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And then, what? Are citizens beating down the doors to do these jobs but getting out-competed by migrants? Are these the same citizens who are lining up to do sweatshop labor when …

Five years ago we were all forced to take in-person events online, where technology was not quite up to the task. We are facing another situation now where international travel is …

Update: the former 18F folks have stood up a new site: https://18f.org/guides/

Their web dev guides - especially for a11y - are high quality, and were taken offline this morning. I stood up a copy (slightly modified) at https://guides.18f.kmr.me/ Hopefully th…

There are many conspiracy theories related to his trip to Moscow in 1987, which I don’t ascribe much to, but the connections are there, if only for some “assistance” to be rendered…

There’s at least one, although as a governor he may not count. > From the Department of Education, Medicaid, the CDC, and more - Trump and Elon Musk are gutting the agencies and pr…

Years ago in college I did a bit of work on a nuclear physics simulator (think: reactor modeling) that based its geometrical model on implicit surfaces, specifically R-functions (o…

I struggled with APL last year. This year I’ve been enjoying trying to solve the problems in uiua (“wee-wha”). It’s a symbol-based array language like APL, with a wonderful online …

> Not on topic, but from the other side of the Atlantic, how on earth did the US go from "her emails/lock her up" being a rallying cry to electing the guy who stacked piles of clas…

There is a similar unit used for tracking nuclear fuel “burnup,” which is how much energy it produced: GWd/t (or GWd/MTU).

mise in place is the art of reducing all that other stuff to as close as zero time as possible during the cooking, and many recipes expect the cook to read through first and identi…

Toothpaste tube! https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c5/El...

I refer to Strava and RideWithGPS heatmaps whenever planning a new cycling or running route, and they are very useful, but they still need vetting (satellite and street view mostly…

This is a nice trend, here's a couple other text-only mainstream news sites: https://lite.cnn.com/ https://text.npr.org/

A random blog I found through Kagi Small Web is one man's journey to visit all the pubs in the Good Beer Guide : https://simeyeveritt.wixsite.com/brapa It's such an interesting loo…

> Brackets and s-expressions can be fun, but they can get very unwieldy very quickly in LIL, especially since backslashes are required to break up commands across different lines. …

I didn't sense any judgement there, just a statement of fact. Learning a new language as an adult is doable, but not trivial, so it's certainly a factor in making a decision to rel…

> Not sure about west. :) Unincorporated addresses in Kane and DuPage Counties do use a reference system based off State & Madison as baseline (although it's been codified based of…

Amusingly that’s not a nuclear plant pictured; looks like coal. I don’t think we’re going to see a general nuclear renaissance in the US, but it has its part to play. Co-locating w…

That's pretty ungenerous. The press release says "The press is the world’s strongest hydraulic pull-down die forging press in pit-mounted design" so it's easy for a layman to read …

> Moreover, while longer lifespans may drive calcification, they would also promote long-term thinking. How would we vote about the climate differently if we knew we'd be around fo…

What if you could ask an octopus the same, and it suggested that dying after breeding is best for society to prevent the problems of overpopulation [1]? Unlike your hypothetical al…

The Overstory by Richard Powers - an intertwining of lives, as witnessed by the oldest beings on Earth, putting things into a rather different perspective. The Windup Girl by Paolo…