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Tried cardoon for the first time this year, from a nearby food forest. It was great, I’d really recommend, and it’s still surviving in the lot when everything else has succumbed to a very wet Dutch winter.

This is not a guide, it's three config files

You well of British carpet horrors runs deep. Carpeted bathrooms were common amongst my grandparents’ generation. A nightclub in Nottingham, Ocean, was infamously carpeted when I studied there, and the subject of many jokes about what manner of substances must be contained in those threads.

The carpet was eventually torn up, leading to mourning and memorials from the student population https://thetab.com/uk/nottingham/2013/09/13/hoes-carpet-torn..., and the owner has leaned in to the meme and given several framed squares away to patrons.

Moving here from London was a shock: I thought London was one of the better places for vegetarian food, I wasn’t prepared for the huge selection of vegan alternatives in everyday Dutch supermarkets

A major threat to amphibians over the last 30 years has been the Chytrid fungus, which has been spread by human contamination, but has been aided in entering new regions by changing climates.

The upshot of this, as it relates to the submitted article, is there is a comprehensive, cross-functional and multi-method conservation action plan in place for amphibians, that has been operating now for some time, in response to threats like Chytrid. A new release of the plan is expected this year: https://www.iucn-amphibians.org/resources/acap/

Whilst the plan involves a lot of preservation of amphibians in their native habitats, a particularly interesting part of it is the “Amphibian Ark”, https://www.amphibianark.org/about-us/. Pretty much as it sounds, they’re taking live specimens of the most threatened species out of at-risk sites and trying to establish captive breeding populations. During the most aggressive periods of Chytrid spread, there’s been stories of expeditions reaching sites and securing specimens days before the disease tore through, most notably as told by a BBC crew filming golden frogs for an Attenborough documentary: https://news.mongabay.com/2008/02/the-panamanian-golden-frog...

Very excited to see Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel is an author here! Many might be familiar with “R for Data Science” (https://r4ds.had.co.nz/), to which she is a contributor, but she’s also published a lot of great papers around teaching data science.

You can’t just put the leftovers you want to microwave on a bowl or plate…?

Huge endorsement for Atkinson Hyperlegible from me. As someone with horrible and declining eyesight in multiple ways, it has improved my computing experience a lot.

There’s been a couple of attempts at making a monospace version, I currently use the one by Edward Shin in my editors and terminal https://github.com/Hylian/atkinson-monolegible

Hi Arthur

This is an awful lot of analysis for “it’s high-temperature relative to the superconductors that preceded it”

I have astigmatism and loathe dark mode. I find low contrast and soft colours easiest.

It probably just has a link because it’s a relatively unknown brand, the author doesn’t need to link to Apple for people to know what a MacBook is. This level of paranoia about a niche laptop company is fascinating.

What are you talking about? Being one item, and not even the first, in a bullet-pointed list at the bottom of the article is hardly “shilling”. Outside of that, Framework aren’t mentioned.

I’m currently doing a MSc in a totally unrelated topic to my undergraduate. They accepted some relevant professional experience I had as an alternative to a relevant degree (it’s been ~10 years since my UG)

I saw conjecture on twitter (unfortunately I didn’t save the tweet) that they were targeting rudders because of the similarity to tuna fins. They hunt tuna by removing the fins, to prevent the fish fleeing, and the tweeter’s hypothesis was that they are using the sailboats as practice

They can now be induced to mate in captivity, after a long course of hormone treatments and a 2000km trip on a “water treadmill” to mimic their migration. The current problem is that the larvae don’t survive past the first week. If I recall correctly, the current hypothesis is nutritional, and there’s work being done on understanding the phytoplankton makeup of the Sargasso Sea to determine how the larvae should be fed.

One of many issues. The European eel gets hit by just about every possible thing due to its many and varied life cycles. Larval stage is subject to disrupted ocean currents due to climate change, juveniles are subject to an enormous illegal fishing trade (as the most prolific remaining Anguilidae, they are used to supply eel demand in many areas where local species aren’t doing as hot) as they reach European coast, young adults struggle to navigate up waterways due to dams and whatnot, adults spend their lives being fat in the mud and absorb lots of pollutants, then when ready to breed they face the dams again going back out to sea. They’re also under immense pressure from an invasive swim bladder parasite brought over when Japanese eels were introduced to Europe sometime in the 20th century.

And these are just the headline threats for each stage, there’s myriad smaller ones. The reason for their decline is almost certainly a case of lots of small threats overcoming their ability to adapt, rather than one discrete cause.

I ended up studying European Eels a lot recently and my mind was blown by how prolific they are, and how culturally and historically important they are, and yet how little we know about them. My favourite one is that we’ve known they reproduce in the Sargasso Sea since the early 20th century, due to finding larvae there, but their breeding has never been observed in the wild, and up until February THIS YEAR, an adult European Eel had never been observed to be arriving at the sea. This has now been achieved with satellite tagging https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-19248-8

I would highly recommend checking out https://www.cursorless.org/, an editor for voice built on Talon (what’s being used here by Josh) and a VSCode extension. If for nothing else than to watch the dev live code with it.

I can’t walk about in public wearing a mask for any length of time without getting harassed, despite the continued prevalence of COVID and the worsening picture regarding long term consequences. I have trouble believing “it’s clear” that a great percentage of the population will comply, I think the handling of the early lockdowns has done for that. It seems more clear to me that governments will struggle to get compliance for any such measures at scale, based on attitudes since.

> or soy-based foods

The vast majority of soy production, particularly the environmentally destructive production that’s converting rainforests in South America into farmland, is for animal feed, not human consumption: https://ourworldindata.org/soy

It’s so under-supported it might as well be write-only. Last I checked, there wasn’t even a way to search your bookmarks within the UI.

Paywall, so it's possible the article addresses this, but from my understanding, it is rice cultivated in deep water paddies that contributes to excess methane emissions, as it creates the conditions for methane-producing anaerobic bacteria. Cultivating rice in shallow water that results in less methane emission is not only possible, but possibly optimal.

FWIW on the reliability front, I’ve used mine as my daily driver for over a year now and haven’t had a single issue.

Contents of the article aside, I’m intrigued by that Thinkpad with what appears to be a graphics tablet in the palm rest. Anyone know what model that is?

I think this is a common sentiment. Prolific coffee YouTuber, roastery-owner, and former World Barista Championship winner James Hoffman doesn’t do espresso at home, and says something to the effect of “home espresso is a hobby, not a way producing coffee”.

I got into manual lever espresso during the pandemic, and was shocked at how different the same coffee on the same grind setting would act under pressure at 10am and 3pm. Settings would be perfect for 10am, but a complete mess barely able to hold pressure as the water gushed through the puck at 3pm.

For espresso at least, the advice is to let it rest for 1-2 weeks after roasting. Roasting traps CO2 in the beans, and the aim with resting the coffee is to let some of it escape. It’s especially important for espresso but resting filter blends up to 2 weeks after roasting is becoming common advice too.

I would humbly suggest that you shouldn't be unpleasant to people because it amuses you.

> Once again, the poster behaves

Why are you writing this way? You’re in what is now an extended conversation with a person who is sharing their perspective with you, and you’re coming at it like you’re trying to humiliate them in front of an audience.

You’re not jousting in some epic debate chamber, you’re in the replies of a message board. Calm down.