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new things i want to learn now:
- geoDNS to route people to nearby servers (why do all the geo DNS servers look kinda janky?)
- TLS via acme protocol / let's encrypt, but without certbot

New Website Helps Researchers Overcome Peer Reviewers’ Preference for Animal Experiments #AnimalRights #AnimalTests #AnimalTesting

New Website Helps Researchers Overcome Peer Reviewers’ Preference for Animal Experiments
WASHINGTON, D.C.—A new website, AnimalMethodsBias.org, created by the Coalition to Illuminate and Address Animal Methods Bias (COLAAB), provides researchers guidance and resources aimed at helping them successfully publish nonanimal biomedical research by overcoming the preference some peer reviewers have for animal-based research methods.

new blog is deployed and loads articles in 700ms on plane wifi!
`wrk` suggests that it can do ~3500 requests per second on a single digitalocean vCPU.
is that good? i have no idea!
am i satisfied? yes!

Some #GenArtAPI updates from this week:
- switched from Apache 2.0 to MIT license
- started publishing API files & types as package (optional)
- updated readme & diagrams
New installation & getting started instructions:

genart-api/README.md at main · thi-ng/genart-api
Generalized API for browser-based generative art projects, plug & play support for platform specifics, parameter declarations, GUI creation, IPC - thi-ng/genart-api

i stayed up working on it 2 nights ago and then spent an hour yesterday putting the finishing touches on it (preserving old URLs, etc).
total time invested: 8 hours
lines of code written: 160 (74 Go and 86 shell)
new things learned: 2
satisfaction: priceless

"Microsoft and its collaborators on the Azure Quantum project have been consistently breaking new ground with quantum computing research projects, most recently by quadrupling the number of logical qubits they are able to create."
Microsoft Azure Quantum: Accelerating Discovery In The Quantum Age - Forbes

Microsoft Azure Quantum: Accelerating Discovery In The Quantum Age
Microsoft and its Azure Quantum collaborators keep breaking new ground on research projects that advance different critical aspects of quantum computing.

The latest version of the #Unicode standard adds legacy computing symbols. The attached image shows some of them.
https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/Unicode-16.0/U160-1CC00.pdf<…

TIL about a bit too much "new" (new to me) tech that I need to study: OpenNebula, Firecracker and Flatcar. They all seem amazing. How did I miss them for so long? 🤯😵

Global Methane Levels Show ‘No Hint Of Decline’ According To New Research #environment #methane https://

Global Methane Levels Show 'No Hint Of Decline' According To New Research
New research describes how human activities now fuel two-thirds of global methane emissions, which are growing at an unprecedented rate