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The quote in full is: "I Had Exactly Four Seconds To Hot Up the Disintegrator, and Google Had Told Me It Wasn’t Enough"

You can visit my iNaturalist profile and see the photos.

https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/sohkamyung

And here's a Singapore Biodiversity Report that included photos from me (Figs 10-12) [PDF]

https://lkcnhm.nus.edu.sg/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/0...

I'm more into shooting insects in the wild, when they are active and doing their thing, so I can also catch their behaviour. I contribute to iNaturalist, and a few of my observations have ended up as documentation in some scientific papers by local scientists.

Indeed. That's how I shoot insects: live and in the field with a macro lens. It's quite a challenge, especially for the smaller insects (2-3 mm in length).

From the end of the article:

"The final patch in the series removes read() and write() with a surprising lack of ceremony, given that they have been there for 32 years."

One 'silly' question from this novice linux kernel driver developer: if the ->read() and ->write() operations in the Linux kernel file operations structure go away, then what happens to read() and write() from user space? Which file operations do those call trigger in the kernel driver?

I read "Elusive: How Peter Higgs Solved the Mystery of Mass" by Frank Close and I found it an excellent read on the elusive Higgs Particle and the elusive Peter Higgs himself (Higgs went for a walk to hide from people on the day the Nobel Prize was announced).

Part 2 at [1]

[1] https://file770.com/talking-with-michael-moorcock-about-his-...

A more general write-up on the project via The Guardian [1]

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/science/2024/mar/02/doing-someth...

> The original books are great but honestly the characters aren’t even in the books long enough to really develop them beyond the crises at hand, it’s more like a collection of short stories

The original three Foundation books are collections of short stories that Asimov originally wrote for magazines.

I learned Korean from a tourist guide book many years ago. After a few days, I could read and pronounce the train stops to figure out which stop to get off.

I just recently read "How Life Works" by Philip Ball that covers that topic (and more). An information dense book, but entertaining. [1]

[1] https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/H/bo207403...

I found this at Instructables: "Slide Rule for the Modern Day"

[1] https://www.instructables.com/Slide-Rule-for-the-Modern-Day/

I have a SDK that I need to git clone from a repository, and then run a script file from the SDK to fetch the actual tools for my build environment.

Am I right in saying that kind of development environment would be hard to use and maintain in Silverblue?

I'm now reading the book the article is reviewing. Like previous Philip Ball books, it is a dense but enjoyable read.

Like other books on genetics and biology, it is best to read it while it is still fresh: in several years time, parts of it might be obsoleted by new biological findings.

I got The Codebreakers when I saw it on sale. The parts on the history on cryptography are a fascinating read.

Ditto this rice eater from Asia. :-)

I don't think so. There is this section in the article.

"The mathematics of Fibonacci

But the big question isn’t “why the Fibonacci sequence is found in nature,” but rather, “what is it that determines the Fibonacci sequence” in the first place?

[...]

It turns out there’s nothing special about the starting point of the Fibonacci sequence, either. You can start with any two non-negative numbers that you like where at least one of them is non-zero: they need not be “0” and “1,” they need not be whole numbers, they need not be close together. All you need to do is follow the same formula, where you take the first two numbers and add them together to make the next (third) number, and then add that number with the previous to make the next subsequent number, and so on. No matter which numbers you start with, the ratio of any two successive numbers will quickly approach φ, the golden ratio.

It’s enough to make one wonder: is there a way to simply generate any-and-all of the Fibonacci numbers without having to sum up each of the previous terms to get there? It turns out there is, and it’s an incredible mathematical curiosity. The key, believe it or not, is the 11th number in the Fibonacci sequence: 89."

"Luminous" was what got me hooked on Greg Egan.

Of his recent fiction, I enjoyed "Zeitgeber" [1] and "The Nearest" [2]. I found the latter to be an interesting exploration of what happens when you suddenly discover that you don't recognize your loved ones as human.

[1] https://www.tor.com/2019/09/25/zeitgeber-greg-egan/

[2] https://www.tor.com/2018/07/19/the-nearest-greg-egan/

Not me. And I would bet no AI would be able to generate a face that resembles Greg Egan. :-)

YouTube link to that short film [ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtvS9UXTsPI ]

Check out Libreture's list of DRM-free bookstores [1]. I usually get my magazines and DRM-free ebooks from WeightlessBooks [2] and Smashwords [3].

Kobo and Google Play Books also offer DRM-free books, but you have to look at the book details (further down the book page) to see this information.

[1] https://libreture.com/bookshops/

[2] https://weightlessbooks.com/

[3] https://www.smashwords.com/

Similar treatment already approved by the UK [1]

[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-03590-6

Here are some links to research on using Wolbachia in Malaysia and Singapore:

[1] Wolbachia Malaysia [ https://imr.nih.gov.my/wolbachia/ ]

[2] Singapore NEA Wolbachia info [ https://www.nea.gov.sg/corporate-functions/resources/researc... ]

[3] A 2021 news article on Wolbachia in Malaysia [ https://www.channelnewsasia.com/asia/malaysia-fight-dengue-m... ]

By a strange coincidence, my HN karma points today ends with 42. :-)

I believe you are referring to Wang's Carpets [1], which is part of Diaspora, but also as a short story.

[1] https://timeteam.github.io/fiction/2016/12/21/wangs-carpets....

You have to ask Dang. I submitted the story with "apple" and HN capitalized it. I left it like that to see the comments about capitalization. :-)

P.S. I submitted it on a Win 11 machine running Firefox.

Maybe somebody could hack the Lenovo Thinkpad TrackPoint Keyboard on to it.

> A large majority only switches their phones when they die ...

I have a momentary double take, when I thought you meant that users only change phones when the users have died. Of course, in Chinese culture, that is done by burning offerings of paper smartphones while honouring the dead. :-)

I presume this is / was trending as the paper won a 2023 Ig Nobel prize [ https://improbable.com/ig/winners/#ig2023 ]

"CHEMISTRY and GEOLOGY PRIZE [POLAND, UK]

Jan Zalasiewicz, for explaining why many scientists like to lick rocks.

REFERENCE: “Eating Fossils,” Jan Zalasiewicz, The Paleontological Association Newsletter, no. 96, November 2017. Eating fossils | The Palaeontological Association (palass.org)

WHO TOOK PART IN THE CEREMONY: Jan Zalasiewicz"