Music recommendation: Ecuador by Sash! The song is just so ridiculous and awesome. https://youtu.be/9cQlVww0zKo
Drama as two conflicting proposals both want to use the same TCP's congestion notification flags. https://lwn.net/Articles/783673/ #networking
Liquid chromatography in beer glass. Draw line in felt-tip 2cm from the bottom of kitchen towel. Place in 1cm deep water. Water carries felt-tip mark upwards. Chemicals have different friction from paper, so colours separate. #chemistry
A new process to make ammonia
https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2019/04/25/who-cares-about-making-ammonia-you-do #chemistry
What's wrong with signals in Unix and Linux? https://lwn.net/Articles/414618/ #linux
Does the news reflect what we die from?
https://ourworldindata.org/does-the-news-reflect-what-we-die-from #world
RT @biglesp@twitter.com
My review of the new @Raspberry_Pi@twitter.com 4 is on @techradar@twitter.com :) Super happy with the review.
https://www.techradar.com/reviews/raspberry-pi-4-model-b
New #debian version is released this Saturday. AppArmour and Wayland by default, upstart removed, Python 3.7 (which supports type annotations) https://wiki.debian.org/DebianBuster
Game recommendation: FTL: Faster Than Light. Send the crew to frantically patch up the spaceship, while being chased across the galaxy by an overpowering foe. Which is basically the plot of star wars, firefly, etc. Great soundtrack. https://www.gog.com/game/faster_than_light
Political party destruction
https://timrollpickering.blogspot.com/2018/02/can-established-party-truly-vanish.html #ukpol
I now run a service which helps you diagnose slow queries in PostgreSQL. It makes a diagram from the query planner output, helping you see which bit is slow.
https://dbatley.com/blog/2019/06/dbplanview.html #postgres #sql
Estimating the carbon footprints of various sandwiches https://www.improbable.com/2019/05/23/the-carbon-footprints-of-various-sandwiches-study/ #science
The world population is aging: there are more people aged 65+ than children under 5
https://ourworldindata.org/population-aged-65-outnumber-children #world
The naked mole rat and sensitivity to pain. Starts weird, and just gets worse. https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2019/06/10/fast-pain-relief-in-only-seven-million-years
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