As well as the record for fastest android _or_ human to run a half marathon in a pork pie hat.

Mount Shasta looms over the iron gateway to Weed, California.

Another EV road trip on the books: 1,750 mi round trip from Seattle to Santa Cruz.

Noticeably more fast chargers out there since last time we did this trip a few years ago - we never had to wait for one to open up, which wasn’t the case several years ago.

Prize for most scenic charger: Weed, CA.

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Watercolor painting of a black raven with a ruby in his beak

Watercolor illustration of a baby crow and a baby bat having a birthday party. The crow has his beak widely open and looks very excited

Watercolor painting of what you see when you wake up from your grave. It's the night of a full moon, and your friends, two ghosts and two black cats, are here to wake you up for a play date. They look very happy to see you

Watercolor painting of a snowy field. There's an icy creek running in the middle. There are some mountains on the horizon. Radiant sunlight is peeping through the gloomy clouds

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I'm Zoe The Tsitsa. I'm a #watercolor artist who paints just about everything, from dreamy scenery to animals to fantasy characters. Occasionally, I post my ink drawing sketchbook pages as well. Taking this time to post some recent-ish work. Thanks for visiting ✨

I am weirdly really enjoying coding on Claude, to the extent I am trying to come up with random ideas just to play with it more. I have never had much patience actually using code but I am enjoying the challenge of really precise writing to get it to do exactly what you want

The challenge becomes concisely describing what I need and breaking the work up enough to give CC a good chance of implementing that chunk correctly. The interaction can be enjoyable. The next frontier appears to be agents working together doing some of this iteration autonomously. 2/2

Coding was a primary field of study for me, and has been a big part of my career. Nevertheless, I have had a similar experience with Claude Code. In my case it's "I'm highly confident code can solve this problem. I would like that to happen quickly with lower effort on my part." 1/n

Artemis II's last test: Will its heat shield work? Excess charring on Artemis I's heat shield had NASA racing to understand what went wrong—and to ensure the technology was still safe for the current crew's high-speed reentry.

I can say without hesitation that this is the HARDEST article I have ever written, but I am incredibly proud of it.

If you have questions about Orion’s heat shield, given the issues with Artemis I, I hope I can provide some answers:

www.nationalgeographic.com/science/arti...

this is an INCREDIBLE photo how have I never seen it before!!!

I made a little Instagram reel about this image because it’s just so frickin’ cool

We had a new person come to the Kubernetes SIG Security meeting today and ask such great questions. What’s that mean? How does that work? Why is it this way? How does that get decided?

New contributors, don’t ever doubt yourselves. You bring such valuable perspective that makes open source better!

That's home. That's us.

This image of home just came down from the Artemis II crew.

Taken after their translunar injection burn, there are aurorae at top right and lower left, and zodiacal light at lower right.

Credit: NASA/Reid Wiseman

photo of fluffy white dog with pink blossoming trees behind them. text below reads: You have found Forever Immunity Dog. Immunity dog protects you from all cursed posts for the rest of your life. Do not comment, like, or share those cursed posts. You are safe now. Immunity dog protects you.

"post something random or you'll have an absolutely awful April"?

no. you are safe now. Forever Immunity Dog has got you covered.

Now that I've written this, I think there's a slight chance that ChargePoint is still requiring an app. I've tended to avoid them anyway, as most of their DCFC infra in the region I'm interested in caps out just below 100 kW. Will check for app-less the next time I get a chance.

Had a similar experience on a single round trip from Chicago to Lincoln, Nebraska.

So, in the last year, I have driven a Kia EV6 on a ~500mi round trip from Chicago to northern lower Michigan about a dozen times. Every fast charge station I've used now supports this pattern. Swipe a payment card, and you are charging. No app. Networks include EA, "Red E", Rivian and a few others.

I’m very glad to see someone is suing over the recent new restrictions on flying drones within 3000 feet of even *moving* DHS vehicles and assets.

It’s a ridiculous new rule that I absolutely do think violates first amendment rights.

Michael Collins, the chap who took this photograph, remains the only person on earth to have taken a photo that had everyone in shot aside himself.

If Artemis is going up then it gives me an excuse to once again post this photo, the only one to contain every human being in the universe but one.

My coffee ordering name is "Ian, I-A-N" - Which is to say that I finally learned, after 4+ decades of life with a short but slightly less well known first name that it's easy enough to just deliver the spelling unprompted, right after I say the name. Quite the life hack, eh?

One way I've conceptualized this: I've been a regular recreational runner for 25 years. During that time I believe I've run about one tenth of this distance. Only 225 more years of running to go! (cc: @rprc.bsky.social)

Has anyone used a Bayesian model to map a set of IDs to another, latent set of IDs in a finite population scenario?

I'm currently using it to map/analyze some longitudinal survey data that has cursed sampling in pretty much every way, but I'm interested in hearing what others have done. #statistics

"Pedway as Batcave"

I have a suspicion that frontier LLMs now pretty often do extrapolation forward in time, where they combine documents making statements about the future with information about it now being the future to (fallibly) infer current state. Curious whether this is explicitly trained.

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just to say it again: the bike infrastructure immediately around me has gotten massively better since I moved to RP in 2019. Clark PBL, Pratt PBL, all the zany treatments on Granville. it's a whole new ballgame up here and the relevant agencies & offices deserve credit.

A, followed by B if needed. I started with A mid-pandemic with the notion of switching to B eventually. Am still at A and perfectly happy with this. There's a fun L1 versus L2 charging analogy here. L1 is likely good enough and you can always pay for the power upgrade later if you really need it.

to enter into. Storage Area Networks, high speed interconnects and large SMP systems matured only with enterprise-level funding. This maps, very roughly, to the training side of the gen-AI boom. There's no clear way for a similar "open source AI" dynamic to evolve here. 2/2

As someone who was there for the early days of Open Source growth, I'll echo the accessibility concerns in this thread. Early Linux and general open source progress could be made by individuals with limited resources. Some of the last areas to mature for enterprise use were the most expensive... 1/n

I will never forget the three weeks in late January and early February that my household lived off a box of 75 Hoyo sambusa, which I kept on the back porch because it was too big for the freezer.

"Go out back and get some more sambusa" I would tell the children, like we lived on a homestead.

"Keystone Aerial Surveys" - Interesting - I assume this will become Google Maps/Earth refresh content (or something similar) www.flightaware.com/resources/re...