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Jerry Jones Offers Simple Solution to Cowboys’ Biggest Offensive Headache https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/jerry-jones-offers-solution-offensive-headache/

AMD is working with Cerebras to combine AMD Helios and Cerebras wafer-scale chips for an AI inference solution to make workloads faster; CBRS closed up 4.86% (Phoebe Liu/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/amd-partners-rival-cerebras-…

AMD Partners with Rival Cerebras on AI Server Rack
AMD said Thursday it is working with Cerebras, a rival AI server chip developer, on connecting AMD’s server racks to Cerebras wafers to run both companies’ chips simultaneously. The move is an example of disaggregated inference , or running the same AI across different chips to make workloads faster and more efficient. AMD’s graphics processing units would handle prefill, the most

from my link log —
Parsing JSON Objects without intermediate ASTs in Haskell.
https://arthi-chaud.github.io/posts/json-ir/
saved 2026-09-23 https://

The housing unit, attractively set around a courtyard in converted student accommodation, follows the
⭐️“Housing First” principle that has made Finland a world leader when it comes to tackling homelessness.
👉The model focuses on housing as a fundamental human right rather than a reward.
Temporary accommodation is seen not as a solution, but something to be avoided.
All support is centred on ensuring that people have permanent homes,
with everything else follow…

Finland tried to end homelessness. What can we learn from its runaway success – and recent failures?
The Housing First policy led to the number of homeless people in Finland dropping by half. Those with firsthand experience explain why it worked

Slides for a presentation on how to move forward with the years-long talk on tabular data on #Wikidata at #Wikimania2026: https://

Tabular data vs structured data.pptx
Tabular data vs. structured data - How do we get to a win-win solution? Galder Gonzalez Larrañaga, Basque Wikimedians User Group Lydia Pintscher, Wikimedia Deutschland Jan Ainali Sandra Fauconnier

Ratgeberjournalismus, der mich abholt
https://www.theguardian.com/thefilter-us/2026/aug/22/best-cheese-storage

‘Cheese paper’ will double the life of your cheddar. We lab-tested nine storage solutions
If you want to maintain the integrity of your camembert, specialty cheese storage containers work – but you may already have a solution at home

Dallas Cowboys Have Creative Solution To Fix Running Game Woes https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/dallas-cowboys-have-creative-solution-fix-running-game-woes

Sky-blue Solution-processed TADF and Hyperfluorescent OLEDs via a High-Work-Function PEDOT:PSS:PFI Hole Injection Layer
D\v{z}iugas Litvinas, Francisco Tenopala-Carmona, Mahni Fatahi, Anna Popczyk, Eli Zysman-Colman, Malte C. Gather
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.18474 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2607.18474 https://arxiv.org/html/2607.18474
arXiv:2607.18474v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Solution-processed OLEDs offer a scalable route to large-area devices, but achieving competitive efficiency in multilayer stacks remains a challenge due to difficulties in hole injection as well as solvent orthogonality between layers. A hole injection layer (HIL) based on a blend of PEDOT:PSS and a perfluorinated ionomer (PFI) addresses both challenges simultaneously: surface segregation of PFI during film drying creates a high-work-function interface improving hole injection into high-ionisation potential host materials, while the insolubility of the blend in aromatic solvents prevents intermixing with subsequently deposited layers. Using this HIL with a solution-processed mCPCN:SpiroAC-TRZ emissive layer, sky-blue OLEDs with a peak external quantum efficiency (EQEmax) of 21.7%, an external quantum efficiency (EQE) of 20.2% at 100 cd m-2, a peak luminance of 29,000 cd m-2 and a full width at half maximum (FWHM) emission linewidth of 69 nm are demonstrated. The PFI-based HIL approach is extended to the photochemically stable TADF emitter 5TCzBN (EQEmax 18.4%, FWHM 73 nm) and to sensitized / hyperfluorescent OLEDs incorporating the multi-resonance TADF terminal emitters n-DABNA (EQEmax 22.8%, FWHM 26 nm) and the dendrimer TCzBN-BMes (EQEmax 20.4%, FWHM 29 nm). These results establish the PEDOT:PSS:PFI HIL as a broadly compatible platform for high-performance solution-processed TADF OLEDs.
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The doumentary and related outreach is new, and very important. But the collective "we" have ignored this information for too long - the info is not new.
Homelessness doc supports housing as solution to crisis | Public Health | sfexaminer.com

Homelessness doc supports housing as solution to crisis
Local housing and homelessness orgs hosted screening.

The doumentary and related outreach is new, and very important. But the collective "we" have ignored this information for too long - the info is not new.
Homelessness doc supports housing as solution to crisis | Public Health | sfexaminer.com

Homelessness doc supports housing as solution to crisis
Local housing and homelessness orgs hosted screening.

Levent Alpöge, a mathematician who works at Anthropic, says he was able to disprove the 87-year-old Jacobian conjecture with the help of Fable 5 (Matthew Sparkes/New Scientist)
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2580374-ais-…

AI's solution to 87-year-old riddle takes mathematicians by surprise | New Scientist
Mathematicians have been trying to prove the Jacobian conjecture for nearly a century, but now the Claude Fable 5 AI has apparently found a counterexample that disproves it

"Despite energy crisis, Bangladesh’s factories are slow to adopt solar power: Study"
#Bangladesh #Energy #SolarPower

Despite energy crisis, Bangladesh’s factories are slow to adopt solar power: Study
Bangladesh’s energy system is facing intense pressure from the country’s ongoing fuel crisis and rising electricity bills. Yet thousands of garment factories’ rooftops that could be fitted with solar panels remain largely unused. Renewable energy such as solar could be a potential solution to the escalating crisis, but has been overlooked for many years despite […]

I've had issues with Linux.Pizza's Matrix-server, mainly due to uncontrolled growth of the database. Even thou retention is set do one month, there is still an absurd amount of growth in the database.
I have never encountered this before, not even with thousands of active users.
I do know that other users had this issue before and have been vocal about it.
Is there any solution to this yet?

Fab news from LC in 'New OCR Reprocessing Software and Datasets Portal for Chronicling America' - NDNP-Open-OCR is a 'highly accurate, cost-effective, scalable OCR reprocessing solution that uses advanced layout detection to improve text quality' https://blogs.loc.gov/thesignal/2026/0

@… since payment solution #wero gains traction in larger EU parts. Do you think nfc is something we will rely on in the future or will it just be „scan the qr“ for payment?

INCREDIBLE: markov chain happens to generate the solution to a math problem without actually doing any math

Please stop saying 'simplistic' when you actually mean 'simple.'
ARGHGH
"This is a simplistic solution."
DOES NOT MEAN THE SAME AS
.
"This is a simple solution."
The first is a criticism, the second is a compliment/boast.
Yes, I'm a cranky old man.

Clever, Denmark’s largest #EV charging provider,
is introducing dynamic pricing at all its public (and home) charging points: the charging price = spot energy price and time-varying network charges. A special subscription is required, so unfortunately it is not yet available on an ad hoc basis.

Sidewall effects on the onset of interfacial Holmboe waves in stratified exchange flows at high Schmidt number
Guilherme Siqueira de Aquino, Metten M. de Lange, Adrien Lefauve, Matias Duran-Matute
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.19565 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2607.19565 https://arxiv.org/html/2607.19565
arXiv:2607.19565v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Predicting the onset of interfacial instabilities is central to understanding turbulent mixing in natural and engineered stratified shear flows. Here, we study the onset of travelling Holmboe waves in confined exchange flows along a slope. Earlier stratified inclined duct experiments have mapped this transition, and stability analyses based on measured or prescribed profiles have explained their emergence. However, a predictive criterion linking forcing, geometry, base flow, and wave onset was still lacking. We closed this gap with a long-duct, sharp-interface asymptotic theory for the three-dimensional laminar exchange flow, including the effects of sidewall friction. The resulting analytical solution naturally identifies a confinement-adjusted Froude number, $Fr^*$, which unifies the effects of forcing and confinement into a single measure of the effective laminar exchange flow. Using this solution to parameterise sidewall drag in a practical width-averaged model, we perform linear stability analyses and numerical simulations at high Schmidt number. Together, linear stability analysis, direct numerical simulations, and existing experiments across a range of duct widths show that wave onset is accurately predicted by an approximately constant critical value of $Fr^*$. Deviations arise only in very narrow ducts, where sidewalls influence instability not only by modifying the laminar exchange flow but also by directly damping perturbations and delaying wave onset. These findings provide a predictive criterion for wave onset, reconcile long-standing discrepancies among experimental configurations, and establish lateral confinement as a fundamental control on the transition from laminar exchange to wave-driven mixing in stratified shear flows.
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Shopware 6: "I need this variable in every storefront template" — and every solution you've seen for it is worse than it needs to be: Twig extensions, decorated page loaders, header-subscriber hacks. Shopware's own core uses one clean mechanism for exactly this, and it's never mentioned in the docs.

Shopware 6 Hidden Gems #12: StorefrontRenderEvent — one subscriber, variables in every template - Winkelwagen GmbH - an ecommerce agency
"I need this variable in every storefront template." Every Shopware project arrives at this sentence eventually — a trust badge config, a feature toggle for

Cowboys Have Clear Free-Agent Solution to Fix Admitted Communication Problem https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/cowboys-clear-free-agent-solution-fix-admitted-communication-problem

When trouble arises and things look bad, there is always one
individual who perceives a solution and is willing to take
command. Very often, that individual is crazy.
-- Dave Berry

Edit: solution found, just needed to empty the cache because we had updated the instance recently 🥳
Is anyone out here having problems logging in their #Mastodon browser interface? Or is it just our server? My phone app works, and logging in a private browser window works but a normal window to the server is just empty

Discord suspends livestreams in Brazil, after the country's data protection authority ordered it last week, saying Discord failed to protect children and teens (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/brazil-discord-children-social-me…

Discord suspends Brazil livestreams after suicide raises child protection concerns
Discord, the popular platform for gamers to communicate online, said it suspended its livestreams in Brazil. The move Monday takes place in the wake of a suicide case and after a body of the country’s justice ministry accused it of failing to protect for children and adolescents. Discord said in a statement that it is implementing the suspension of livestreams after a decision by Brazil’s national agency of data protection last week and added it is in conversations “to seek a solution tha…

https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.23642
“[…] cognitive capacities required for [human oversight] are also themselves degraded by extended use of AI systems. […C]urrent approaches to the development and deployment of AI agent systems do not support effective human oversight — they contribute to its degradation.…

AI Agents Push Humans Out of the Loop
AI agents pose significant risks as they are granted increasing autonomy. A commonly proposed solution is human oversight and keeping a ''human in the loop'', but this is not a simple solution: Not only do current approaches to AI agent design impede effective human oversight, but the cognitive capacities required for it are also themselves degraded by extended use of AI systems. This position paper argues that current approaches to the development and deployment of AI agent systems do not supp…

First minute on the bike back in #Copenhagen, a driver takes an illegal u-turn at intersection and almost kills my 2y old and myself. Good example how protected onstreet bike lanes are no "solution", only a patch that keeps cities car-centric. The real fix is removing cars.

Not sure what happened, but a Microsoft update somehow wiped out all my Notepad tabs, I think.
I googled suggested solutions and can't find any that work.
If this has happened to you, can you guide me to a solution that worked for you? Thank you.

Source: before the Hugging Face incident, OpenAI was negotiating a legally binding deal with Anthropic for the companies to stress-test each other's models (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-anthropic-neared-deal-st…

OpenAI and Anthropic Neared Deal to Stress-Test Each Other’s AI
OpenAI is rethinking a range of safety strategies as it responds to fears from employees and others about the dangers its AI poses. One solution could lie in the recent past. Even before the spate of cybersecurity incidents involving OpenAI’s technology and the dire warnings from industry ...

In Havana, Garbage Trucks Replaced by Solar-Powered Tricycles
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4E-cd_XKs0
Havana has a garbage problem. El Rampeño has a solar-powered solution.

Meet the Cuban initiative using renewable energy to collect garbage with tricycles in the face of …

Computer (2026): „He can use the thing he bought.“ https://unstory.eu/wgc/

Man bought a font
If this is the solution, I want my problem back. Don't follow me, I am lost.

Proper generic kernel fusion is *so* complicated.
Making it work for a trivial 1:1 case is easy, but considering more complicated scenarios like "shader needs another SSBO as a scratch buffer or to read a large block of constants from", or "input and output are not 1:1" or even "shader has multiple outputs" complicates things dramatically.
But I don't want to rush out an incomplete half-baked solution that will have to be ripped out later on.

The Giants were 'starving for direction.' The solution: Follow John Harbaugh https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7504208/2026/08/11/john-harbaugh-giants-new-direction-confidence/

Metric entropy of the space of holomorphic functions
Siarhei Finski
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.18890 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2607.18890 https://arxiv.org/html/2607.18890
arXiv:2607.18890v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: By Montel's theorem, the continuous functions on a compact subset of a complex manifold that admit uniformly bounded holomorphic extensions to the manifold form a compact set in the uniform topology. We render this compactness quantitative by determining the asymptotics of the associated metric entropy, thereby giving a new solution to a problem of Kolmogorov for domains in $\mathbb{C}^n$ and extending the solution to domains in arbitrary Stein manifolds.
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The #git history command deserves more attention
https://lalitm.com/post/git-history/

OpenAI says its AI has solved the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize problem,
a potentially historic breakthrough
is over-shadowed by questions over its use of unpublished research by outside mathematicians.
The controversy strikes at a core trust question for AI-assisted science:
whether researchers can safely use frontier labs' tools to work on unpublished research

OpenAI's historic math solution overshadowed by credit controversy
The company denies any ties to other research.

It's that time again! Tomorrow (Tues) 14 July, 20:00 NZDT is our #libre / #FOSS Catch up. We'll be at https://meeting.iridescent.nz

I’m somewhat embarrassed to finally announce svcs 26.1.0 – my solution to #Python service location and dependency injection.
It’s been a minute, and the changelog is chuck-full, but the main features are autowiring, which looked like a simple add-on that grew to a four-digit monster diff, and of course, TypeForms that allow registering/getting abstract types!

Release 26.1.0 · hynek/svcs
Highlights In the spirit of "we do these things not because they are easy, but because we thought they were going to be easy" this release brings a great new feature: autowiring! It resolves depend...

Next nuclear power plant shut down due to Heat and drought ... But hey solar isn't a solution, I mean, we JUST had a partial eclipse! (yes this is sarcasm)
https://www.tagesschau.de/ausland/europa/rumaenien-akw-102.html

Niedriger Donaupegel: Rumänien schaltet einziges AKW komplett ab
Weil die Donau zu wenig Wasser führt, muss Rumänien sein einziges Atomkraftwerk ganz herunterfahren. Damit fällt ein Fünftel der Stromproduktion des Landes aus. Die Menschen in Rumänien gehen unterschiedlich mit der Energiekrise um.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@randulo/117122432928402113
BOOM! Great, simple solution!

@… I submitted https://github.com/knative/docs/pull/6684 to fix the URL problem with the logo. In case you have any thoughts on that solution.

Alexei Sayle:
“Whether anything has changed in the Labour Party is questionable. Miliband by his own description is a zionist. The two-state solution is a ridiculous fantasy. And I suspect we’ll get disillusioned with Burnham because he’s in hock to the same forces that Starmer was.”
Alexei Sayle: ‘The Palestine marches are entirely miraculous. The best of humanity’ | Morning Star

suppose i have one of these small ESP32 thingies which drives a peripherial - all neatly on a board. Is there some generic component - that comes with a usb and battery connector - that i can solder onto the power pins of the board so that it becomes portable and rechargable and preferably i can choose what size of LiPo battery i attach?
yes, i'm lazy, don't want to design&build a specific solution.

OpenAI says an internal model "significantly more capable than GPT-6 Astra" solved the Navier-Stokes problem using 10K concurrent agents working for 88 hours (Madison Mills/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/09/08/openai-math-solution-navier-stokes-credit

OpenAI's historic math solution overshadowed by credit controversy
The company denies any ties to other research.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #SonicReducer
Pere Ubu:
🎵 Final Solution
#PereUbu
https://hightotals.bandcamp.com/track/final-solution-pere-ubu
https://open.spotify.com/track/7dBXZDkTThkt9ef5XUBUFo

GPT 5.6 Sol came up with a smart solution to preserve native scroll behavior while having control over custom staggered scroll transitions. It makes me want to write a blog article for that, but it’s not technically “my discovery” 🤔

#Clojure friends, I'm trying to transcribe an equation from a #meteorology paper, and I've got something wrong: I'm coming out low.
Can you spot my error?
I can post a gist of my source if that would help.
The paper is here:

Today I braincoded some short SQL fixup while letting the LLM also generate a fix. The LLM was a tiny bit faster (I'd guess it took 60sec vs 90sec on my side), but I liked my solution more. I used a CTE to generate the fixed data and then did an update on select, while the LLM used a subselect.

Großartiger Artikel von Emily Bender ("stocchic parrot") und Nanna Inie zur Frage, wie man über "KI" sprechen und gleichzeitig die Anthropomorphisierungsfalle umgehen kann:
https://buttondown.com/maiht3k/archive/how-to-talk-about-ai-wit…

The ancient Middle-East had a solution for surviving the heat without chillers: windcatchers (and the related solar chimneys). Such things should be employed for first-tier cooling where possible to reduce energy demand, leaving chillers to take up the slack (until we figure out how to get infinity gigawatts of free power into every house, at which point we should just capture all the excess heat from running chillers and use the Seebeck effect to convert it into electricity to power a giant…

Recycling Churches and Tin Tabernacles #nonconformists

Ich muss sagen @… ist wirklich sehr gut und wird weiterhin besser. Das aktuelle Release 3 bringt Workflows um bestimmte Dinge zu automatisieren. Es läuft rock-solid auf dem Server und auf dem iPhone und macht ohne zu murren alle automatischen Updates mit. Ein echter Ersatz für Google Photos und mit den neuen Features sogar besser.
Erwähnt man so selte…

Immich
Self-hosted photo and video management solution. Easily back up, organize, and manage your photos on your own server. Immich helps you browse, search and organize your photos and videos with ease, without sacrificing your privacy.

On Thursday morning, someone decided that they didn't like a pole with the fibre on it and crashed into it (I jest, afaik no one was injured or anything.) but I have had no proper internet since.
I have been on 3G tethered from my phone to my Mac and tomorrow I (hopefully) get a 5G router as temporary solution.
A new pole has to be put in, and I was told that it would be 2 to 3 WEEKS before that is happening. Hopefully that is just an estimation and that it would get solved s…

Information Transport and Observability in Compressible Aerodynamics
Bo Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.20177 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2607.20177 https://arxiv.org/html/2607.20177
arXiv:2607.20177v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Pressure measurements provide sparse but direct observations of compressible aerodynamic flows, yet how information about hidden aerodynamic parameters is transported through the flow and encoded in these observations remains poorly understood. Here, we investigate information transport and observability in compressible aerodynamics using a differentiable shock-capturing immersed-boundary solver. By propagating gradients through the full unsteady flow solution, an automatic-differentiation-based observability metric is introduced to quantify the sensitivity of sparse pressure measurements to unknown aerodynamic parameters and identify informative sensing locations for inverse learning. The results reveal that aerodynamic information is transported non-uniformly through the flow field, producing localized regions of high observability. Inverse-learning experiments further demonstrate that observability and learnability are related but distinct concepts: although highly observable probes generally facilitate accurate parameter recovery, the highest-observability probe is not consistently the most effective for parameter inference. Furthermore, both the flow regime and the airfoil geometry substantially influence the distribution of observability and the convergence behavior of inverse learning. These findings establish a quantitative framework for understanding how aerodynamic information is encoded in sparse measurements and demonstrate the potential of automatic differentiation for observability analysis, informative sensor selection, and aerodynamic inverse analysis.
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I think I’d like to come up with a solution to covering the (Micro USB) charge port on my DIY bike light. I have ideas, but I want something clever and maybe even elegant. Hmmm…

Working on career development materials (think: résumé, LinkedIn, hire-me page, etc.).
I think I am much better at my actual work than convincing people I am good at my actual work. There doesn't seem to be a great solution to this particular problem…

Popular Front recently did a piece on the current conflicts in Ethiopia:
https://popularfront.substack.com/p/everything-you-didnt-know-about-the
It's a good primer for anyone who's unfamiliar, but is definitely lacking if you know any Ethiopian folks or pay attention to much news out of the Horn of Africa.
The interplay between authoritarian liberal nationalism, as represented by Abiy Ahmed and his government, and tribal federalism , represented by various tribal factions, reads to me very similarly to the liberalization of Europe (enclosure of the commons, a push to sacrifice ethnic identities for nationalist ones, etc). Like the liberalization of, say, France, it's a lot more complicated than "old thing bad, new thing good."
Liberalism was violent and authoritarian. It often sacrificed leftists. Liberalism's focus on borders and national identity led directly to pogroms and Nazism. Similarly, liberalization of Ethiopia has led to genocide and ethnic cleansing.
People think of "the terror" in France as a leftist thing, but it wasn't. It was a Liberal thing, centrist extremism, carried out against right and left.
I understand that tribal federalism is also not a good system, but I don't have a ton of depth so I'm not going to try to explain it. During the European Liberal revolutionary period of 1848, ethnic minorities would often side with some monarch or emperor against liberalism out of fear of liberal nationalism. It makes sense to support a system that's bad if your other option is a nationalism that erases your identity.
But even in Europe at that time, anarchism offered an alternative but that alternative often also drew from simply a different branch of liberalism that also suppressed culture and identity. Today the world is different. Democratic Confederalism offers a solution to *exactly* this problem, tested for more than a decade in Syria and developing now in Myanmar.
But the cross pollination between Syria and Myanmar in terms of fighters really made the ideological cross pollination possible. I don't think anything like that is happening now in Ethiopia.
Eurocentrism makes it easy to ignore what's happening now, but Addis Ababa is the seat of the African Union Commission. Ethiopia is a major military power in the region, so these developments carry a lot of weight. Especially as the US collapses and the world becomes more multipolar, the development of regional powers like Ethiopia will have a big impact on how that part of the continent develops.
If any folks are more familiar with Ethiopia than I am (which shouldn't be hard since I'm basically not), please correct me or add context if anything is missing or wrong.

"A plastic eater in Bangkok’s canals"
#Bangkok #Plastic #Plastics

A plastic eater in Bangkok’s canals
This solar-powered barge collects plastic from Bangkok’s canals before it can wash into the ocean. It’s an innovative solution to a growing problem, but cleaning up plastic is only part of the answer. Reducing plastic use and improving waste management remain the biggest challenges

Guess the year this was written! Solution in a reply.

I have a bunch of old `.mbox` files from previous and unused Thunderbird accounts. I'd like to convert these files to individual `.eml` or even better text files so I can archive and search them better as I'm not loading them in Thunderbird anymore. Is there a utility for that somewhere?
boosting makes the world nicer.
[Edit] I have a bunch of solution in the replies thanks everyone.
#thunderbird

RE: https://mastodon.social/@DrALJONES/117216910318926276
I've heard that word "solution" before, where could that have been

Dependency cooldowns are a nice idea, but I dare say they're a short-term solution.
They resemble the idea of avoiding poison by waiting for someone else to start eating first. That works, provided that someone actually eats first, and that the poison works fast. But eventually it leads to that awkward silence at the table when nobody wants to risk the first bite.
Adapting dependency cooldowns means basically waiting for "someone else" to notice the problem. At some point when large enough number of projects adapts them, we're going back to square one — except with an artificial few-day delay.
#security #FreeSoftware

California capped business tax credits at $5M/year in June and didn't exempt Hollywood, which is trying to fix the issue before the legislature ends August 31 (Katie Kilkenny/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business

California Pledged $750 Million a Year to Hollywood. But a New Law Has a Big Catch
A new bill, signed into law on June 29, could persuade film and TV projects to take their business elsewhere. Legislators with ties to entertainment are scrambling for a solution.

Finally,
my homepage thomas-kahle.de is made with Jekyll, so to build it you need a Ruby/bundler/gem/Jekyll toolchain, and imagemagick, node, nbconvert ...
Humanity has all but forgotten how to install and maintain that stack on the mac. Solution: a container recipe!
Oh, and you need a postgres db for some tests or tools? Spin up a container. Containers are magic.
#Math people, take the time to learn about containers! Sparks joy.

It's rolled around again! Tomorrow evening, 20:00 NZST, is our next virtual #Libre / #FOSS meeting. All welcome - https://meeting.iridescent.nz

suppose i have one of these small ESP32 thingies which drives a peripherial - all neatly on a board. Is there some generic component - that comes with a usb and battery connector - that i can solder onto the power pins of the board so that it becomes portable and rechargable and preferably i can choose what size of LiPo battery i attach?
yes, i'm lazy, don't want to design&build a specific solution.

An Orlicz variational formula for David-type Beltrami equations
Ryo Matsuda
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.05618 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2608.05618 https://arxiv.org/html/2608.05618
arXiv:2608.05618v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Let $\mathcal{U} \Subset \mathbb{C}$ be fixed, $\Phi(s)=e^s-s-1$, $F(\nu)=\frac{\nu}{2 |\nu|}$, and let $f^{F(\nu)}$ denote the principal solution of the corresponding Beltrami equation. The identity $K_{F(\nu)}=1 |\nu|$ identifies compactly supported David coefficients with exponential-Orlicz parameters. We prove that, on the open subset of $L^\Phi_{\mathcal{U}}(\mathbb{C})$ where a sufficiently high finite exponential moment is available, the principal solution map is locally real $C^{1,1}$ with values in $W^{1,2}_{\mathrm{loc}}(\mathbb{C})$. The derivative in a direction $\eta \in L^\Phi_{\mathcal{U}}(\mathbb{C})$ is the principally normalized solution of $\bar{\partial} V - F(\nu) \partial_z V = DF_\nu(\eta) \partial_z f^{F(\nu)}$. The proof uses a pullback by the base principal solution. The key estimate is the pointwise cancellation $\frac{\|DF_\nu\|_{\mathrm{op}}}{1-|F(\nu)|^2} \le \frac{1}{2}$, which converts the linearized equation into a $\bar{\partial}$-equation whose source is controlled directly by the $L^\Phi$-norm of the direction. Combined with the principal degenerate $L^2$-resolvent and the optimal Jacobian regularity for exponentially integrable distortion, this yields a uniform quadratic remainder estimate. At the origin one obtains $D \mathrm{Sol}_0[\eta]=(1/2)\mathcal{C}\eta$ in $W^{1,2}_{\mathrm{loc}}$.
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Theoretical development of an operational wave-induced ice erosion model through laboratory experiments
Wenjun Lu, Behnam Ghadimi, Dominique Mouaze, Marianne Font, R\'emi Lambert, Harvey Goodwin, Widar Weizhi Wang, Raed Lubbad, Sveinung L{\o}set
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.20118 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2607.20118 https://arxiv.org/html/2607.20118
arXiv:2607.20118v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Wave-induced melting of vertical ice fronts is represented in several operational iceberg and coastal-erosion models by the rough-wall parameterization of White (1980), whose closure chain is incompletely documented and whose commonly used compact expression is stated at the waterline. We reconstruct the formulation, specify the rough-turbulent wave-friction closure using Jonsson's implicit relation and its Lambert-W solution, and extend the model to a depth-resolved melt-rate profile under linear wave kinematics. Because the horizontal and vertical orbital-velocity components are linked, we use the horizontal component as a convenient representative scale and introduce a dimensionless coefficient alpha for the remaining closure uncertainty. The reconstruction gives a waterline coefficient of 3.0 x 10^-4 with White's resultant-velocity definition and 2.09 x 10^-4 for the reference choice alpha = 1; neither reproduces White's published 1.46 x 10^-4 directly. Two monochromatic wave-flume experiments with freshwater ice are then used to calibrate alpha from profiles below the wave trough. The full Lambert-W friction coefficient is used in this calibration. Best-fit values are 0.684 and 0.612 for periods of 1.54 and 0.87 s, respectively, a relative difference of approximately 11%. Their corresponding effective waterline coefficients, 1.43 x 10^-4 and 1.28 x 10^-4, are close to White's published value but do not constitute an independent validation. The fitted profiles reproduce the observed depth dependence below the trough, while deviations near the surface expose unresolved effects of intermittent submergence, local wave impact, and uncertain thermal forcing.
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