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Aluminum in beer cans has been subject to aluminum tariffs since April (was 25% initially and was upped to 50%).[^1] Because they didn't use the right specificity in the announceme…

Also reminded me of the internet ray tracing competition https://www.irtc.org/ where many submissions would’ve been produced using POV Ray.

Indeed! There was even a book on the topic I read years ago. Lead poisoning seemed quite conclusive even back then. https://www.amazon.com/Beethovens-Hair-Extraordinary-Histori...

This video has comparisons of devastation that would be caused by different sizes (around 7:50 mark) of asteroids: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Wrc4fHSCpw

The catalog from which I took the tiles mentions their manufacturing process in passing: > The colours are at least one-quarter-inch thick, backed up to a full thickness of seven-e…

Ah repper reminds of the "kaleidoscope" effect in Pixelmator: https://www.deepakg.com/kaleidoscopic-dutch-houses Will play with them. Thank you for sharing.

Thank you for sharing the book recommendation!

This is fascinating. Thank you for sharing!

People I know swear by: https://cowboy.com They send the service technician to you. Saw it first hand - the service person came in a van that had all the tools and replacement part…

The municipality of Amsterdam have been doing this (i.e. running their own Mastodon instance) as well since Jan this year: https://social.amsterdam.nl/@gemeenteamsterdam

A little tangential, but I'd highly recommend Siddhartha Mukherjee's The Emperor of All Maladies. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Emperor_of_All_Maladies It really helped me appr…

Had come across this talk a while ago. https://www.ted.com/speakers/rupal_patel Not sure what became of vocalid.org but would’ve benefited immensely from these advances. Edit: look…

Seenons (Amsterdam/Berlin) | Backend/Frontend | Remote or on-site | Full-time | https://seenons.com/en/home/ Waste is a growing worldwide challenge. Each year, in the Netherlands a…

I guess it's going to be just TensorFlow in the near future. From the release notes: > This is also the last major release of multi-backend Keras. Going forward, we recommend that …

Related: https://pyvideo.org/pycon-us-2017/modern-python-dictionaries...

For short notes I've been using deft[1] on emacs. It gives a Notational Velocity like interface for searching/viewing within emacs. The actual note-taking is via org-mode. For note…

Indeed! I recently tried Rekognition's "celebrity detection" and was surprised at the no. of false positives - "doppelgänger detection" would've been more like it. Some examples: h…

But in Denmark, one pays high taxes which, among other things, go towards subsidising higher education: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxation_in_Denmark Under the Danish tax syste…

It has also recently inspired a ggplot (R) visualisation: https://github.com/clauswilke/ggjoy

Interesting choice of domain name. Coming from docs.google.com, I almost thought this was Office 365.

> Rdio would inform me when new albums are out by artists I listen to. Spotify doesn't. Spotify does, but you need to follow the artist from the artist page. I get a push a notific…

For Perl specific jobs I look at http://jobs.perl.org .