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It's always TCP_NODELAY. Every damn time.
https://brooker.co.za/blog/2024/05/09/nagle.html
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In what environmental advocates describe as
“another gift to the fossil fuel industry,”
🆘the Trump administration plans to end rules limiting the release of planet-heating emissions from power plants that burn coal and gas.
🔥Power plants are considered the largest industrial source of greenhouse gas emissions in the US and account for about a quarter of the nation’s climate pollution, according to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
In 2024, the EPA under the B…
Anzahl der Inbetriebnahmen von #Balkonkraftwerken pro Monat in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 31.08.2026.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmejahre von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der
August 2026 was the hottest on record globally, followed by 2023, 2024, and 2025.
The temperature was well over 1.5°C above pre-industrial.
From Copernicus ECMWF
#globalwarming #ClimateChange
This story buries the lede that the three biggest donors to the SF Democratic Party are, literally, Republican donors.
1. Neighbors for a Better San Francisco, whose top backer is William Oberndorf, a "Republican mega-donor" according to April 2024 Mission Local coverage;
2. Chris Larsen, who co-founded Ripple, which donated to Trump's White House ballroom per CNN;
3. SF Believes, funded by "MAGA WhatsApp co-founder Jan Koum"
The SF Democratic Par…
Häufigkeitsverteilung der Bruttoleistung von #Balkonkraftwerken in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 31.08.2026.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten vor 2018 durch Registrierungsdatum ersetzt. Sonderregelungen nach
RE: https://sueden.social/@Heinzel/117208082647222991
Cover aus 2024, aber jui, würde ich das Magazin gerne für 2026 aktualisiert lesen.
#TIL Das Hörbuch "Die Brandstifter" von Annika Brockschmidt gibt es 2x auf #Spotify: Einmal als Hörbuch und nochmal als Album. Das Album ist das ungekürzte Hörbuch und ist ohne Hörbuchguthaben hörbar.
11,000% Return:
Trump’s $1 Billion Offer Could Yield $110 Billion Windfall for Big Oil
A 2024 analysis explored the possible payout if fossil fuel companies
—who have already shown a willingness to put a price tag on the value of planet Earth
—agree to the presumptive Republican nominee’s election year “quid pro quo” deal.
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.
Quintessent, a startup making optical interconnects for data centers, raised a $40M Series A led by Cycle Capital, following its $11.4M seed round in 2024 (Maria Deutscher/SiliconANGLE)
https://siliconangle.com/2026/08/24/quintessent-bags-40m-to-de…
"in its annual block grant to the Scottish government, the UK government deducts what it would have collected in income tax revenue had its rates been applied north of the border."
"Scottish income tax receipts, for 2024-25, were £209m lower than [...] forecast."
"combined with higher than expected income tax revenue in England and Northern Ireland, [...] the Treasury will deduct from the Scottish Budget [...] a record £720m."
UK Treasury not r…
Wettbewerbsverfahren: Apple beginnt Gespräche mit US-Justizministerium
Es geht um Apples iPhone-Ökosystem: 2024 reichte das Department of Justice Klage ein. Nun gibt es Bestrebungen zu einer Einigung – mit ungewissem Ausgang.
Nachdem Austeritätspolitik im Vereinigten Königreich unnötiges Leid verursacht hat (siehe Link), hatte ich nicht erwartet nur kurze Zeit später "sozialdemokratische" Austeritätspolitik zu erleben.
#SPD #Austerität
Schon die Einleitung beeindruckt. Die heutige USA reiht sich nahtlos in die Aufzählung der Autokratien der Welt ein. Das konnte Applebaum 2024 nicht wissen, aber in der Rückschau erschüttert das schon sehr. Ich bin gespannt auf ihr Buch „Die Achse der Autokraten“ in der Ausgabe der #büchergildegutenberg
Allgäu, Late Summer (2024)
(Almost too cliché, but it doesn't take away its beauty...)
#MorningWalk #LandscapePhotography #Photography
Anzahl der Inbetriebnahmen von #Balkonkraftwerken pro Monat in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 31.07.2026.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmejahre von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der
Democrats are seeing positive signs in a South Texas congressional seat that looked, on paper, like one of the harder places for the party to win back in 2026.
Democrat Bobby Pulido leads Republican Representative Monica De La Cruz in Texas’ 15th Congressional District, according to a new House Majority PAC-sponsored poll, conducted by Normington Petts and Associates, and shared with Newsweek on August 4.
Donald Trump carried the redrawn district by nearly 18 points in 2024,
Der #AI-Hype kennt offenbar keine Grenzen....
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 …
Organizational Technology Ladders: Remote Work and Generative AI Adoption
Gregor Schubert
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.11626 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2608.11626 https://arxiv.org/html/2608.11626
arXiv:2608.11626v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: This study proposes that firms move along an "organizational technology ladder": adopting one technology transforms hiring and work processes and builds skills and organizational capital that change the cost of adopting subsequent technologies. I study how firms' adoption of remote work technology during the COVID-19 period shaped later uptake of generative AI. Using U.S. job-posting data and an instrumental-variables strategy based on predicted differences in labor-market pressure to offer remote work, I estimate that a 10 percentage point increase in remote hiring in 2021-2022 increases the share of job postings mentioning generative AI in 2023-2024 by 0.4 percentage points across firms and 0.7 percentage points across occupations within firms. I provide evidence on mechanisms consistent with a technology-ladder channel: remote work adoption shifts hiring toward technical and managerial capabilities that predict faster conversion of generative AI exposure into adoption. Firms with return-to-office mandates---interpreted as revealing low remote productivity---exhibit a substantially larger response of generative AI adoption to remote work, consistent with an organizational frictions channel.
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#introduction
After a very long break, I'm (finally) back on Mastodon.
I'm gonna re-introduce myself: My name is Mark Zhou / EnmakaiDev. I'm a hobbyist developer and FOSS advocate who's been daily driving Linux since 2024.
I make projects primarily with Rust, and for myself but still decide to share (some of) them with the world only to leave a mark (ge…
Die Diskussion über teuren #Diesel & #Benzin ist erneut unangemessen aufgeregt und daher Faktenfrei.
Rechnung hoher #Spritpreis:
Wer bspw. mit einem sparsamen Auto 40 Cent/Liter mehr zahlt, hat (bei 10t-km/Jahr) monatlich Mehrkosten von 20€. Das ist für Normalos keine extreme Belastung.
Das entspricht übrigens fast den Preissteigerungen für das #Deutschlandticket innerhalb von 2 Jahren (2024 auf 2027). Da hat niemand in der Politik Sonderzahlungen an Bus- und Bahnfahrer verschenken wollen.
Beyond headcount and human capital: The Effective Cognitive Population as a decomposable capacity unit for AI-era planning
Kwan Soo Shin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.09642 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2608.09642 https://arxiv.org/html/2608.09642
arXiv:2608.09642v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: National planning counts population, human capital, and artificial-intelligence preparedness in separate ledgers. Demographic accounting has advanced from headcount to skills-adjusted stocks and still debates how much age structure retains once skills are modeled, yet no existing unit carries the conditions under which preparedness becomes productive capacity. This study introduces the Effective Cognitive Population (ECP), a decomposable unit that weights population by capability and by the conditions under which capability is deployed, anchored to the World Bank Human Capital Index Plus (HCI ) and the non-overlapping dimensions of the IMF AI Preparedness Index. The architecture is portable in principle; the case tested here is artificial intelligence, which has a published preparedness index. For 144 countries, HCI becomes a productivity level, AI opportunity uses digital infrastructure and innovation integration, conversion governance uses regulation and ethics, and the benchmark is ECP = N H(1 AC). Against 2024 total output on identical population bases, ECP raises criterion R-squared from 0.849 for the HCI -adjusted stock to 0.882 and lowers leave-one-country-out RMSE from 0.723 to 0.641, with the working-age comparison identical and bootstrap intervals excluding zero. Eighty-nine of 144 countries move at least ten rank positions from headcount, mostly through the human-capital adjustment itself. Results are stable across denominators, vintages, aggregation forms, and a 27-rule multiverse. The direct A by C interaction is not statistically supported, so the conjunction is a planning rule rather than causal complementarity. ECP is a diagnostic ledger whose scope excludes forecasts of population decline and estimates of AI's causal productivity effect.
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it's gone! Dirt Mountain has been flattened.
here's a couple before and after shots.
The close up shots of the pile are between this spring (May) and today.
The wide shot is from the beginning, Labour Day 2024.
And today.
#poolpond #backyardProject #diy #portalberni