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Because today is the June #solstice, here is my 2020 animated map of this solstice’s day-night cycle rendered using the #CahillConcialdi map projection, which is my most favorite.
Grab the file here:

from my link log —
Faster integer parsing.
https://kholdstare.github.io/technical/2020/05/26/faster-integer-parsing.html
saved 2020-06-24

Between 2020 and 2024, no cervical cancer deaths were recorded in women aged 20 to 24
- the first time that had happened over a five-year period.
Without vaccination, around 23 deaths would have been expected.
"It's incredible to think that a single jab can almost eliminate a particular type of cancer,"
said Prof Peter Sasieni, the lead researcher at Queen Mary University of London.

Cervical cancer deaths fall to zero in young women given vaccine
A new study finds that hundreds of lives have been saved since school-age girls were offered the HPV jab in 2008.

Anzahl der #Batteriespeicher je #Batterietechnologien in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 21.04.2026.
3463 nicht aktive und 0 Batteriespeicher ohne Inbetriebnahmedatum wurden a…

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?

from my link log —
Discovering Dennis Ritchie's lost dissertation.
https://computerhistory.org/blog/discovering-dennis-ritchies-lost-dissertation/
saved 2020-06-20

Discovering Dennis Ritchie’s Lost Dissertation
Until recently, across a half-century perhaps fewer than a dozen people had ever had the opportunity to read Dennis Ritchie’s dissertation—the intellectual and biographical fork-in-the-road separating an academic career in computer science from the one at Bell Labs leading to C and Unix. Why?

from my link log —
Every Jurassic Park dinosaur illustrated with modern science.
https://jurassicparkterror.net/jurassic-park-dinosaurs/
saved 2020-06-06