szescstopni @szescstopni@social.cleverlibre.org

#science

How do you keep drivers in the back at a safe distance, #Ukraine army method 😉

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The yarn bombers have been out again. They're amazing.

The most practical way to reduce wind cannibalization is to double the effective transfer distance. We need 800 kV DC lines.

#energydon

I previously worked on an Social Housing Decarbonisation Fund project that retrofitted and installed air source heat pumps into housing association homes.

Most of these homes were rural, off gas + previously used oil for heating.

I got to go on site visits and speak to the often elderly or disabled residents about their retrofit experience.

They were all retrofit evangelists! Making their neighbours envious with their warm homes + low energy bills.

I want everyone to get what they got.

I noticed a hole in one of my favorite shirts a few weeks back and noticed it again when I put it on this morning, but unlike in the past, today I decided to do something about it. I took a brief break from the job hunt to fetch my sewing kit and try my hand at darning. Is it an amazing job? No, but it was my first time, darn it!

#mending #sewing

@ian

8675309 (as in, Jenny's number from the Tommy Tutone song) is a prime number. What's more, it's the bottom half of a twin prime pair: add 2, and you get 8675311, which is ALSO prime.

If you're writing software that implements number-theoretic algorithms, it can be problematic to test it using small primes like 7 or 11, because small primes tend to have a lot of weird properties tend to trigger exceptions and edge cases. Having a pair of easy-to-remember, "big enough" prime numbers like the Jenny primes is really useful.

My expert advice?

Do NOT volunteer for this.

Unless you want to surrender your grey matter to a hideously insecure man baby narcissist who will try to flood your synapses with conspiracy theories and ads for cryptocurrency. In which case, you do you, I guess

Während sich in Deutschland 15.000 Transportanträge für Windräder bei der Autobahn GmbH stapeln, weil u.a. der Weg zum Zielort "beschwerlich" ist, schaue ich mir dieses Video an und denke: What the hell, Deutschland...

For those too young to remember, #homelessness was rare in the U.S. about 50 years ago.

Mieszkańcy i mieszkanki, osoby zamieszkujące Włoszczowę protestują dziś na miejskim rynku przeciwko planowanej kilometr od tego miejsca nowej spalarni zwłok zabitych zwierząt hodowlanych. Domagają się uchylenia decyzji burmistrza o zgodzie na budowę spalarni. Z tłumu słychać: „Ile wzięli w łapę?”. #Włoszczowa #spalarnia

Severed cable off Arctic Alaska repaired, restoring internet and cellular service https://www.adn.com/alaska-news/rural-alaska/2023/09/19/severed-cable-off-arctic-alaska-is-repaired-with-internet-cell-service-improvements-underway/

Revealed: almost everyone in Europe is breathing toxic air
Guardian investigation finds 98% of Europeans breathing highly damaging polluted air linked to 400,000 deaths a year
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/sep/20/revealed-almost-everyone-in-europe-breathing-toxic-air

Want UblockOrigin for life

Some kinda augmented reality that replaces all display advertising with classical art or gifs from /r/aww

Quote attributed to Banksy put it best:

Daaammmm...

Apparently my ongoing mission, that I have chosen to accept, is saving EOL corporate video conferencing devices and IP phones from the e-waste pile

Today's new toy is a Cisco DX70 Video Conferencing Endpoint. 14" 1080p Touchscreen Display, HDMI in, and a reasonable API and UI builder function which can be reused for a variety of things