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Good morning gang! Let’s solve the mystery of the missing funnel steps!

from my link log —
Someone’s been messing with Python’s floating point subnormals!
https://moyix.blogspot.com/2022/09/someones-been-messing-with-my-subnormals.html
saved 2022-09-06

Someone’s Been Messing With My Subnormals!
TL;DR: After noticing an annoying warning, I went on an absurd yak shave, and discovered that because of a tiny handful of Python packages b...

A profile of Sarah Guo, Greylock's youngest GP before founding Conviction in 2022, which has since backed six of the 21 AI-native companies now worth over $10B (Dom Cooke/Colossus)
https://colossus.com/article/sarah-guo-conviction/

Sarah's Wager
Sarah Guo built Conviction into the venture firm closest to the AI frontier. Now she's betting against its biggest companies.

In California, survivors of solitary confinement
who have spent years trying to seriously limit the practice are facing yet another setback
as state prison officials unwind the minor reforms made in recent years. 
Those reforms, which had reduced the number of rule violations that could make someone eligible for isolation and increased out-of-cell time for people in solitary,
were part of a compromise Governor Gavin Newsom proposed after his 2022 veto of the Mandela A…

One Step Forward, Two Steps Back for Solitary Reforms in California - Bolts
California officials dial back the minor reforms they've made to isolation in prison, three years after Governor Gavin Newsom vetoed legislation to rein in solitary confinement.

Après un an de présence du Rassemblement national, « les esprits RNisés » de l’Eure
https://www.lemonde.fr/politique/article/2023/06/17/apres-un-an-de-presence-du-rassemblement-national-les-…

Après un an de présence du Rassemblement national, « les esprits RNisés » de l’Eure
Les quatre députés du RN élus en juin 2022 sur cette terre de droite courent les kermesses et les cérémonies, séduisent les maires ruraux et jouent une partition populiste, malgré une influence minime.

Der https://unfallatlas.statistikportal.de/ enthält jetzt auch die Daten von 2025. Wie immer belegen die Zahlen den Erfolg der "Vision Zero Fortschritt" der Petrolköpfe und Auto-Ideologen. Schwerverletzte leicht Rückläufig, Tote und Leichtverletzte gehen weiter rauf. Der Straßenterror bleibt …

Home Heat Pumps: Barriers to Installation (2022) - A case study in the friction in specifying and installing a heat-pump in the UK, even for a savvy early adopter. #heatpump #netZero #futureReady -…

Home Heat Pumps: Barriers to Installation (2022)
A case study in the friction in specifying and installing a heat-pump in the UK, even for a savvy early adopter. #heatpump #netZero #futureReady

@…
Oh no, it's not a religion.
Oh yes, it is!
https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2022/dec

Erneut flutschte ein korrigierter Aufsatz meiner Wenigkeit in Richtung Verlag, auf dass er dieses Jahr noch publiziert werden möge (er wurde 2022 geschrieben). Das gibt Hoffnung für den nächsten Aufsatz, der soeben Gestalt annimmt. See you in 2030!

Significant steps forward in enabling electric cars in Europe to feed energy back into the grid:
#V2G
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jaapburger_

Major strides for vehicle-to-grid: the key amendment to the ISO 15118-20 standard, which standardises AC bidirectional charging with a clear separation of functions between the charging point and the… | Jaap Burger
Major strides for vehicle-to-grid: the key amendment to the ISO 15118-20 standard, which standardises AC bidirectional charging with a clear separation of functions between the charging point and the vehicle’s inverter, is now an officially published standard. This means there are significant additions to the version published in 2022, which – as things currently stand – must be technically supported (though not necessarily to the full extent of its functionality) by all new private and p…

Understated, powerful, moving, frozen timeless calm. On perma repeat.
Lauge - Chernobyl (2022)
#Music4Coding …

Alisa Bowen, president of Disney since late 2022, is leaving to become CEO of Disney-controlled Fubo, succeeding David Gandler, who led Fubo for over a decade (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/alisa-bowen-ceo-fubo-disney-plus-1236806015/

Alisa Bowen Exits Disney+ to Become CEO of Disney-Controlled Fubo
Alisa Bowen, who has served as president of Disney+ since 2022, is leaving that role to become CEO of Fubo, the internet TV streaming service that is majority owned by Disney.

from my link log —
Querying PostgreSQL tables from DuckDB.
https://duckdb.org/2022/09/30/postgres-scanner.html
saved 2022-09-30 https://

Querying Postgres Tables Directly from DuckDB
DuckDB can now directly query tables stored in PostgreSQL and speed up complex analytical queries without duplicating data.

A 2022 risk assessment by the Bucharest City Committee for Emergency Situations estimated that
a major earthquake could severely damage about 23,000 buildings across the city,
kill approximately 6,500 people
and leave a further 16,000 seriously injured
https…

Revealed: Bucharest tourists hiring rentals that could collapse in an earthquake
Exclusive: More than 200 illegal holiday properties found in buildings at the highest level of seismic risk

„Drei Jahre lang - von 2022 bis 2025 - hatten die Forscher das etwa 3.500 Quadratkilometer große Einzugsgebiet der Unteren Spree zwischen Spreewald und Berlin untersucht.
Laut dem Bericht zählt die Region zu den wasserärmsten Gebieten Deutschlands. Die Grundwasserstände seien lokal seit dem Jahr 2000 um bis zu drei Meter gesunken.“
Genau hier baut Schwarz-Digits ein riesiges #Rechenzentrum

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 …

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.

from my link log —
Deriving a bit-twiddling hack: signed integer overflow.
https://grack.com/blog/2022/12/20/deriving-a-bit-twiddling-hack/
saved 2022-12-21 …

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:

At least 80% of the world lives under light-polluted skies
—a figure that rises to 99% in America and Europe.
A paper published in Science found that between 2011 and 2022 the night sky grew almost 10% brighter each year.
With so many places awash with artificial light, people are increasingly seeking out the darkness.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Baccara:
🎵 Yes Sir, I Can Boogie
#Baccara
https://sonnenwellen.bandcamp.com/track/baccara-yes-sir-i-can-boogie-geh-haim-illegal-2022
https://open.spotify.com/track/2LScqpywMqGcnum6nNaxXX

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #NickGrimshaw
New Order:
🎵 Bizarre Love Triangle
#NewOrder
https://waldodj.bandcamp.com/track/new-order-bizarre-love-triangle-waldo-edit-2022
https://open.spotify.com/track/6wVViUl2xSRoDK2T7dMZbR

#Java records & compact constructors
https://mikemybytes.com/2022/02/16/java-records-and-compact-constructors/

from my link log —
What is PL research and how is it useful?
http://www.pl-enthusiast.net/2015/05/27/what-is-pl-research-and-how-is-it-useful/
saved 2022-09-28

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #ChrisHawkins
Angel Olsen:
🎵 Ghost On (6 Music Session, 1 Jun 2022)
#AngelOlsen
https://angelolsen.bandcamp.com/track/ghost-on
https://open.spotify.com/track/512vqW0xDLcWjWD2tc46xd