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What could go wrong?

A month ago. https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/01/media/cnn-launch-digital-subs...

Unrelated, "Harvard cancer institute moves to retract six studies, correct 31 others amid data manipulation claims" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39097031

Back in 2018, I ran a little test to see if I could push Google Cloud Vision to recognize objects, shapes, or patterns in clouds. No matter how I treated the images ahead of time, the answer always came back: clouds.

Would be interesting to see how much free-association and hallucination have "improved" the results with the current generation.

Damn, search for "Tardis" turns up zero results.

A text-based, multiplayer, real-time virtual world. Sometimes more group-chat, sometimes more adventure story scenario: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-user_dungeon

When putting together a large RAR file that's been split into smaller files, one can use PAR and PAR2 files to repair and replace damaged or missing segments.

I had a lot of fun playing with the Flipper's Bad USB DuckyScript to automate some repetitive and tedious CMS workflow for a client, filling in a lot of input fields on multiple browser windows with a single press of a button. It improved my productivity and happiness. I've since graduated to Playwright, but it was the Flipper sparked the idea.

Sure thing, check out NICAR-L: https://www.ire.org/resources/listservs/

I lurk in an online community of journalist coders and some folks there are excited about PMTiles as cost-saving way to host your own custom-styled map tiles.

See, for instance, "How The Post is replacing Mapbox with open source solutions" https://www.kschaul.com/post/2023/02/16/how-the-post-is-repl...

Ah, my bad - looking at induction forge images and links in this thread, the coil was probably closer to 3 or 4 inch diameter.

Maybe 6 inch diameter.

Took my daughter to check out a blacksmithing class in Brooklyn and was pleasantly surprised to find there was no open fire at all. The iron and steel are heated by an induction machine. Just use the tongs to hold up your material near the coil and press the pedal and voila, it soon starts to glow red hot. The space is small, maybe 3 students at a time plus a teacher, but it was bright, tidy, and clean. Not at all the dark, sweaty cave of fire and fumes that I'd imagined, and interesting to see tech slightly more modern than fire.

A cat would never. I'm just saying.

I really enjoyed this film, but in telling the story of the cultural power and ubiquity of Helvetica, I think it dramatically underplays the fact that variations on Helvetica have been pre-installed on most modern personal computers by default.

I started collecting images of interesting COVID-19 related posters, graphics and street art at https://backspace.com/covid19

There's a wonderful, interactive playground of variable fonts up at https://v-fonts.com. Most variable fonts let you interpolate font weight, width, or slant, but some go much further. See for instance, http://variableemojis.com

If you are looking to contribute meaningful edits beyond your local area, the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Tasking Manager always has things to do that can help folks working in areas affected by natural disasters: https://tasks.hotosm.org/contribute

Off topic maybe: are there resources out there for teaching coders how to journalism?

The Artist’s Reserved Rights Transfer and Sale Agreement is a contract to do just that - for the artist to earn royalties from resale (if the price of the work has increased) and to have some control over public exhibition even after a work passes from owner to owner. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Artist%27s_Reserved_Rights...

It was first published in 1971. Needless to say, collectors and galleries don’t love it, but some artists continue to use it.

Related: whatever happened to The Immunity Project, the AIDS vaccine funded by Y Combinator in 2014? http://www.immunityproject.org