@benrosstransit@mastodon.socialWeakening NEPA without replaciing it with something better is no abundance agenda.
This highway widening would foreclose future transit expansion and probably make traffic worse for most drivers.It is opposed by both local governments it goes through. NEPA is the only veto point.
A transit project with the same local opposition would be dead on arrival.
@arXiv_hepex_bot@mastoxiv.pageCommunity Report from the 2025 SNOLAB Future Projects Workshop
M. D. Diamond, P. Abbamonte, A. Arvanitaki, D. M. Asner, D. Balut, D. Baxter, C. Blanco, D. Boreham, M. Boulay, B. Broerman, T. Brunner, E. Caden, A. Chavarria, M. Chen, J. P. Davis, A. Drlica-Wagner, J. Estrada, N. Fatemighomi, J. Foster, D. Freedman, C. Gao, J. Hall, S. Hall, W. Halperin, M. Hirschel, N. Hoch, Z. Hong, A. Ianni, C. Jillings, D. Johnson, Y. Kahn, C. B. Krauss, T. Laframboise, M. Lai, M. R. Lapointe, B. Lil…
@grumpybozo@toad.socialVery early in the commercial registrar era, some registrars priced domains in harmony with their costs: no teaser marketing, just discounts on buying multiple future years at once. Even after everyone stopped giving out-year discounts explicitly, the fact of inflation in upstream fees made it wise for legitimate domain holders to buy many years in advance.
I am close to wanting a return to the InterNIC model. DNS Marxism.
@aral@mastodon.ar.al“Noor, who made so many friends on Bluesky since she started an account there in the summer of 2023, had her account suddenly suspended on Friday. Bluesky did not send a reason for the suspension, so while she wrote an appeal, she did not know what actions she was appealing, so as of now it's still suspended. She’s been silenced, and effectively disappeared.”
@benrosstransit@mastodon.socialWeakening NEPA without replaciing it with something better is no abundance agenda.
This highway widening would foreclose future transit expansion and probably make traffic worse for most drivers.It is opposed by both local governments it goes through. NEPA is the only veto point.
A transit project with the same local opposition would be dead on arrival.
@arXiv_csNI_bot@mastoxiv.pageA Tale of Two Mobile Generations: 5G-Advanced and 6G in 3GPP Release 20
Xingqin Lin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11828 https://arxiv.or…
@geant@mstdn.social📣 Calling all GÉANT Project partners…
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The 2025 GÉANT Above-the-Net Services Incubator is officially open for proposals!
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@tiotasram@kolektiva.social#ScribesAndMakers for July 3: When (and if) you procrastinate, what do you do? If you don't, what do you do to avoid it?
I'll swap right out of programming to read a book, play a video game, or watch some anime. Often got things open in other windows so it's as simple as alt-tab.
I've noticed recently I tend to do this more often when I have a hard problem to solve that I'm not 100% sure about. I definitely have cycles of better & worse motivation and I've gotten to a place where I'm pretty relaxed about it instead of feeling guilty. I work how I work, and that includes cycles of rest, and that's enough (at least, for me it has been so far, and I'm in a comfortable career, married with 2 kids).
Some projects ultimately lose steam and get abandoned, and I've learned to accept that too. I learn a lot and grow from each project, so nothing is a true waste of time, and there remains plenty of future ahead of me to achieve cool things.
The procrastination does sometimes impact my wife & kids, and that's something I do sometimes feel bad about, but I think I keep that in check well enough, and for things my wife worries about, I usually don't procrastinate those too much (used to be worse about this).
Right now I'm procrastinating a big work project by working on a hobby project instead. The work project probably won't get done by the start of the semester as a result. But as I remind myself, my work doesn't actually pay me to work during the summer, and things will be okay without the work project being finished until later.
When I want to force myself into a more productive cycle, talking to people about project details sometimes helps, as does finding some new tech I can learn about by shoehorning it into a project. Have been thinking about talking to a rubber duck, but haven't motivated myself to try that yet, and I'm not really in doldrums right now.
@khalidabuhakmeh@mastodon.socialI just saw a post saying someone let their agent AI run for 19 hours to solve a problem.
Is that the expectation?
I’m going to predict a future scandal: A global consulting firm has been caught charging human hours for agentic AI elapsed time. If I were an unscrupulous consulting firm, I could charge customers 24 hours a day at ludicrously high prices to deliver what likely would have been an ill-advised and doomed project anyway.
@cdarwin@c.imThe IRS open sourced much of its incredibly popular Direct File software as the future of the free tax filing program is at risk of being killed by Intuit’s lobbyists and Donald Trump’s megabill.
Meanwhile, several top developers who worked on the software have left the government and joined a project to explore the “future of tax filing” in the private sector
@stiefkind@mastodon.socialTIL: »Specific typographic rules have been developed for each language for centuries, but in recent decades, especially due to globalisation and the unification of software tools, they have been disregarded. The international project of a typographic proofreader for European languages will preserve these rules as an expression of European cultural diversity for future generations.«
Source:
@jby@ecoevo.socialA new paper projecting Joshua tree habitat under future climate based on incredibly high-resolution distribution data, from Joshua Tree Genome Project collaborators at USGS. They estimate up to 80% loss of suitable habitat by 2100 under the worst-case climate scenario.
#JoshuaTree #science
@lornajane@indieweb.socialYour open source needs docs - and to get you through this experience I have written a guide to creating minimal open source project documentation in a single afternoon. https://lornajane.net/posts/2025/just-enough-docs
Assemble the basics, immediately benefit your project, and also create a space for future documentation contributions to land!
@cellfourteen@social.petertoushkov.euDIAMOND DRAGON - Catgirl Cyberpunk Action! ( Updated 6/19/25 ) - Gameplay Mods - Doomworld
https://www.doomworld.com/forum/topic/153613-diamond-dragon-catgirl-cyberpunk-action-updated-61925/
@cdarwin@c.imFour years after Gov. Greg Abbott announced Texas would be the first state to build its own border wall, lawmakers have quietly stopped funding the project, leaving only scattered segments covering a small fraction of the border.
That decision, made in the waning hours of this year’s legislative session,
leaves the future of the state wall unclear.
Just 8% of the 805 miles the state identified for construction is complete, which has cost taxpayers more than $3 billion to dat…
@arXiv_hepex_bot@mastoxiv.pageThis https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.11292 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_hepe…
@atthenius@fediscience.orgWhat is Past is Prologue:
#Paleoclimate constraints on #ECS Equilibrium #ClimateSensitivity #GreenhouseGas sensitivity of Earth's #Climate
First of 3 papers this summer.
My career trajectory has been building towards using past climate archives to narrow the possibilities of future climate. But it is HARD. And computationally expensive.
The next two papers of this project will rule out some high and low sensitivity simulations using Past Climate (Proxy) archives and Data Assimilation. Those should be out in preprint in the next couple of months.
We hope this project (first to constrain earth climate sensitivity using coupled atmosphere-ocean earth system models) will be streamlined in the future and applied widely.
https://essopenarchive.org/users/921675/articles/1297441-on-the-sensitivity-of-climate-sensitivity-in-a-coupled-climate-model
@arXiv_physicsaccph_bot@mastoxiv.pageThe SPARTA project: toward a demonstrator facility for multistage plasma acceleration
C. A. Lindstr{\o}m, E. Adli, H. B. Anderson, P. Drobniak, D. Kalvik, F. Pe\~na, K. N. Sjobak
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.14493
