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Yesterday I had a day off and made some mango soap. I meant to document the whole process but my batter thickened up so quickly, I couldn't. It was hardly surprising with 20% mango butter in the recipe. 😅
#SoapMaking

Despite hype and optimistic projections, the humanoid robot industry faces hurdles, from battery life and design to limited demand for large-scale deployments (Evan Ackerman/IEEE Spectrum)
https://spectrum.ieee.org/humanoid-robot-scaling

Humanoid Robots: The Scaling Challenge
​It takes more than building a humanoid robot to build a humanoid robot product.

For the first time we got fruit (2!) on the Akebia quinata ('chocolate vine"). We planted a different clone last year for pollination and although the flowering time overlap is small, at least we got these.
Pleasant vanilla pulp (bitter seeds) a bit like cherimoya and relatives. Worth growing? A nice plant but hardly a viable fruit crop in Manchester.

Been playing around with openSUSE TW on a laptop for a few days and noticed the battery life was horrendous.
Apparently I forgot about installing the trusted old tlp. All is now well.
I did also notice that tuned seemed to be the default, which zypper demanded to be uninstalled in order for tlp to be installed instead. Admittedly I hardly know the difference.
#linux

A Multilingual Python Programming Language
Saad Ahmed Bazaz, Mirza Omer Beg
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09591 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.09591

A Multilingual Python Programming Language
All widely used and useful programming languages have a common problem. They restrict entry on the basis of knowledge of the English language. The lack of knowledge of English poses a major hurdle to many newcomers who do not have the resources, in terms of time and money, to learn the English language. Studies show that people learn better in their own language. Therefore, we propose a language transpiler built on top of the Python programming language, called UniversalPython, which allows one…