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I've been converting all my houseplants to semi-hydroponic setups for a while now, which involves removing all soil and assuming total control over nutrients supplied in the water reservoir.
If you're semi-hydro-curious: Start with a spider plant, like this one. Spider plants are extremely difficult to kill, and they react super quickly and obviously to different nutrient mixes.
Pictured: My spider plant blooming, exactly one day after feeding it a bloom-inducing nutrient mix. Wild!
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Exploring the internals of #Linux v0.01: Linux kernel is often mentioned as a overwhelmingly large open source software. As of this writing, the latest version is v6.5-rc5, which consists of 36M lines of code. However, the first version of Linux, v0.01 was pretty small. It consisted of only 10239 lines of code. Excluding comments and blank lines, it was only 8,670 lines. It's small enough to understand and is a good starting point to learn about the internals https://seiya.me/blog/reading-linux-v0.01
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Naysayers: "Scaling up free, automated TLS issuance is impossible."
Let's Encrypt:
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Diacumakos's technique involved incredibly fine glass needles that she made herself by heating glass in her Bunsen burner. These needles were thinner than a human hair!
A few years ago I posted about her on the bird site, and within *moments* @jesswade put up a wikipedia page for her.
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Beautiful display of the Moon, Jupiter, and Venus tonight.
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Ethan Drogin:
$259.71: That’s how much the “Suits” episode I wrote, “Identity Crisis,” earned last quarter in streaming residuals. All together, NBCUniversal paid the six original “Suits” writers less than $3,000 last quarter to stream our 11 Season 1 episodes on two platforms.
But many artists are certain that what is broken about Hollywood isn’t just compensation. It’s what’s being made and why.
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Microsoft Corp. issued software updates to plug more than 70 security holes in its Windows operating systems and related products, including multiple zero-day vulnerabilities currently being exploited in the wild. https://krebsonsecurity.com/2023/08/microsoft-patch-tuesday-august-2023-edition/
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We only get one starship. We have to look after it.
Space travel takes a long time...
(Credit to originator. Non-attributed image grabbed from Instagram.)
#Space #Cooperation #climatechange #ClimateChange #
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Quick factcheck on zoom changing T&Cs to allow them to use your calls to train algorithms. Result: yup.
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Voyager 2 Is Alive and Well!
For those of you wringing your hands for the last few days over the silence of one of the fabled Voyager spacecraft, launched in 1977 to the outer solar system & beyond, you can chill now.
After finding a faint signal coming from Voyager 2 despite its mis-orientation, #NASA made an attempt to communicate with the spacecraft. And it worked!!
Read on & be happy that we'll be hearing from deep space for some time to come.
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When you're hired as "IT manager," just to realize you're the only IT person to babysit all servers and devs. 😒
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If you ever wanted an extraordinarily in-depth look at how a #bicycle works (physics-wise) have I got the article for you.
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People often talk about their “ideal weight”.
I’m not sure what that means, but not much talk, say, of their “ideal competence” or “ideal wealth” or “ideal curiosity”.
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“Don’t delegate tasks, delegate ownership” — Casey Watts
Story:
At a party recently, some guests arrived early and offered to help set up.
They expected me to tell them exactly what to do (delegating tasks)
Instead, I told them my goal and trusted them to do it: “set up the food so it’ll be very easy for folks to get at the food, whatever that looks like” (delegating ownership).
They did a MUCH better job that I would have come up with! 👏🏻👏🏻
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