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After watching True Romance today I have Chantilly Lace stuck in my head, which is fine with me. I've listened to a lot of 'oldies' radio in my life (whatever that means) and it's such a weird banger of a song. Love it every damn time it comes on.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fX4rxe9T3o

Draft 1st round 3rd-most watched, down from '25 https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/48612316/2026-nfl-draft-first-round-third-most-watched-record-last-year

psi: Plant Photosystem I excitation energy transfer network (2020)
Weighted directed network of the light-harvesting Photosystem Ι (PSI) of the plant Pisum sativum. The nodes represent chromophores with different identities (i.e. chlorophyll a, chlorophyll b, β-carotene and derivates, lutein, violaxanthin), while edges represent FRET transfer between chromophores. The link directionality connecting nodes in the PSI network depends on the energy levels of the connected chromophores. The…

from my link log —
Faster asynchronous WAL archiving with pgBackRest to avoid PostgreSQL WAL backlog.
https://www.percona.com/blog/2020/12/01/how-pgbackrest-is-addressing-slow-postgresql-wal-archiving-using-…

How pgBackRest is Addressing Slow PostgreSQL WAL Archiving Using Asynchronous Feature
How pgBackRest is addressing slow PostgreSQL WAL Archiving using its Asynchronous archiving feature.

(2020) Mihin tarvitsemme eläinkokeita? #eläimet #eläinoikeudet

Mihin tarvitsemme eläinkokeita? | Perjantai
Eläinkokeita tehdään, jotta ihmiset voisivat elää terveempää elämää. Onko niille vaihtoehtoja? Vieraina rottatutkija Tuomas Aivelo ja Eläinoikeuspuolueen Tiina Ollila. Perjantai-dokkari: Tapetaanko hiiri vai ihminen?

Hong Kong’s national security law has already crushed the territory’s once-vibrant civic and political life.
But now the city’s hard-line authorities are making the law even more repressive for anyone caught in its net.

Under updates which took effect this week,
the city’s chief executive can classify any case as a national security crime under the 2020 law,
even when the alleged offense was committed before that law took effect.

For good reasons, people cann…

Hong Kong’s nightmare gets darker
At China’s behest, the city says people can now be charged retroactively for crimes that didn’t exist when they allegedly committed them.

Gezien wat Wallinga allemaal al wist in februari 2020, is het RIVM in de publiekscommunicatie behoorlijk lang blijven liegen.
#pec

from my link log —
A Golang-style defer mechanism for C.
https://gustedt.wordpress.com/2020/12/14/a-defer-mechanism-for-c/
saved 2020-12-14

A defer mechanism for C
An overview of a paper that presents a reference implementation of a defer mechanism (co-authored with Robert C. Seacord) has been accepted for publication at SAC’21. The full version is avai…

May 2026 was the second-warmest May on record globally, in between 2024 and 2025.
The global average temperature was 15.81°C, 0.55°C above the 1991-2020 average for May and 1.42°C above the estimated 1850-1900 pre-industrial average for the month.
https://climate.copernicus.eu/surface-

Politico shutters E&E News, the standalone energy brand it bought in December 2020, amid a reorganization that expands its energy-focused coverage (Max Tani/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/06/08/2026/politico-folds-ee-news-ahead-of-…

Exclusive: Politico folds E&E News ahead of broader energy push
In September, Politico plans to launch a series of energy-focused newsletters.

sp_baboons: Baboons' interactions (2020)
Network of interactions between a group of 20 Guinea baboons living in an enclosure of a Primate Center in France, between June 13th 2019 and July 10th 2019. The data set contains observational and wearable sensors data.
This network has 13 nodes and 63095 edges.
Tags: Social, Animal, Offline, Unweighted, Weighted, Temporal, Metadata

Former Cowboys DL Aldon Smith dies at 36 https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2026/06/13/cowboys-dl-aldon-smith-obituary/90544064007/

It’s weird watching videos from 2020 when the person alludes to the pandemic but never mentions it… I wonder if this will completely confuse people in the future.

from my link log —
Reverse engineering a forgotten 1970s Intel dual core beast: 8271, a new ISA.
https://scarybeastsecurity.blogspot.com/2020/11/reverse-engineering-forgotten-1970s.html
saved 2020-11-16

Reverse engineering a forgotten 1970s Intel dual core beast: 8271, a new ISA
" As I recall, those two chips were fairly large. And fairly late -- to the marketplace. We had lots of issues with them. [...] Sometimes th...

The Trump administration is waging war on voting rights using justice department lawsuits,
FBI investigations,
and an executive order to limit voting by mail,
-- moves mirroring the US president’s false claims he lost the 2020 election due to voting fraud, say election experts and ex-officials.
🔥Since Donald Trump began his second term, numerous 2020 election denialists have been installed in key agencies such as the DoJ, the FBI and elsewhere to pursue widely discred…

2020 waren wir schon mal während Corona für ein paar Tage an der Mosel.
Nun waren wir wieder mal dort.
Nach einer Woche stelle ich fest, dass die Gegend sehr camperfreundlich ist ✅ und sehr viele Stellplätze hat.
Sehr schöne Gegend zum Wandern und Radfahren ✅
Allerdings ist in einigen der bekannten Städtchen schon noch der morbide Charme der 70er spürbar 😬
Jetzt geht es weiter ins Saarland

Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau von #Balkonsolarleistung in Deutschland mit Stand vom 29.06.2026.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff:

8 ce n'est pas assez
https://ludovic.hirlimann.net/2020/12/8-cest-pas-assez.html

Henry Ruggs could be paroled from prison soon. Here's what you need to know https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7345275/2026/06/10/henry-ruggs-parole-prison-release/

psi: Plant Photosystem I excitation energy transfer network (2020)
Weighted directed network of the light-harvesting Photosystem Ι (PSI) of the plant Pisum sativum. The nodes represent chromophores with different identities (i.e. chlorophyll a, chlorophyll b, β-carotene and derivates, lutein, violaxanthin), while edges represent FRET transfer between chromophores. The link directionality connecting nodes in the PSI network depends on the energy levels of the connected chromophores. The…

#TIL Peter Zinovieff, co-founder of EMS, sold his wife’s tiara to buy a DEC PDP-8, making him the first private individual in the world to own a computer. He used it to build a revolutionary electronic music studio in his back garden. 🎹💻 https://…

The Story Behind The EMS VCS3 in the 1970s, part 1
A musical review of a great instrument from the golden era of analog synths, the EMS VCS3, featuring The Who, Hawkwind, Roxy Music and Brian Eno.

from my link log —
SELECT WAT FROM SQL;
https://scattered-thoughts.net/writing/select-wat-from-sql/
saved 2020-04-17 https://

from my link log —
JavaScript got better while I wasn't looking.
https://eev.ee/blog/2017/10/07/javascript-got-better-while-i-wasnt-looking/
saved 2020-02-02

JavaScript got better while I wasn’t looking
IndustrialRobot has generously donated in order to inquire: In the last few years there seems to have been a lot of activity with adding emojis to Unicode. Has there been an equal effort to add ‘real’ languages/glyph systems/etc? And as always, if you don’t have anything to say on that topic, feel free to choose your own. :p Yes. I mean, each release of Unicode lists major new a

My web site's GenAI/LLM policy:
#NoAI

About
Updated: Summer 2020 Greetings. My name is Pete Prodoehl. I am the publisher behind RasterWeb! which started in August of 1997. RasterWeb! is one of the longest running continually updated weblogs. I give some credit to Dave Winer for getting me involved in all of this. His work in web publishing in the mid-1990s, as [...]

De #pec focust onmiddellijk op het functioneren van het OMT. Gaan ze nu echt de miscommunicaties van het RIVM in februari 2020 geheel overslaan?

Improved Approximation Guarantees for Groupwise Maximin Share Fairness
Georgios Amanatidis, Anna Korfiati, Evangelos Markakis, Christodoulos Santorinaios
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.04731 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2606.04731 https://arxiv.org/html/2606.04731
arXiv:2606.04731v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We study the problem of fairly allocating a set of indivisible goods to a set of $n$ agents with additive valuation functions. We focus on the very demanding notion of \textit{groupwise maximin share fairness} (GMMS), which requires that each agent $i$ receives value comparable to their maximin share, where the latter is computed \textit{with respect to any subset of agents that contains $i$}. We show that it is possible to compute $(\phi-1)$-approximate GMMS allocations in polynomial time, where $\phi \approx 1.618$ is the golden ratio). This improves on the previously known guarantee of $4/7$ of Chaudhury et al. [SICOMP; 2021] and Amanatidis et al. [TCS; 2020]. We propose a simple algorithm that maintains the same main properties as the Draft-and-Eliminate algorithm of Amanatidis et al. [TCS, 2020] and we improve on the approximation guarantee analysis by carefully bounding the relevant value within any subinstance induced by the restriction of our allocation to a subset of agents. Our analysis is asymptotically tight for algorithms that share these properties and has the additional benefit of giving improved guarantees for restricted settings; in particular, when the agents agree on the top $n$ goods or when the number of agents is small. To illustrate the challenges of going beyond the guarantees of our algorithm, we also present a variant with an improved approximation of $(\sqrt{10}-1)/3 \approx 0.72$ for the case of three agents. To achieve this improvement we partially characterize the maximin share guarantees of short picking sequences for a small number of goods.
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The first half of 2026 was the 5th warmest on record here in the central Netherlands.
Just following the forecast for the coming 2 weeks, and then the 1991-2020 average (cool by now) would already bring this year into the top-3 warmest since 1901.

sp_baboons: Baboons' interactions (2020)
Network of interactions between a group of 20 Guinea baboons living in an enclosure of a Primate Center in France, between June 13th 2019 and July 10th 2019. The data set contains observational and wearable sensors data.
This network has 13 nodes and 63095 edges.
Tags: Social, Animal, Offline, Unweighted, Weighted, Temporal, Metadata

from my link log —
Generics and compile time in Rust.
https://pingcap.com/blog/generics-and-compile-time-in-rust/
saved 2020-06-16 https:/…

Generics and Compile-Time in Rust | TiDB
Learn about the benefits of TiDB and the TiDB Cloud solutions from PingCAP. Read our latest post "Generics and Compile-Time in Rust" here.

psi: Plant Photosystem I excitation energy transfer network (2020)
Weighted directed network of the light-harvesting Photosystem Ι (PSI) of the plant Pisum sativum. The nodes represent chromophores with different identities (i.e. chlorophyll a, chlorophyll b, β-carotene and derivates, lutein, violaxanthin), while edges represent FRET transfer between chromophores. The link directionality connecting nodes in the PSI network depends on the energy levels of the connected chromophores. The…

sp_baboons: Baboons' interactions (2020)
Network of interactions between a group of 20 Guinea baboons living in an enclosure of a Primate Center in France, between June 13th 2019 and July 10th 2019. The data set contains observational and wearable sensors data.
This network has 13 nodes and 63095 edges.
Tags: Social, Animal, Offline, Unweighted, Weighted, Temporal, Metadata

from my link log —
Boost UDP transaction performance.
https://www.slideshare.net/lfevents/boost-udp-transaction-performance
saved 2020-04-19

psi: Plant Photosystem I excitation energy transfer network (2020)
Weighted directed network of the light-harvesting Photosystem Ι (PSI) of the plant Pisum sativum. The nodes represent chromophores with different identities (i.e. chlorophyll a, chlorophyll b, β-carotene and derivates, lutein, violaxanthin), while edges represent FRET transfer between chromophores. The link directionality connecting nodes in the PSI network depends on the energy levels of the connected chromophores. The…

from my link log —
What is the Scudo hardened allocator? (used by LLVM sanitizers and Android)
http://expertmiami.blogspot.com/2019/05/what-is-scudo-hardened-allocator_10.html
saved 2020-07-01

faculty_hiring_us: Faculty hiring networks in the US (2022)
Networks of faculty hiring for all PhD-granting US universities over the decade 2011–2020. Each node is a PhD-granting institution, and a directed edge (i,j) indicates that a person received their PhD from node i and was tenure-track faculty at node j during time of collection (2011-2020). This dataset is divided into separate networks for all 107 fields, as well as aggregate networks for 8 domains, and an overall network for …

sp_baboons: Baboons' interactions (2020)
Network of interactions between a group of 20 Guinea baboons living in an enclosure of a Primate Center in France, between June 13th 2019 and July 10th 2019. The data set contains observational and wearable sensors data.
This network has 13 nodes and 63095 edges.
Tags: Social, Animal, Offline, Unweighted, Weighted, Temporal, Metadata

faculty_hiring_us: Faculty hiring networks in the US (2022)
Networks of faculty hiring for all PhD-granting US universities over the decade 2011–2020. Each node is a PhD-granting institution, and a directed edge (i,j) indicates that a person received their PhD from node i and was tenure-track faculty at node j during time of collection (2011-2020). This dataset is divided into separate networks for all 107 fields, as well as aggregate networks for 8 domains, and an overall network for …