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{testthat} is great for automatic testing. Here are some tricks for the heavy user: #rstats

Predicting Module-Lattice Reduction
L\'eo Ducas, Lynn Engelberts, Paola de Perthuis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10540 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.10540…

from my link log —
How NAT traversal works.
https://tailscale.com/blog/how-nat-traversal-works/
saved 2020-08-21 https://dot…

iOS und Android: Neue Nintendo-App erlaubt auch Shopping
Der japanische Spielekonzern betreibt schon seit 2020 in Japan eine eigene Shopping-App. Die landet nun auch im Westen – inklusive EU.
https://www.

I saw an article about how good the food options are that are associated with churches. So I went to a Vietnamese place called O BACH across the road from Bunnings in Tuggeranong and had a pretty nice banh mi. Nice crispy bun!
Apologies, I neglected to photograph my food before it disappeared into my cake hole.
#food #canberra

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 …

how could she

Started Don't Look Deeper from 2020. Pretty damn good. Don Cheadle, etc.
#film #scifi

NextEra Energy and Google sign a 25-year power supply deal, which includes restarting the 615MW Duane Arnold nuclear plant in Iowa, shut down in 2020 (Vallari Srivastava/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/nexter…

The closest I have to a Halloween post, from 5 years ago and last updated in mid-2023:
https://adrianroselli.com/2020/11/more-accessible-skeletons.html

From 2020, likely the same today...
Walmart and McDonald's among top employers of Medicaid and food stamp beneficiaries
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/11/19/walmart-and-mcdonalds-among-top-employers-of-medicaid-and-food-stamp-beneficiaries.html

#DDA #Vögel Ergebnisse aus dem #Uferschwalben -Modul 2025. Der Bestandsindex der Uferschwalbe ist diese Saison deutlich angestiegen und erreicht damit wieder das Niveau von 2020. Der stark fluktuierende Trend der…

Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau von #Balkonsolarleistung in Deutschland mit Stand vom 26.10.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff: Förderantrag

After the 2020 Alameda fire that that destroyed thousands of homes and businesses in southern Oregon, locals, Tribal leaders, and restoration experts uncovered—and revived—a network of hidden springs.
From The Oregonian
via Sightline
https://sig…

A bit out of date and it is gross figures. So some money comes in e.g. via rubberneck tourists, but my guess is that's typically overestimated.
The Windsors (Battenburg Saxe-Coburgs) cost a lot, 8 times more per citizen than Spain's Bourbons.
Here’s how much Europe’s royal families really cost | CNN
https://…

From subtle shifts in the procedural mechanics of
self-defense doctrine
to substantive expansions of justified lethal force,
legislatures are delegating larger amounts of
“violence work”
to the private sphere.
These regulatory innovations layer on top of existing rules that broadly authorize private violence
—both defensive and offensive
—for self-protection and the ostensible maintenance of law and order.
Yet such significant authority…

🛫 Madagascar’s military power grab shows Africa’s coup problem isn’t restricted to the Sahel region
https://theconversation.com/madagascars-military-power-grab-shows-africas-coup-problem-isnt-restricted-to-the-…

A Florida jury awards Megan Thee Stallion $75K in her defamation suit accusing blogger Milagro Gramz of being a "puppet" for Tory Lanez, who shot Megan in 2020 (NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/megan-thee-stallion…

Trump Misleads on Deportations and Inflation in First ‘60 Minutes’ Interview Since 2020 https://ground.news/article/trumps-60-minutes-interview-was-a-master-class-in-negotiation

from my link log —
Asterisk.
https://cormullion.github.io/pages/2020-10-09-asterisk/
saved 2020-10-10 https://dotat.at/:…

Remember how you (in the US) thought 2020 was never ending? You didn't imagine 2025 back then did you? 🙋‍♂️
#USA #TooLong #life

Flashback, als #BadenWürttemberg 2020 Gesichtsverhüllungen aka Burkas an Schulen verbieten wollte, weil westliche Werte und so, aber dann war #Corona und dann mussten sie die Verhüllung aus medizinischen Gründen erlauben.
Das war lustig.
(Heutzutage würde man das wahrschei…

This is a pretty useful comparison of the 2020 and 2025 #Maduro indictments.
Comparison by @… :

Dark-eyed juncos living in urbanized Los Angeles have shorter bills than juncos in nearby natural areas— but while UCLA was closed for COVID-19 safety, campus juncos evolved longer bills again
https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2520996122

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
Shannon and the Clams:
🎵 Sleep Talk
#ShannonandtheClams
https://shaneb.bandcamp.com/track/sleep-talk-shannon-the-clams-2020
https://open.spotify.com/track/0YRi3Gq2kkqfuaZ2L4rynD

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Kate Bush:
🎵 The Kick Inside
#NowPlaying #KateBush
https://iwannabekate.bandcamp.com/track/the-kick-inside-2020-remaster

Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau von #Balkonsolarleistung in Deutschland mit Stand vom 03.12.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff:

Amigas y amigos, en este su programa menos favorito de la internet, les traemos los nuevos lanzamientos musicales. Y hoy comenzamos con Tame Impala y su 5to šlbum de estudio, el sucesor de «The Slow Rush» del 2020, que lleva por título «Deadbeat».
https://album.link/s/5WulAOx9ilWy1h8UGZ1gkI

Am I going insane or are there people sometimes saying "several" and not always meaning seven, like "several years ago" and we're talking about 2020, did I miss a class or something.

@…

Point taken. I was thinking of processes that started already in 2020 and are still ongoing, making a different point.

On the Zanussi ZWF01483W washing machine: Review (2020) - Cold washes, 10kg capacity, quick and intensive cycles. - https://m.earth.org.uk/note-on-Zanussi-ZWF01483W-freestanding-washing-machine-REVIEW.html

Same!
#Hades2 #Hades #Gaming
ht…

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…

RE Mike Lee’s execrable proposal for "Pirates of the Caribbean "
a few days ago
—it’s bad, but
sadly in line with the right-wing movement to expand private actors’ privilege to use violence.
Darrell Miller wrote about this in what we called
“the new outlawry”
https://www.

Bengals shut down massive Dolphins offer to trade up for Joe Burrow in 2020 NFL Draft, per report

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/bengals-dolphins-trade-rumors-joe-burrow-…

Anyone else remember when we thought 2020 was a rough year? Yeah, I kinda want to rewind to that point now... 2026 is soon upon us, and I don't expect things to improve, unfortunately. And no, I'm not being pessimistic, only realistic...

Since it's getting misreported everywhere: this image of the stellar stream of the #galaxy #Messier61 by #Rubin - from A #StellarStream around the Spiral Galaxy Messier 61 in Rubin First Look Imaging: #AmateurAstronomers in 2020, 2024 and earlier in 2025: https://www.flickr.com/photos/133259498@N05/50665292533/ and https://www.galactic-hunter.com/post/messier-61-astrophotography and https://app.astrobin.com/i/0az5qv and https://app.astrobin.com/i/ldptvo - and these are just the results I could track down easily.

from my link log —
Getting started with Rust and Rocket for http services.
https://christine.website/blog/how-i-start-rust-2020-03-15
saved 2020-03-16

wiki_science: Wikipedia Map of Science (2020)
A network of scientific fields, extracted from the English Wikipedia in early 2020. Nodes are wikipedia pages representing natural, formal, social and applied sciences, and two nodes are linked if the cosine similarity of the page content is above a threshold. See <http://www.s…

Donald Trump, the most Florida Man ever, was elected president.
If you asked an LLM to write a Carl Hiaasen novel, you might get Trump:
a hacky, unimaginative version of the wealthy, callous, scheming grifters of the Hiaasenverse.
Back in 2020, Hiaasen wrote Trump into Squeeze Me,
a tremendous and madcap addition to his canon:
Fever Beach is the first Hiaasen novel since Squeeze Me,
and boy, does Hiaasen ever have MAGA's number.
The book revol…

Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau der #Windenergieleistung in #Deutschland. Stand: 15.10.2025.
Summen der Inbetriebnahmen und Stilllegungen pro Jahr.
Der Datenbestand enthält ggf. unplausible Datensätze.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff: 14 Tipps zum

from my link log —
Firefox's low-latency WebAssembly compiler.
http://wingolog.org/archives/2020/03/25/firefoxs-low-latency-webassembly-compiler
saved 2020-03-26

Georgia arrests ex-spy chief over alleged protection of scam call centers https://therecord.media/republic-of-georgia-former-spy-chief-arrested-scam-centers

Good Morning #Canada
This morning, our old Mazda goes in for new brakes, front and back, and install the snow tires. While sipping my coffee, I was wondering about auto stats in Canada....
- Canada ranks 23rd worldwide in vehicles per 1,000 people. USA ranks 10th.
- COVID put and end to rising car ownership. In 2020 there were 473 vehicles for every 1,000 people. Today, it's estimated to be 408.
- 11% of Canadians own 3 or more vehicles, 2% own 5 or more.
- 9% own an electric vehicle or hybrid.
- 78% of Canadians say it would be impossible for them not to have a car.
- 41% wish they had better transportation options to avoid needing a car altogether.
- Compared to 2024, car ownership costs have increased 9 per cent, rising from $5,025 to $5,497 annually.
Data from Wikipedia, #StatsCan, and Car Ownership Index.
#CanadaIsAwesome #Automobile

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…

Pro-Trump 'failed inventor' fundraising to illegally preserve photos of 2020 AZ ballots - Alternet.org
https://www.alternet.org/jovan-pulitzer/

from my link log —
Dumbindent: because 93% of the time was spent in clang-format.
https://nigeltao.github.io/blog/2020/dumbindent.html
saved 2020-06-15

from my link log —
libcpu: a library to emulate several CPU architectures using LLVM.
https://github.com/libcpu/libcpu
saved 2020-04-14 https://dotat.a…

Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau von #Balkonsolarleistung in Deutschland mit Stand vom 22.12.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff:

from my link log —
How to organize your Rust tests.
https://blog.logrocket.com/how-to-organize-your-rust-tests/
saved 2020-06-06 https://

A recent paper in the American Economic Review analysed the performance of 51 populist presidents and prime ministers, from 1900 to 2020. It found that on average, after 15 years, gross domestic product per head tends to be 10% lower in countries run by populist leaders than in similar economies with more mainstream regimes.
https://www.theguardian.com/news/ng-interactive/2025/oct/26/do-populists-always-crash-the-economy?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

wiki_science: Wikipedia Map of Science (2020)
A network of scientific fields, extracted from the English Wikipedia in early 2020. Nodes are wikipedia pages representing natural, formal, social and applied sciences, and two nodes are linked if the cosine similarity of the page content is above a threshold. See <http://www.s…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #CraigCharles
Bobbie Gentry:
🎵 Courtyard (Remastered 2020)
#BobbieGentry
https://mercuryrev.bandcamp.com/track/courtyard-feat-beth-orton
https://open.spotify.com/track/2b6KKNkD9PiUPvRYOdhbQ6

Some leftists have criticized #NoKingsDay2 as useless. Though it was the largest protest in US history, it didn't change anything. I would go further to say that protests like these generally won't change anything. Dictators aren't forced to step down by 2% of the population coming out for one day. If they're forced to step down by protests, those protests are sustained. They are every single day. They are accompanied by general strikes.
We've been watching that happen all over the world. Portland in 2020 gave us a taste of that in the US. The George Floyd Rebellion was the type of resistance that actually brings down dictators like Trump. Occasional protests, no matter how large, can simply be ignored. That is precisely the reason the US developed a militarized police force in the first place. You need more, more than the largest protests in US history, more than Occupy, more than the resistance of the 60's and 70's, more than, and different from, anything we've seen in our lives.
And yet... Each protest has grown, and grown bolder. Some have grown more persistent. If you think of protest as the path to achieve change, you will lose. It is not. But it is a path to escalate. Some people, some otherwise comfortable white folks, came out for their first time. Some people got pepper sprayed for the first time. Some people questioned authority, stood up for the first time, and have had an experience that will radicalize them for the rest of their lives.
Protest is not useful in and of itself. It is training. It's making connections. Authoritarian regimes rely on the illusion of compliance, so visual resistance does actually undermine their power.
Liberals like to teach that non-violence is all about staying peaceful no matter what, that there's some way that morality simply overwhelms an enemy. I remember reading Langston Hughes' A Dream Deferred in high school. I said it was a threat. My teacher said, "you're wrong, he was a pacifist." Pacifism is a threat. If you can spit at me, beat me, shoot me, and I will not move, if I have the strength to absorb violence without flinching, without even rising to violence, what will happen when you push me too far?
What happens to a dream deferred?
Does it dry up
like a raisin in the sun?
Or fester like a sore—
And then run?
Does it stink like rotten meat?
Or crust and sugar over—
like a syrupy sweet?
Maybe it just sags
like a heavy load.
Or does it explode?
For peaceful resistance to work, there must be ambiguity. It must not be clear if or when the resistance will stop being peaceful. Peaceful resistance with no possibility of escalation is just cowardice.
My critique then is not so harsh as some other anarchists. If you think that protest alone will work, you're probably going to lose. If you are prepared to escalate, if you are prepared to absorb violence without flinching, then it could be possible for protest alone to topple the dictator. The cracks are already beginning to show.
And then what?
The problems that lead to the George Floyd uprising were never resolved. The problems that lead to Occupy where never resolve. The DAPL was built, protesters were maimed, it leaked multiple times (exactly as predicted). Segregation never went away, it only changed forms. The fact that immigrants have different courts and different rights means that anyone can be arbitrarily kidnaped and renditioned to an arbitrary country. We never did anything about the torture black site. FFS, people can still be stripped of their voting rights and slavery is still legal in the US. The people who control both parties in the US are killing our children and grand children with oil wars and climate change.
Toppling the dictator does nothing to resolve all of the problems that existed before him.
No, #NoKingsDay was absolutely not useless. #NoKings and related protests are extremely useful but they aren't sufficient. But, I think we still need to challenge the movement on two points:
How do you escalate after you're ignored or brutalized?
What do you demand after you win?
#USPol

Rand Paul, the Senate homeland security committee's chair has requested that multiple academic research centers focused on political extremism
hand over years worth of documentation on
federal watch list programs,
the January 6, 2021 attack on the US Capitol,
vaccine mandates,
the 2020 election,
and Trump supporters,
according to information obtained by WIRED.

wiki_science: Wikipedia Map of Science (2020)
A network of scientific fields, extracted from the English Wikipedia in early 2020. Nodes are wikipedia pages representing natural, formal, social and applied sciences, and two nodes are linked if the cosine similarity of the page content is above a threshold. See <http://www.s…

For two decades, the media defaulted to portraying
Chief Justice John Roberts as a moderate institutionalist,
pointing to high-profile decisions
—to uphold parts of the Affordable Care Act or striking down President Donald Trump’s attempt to ask about citizenship in the 2020 census
—in which he broke from conservative orthodoxy.
But those decisions were always the exception.
Today, as the Roberts court rewrites the Constitution in the image of Trumpian aut…

wiki_science: Wikipedia Map of Science (2020)
A network of scientific fields, extracted from the English Wikipedia in early 2020. Nodes are wikipedia pages representing natural, formal, social and applied sciences, and two nodes are linked if the cosine similarity of the page content is above a threshold. See <http://www.s…

from my link log —
The Worst programming language.
http://worst.mitten.party/
saved 2020-03-02 https://dotat.at/:/8G9PB.html

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…

Heute ist Windows im Home Office wieder einmal so langsam wie 2020. Und das nur, um in den Dateilisten zu navigieren.

wiki_science: Wikipedia Map of Science (2020)
A network of scientific fields, extracted from the English Wikipedia in early 2020. Nodes are wikipedia pages representing natural, formal, social and applied sciences, and two nodes are linked if the cosine similarity of the page content is above a threshold. See <http://www.s…