Current Entries
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08/31/2023 O-28 is unexpectedly unstable:
https://www.sci.news/physics/oxygen-28-12227.html
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02713-3
08/31/2023 The mystery of "strange" metals - it's entanglement:
https://physics.aps.org/articles/v16/148
08/31/2023 Throwing away a box with instructions only to dig it back out:
https://www.hedgerhumor.com/ugh-2/
Happens to me all the time.
08/28/2023 Why skin gets wrinkly after a long swim / bath:
https://theconversation.com/why-do-fingers-get-wrinkly-after-a-long-bath-or-swim-a-biomedical-engineer-explains-204726
08/28/2023 Apparently there may be problems with SanDisk external SSDs:
https://mjtsai.com/blog/2023/08/28/self-wiping-sandisk-extreme-ssds/
I have several of these and they seem reliable, but
since I mainly use them for backups, it might be
prudent to add some Samsung SSDs to the mix.
08/28/2023 Disable animated cover art in Apple Music:
https://appleinsider.com/inside/apple-music/tips/how-to-disable-animated-cover-art-in-apple-music
Seems like this should be off by default.
08/23/2023 Best All Season Tires for the Snow:
https://www.thedrive.com/guides-and-gear/best-all-season-tires-for-snow
08/23/2023 A new Broken Sword is coming:
https://www.polygon.com/23838090/broken-sword-6-bs1-remaster-trailer-release-date
https://www.polygon.com/23842925/broken-sword-6-bs1-remaster-charles-cecil
https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/classic-adventure-series-broken-sword-returns-with-a-sixth-instalment-and-a-beautiful-remaster
08/18/2023 Measuring the true darkness of the universe:
https://phys.org/news/2023-08-horizons-true-darkness-universe.html
"Recently the New Horizons team tried to capture the
fragile darkness of the universe. They aimed New Horizons
at a patch of sky far away from the Milky Way, away from
the sun, and away from bright stars. Then they measure[d]
how much light the camera captured.
When they compared that amount to the amount captured by
Hubble's view of dark sky, they found it was darker by an
expected amount, but there is still some faint glow [the]
astronomers c[ould]n't explain. If you calculate the
background light you'd expect from distant galaxies all
the way back to the big bang, New Horizons measured about
twice as much. So the team plan to observe 15 other dark
locations over the next month, hoping to see the naked
dark of the cosmos, or to verify this mysterious background
glow."
08/18/2023 Why Koalas hug trees:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2STv9bsoyWE
08/18/2023 EagleFiler 1.9.12 is out:
https://c-command.com/blog/2023/08/18/eaglefiler-1-9-12/
I'm looking forward to EagleFiler 2.x, which should
be a native Mx (arm) application.
08/18/2023 The plumber problem:
https://hypercritical.co/2023/08/18/the-plumber-problem
08/18/2023 Too many fonts may slow down Windows apps:
https://bigdanzblog.wordpress.com/2023/08/16/too-many-fonts-in-windows-10-can-cause-slow-application-starts/
08/17/2023 Eating cookies:
https://www.hedgerhumor.com/eating-cookies/
08/16/2023 CrossOvers 23.0 and KeePassXC 2.7.6 are out:
https://www.codeweavers.com/blog/mjohnson/2023/8/16/level-up-with-crossover-23
https://github.com/keepassxreboot/keepassxc/releases/tag/2.7.6
08/15/2023 Parallels currently only supports WSL 1 on Win11 on Mx Macs:
https://kb.parallels.com/en/129234
08/14/2023 Accidental iOS 4 and Flow desktops from BasicAppleGuy:
https://basicappleguy.com/basicappleblog/accidental-ios-4
https://basicappleguy.com/haberdashery/flow
08/09/2023 When did Postgres become cool?
https://www.crunchydata.com/blog/when-did-postgres-become-cool
Having used Postgres (and many other DBs), I'd
say Postgres was always cool.
08/09/2023 Things book lovers do:
https://www.hedgerhumor.com/book-lovers-day/
08/07/2023 Mind reading:
https://www.hedgerhumor.com/mind-reading-2/
08/07/2023 MacOS easter eggs:
https://www.macrumors.com/2023/08/07/10-hidden-easter-eggs-in-macos/
I didn't know about most of these.
08/07/2023 Ravenchord - a new kind of upright piano:
https://whipsaw.com/2023/06/05/unveiling-ravenchord-a-radical-piano-redesign-from-dan-harden/
08/07/2023 Absent corrosion, Li occurs as a rhombic dodecahedron:
https://phys.org/news/2023-08-true-lithium-revealed.html
"Metallic lithium reacts so easily with chemicals that,
under normal conditions, corrosion forms almost
immediately while the metal is being laid down on a
surface such as an electrode. But [] UCLA investigators
developed a technique that prevents that corrosion and
showed that, in its absence, lithium atoms assemble into a
surprising shape - the rhombic dodecahedron, a 12-sided
figure similar to the dice used in role-playing games"
Earlier Entries
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07/##/2023 https://srirangav.github.io/motd/2023/07/motd.txt
https://srirangav.github.io/motd/2023/07/index.html
06/##/2023 https://srirangav.github.io/motd/2023/06/motd.txt
https://srirangav.github.io/motd/2023/06/index.html
05/##/2023 https://srirangav.github.io/motd/2023/05/motd.txt
https://srirangav.github.io/motd/2023/05/index.html
04/##/2023 https://srirangav.github.io/motd/2023/04/motd.txt
https://srirangav.github.io/motd/2023/04/index.html
03/##/2023 https://srirangav.github.io/motd/2023/03/motd.txt
https://srirangav.github.io/motd/2023/03/index.html
02/##/2023 https://srirangav.github.io/motd/2023/02/motd.txt
https://srirangav.github.io/motd/2023/02/index.html
01/##/2023 https://srirangav.github.io/motd/2023/01/motd.txt
https://srirangav.github.io/motd/2023/01/index.html
##/##/2022 https://srirangav.github.io/motd/2022/motd.txt
https://srirangav.github.io/motd/2022/index.html