THE BEST THINGS TO SEE AND DO IN PITTSBURGH'S OAKLAND AREA - Pittsburgh Purple Travel Guide
In our Pittsburgh Travel Guide, we show you the best things to see and do in Pittsburgh's Oakland area. We show lots of photos so you can decide what you want to see.Backpack and Snorkel Travel Guides - The Home of the Purple Travel Guides
Grüne einigen sich mit Schwarz-Rot auf Finanzpaket – 100 Milliarden Euro für Klimaschutz
Geht doch ...
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#grune #finanzpaket #einigung #union #spd
Liveticker zur Regierungsbildung: Grüne einigen sich mit Schwarz-Rot auf Finanzpaket
In den Verhandlungen von Union, SPD und Grünen über das Schuldenpaket haben sich die drei Fraktionen nach RND-Informationen auf einen Kompromiss verständigt. Das dürfte auch die Koalitionsverhandlungen von Schwarz-Rot erleichtern.Axel Schürgels (RedaktionsNetzwerk Deutschland)
When you use any tool for a while you often build a more personal connection to it. Perhaps you have that old screwdriver in a drawer that’s become polished with years of use and fits your hand perfectly.In this tutorial we'll look at modifying existing toolbars and creating our own custom toolbars to personalise our #FreeCAD experience.
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Tutorial: Custom Toolbars
When you use any tool for a while you often build a more personal connection to it. Perhaps you have that old screwdriver in a drawer that’s become polished with years of use and fits your hand per…FreeCAD News
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Starting to see some shadow on the lower left portion of the Moon now as of 10pm Seattle time.
#LunarEclipse #AstroPhotography #Seattle
Wallpaper version of all my lunar eclipse shows from the first half of the event last night. All approx 15 min. apart.
#LunarEclipse #AstroPhotography #Seattle #Astrodon #Wallpaper #iOSWallpaper #AndroidWallpaper #PhoneWallpaper
I skipped the bike the last two days because I was not feeling well but did okay today!
#biking #bikeTooter #mke #milwaukee
Far too many people in my industry still think we're somehow special and thus immune to what's happening to the rest of the labor world.
"It's not just that [Amazon is] excited about firing coders and saving money – they're even more excited about transforming the job of "Amazon coder," from someone who solves complex technical problems to someone who performs tedious code review on automatically generated code barfed up by a chatbot" -- @pluralistic
Ha ha ha ha…
It will cost you 2 - 3 times my salary if my job is to fix other people’s* code as it would to just have me write it correctly the fist time
*dead or alive, however you want to categorize AI
Grumpy because still sick and also getting stung by customs fees on a water descaler.
So here's some nice snowy plants from this morning.
The galanthus I saved from the concrete beam operation. Can't just drive your tractor over the first thing sprouting!
The blue spruce cuttings are hopefully sprouting roots. Want to propagate them as I have to fell the trees they're from.
#Flower #Galanthus #Snow #Gardening #Homestead
Iranian officials talk nuclear program with Chinese and Russian counterparts
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/14/nx-s1-5327615/iran-china-russia-nuclear-talks?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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I study refugees, and here are the facts on the history and impact of refugee resettlement in the US
The US was a world leader in refugee resettlement. Trump stopped all that with one executive order. What does the end of refugee resettlement look like in practice?The Conversation
Like this #meme? Try the #stream!
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Novelty Records, Parodies, Weird Covers, Outsider Music, Oddities, Mashups, Comedy, Nonsense & Cringe.FunHouse Radio
Oops, I’m becoming a dactylonomy nerd!
I made a system where you can count to 50 by putting your thumb in different places. Hope you like base-seven!
Now that I think about it, this must be what Roman numerals represent — except using the thumb for 5 and 50
I, II, III, IIII — fingers
V — thumb
VI, VII, VIII, VIIII — fingers and thumb
X, XX, XXX, XXXX — fingers on other hand
L — that thumb
LX, LXX, LXXX, LXXXX — and so on
I've seen explanations of V being the full hand with thumb extended and X being arms crossed, but that doesn't really make any sense, because that's just an unnecessarily complicated way of counting to ten with ten fingers — why bother?
Apparently the Romans got the system from the Etruscans, and the actual origin is lost to time. But my idea makes sense!
Hamas says it's willing to release the five American hostages in Gaza
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Waybackify-WP.
I've finally cleaned up and posted something I've been using for a few years: wayback-wp.php is a script that you run from cron to replace any old links in your blog posts and comments with contemporaneous Wayback Machine URLs. I do this on all of my posts older than 5 years...
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First playable demo of my retro roguelike but compiled for modern systems and the web browser 😀
Uses the same C code as C64 and PET, but rendered using Raylib.
Use WASD to move around. Collect all the idols to move on to the next room and avoid the baddies ...
mage of the day is *Paper Profile*, a medium format portrait on 🎞️ Washi W film.
As I slowly progress through my Washi W experiments, more ideas for poses and lighting emerge. Love this one...
#believeinfilm #experimental #monochrome #photography #fineartnude
Debatte um Milliardenvorhaben: Wie steht es um das schwarz-rote Finanzpaket?
Die Grünen wollen dem Finanzpaket von Union und SPD in dieser Form nicht zustimmen. Das ist aber nötig, wenn der Milliardenplan gelingen soll. CDU-Chef Merz versucht es mit Zugeständnissen. Doch reicht das? Antworten auf wichtige Fragen im Überblick.tagesschau.de
The head of Poland's space agency was fired over a bungled response to SpaceX debris falling over Polish territory.
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Rocket Report: ULA confirms cause of booster anomaly; Crew-10 launch on tap
The head of Poland’s space agency was fired over a bungled response to SpaceX debris falling over Polish territory.Stephen Clark (Ars Technica)
Dorothy Thompson: The journalist who warned us about Hitler
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/14/nx-s1-5324672/dorothy-thompson-hitler?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Windows 3.1 in HD?! Modern GPU Support with the New 2025 VBESVGA Driver!
Welcome back, everyone! Omores here! In this video, we’re diving into Windows 3.1 by running it on modern hardware using the brand-new Modern Generic SVGA Dr...YouTube
Went #bouldering again today, slowly getting back into my habit.
The knee is still giving me trouble, so today I decided to wear my brace. Didn't help much with the pain but helped a lot with trust. And it gave me less trouble than last week at least 👍
Backpack and Snorkel Travel Guide for the Best Beaches in Moorea - Moorea Best Beaches Purple Travel Guide
This Best Beaches in Moorea Travel Guide tells you what the best beaches in Moorea are and we show you photos of what you will see.Backpack and Snorkel Travel Guides - The Home of the Purple Travel Guides
Tesla showroom in San Francisco has been operating without proper permits for nearly a decade
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ha! Love it.
There's a scam text that is so pervasive that it made my local news. They want you to pay money you owe on some kind of toll road fast pass account. We don't have toll roads here (though we used to have one).
Curious How Trump’s Cost Cutting Could Affect Your National Park Visit? You Might Not Get a Straight Answer.
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National Park Service staff have received talking points ordering them to describe layoffs as “workforce management actions” and to reassure visitors that changes resulting from the cuts won’t impede “memorable and meaningful experiences for all.”
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#News #Trump #Government #NPS #NationalParks #DOGE #ElonMusk
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14 March 1936 | A Jewish boy Pal Szenes was born in Subotica (Szabadka).
In June 1944 he was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber.
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Anyone have any meaningful additional detail on this? It's widely enough reported that it seems to be real, but it does not make any particular sense and the implications are profound.
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Signal no longer cooperating with Ukraine on Russian cyberthreats, official says
The encrypted messaging app Signal has stopped responding to requests from Ukrainian law enforcement regarding Russian cyberthreats, a Ukrainian official claimed, warning that the shift is aiding Moscow’s intelligence efforts.therecord.media
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We are grateful for this affirmation. Hopefully, there are not bad actors trying to block Signal from being used in Ukraine or anywhere else.
The publishers of the article should issue a retraction.
Most Ethical Mobile Phone Networks Revealed - Ethical Revolution
[Read on Ethical Revolution] Ethical Consumer Research Association (ECRA) have compiled a comprehensive report on the UK’s mobile network providers, revealing factors such as who pays their fair share of tax; who uses green energy; who are fair to th…Ethical Revolution
We had a really good #MYBikesGotLED fitting session last night at @DoESLiverpool This was all in preparation for #StealingSheep band's performance tonight.
We've put a lot of effort into getting people along and make the whole event #Glo for the #GloRide.
The lights were riding out the door as fast as we could fit them.
#weeknotes #GloRide #StealingSheep #ListeningParties #GloRide #joyride #LiverpoolMusiccity
From @pluralistic : Every time you hear "AI-assisted programmer," you should substitute "programmer-assisted AI."
In other words, who serves who? LLMs are really (really) far from being able to replace developers (or any knowledge-based professional). But they're more than ready to make everybody perform on the same mediocre level on the worst conditions imaginable.
Its the same as Amazon does to warehouse workers with all the "support" tech that is forced onto them.
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