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@WaardRichard@social.edu.nl
2024-12-02 08:47:03

TIL that Amsterdam in 1974 already had a solution to the accumulating numbers of privately owned polluting cars: a system for shared small electrical vehicles, the 'witkar'. Watch the short video from BBC archive: youtu.be/G9vKzwIKFtg

@volephd@fediscience.org
2024-11-25 19:22:29

In January I will start a #newJob as #postdoc at #Aarhus University!
That will be country number 6 I'll be living in.

@KraftTea@mastodon.social
2024-12-18 05:31:28

I had mentioned that Russian freight trucks weren't doing well, but... things are getting uglier.
Large numbers of them are getting out of the business entirely, or trying to downsize their truck fleets due, in part, to the high key rate and general unprofitability of trucking in Russia under current circumstances.
They're even facing high incidences of non-payment by their clients!

@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2024-10-14 16:26:08

Old graphical editor prototype (2019/20) with various ways of managing multiple selections of graphical entities, incl. align/distribute, duplicate, invert, select/deselect region (box/convex hull). editor is generic. items could be files, shapes, mesh vertices, 2d/3d points, graph nodes, whatever...
Been re-animating this prototype and toying with integrating it into my personal note taking & media management tool to organize items into piles for batch-processing and to easier app…

Screenrecording of a graphical editor prototype showing a number of circles being duplicated/manipulated and re-arranged via a sequence of mouse gestures and keyboard commands (the most recently executed command is shown in the top-left corner). The steps are: - turn on grid - create/duplicate circles (with grid snapping) - selecting all - duplicating selection(s) to form an 8x8 layout - manually selecting 4 circles and then all circles in the convex hull - drawing multiple box selectio…
@ChinafakeWiki@mastodon.social
2024-11-28 10:44:09

turn of the century chinafakes are something else

A chinafake toy gun that resembles Harry Potter on a broomstick with an owl. One of his hands is pointing at something, and is very large and made out of translucent green plastic with an LED inside. The whole thing is very off-looking, has a weird paint job, and Harry's face is that of an eldritch horror. The whole toy is covered in minor damage from wear (scratches, paint worn down, etc) and small amounts of grime and dirt here and there, presumably from storage.
A slightly more zoomed-out image of the same toy.
The other side of the toy, which is identical albeit mirrored. It has speaker holes and a model number of "NO.918-20" molded into it.
A close up of the initial side of the toy, but focused more on the lower half and battery compartment this time.
@kurtsh@mastodon.social
2024-12-07 03:11:49

"...the number of dogs euthanized at [Los Angeles] city shelters jumped 72% compared to last year."
"[Dept] general manager, Staycee Dains, resigned. Dains had been on paid leave since August."
Trying really hard to hold back tears after so much EXTERNAL volunteer effort was put into reducing kill rates in LA.
"Days after LA Animal Services GM resigns, dept. faces audit" - K-Earth 101

@x_cli@infosec.exchange
2024-10-07 06:59:16

Un constat : ça prend un temps infini de faire les sous-titres d'un podcast ou d'une vidéo.
Même en ayant un script pré-écrit, et qu'il faut simplement caler, si on est contraint Š un certain nombre de caractères par ligne, comme c'est notamment le cas avec le standard Podcasting 2.0 (32 caractères), c'est très très très long.
Hier, j'ai mis 2h30 pour un épisode de 21 minutes.
J'ai utilisé Aegisub, qui est un logiciel libre qui facilite la chose. Sans lui, j'y serai encore. Je recommande chaudement !

@kurtsh@mastodon.social
2024-10-03 17:14:53

"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.