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Only on days with a "y"...

Today I learned of the broader disruptive capabilities of a mylar birthday balloon.

The dogs of DOGE Whining for relevance Shit on everything

Looks like a nice tool, but failed for me when reading a geoparquet file created using duckdb.

What about a bear on a bike?

This morning while jogging in the US I came to an intersection. Green lights and walk on in my direction. A car approaching from my left had a red light, the driver glanced to his left and without stopping or looking in my direction, turned right across my path. I expected this of course, so avoided being run over. If I wasn't watching for this, it likely would be a different outcome.

So why do so many pedestrians get killed in the US? The two main reasons to me are: 1. Drivers don't look for pedestrians, and 2. pedestrians expect drivers to follow rules.

Another contributing factor is of course the huge vehicles that crush people with drivers barely noticing...

How long before they realize just ditch the life support apparatus and plug into human brains.

Semantic clarity of written prose is hard, but this approach seems like making it easier for the machines rather than the other way around.

Excellent, I was looking for a Educational Records Bureau parser.

Oh, wait...

What value is a contract if it can be cancelled on a whim?

It's astounding to me that such ignorance is even acknowledged.

Authority bias is very real, very problematic, and very well documented. As a consequence, those in authority must always be held to a high standard. Always doubt an assertion by authority unless accompanied with sufficient evidence.

And then it was killed. FFS

Advanced civilizations should be indistinguishable from nature.

Nice app, but uninstalled immediately due to obtrusive advertisements.

Sadly the media="print" view does not provide usable output.

Obligatory https://xkcd.com/927/

Interesting article. Key takeaway for me was: “Masicampo and Baumeister (2011) provided further evidence that it is specifically unresolved goals and concerns that trigger habitual mind wandering.” ... “Remarkably, making a plan freed participants from this kind of habitual mind wandering.”

I was interested until the try for free locks you in to a subscription unless cancelled.

Better to put the effort into learning jq.

In most cases the published articles is document that has some additional metadata added during the publishing process. Hence, there's an inherent disconnect between the article and the metadata that must be examined for accuracy and truth.

Instead, the published article should really be a view of the structured data, metadata, and text (i.e. the true content) that makes up the article. Formatting and such can be a pain, but using this approach would mean the published article is a view of the truth rather than the metadata being created as something of an afterthought.

See also https://app.birdweather.com/ which uses a community of stations using AI to match vocalizations with bird species. It was pretty easy to setup a Pi with a microphone using https://github.com/mcguirepr89/BirdNET-Pi to start identifying birds outside my place.

Interesting collection, but this statement gave me pause:

"there was nothing out here but millions of buffalo and some scattered Indians"

Old is new, again.

There's some irony to an article about wedging into our monthly bank statements hosted by a site that asks the same...

Unsafe for humans likely means unsafe for many other organisms too.

Codebraid[0] is another option for integrating code execution with Pandoc. I find myself using Quarto for building sites and Codebraid more for single documents. Both great tools building on Pandoc.

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[0] https://codebraid.org/

The UI tries connecting to http://18.219.70.154:8500/getMatrixData/vit-nat for the data, but that target appears to be unavailable.

See also:

* https://s2geometry.io/

* https://h3geo.org/

Another good resource for those interested: https://homegrownnationalpark.org/tallamys-hub-1

I'm not affiliated, just have high regard for Tallamy's work.

How does this compare with other systems, like DVC (https://dvc.org/) for example?