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mmm chorizo and lentil soup is very nice
i make it with lots of different veg, onion celery carrot peppers tomato garlic, so it’s very colourful
this time i added red lentils as well as green lentils to the soup which made it a bit thicker and much more filling
i wonder how quickly it will disappear this time :-)

…it’s not even that. It’s just ugly. Bad layouts. Bad margins. Bad proportions. Awkward animations. Flickers and flashes. Content peeking through all the negative space so that the screen is filled with visual noise. It feels designed by committee. It feels pasted together.
The feel of Apple products has covered a lot of ground over the decades. They’ve felt elegant. They’ve felt basic. They’ve felt bauble-y and cute. They’ve felt futuristic. They’ve felt practical. But this is the first time I can recall an Apple product feeling •cheap•.

I'm not ok. The world seems not ok. But community is important and there is still value in doing things just because. Blinky lights are fun, so last weekend I helped wire some controller boxes for an upcoming Burning Man project (maybe unscruz too?)
(and I've just realized that I don't know the project's name or if it has one...)

Large eddy simulation of turbulent swirl-stabilized flames using the front propagation formulation: impact of the resolved flame thickness
Ruochen Guo, Yunde Su, Yuewen Jiang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.21940 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.21940 https://arxiv.org/html/2602.21940
arXiv:2602.21940v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: This work extends the front propagation formulation (FPF) combustion model to large eddy simulation (LES) of swirl-stabilized turbulent premixed flames and investigates the effects of resolved flame thickness on the predicted flame dynamics. The FPF method is designed to mitigate the spurious propagation of under-resolved flames while preserving the reaction characteristics of filtered flame fronts. In this study, the model is extended to account for non-adiabatic effects and is coupled with an improved sub-filter flame speed estimation that resolves the inconsistency arising from heat-release effects on local sub-filter turbulence. The performance of the extended FPF method is validated by LES of the TECFLAM swirl-stabilized burner, where the results agree well with experimental measurements. The simulations reveal that the stretching of vortical structures in the outer shear layer leads to the formation of trapped flame pockets, which are identified as the physical mechanism responsible for the secondary temperature peaks observed in the experiment. The prediction of this phenomenon is shown to be strongly dependent on the resolved flame thickness, when the filter size is used for modeling sub-filter flame wrinklings. Without proper modeling of the chemical steepening effects, the thickness of the resolved flame brush is over-predicted, causing the flame consumption rate to be under-estimated. Consequently, the flame brush detaches from the outer shear layer, resulting in a failure to capture the flame pockets and the associated secondary temperature peaks.
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🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
Flying Lotus:
🎵 Pink Dream
#FlyingLotus
https://flyinglotus.bandcamp.com/track/pink-dream
https://open.spotify.com/track/3CsaL2k1lLWC1Bz8k2LHJ9

I have been using Moom (https://manytricks.com/moom/) for clever window management on my Mac, their licensing is fucking stupid and I am sick of filing issues to get hold of license files.
Anyone else have a similarly good tool they can recommend?

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #ThroughTheNight
Lodewijk Mortelmans, The Flemish Radio Orchestra & Bjarte Engeset:
🎵 Lyrisch gedicht voor klein orkest [Lyrical Poem for small orchestra]
#LodewijkMortelmans
https://open.spotify.com/track/6OYGIHxvXDlGSENEtM6JnI

A study of ~1,500 US workers finds AI use can reduce burnout but also cause "AI brain fry", a mental fatigue from using AI tools beyond one's cognitive capacity (Harvard Business Review)
https://hbr.org/2026/03/when-using-ai-leads-to-brain-fry

When Using AI Leads to “Brain Fry”
As firms increasingly incentivize employees to build and oversee complex teams of agents—for example, by measuring and rewarding token consumption as a proxy for performance—people are finding themselves pushed to their cognitive limits. Participants in a recent study described a “buzzing” feeling or a mental fog with difficulty focusing, slower decision-making, and headaches. The authors call this phenomenon “AI brain fry,” defined as mental fatigue from excessive use or oversight…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #ThroughTheNight
Lodewijk Mortelmans, The Flemish Radio Orchestra & Bjarte Engeset:
🎵 Lyrisch gedicht voor klein orkest [Lyrical Poem for small orchestra]
#LodewijkMortelmans
https://open.spotify.com/track/6OYGIHxvXDlGSENEtM6JnI

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #ThroughTheNight
Lodewijk Mortelmans, The Flemish Radio Orchestra & Bjarte Engeset:
🎵 Lyrisch gedicht voor klein orkest [Lyrical Poem for small orchestra]
#LodewijkMortelmans
https://open.spotify.com/track/6OYGIHxvXDlGSENEtM6JnI