nytimes.com
Sometimes love needs a grand gesture: a bouquet of roses or a big night out. But strong relationships also need regular care and attention, so we asked New York Times readers to tell us how they show their affection day-in and day-out, all year long.
We heard from more than 1,300 of you, with stories of hot coffee, stolen kisses, full gas tanks, and daily sacrifices, small and large.
extension.oregonstate.edu
This study showed that raised beds made from pressure-treated lumber do increase soil copper concentrations but only within 1 inch of the bed edge. The increase in copper was small — about 20 ppm above the level measured in the raised beds made from untreated lumber. This increase in soil copper concentration was minor, and even the highest copper concentrations seen within 1 inch of the bed material were well within natural range of copper levels for Willamette Valley soils.
This was (welcome) news to me.
nytimes.com
Whenever Dennis Wilson wants to take a drive in his new SUV, he has to set aside an extra 15 minutes. That’s about how long it takes to remove the car’s steering wheel club, undo four tire locks and lower a yellow bollard before backing out of his driveway.
His Honda CR-V is also fitted with two alarm systems, a vehicle tracking device and, for good measure, four Apple AirTags. Its remote-access key fob rests in a Faraday bag, to jam illicit unlocking signals.
As a final touch, he mounted two motion-sensitive floodlights on his house and aimed them at the driveway in his modest neighborhood in Toronto.
Well, my Club, kill switch, AirTag, alarm, floodlight, and two cameras don’t seem so bad now.
washingtonpost.com
“I listened to this young lady sing the national anthem, and it just blew me away,” Steagall said in a phone interview. “I had never heard that kind of voice before.”
As it turned out, the singer was a 19-year-old Oklahoman who would turn out to be one of the most memorable voices in country music.
github.com
An insanely simple self-hosted functional programming language
arstechnica.com
According to Air Canada, Moffatt never should have trusted the chatbot and the airline should not be liable for the chatbot’s misleading information because Air Canada essentially argued that “the chatbot is a separate legal entity that is responsible for its own actions,” a court order said.
github.com
Find your people on Mastodon
cloudfour.com
So we’ve been dealing with our fair share of loss lately. And to make matters worse, we’ve encountered applications that handle death poorly and add to our pain.
tinlizzie.org
But it looks as though the actual revolution will take longer than our optimism suggested, largely because the commercial and educational interests in the old media and modes of thought have frozen personal computing pretty much at the “imitation of paper, recordings, film and TV” level.
So many amazing ideas in this talk by Alan Kay. Ironic that it was given in 2007, the year the iPhone debuted.
patreon.com
So many good nuggets in this quick talk, from teaching users that they don’t have to accept tech that wasn’t made with their best interests at heart, to breaking out castellated submodules, to directions on the silkscreen, to self-documenting circuit boards.