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Living in Seattle, the author constantly dealt with fruit flies in their kitchen. Despite regular cleaning, the fruit flies would build up over time, requiring traps to catch them. However, the author discovered a more effective solution: carnivorous pitcher plants. Specifically, they purchased three pitcher plants, including a Purple Pitcher Plant which proved to be […]
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In this web content, the author reflects on their experience of shutting down their digital health company and how they have struggled to talk about their failure. The author discusses how they used to carefully craft their response to make it sound like a success, but now they are more candid about their journey, sharing […]
This web content is a repository on GitHub that focuses on the proposal to add a new API for determining the integrity of web environments. It includes code and documentation for the API, with a specific code example provided: const attestation = await navigator.getEnvironmentIntegrity(“…”). The repository provides an explainer that gives a high-level overview of […]
The FBI has been found to have improperly used surveillance powers to conduct searches on a U.S. senator, a state lawmaker, and a state judge, according to court records released on Friday. The FBI’s use of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) was documented in an opinion from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance […]
Scientists have observed pieces of metal crack and then fuse back together without any human intervention, challenging long-held scientific beliefs. If this phenomenon can be harnessed, it could lead to self-healing engines, bridges, and airplanes that can reverse damage caused by wear and tear. Fatigue damage, which causes machines to break, occurs when microscopic cracks […]
MiniZinc is a constraint modeling language that is free and open-source. It allows users to model constraint satisfaction and optimization problems in a solver-independent way, with a library of pre-defined constraints. The language is developed at Monash University and is supported by OPTIMA. Users can download the MiniZinc distribution and the IDE to get started, […]
Vacuum marination does not work as effectively as it is advertised. Contrary to popular belief, meat is incompressible and does not have empty pores to absorb marinade. Meat consists of dense bundles of fat and protein infiltrated with thin layers of incompressible water, making it difficult for marinade to penetrate. Pressure-assisted marination would only work […]
This web content provides advanced tips and tricks for effective internet research of papers/books. The author highlights the importance of proper search techniques and shares their own personal search workflow. They emphasize the need to develop search skills and explore various search engines and mediums. The content also includes case studies and examples to illustrate […]
In a surprising turn of events, employees at Anchor Brewing Co. have expressed their interest in buying the historic San Francisco brewery, which is set to shut down after 150 years in business. In a letter to Sapporo USA, Anchor Brewing Union requested a fair shot at purchasing the brewery and running it as a […]
The content includes various commands and output logs related to a program called “LLAMA.” The program seems to involve building and using models based on context-free grammars. It also includes features for generating text based on specified grammars. The program is used for tasks such as generating chess moves, arithmetic practice, and JSON formatting. Controversial […]