc



My 2025 project is to work on my new Linux computer with more open source softwares, and reduce my addiction to Photoshop. Which is gonna be tough let's be honest 😅

#linux #opensource



👨‍💻🐍Автоматизація завдань з #Python: найкращі практики та приклади

foxminded.ua/avtomatyzatsiia-z…



in reply to lifewithtrees

I'm still waiting for the common-sense precautions to be put in place like indoor air quality regulations and requirements for sufficient filtration and ventilation in new construction.



in reply to Steve Woods

The EU should block Xitter already. They have the means to do so. So should any other country that has concerns about his unhinged support for dangerous politics and far-right endorsement. Other social media platforms are available and they are moderated at least to some extent.