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@arXiv_csDS_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-06-30 08:03:00

Faster exponential algorithms for cut problems via geometric data structures
L\'aszl\'o Kozma, Junqi Tan
arxiv.org/abs/2506.22281

@scott@carfree.city
2025-06-30 23:52:23

here’s what look to be newish sidewalk trees, 2 of them, on Capp in front of Alioto Park.
I have mixed feelings. Capp’s sidewalks are a miserly 9’ while the roadway is much too wide. Now when SF widens the sidewalk, these trees will be obstructions in the middle of it. We need to legalize planting trees in the parking lane

Two new sidewalk trees
@losttourist@social.chatty.monster
2025-06-01 09:37:08

I'm in Sainsbury's. There is a PA announcement. Literally these words:
"Feeling peckish? Why not treat yourself to a bacon or sausage barm from the hot food counter? I'm not sure if they're reduced, they might be, but just get yourself down there and have a lickle mooch".

@Mediagazer@mstdn.social
2025-05-30 20:07:50

PBS and one of its local affiliates sue the Trump administration, saying his executive order to cut federal funding violated PBS' First Amendment rights (Sara Fischer/Axios)
axios.com/2025/05/30/pbs-fundi

@arXiv_csSE_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-05-30 07:22:06

Synthesizing Performance Constraints for Evaluating and Improving Code Efficiency
Jun Yang, Cheng-Chi Wang, Bogdan Alexandru Stoica, Kexin Pei
arxiv.org/abs/2505.23471

@benb@osintua.eu
2025-05-29 03:05:53

Electronics plant in St. Petersburg on fire following explosions, local officials report: benborges.xyz/2025/05/29/elect

@playinprogress@assemblag.es
2025-06-29 10:57:06

gardening trivia of the day / no I don't want to get into roses I am just rabbit holing rose varieties and gardens for no reason
#TIL #roses

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Madame Caroline Testout was a late 19th-century French dressmaker from Grenoble, the proprietor of fashionable salons in London and Paris. She regularly purchased silks from Lyon, which was an important center for rose breeding. The nurseryman Joseph Pernet-Ducher was called 'The Wizard of Lyon' due to his success in developing hybrid tea roses. Madame Testout was an astute businesswoman and understood the value of good publicity. She asked Perner-Ducher to …
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In 1915, Jesse A. Currey, rose hobbyist and Sunday editor of the Oregon Journal, convinced city officials to institute a rose test garden to serve as a safe haven during World War I for hybrid roses grown in Europe. Rose lovers feared that these unique plants would be destroyed in the bombings. The Park Bureau approved the idea in 1917 and by early 1918, hybridists from England began to send roses. In 1921, Florence Holmes Gerke, the landscape architect for …
@pre@boing.world
2025-05-27 19:06:58
Content warning: re: Doctor Who - Wish World
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A wish granting god baby, granting Conrad's wishes in service of the Rani, turns London into a misogynist utopia and The Doctor into a good husband and insurance worker.
Hard to say why misogynists are so keen on the American 50s. Perhaps because it was before blacks had the vote and women could do banking.
And if anyone doubts this ridiculous tale, their table stops working and their family might call the doubt police, so they soon learn not to. All very oppressive and subversive.
Ruby manages to doubt anyway. And all the disabled people who simply never enter into Conrad's mind. Nice touch that. Great scene in the tent city filled with the dispossessed. They don't seem to have actually done anything so far but maybe they'll get more useful in part two.
Conrad is on TV telling a story about a man named Doctor Who.
Giant dinosaur skeletons walk the city, stepping over sky scrapers, and a bone palace towers above the city. Because I guess Conrad wishes for it to be so in order to give the Rani somewhere to live.
The palace is beautiful and Gothic.
But doubt is seeping in. Rogue is back, on the TV in hell, telling the Doctor that tables don't work like that. So he investigates. Gets himself reported to the doubt police who take him and Belinda to the bone palace.
The Rani's split from Miss Flood gives the pair of them a good chemistry. Queen and her maid of honour. Seems like Mrs Flood is likely to be the Rani's downfall. She doesn't like being told to make a sandwich.
A lot of exposition going on, but they at least put a hat on it: "Isn't just exposition, I need you to doubt"
So that's the reason for the strange wishes: To make the doctor have doubts so severe that the reality collapses, and Rani can rescue Omega. Omega is the dude in a Mask from the first 3 doctors episode, who gave the timelords time travel and got trapped in the underworld in the process. Timelords forgot him and never mounted a rescue, but presumably Rani is now hoping he'll bring back Galifrey.
And with London collapsing into the underworld and the doctor falling from the sky, we get the episode break and have to wait until next week.
That's not a cliff hanger, that an already-falling-from-the-cliff hanger.
Poppy really is his daughter he's shouting as he falls. And you know what that means?
🤨🤔
Back in Space Babies, the worst episode of the Nchuti seasons, that space baby asked if he was her parents and he said he wished that he was their parents.
That wish has been granted somehow?
Is this space baby Susan's mother? They have very different skin tones, but that doesn't matter much in a regenerating species.
Never have found out much about The Doctor's child. When he traveled with his granddaughter everyone assumed he'd met his own kid, the grandchild's parent.
But that doesn't have to be true for a time traveler. Maybe he met the granddaughter before he met his own kid, and maybe his own kid was just wished into his family line 60 years later (or billions of years in his timeline I guess).
Pretty fun episode but not sure it makes much sense. Why doesn't the Rani just wish for Omega to be back instead of all this doubt and underworld bollocks?
Last one next week. Super long episode. Hope it's all cleared up. Good chance we'll meet Susan again I think. And maybe see Omega's mask once more.
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@mlawton@mstdn.social
2025-06-26 12:28:50

My fair city of Roanoke attained “Bee City USA” status in 2022, which aims to “promote healthy, sustainable habitats for bees and other pollinators, responsible for the reproduction of nearly 90% of the world’s flowering plant species and one in every three bites of food we eat.”
Last night, a couple of garden clubs teamed up with the city to screen a new PBS Nature documentary, “My Garden of a Thousand Bees”.

The ornate interior of the Grandin Theater featuring textured stone walls, decorative carvings, and purple lighting. Seats are filled with audience members, and a presentation screen displays event details.
A woman addresses the audience before the film is screened. She is accompanied by another woman and the vice mayor. The event is taking place in a theater.