what gives? fila and puma have fallen? and of course allbirds..
anta, lining, xtep, qiaodan are worn by a billion ppl and counting...they are coming for our feet!
meanwhile these still exist?! https://cnalifestyle.channelnewsasia.com/style-beauty/sneaker-collaborations-2026-fashion-brands-581481
eh we starting to creep into sci fi territory like mbs. i hope lawrence not thinking of these when he also talk about "frontier" technologies. thats 25% of our budget that he put into his slush fund, was it?
https://archive.ph/kasaz#selection-1413.288-1417.267
_The latest five-year plan...
VietJet Aviation JSC is also reducing flights on some routes, according to schedules on its booking website.
https://www.bangkokpost.com/business/general/3223280/vietnam-airlines-to-suspend-some-routes-as-jet-fuel-risks-rise.
A representative of Bamboo Airways said its routes will be...
say u got lots of palm oil or used cooking oil.
methanol could come from h20 + co2
CO + H2O → CO2 + H2
CO + 2 H2 → CH3OH
or u can get the h2 from methane, ch4..
so add methanol
u get fame biodiesel and hefa-spk saf.
and glycerol. glycerol can be used as bunker fuel? and...
The temperature of the geothermal source temperature should be higher than 150°C excluding the binary cycles which can operate at a geothermal source temperature of 95°C.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/engineering/geothermal-source-temperature
so theres binary cycle thingies that take...
It’s important to remember that “oil” isn’t actually one homogenous product. It comes in lots of different densities, forms and sulfuricities (ed: is that even a word?), and therefore has a myriad different usages, buyers and prices, in different parts of the world....
About 25% of all known animal species are beetles. When asked what he could infer about the Creator's mind, biologist J.B.S. Haldane replied: 'an inordinate fondness for beetles.'
There are roughly 57 billion nematodes for every human on Earth. They inhabit every known ecosystem, from ocean...
human dissection (grave robbing)
translating the Bible into English
silk production outside of China (death penalty for exporting worm eggs)
rubber production in Asia (seeds smuggled out of Brazil)
the Underground Railroad
heliocentrism
AIDS treatment (see Dallas Buyers Club)
...
“Is not life on earth a drudgery, its days like those of a hireling? Like a slave who longs for the shade, a hireling who waits for wages, So I have been assigned months of futility, and troubled nights have been counted off for me. When I lie down I say, ‘When shall I arise?’ then the night drags...
[03/02, 5:40 pm] 道草: @Meta AI what does pbs_rsub do?
[03/02, 5:40 pm] Meta AI: pbs_rsub is used to submit a job to a PBS (Portable Batch System) server that will run on a subset of nodes within a larger allocation. Think of it like a "job within a job" – useful for workflows needing dynamic...
[03/02, 4:44 pm] Meta AI: Yup, PBS is a job scheduler. Cron is similar but more for scheduling repetitive tasks on a single machine, whereas PBS is designed for distributed computing environments, handling job queues and resource allocation across multiple nodes 🤖. Think of cron for routine tasks,...
actually my main problem is until now i dont quite get the appeal of this cloud thing. especially for hpc.
other than startups. i imagine everybody wants a fixed budget. i do not get pay as u go in the commercial context. i totally rather take a monthly vps than a...
since
so do this la
https://acotra.substack.com/p/the-stable-marriage-problem
oh it doesn't hor! thats just whether ppl are willing to part with...
"Exclusive rhetoric that was once considered taboo has now entered the political mainstream, becoming the primary driver of this public discourse,” she...
https://github.com/cosinusalpha/webctl
https://github.com/universal-tool-calling-protocol/code-mode
https://github.com/caesarnine/binsmith
is it still AI? or at the very least has natural language processing failed? why not learn C?
or "Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me"?
is there such a thing as a right not to be upset or offended?
how about a right to be happy?
anything can upset anyone at anytime?
a vegetarian having eaten meat has experienced no physical harm. but a diabetic...
https://xtreemfs.org/ -> later the authors founded quobyte
https://github.com/chrislusf/seaweedfs?tab=readme-ov-file#quick-start
https://github.com/baidu/bfs -> apparently an early attempt by them
https://github.com/deepseek-ai/3FS !!!
https://github.com/XTXMarkets/ternfs no i donno...
for every article that says wow theres a contradicting article that says no it doesnt work.
minor nitpick, the former likes to has magic sauce workflow and accuses the later of not employing such a thing...
https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-coding-degrades
i mean. i think its somewhere in-between....
what is it?
https://sethlui.com/loh-mei-specialist-singapore/
ok its 卤味
10yrs from now how more quaint will stuff like 南乳, 腐乳 be? will the yoofs of tomorrow even know whats laksa? indeed whats the diff between laksa leaf and curry leaf?
when the pioneer and merdeka generation die ,...