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ℹ️ This is a post series where I talk about my experience learning Dutch, in Dutch. If you're not interested, feel free to ignore it. Do you speak Dutch and noticed my mistakes? Ik waardeer het als je me erop wijst! Welkom bij de derde deel van deze serie: vergeet niet om in te checken. Vandaag ga ik een beetje hebben over mijn nieuwe Nederlandse lessen, mijn kleine reis naar …

We’re excited to announce the release of Turbo v8, a major update to the Turbo front-end framework. This release introduces a suite of innovative features designed to enhance web development and user experiences across the board. Here are the key highlights of Turbo v8: Morphing for smooth page refreshes This new technique enables us to refresh pages selectively, replacing only the HTML elements that need to change, and ensures smoother …

The Axxess Forte 1 integrated amp brings in a new era of performance for the price. The custom 1 bit DAC, the built in streamer and of course the powerful amp inside.. [...] The post Axxess Forte 1 Integrated Amp Review. Steal this HiFi Amp NOW! first appeared on Steve Huff Hi-Fi and Photo.

A fascinating pair of pieces of ephemera, these, because they tells us something about brewing and beer consumption in large households and by farmers, and give a clue as to why farmers who brewed sometimes became actual commercial brewers. The first is a 163-year-old bill for malt and hops from Samuel Wright of Walkern in Hertfordshire to “S. U. Heathcote”. That is Samuel Unwin Heathcote, Lord of the Manor of …

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There’s a graveyard in the publishing world that’s full of authorized sequels and companion novels to famous works. Neither Scarlett nor Rhett Butler’s People are talked about decades following their release or in as fond terms as Gone With The Wind. Return to Wuthering Heights seems to have existed just to cash in on Emily Brontë’s original. The less said about the sequel to Catcher In The Rye, the better.(Image …

It’s come to my attention that a certain Wildly Popular Female Popstar has a song called “Clara Bow” on her upcoming album, bringing a sudden flurry of interest in this legendary “It” girl actress–seems like the perfect time to reblog … Continue reading →

In July 02023, climate scientist Bjorn Stevens paused in the middle of a virtual talk about data and modeling to quote a short story by Argentine author Jorge Luis Borges. Borges’ work does not often come up in the context of climate modeling — but Stevens invoked him for a reason beyond idle literary fascination. Referencing “On Exactitude in Science,” Borges’ single-paragraph story in which an empire creates maps of …

(L to R) Jennifer Pratt, Pat Parsley, Kim Downs, Drew RetzMy friend Eric Gutschmidt is fond of saying "You can't build a $100,000 house." That unpleasant reality underlay the lively discussion of housing issues Tuesday morning at the Gazette Business Breakfast in the Geonetric Building cafeteria. Various subjects fell into three major topic areas: supply, price, and neighborhood context.Supply Kim Downs, deputy city manager for the City of Marion, described …

The power of negative thinking: Combinatorial and geometric inequalities Two weeks ago, I participated (remotely) in the discrete geometry Oberwolfach meeting, and Ramon van Handel gave a beautiful lecture about the equality cases of Alexandrov-Fenchel inequalities which is among the most famous problems in convex geometry. In the top left, Ramon explains the AF-inequality and its equality cases for three dimensions. The extremal bodies, also depicted in the top right, …

I discussed my recent article, ‘The 2010s: a decade of revolutionaries without a revolution’, on the New Statesman podcast. Listen on Acast or iTunes.

An update on the Samsung moon controversy from a Samsung executive:There was a very nice video by Marques Brownlee last year on the moon picture. Everyone was like, ‘Is it fake? Is it not fake?’ There was a debate around what constitutes a real picture. And actually, there is no such thing as a real picture. As soon as you have sensors to capture something, you reproduce [what you’re seeing], …

Quick update on The Engineering Executive’s Primer. The book went to print yesterday, and physical copies will be available in March. Also, as of this moment, you can purchase the digital edition on Amazon, and read the full digital release on O’Reilly. (You can preorder physical copies on Amazon as well.)

I built this based on a picture in one of my books but it did not say what it was and I am not sure what it should be.Most of this model is scratch built. The large door in the high building is a commercial plastic door and the windows on the small building are commercial parts. The tar paper on the roofs is plain white paper sprayed gray. When …

Empire gown from Delineator, January 1893. Butterick pattern #4944. Sometimes a new fashion takes off and becomes dominant. Sometimes not! While browsing through a fashion and pattern magazine from 1893, I learned something new — which may interest vintage clothing collectors. This is a typical style from 1893: A typical fashion from January 1893, Delineator. A tightly fitted bodice, with huge Leg-o-Mutton sleeves contrasting with a tiny waist. The huge …