Author: Yeri Tiete
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Comet Ice
[…] Could I cool down the Earth by capturing a comet and dropping it in the ocean, like an ice cube in a glass of water? Daniel Becker No. In fact, it’s honestly sort of impressive to find a solution that would actively make the problem worse in so many different ways. […] Outer space…
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The lifecycle of of SARS-CoV-2 – Covid-19
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Best Before labels are causing food waste
Do you know the difference between ‘Best Before’ and ‘Sell By’? ‘Display Until’ and ‘Use By’? Many of us don’t, and it’s causing a whopping ten per cent of Europe’s food waste – 9,000,000 tonnes across Europe each year. Source: TooGoodToGo
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Third Place
I guess that’s one thing that I do miss in Singapore: informal places that are affordable (almost everything here costs money) and that are not shopping malls (exactly what he mentions in the video). Sure, there are bars, but they are usually expensive and atas, and not the place people go for an informal chitchat…
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Apple restricts AirDrop in China
I think this has been greatly underreported. Apple purposely disables a feature on your phone during unrest. Anti-government protests flared in several Chinese cities and on college campuses over the weekend. But the country’s most widespread show of public dissent in decades will have to manage without a crucial communication tool, because Apple restricted its…
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Kagi
It’s now been roughly 6 months I’ve switched from DuckDuckGo to Kagi. I started paying right away after roughly the one month trial. I had not been very happy with DDG; mostly the results were very low quality (having to switch back to Google one too many times; results often lagged behind by months of…
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What if a supernova hits earth?
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Japanese produce lumber without cutting trees: Daisugi
[…] Shoots from the base of the tree are pruned so that the trunk stays straight. […] The technique results in a harvest of straight logs without having to cut down the entire tree. Although originally a forestry management technique, daisugi has also found its way into Japanese gardens. Daisugi Not the most exciting narrators,…
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Mastodon server: R2
This is a very short post because to be honest, I didn’t figure much out myself. My uploads/static files are now saved in R2 under its own URL (part of my enterprise zone) so that my normal caching rules and other settings are applied. Add these to your application.env file: The token/API key is a…
