Author: Yeri Tiete
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Gecko
Using Van Der Waals force, geckoes are able to stick to pretty much any surface, including slippery windows. Their feet have millions of tiny hairs. Pretty damn cool — never thought about it (*) until Nerdland talked about it. (*) Singapore has a lot of geckoes. They are considered to be pests here… But I…
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Our global food system is the primary driver of biodiversity loss
– A new Chatham House report highlights that the global food system is the primary driver of biodiversity loss. – Biodiversity loss will continue to accelerate, unless we change the way we produce food. Further destruction of ecosystems and habitats will threaten our ability to sustain human populations. – The new report calls for an urgent reform of food systems, suggesting three interdependent…
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DALL-E: Tigers
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Cost of Cars
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DALL-E: Cats
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DALL-E: a bowl of soup with koi fishes inside
Been playing around with DALL-E (and burned through all my free credits in no time). Amazing.
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Rabies
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Airports
“Moving some of our passenger operations to other UK airports at such short notice is also not realistic,” the airline said. “Ensuring ground readiness to handle and turnaround a widebody long-haul aircraft with 500 passengers onboard is not as simple as finding a parking spot at a mall.” Source: BBC It’s worth asking how come…
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Smokeping.eu
I’ve revamped my Smokeping infra a bit since 2020. First off, starting to use the smokeping.eu1 domain that Bianco got 10 or so years ago instead of using weird URLs under superuser.one domain. It’s running on four nodes as we speak: a virtual machine on a colocation server in Leaseweb, Amsterdam, NL -> leaseweb.nl.smokeping.eu a…
