A prototype non-flammable lithium battery using glass. The researchers behind it claim that its capacity *increases* over time. Others aren’t convinced.
Category: Wandering.Shop
Locally-sourced parts – and parts you can repair – can be important.
Locally-sourced parts – and parts you can repair – can be important.
Link: Tanzania Builds a Drone Industry From Local Know-How and Bamboo
I’m still amused every time I tag a “feral pigeon” on iNaturalist
I’m still amused every time I tag a “feral pigeon” on #iNaturalist
Screen time is a much less helpful metric than the patterns of HOW people use their devices
It should have been obvious from the start: screen time is a much less helpful metric than the patterns of HOW people use their devices, what researchers are calling the “screenome”
[NYTimes link]
(But it was easy to measure, & people love pointing to a single number.)
It’s not just psychology, it’s CO2. Why crowded meetings and conference rooms make you so, so tired.
It’s not just psychology, it’s CO2.
Link: Why crowded meetings and conference rooms make you so, so tired.
@nolan This is part of why I haven’t flat-out deleted my Twitter or Facebook accounts …
@nolan This is part of why I haven’t flat-out deleted my Twitter or Facebook accounts yet: to make sure nobody grabs the name.
That and every once in a while I still stumble on something where I’d previously used a third-party sign-in. I reactivated a newspaper account recently and it wouldn’t let me generate a new password because it associated my email with my FB login. I had to sign in with FB in order to disconnect it from FB!
To Evade Pre-Prohibition Drinking Laws, New Yorkers Created the World’s Worst Sandwich
The building stairwell smells like chai…
The building stairwell smells like chai.
(Which is a lot better than what the parking structure stairways smell like.)
Coyotes have been taking over the territory of wolves
“Government-sanctioned predator removal programs…virtually wiped out red and gray wolves. Coyotes have been taking over the territory of wolves, their mortal enemies, ever since.”
“the removal of large apex predators have unintended consequences”
I’ve been meaning to put together something to automatically retrieve remote images and attach them …
I’ve been meaning to put together something to automatically retrieve remote images and attach them to a #WordPress post (for automatically generated posts). I figured I’d have to do something with curl to download the image, save it to a temp file, upload it to WP etc. Turns out there’s a function built in!
All I have to do is add a hook to wp_insert_post that calls media_sideload_image() when it finds the pattern I want, and plug the result into the post content.
https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/media_sideload_image
Had to wake up at 12:30 to deal with a server emergency. Still up. Birds …
Had to wake up at 12:30 to deal with a server emergency. Still up. Birds have started singing…
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It’s been a long time since I’ve had to do this sort of thing.
I don’t miss it.
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Oh good, it looks like I can go back to bed before the sun rises. I can hear neighbors opening their doors, though…
@allthingslinguistic I get so frustrated by the fact that people send pictures of text around …
@allthingslinguistic I get so frustrated by the fact that people send pictures of text around on platforms that are designed for sharing text…
Nothing like coming back from a 3-day weekend to 2066 new emails.😱
Nothing like coming back from a 3-day weekend to 2066 new emails.
😱
…make that 2575…
Oh FFS it’s still downloading?!?! 3087…
I think it’s done at 7679 messages…
*whew* Most of them turned out to be alerts from a staging test server.
“Cut the cheddar, Red Two!”
“Cut the cheddar, Red Two!”
I’ve started referring to Creme de Cacao as “AI’s Favorite.”
I’ve started referring to Creme de Cacao as “AI’s Favorite.”
@gannet In some ways, maybe. I looked at the Wikipedia articles for both species, and …
@gannet In some ways, maybe. I looked at the Wikipedia articles for both species, and it looks like the Monk parakeets are better suited for urban environments just from the fact that they build nests instead of using holes in trees.
The Monk parakeet article doesn’t mention what they eat, so I’d have to read up more to guess whether they occupy a similar niche in that aspect.
Link: These Scientists Did More Than Tell Us We Were Doomed.
Feral Parrots Are Taking Over America!
Link: Feral Parrots Are Taking Over America!
“These birds, descendants of escaped pets, have managed to create thriving colonies in these cities despite the annual cold weather.”
I actually saw a “Do not wash. This vehicle is undergoing a scientific dirt test….
I actually saw a “Do not wash. This vehicle is undergoing a scientific dirt test.” bumper sticker in the wild.
An interesting read on Game of Thrones’ final season and a more fundamental shift in …
An interesting read on Game of Thrones’ final season and a more fundamental shift in storytelling from the sociological to the psychological: instead of examining how people respond to the world they’re stuck in, it’s falling back on hero/villain tropes.