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A month ago. https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/01/media/cnn-launch-digital-subs...

Unrelated, "Harvard cancer institute moves to retract six studies, correct 31 others amid data manipulation claims" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39097031

Back in 2018, I ran a little test to see if I could push Google Cloud Vision to recognize objects, shapes, or patterns in clouds. No matter how I treated the images ahead of time, …

Damn, search for "Tardis" turns up zero results.

A text-based, multiplayer, real-time virtual world. Sometimes more group-chat, sometimes more adventure story scenario: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-user_dungeon

When putting together a large RAR file that's been split into smaller files, one can use PAR and PAR2 files to repair and replace damaged or missing segments.

I had a lot of fun playing with the Flipper's Bad USB DuckyScript to automate some repetitive and tedious CMS workflow for a client, filling in a lot of input fields on multiple br…

Sure thing, check out NICAR-L: https://www.ire.org/resources/listservs/

I lurk in an online community of journalist coders and some folks there are excited about PMTiles as cost-saving way to host your own custom-styled map tiles. See, for instance, "H…

Ah, my bad - looking at induction forge images and links in this thread, the coil was probably closer to 3 or 4 inch diameter.

Maybe 6 inch diameter.

Took my daughter to check out a blacksmithing class in Brooklyn and was pleasantly surprised to find there was no open fire at all. The iron and steel are heated by an induction ma…

A cat would never. I'm just saying.

I really enjoyed this film, but in telling the story of the cultural power and ubiquity of Helvetica, I think it dramatically underplays the fact that variations on Helvetica have …

I started collecting images of interesting COVID-19 related posters, graphics and street art at https://backspace.com/covid19

There's a wonderful, interactive playground of variable fonts up at https://v-fonts.com . Most variable fonts let you interpolate font weight, width, or slant, but some go much fur…

If you are looking to contribute meaningful edits beyond your local area, the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Tasking Manager always has things to do that can help folks working in area…

Off topic maybe: are there resources out there for teaching coders how to journalism?