Progress

Lots of work. Met some friends. Nice!

PlantEd

The plants are growing. I added a new enclosure to make them grow better, and it works.

NTS

No progress this week.

Articles

• Brian Wigginton - The Queen's Duck: A feature added for no other reason than to draw management attention and be removed, thus avoiding unnecessary changes in other aspects of the product.
• Lily, the Immortal - Uncanny Magazine: A short story about AI resurrection
• These Are Real Compounds -- Science -- AAAS
• Weird Natural Product Time Again -- Science -- AAAS
• So, you want to be a darknet drug lord... by nachash
• After 75 years, case of Staten Island Nazi spies still fascinates - silive.com
• Writer Evan Ratliff Tried to Vanish: Here's What Happened -- WIRED
• Soup-Salad-Sandwich Space
• That is not dead which can eternal lie: the aestivation hypothesis for resolving Fermi’s paradox: The idea is that cultures, advanced enough to be able to space travel, choose not to, because storing energy is better since computation will become easier over time, with the decay of temperature in the universe.
  The idea sounds original but I don't think it very likely. The most important caveat is that these civilizations will still want to conserve their energy, and not let their suns burn out. If you're trying to do the most number of erasures, why would you let all these Watts pass by? And then, schwuppdiwupp, you've built a Dyson sphere.
• Iconic Bottle Caps That Changed Packaging in This Month's Scan
• electricityMap -- Live CO₂ emissions of electricity consumption
• What Developmental Milestones Are You Missing? -- Slate Star Codex: Argh, now I'm wondering what I am missing, and how I can help other people miss fewer things.
• ONDA: Plotly Dash solution for interactive organisational knowledge network discovery -- by syrom -- Medium
• Do 'Better' Eggs Really Taste Better? -- The Food Lab: I think there are quite a few things that we humans don't really taste the difference of, but I guess I'll need to test this some more before I can present valid conclusions.
• Backyard eggs vs. store-bought: They taste the same
• Epistemic Legibility – Aceso Under Glass

Libraries, programming, etc

• Alert: peacenotwar module sabotages npm developers in the node-ipc package to protest the invasion of Ukraine -- Snyk
• Hört auf, NodeJS und NPM zu nutzen! · mthie® spaces: No alternatives, though.
• Sprites mods - Using a tiny HC32L110 ARM chip - Intro
• "Don't be a dick License" by philsturgeon
• GitHub - RunaCapital/awesome-oss-alternatives: Awesome list of open-source startup alternatives to well-known SaaS products 🚀
• Uniform Sampling Phong BRDF -- The tool absolutely no one needed.
• How to add thousands of lights to your renderer and not die in the process
• pointers.py -- Bringing the hell of pointers to Python

Books

• Diaspora by Greg Egan: hard sci-fi, lots of tech, lots of characters, very little conflict, just everyone trying to survive, love it!

Games

• Starbound with the gang: very relaxing

Backlog

• Demon's Tilt (from free EGS)

Other media

• The Common Lie Writers Tell You — Brandon Sanderson — YallStayHome 2020 Afternoon Keynote : The lie is this: "You can reach whatever you want." And the truth is: there are many factors outside of your control, so set sensible goals and be happy with the intrinsic value of the hard work you put in.
• MARIN - Follow-up research container loss Wadden: A press-release-type look at ocean waves and container ships. I love the models that they built.
• Human Interaction is easy: Just don't talk too much about the bees.
• Are Body Shots kosher?: How to convey loads of context in just 9 seconds. Also, excellent discussion of how Jewish law relates to body shots. It took me a while to realize that "body shots" refers to drinking out of a concave area of someone else's bodyOne page drily explains: "The body shot is traditionally an opportunity for young people to show off a combination of physical fitness and lack of inhibitions, but that isn't the only way to enjoy it.".
• Pie Production Line - YouTube