In my area, the number of monarchs has been crazy this year compared to the last few. As an amateur nature photographer, it's been quite fun. While I'm not an expert in the field and can't say exactly how this information will help butterfly research, it's still pretty impressive for both naturalism and technology.

Also better butterflies than people, if they're tracking anyone against their wills.

At least someone here got the joke :)

They also have a School of Ornithopters, which is where Merlin learned to fly

But how fast is that in nibbles per jiffy?

FRED is the mission editor for Descent: FreeSpace

I first tried Zen about a month ago and actually like it. I had been using Vivaldi, but was looking for something that used the Firefox engine. I dislike the stock Firefox UI, and the other alternatives weren't up my alley either (ok, I'll admit I didn't try Pale Moon). However, once I got used to Zen's interface, I find it to be a bit refreshing.

That said, it's definitely not for everyone, but there are other options out there if you don't like this one.

Which is amusing because it was created by Linus Torvalds to manage the Linux kernel source code

There are articles about finding microplastics in testicles, semen, and now penises, but these are of course all male body parts. (No disrespect intended to trans/nonbinary people) However, medical research has historically been male-oriented, for example test labs using male mice for medical research because they're more consistent.

I can only assume that microplastics would be found in most body parts on most people, but it's intriguing to me that I've only seen articles about male body parts. Maybe they're just trying to convince the (mostly male) politicians to do something, so telling them their gentlemen parts are tainted may be a targeted call to action?

This post is clearly subversion from the conversation and is raising the Mercurial of the room. git out of here before it gets darcs.

I assume it's heavily task-dependent. The only benchmarking I've done was with CFD, where we found that enabling hyperthreading would provide a wall-clock speedup of about 15-20%. Hyperthreading might also provide well better than a 15-20% speedup for other tasks, or even negative under the worst conditions.

And this in no way compares hyperthreading to simply adding more cores, which has its own advantages and disadvantages.

Microsoft would never fire the team who came up with this idea. It is, after all, the same company that employs the creator of systemd.

An individual brewer should have no problem coming up with a recipe that is somewhat close to their target. I would also imagine they can score a recipe numerically based on their own tastes. To me, it sounds like they should then be able to define all of the inputs (amounts of each barley/malt, hop type, other flavors, and times during each stage) and run it through an optimizer routine. Sure, the process would be iterative and may take a couple years, but with a good initial input and bounds on the inputs, it should be pretty straightforward to improve the taste to an ideal.

So why use AI? Oh yeah, buzzwords. Carry on!

My company has an extension for Lenny just so we can forward junk calls to him. It's also fun to prank new employees and tell them they need to talk with Lenny in HR about some onboarding paperwork.

People in Mexico could be killed if they don't buy $25-30/month internet service. Meanwhile, people in the United States would kill for $25-30/month internet service!

While you may or may not be joking, I know I've actually had it happen before where I've spent a week or more on a problem at work and eventually had a dream about coding the solution. After typing it up the next day, it worked. I'd be surprised if that didn't happen to other people.