It’s a game where you have a piece of time and you get to decorate it
Frank Zappa on improvisation — https://x.com/gregisenberg/status/1737542431795507481
It’s a game where you have a piece of time and you get to decorate it
Frank Zappa on improvisation — https://x.com/gregisenberg/status/1737542431795507481
People with ADHD do not use available glucose in the same way as folks without
https://finallyfocused.org/adhd-sugar/
Interesting topic for discussion—although this article heavily implies that the key takeaway here is about sugar, for me the more interesting topic is actually:
And when the researchers looked closely at 60 specific regions of the brain, they found glucose metabolism in people with ADHD was “significantly reduced” in half of the regions. Those regions included areas in the brain that control attention and distractibility, movement (i.e. restlessness), and impulsivity.
To me, this looks more like the metabolism of glucose in the brain is more of a proxy for the energy requirements of each part of the brain. Seems like the 'diet' topic is a bit of a jump, even though a diet with properly controlled glucose intake is likely a good thing.
It takes 18 minutes to get from Vienna to Budapest
If you don’t care about slowing down and landing it seems. I saw a flight from Vienna to Shanghai on Flightradar24 which was passing overhead and it departed 18 minutes ago.
I’ll be 93 before the next total solar eclipse I’m likely to see
Good chance I’ve seen the only one I’m ever going to.
We are closer in time to the T rex than the T rex was to the Stegosaurus
Despite the toy sets my son plays with, the T. rex was a 'late-stage' dinosaur, who lived 70 million years ago, and is one of the last new species to have existed before the dinosaurs all got wiped out.
Stegosaurus seems to have died out around 145 million years ago.
The word “kuka” comes from the name of the factory owners who produced the hoppers for the dustbin lorries
The generic Hungarian word for trash cans, 'kuka', unexpectedly originates from the names of German industrialists Johann Josef Keller and Jakob Knappich. The story is quite involved, to the extent that one would be tempted to dismiss it as a folk etymology, if it wasn't ridiculously well-attested. Keller and Knappich founded an acetylene factory in Augsburg, Bavaria in 1898. They named it Keller und Knappich Augsburg (KUKA). Their venture quickly expanded into manufacturing of welding equipment, household appliances, and eventually car parts and heavy industrial robots. In the 1920s, they manufactured hoppers for Hungarian municipal garbage trucks, which they stamped prominently with their logo. This led to refuse trucks being known colloquially referred to as "kukás auto" (lit. "car with KUKA written on it"), even long after KUKA stopped manufacturing those hoppers. And the noun kuka, referring to trash cans, arose as a backformation from there! And this is how two German industrialist gave their names to Hungarian trash cans. Of course, it probably helped that a word kuka existed in the Hungarian language already at that point (as an unrelated adjective referring to a mute person), much like snowflake existed before Snow and Flake founded the town.
There's a very strong tendancy for cities to cluster their road orientations along four axes.
From Geoff Boeing.
In some countries (US, Canada, Spain/Japan to a lesser extent) this is a result of deliberate planning. Outside of the US, it looks like there are a couple of key factors:
Exceptions There are more exceptions than cities that actually support my hypothesis, but the world is a funny place:
You can deduct paying ransomware fees from your taxes as a small business
I wonder if this creates any ways for businesses to artificially reduce their tax bills by paying large 'ransomware' fines and then laundering that back into the company somehow (or directly into individuals' pockets)? I mean, it sounds a lot like fraud, but I'm sure there are some people out there already doing it, and probably people providing this as a service on the Dark Web or something.
Aston “Family Man” Barrett had 41 children
Barrett told the BBC in 2013 that he had fathered 23 daughters and 18 sons. Bassist for Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry and for Bob Marley, died today ages 77.
Airliners undergo approximately 10 000 hours of inspections per year
From{" "} Wikipedia
Check Name | Frequency | Time | Time per year |
---|---|---|---|
A | ~500 flight hours | ~60 hours | 41 · 60h = 240h |
B | 6-8 months | ~170 hours | 7/12 · 170h = ~100h |
C | 20-24 months | ~5 000 hours | 11/12 · 2 500 = ~2 300h |
D | 6-10 years | ~50 000 hours | 50 000 / 7 = ~7 100h |
Total | ~9 760h |
1: An average 737 flies around 2000 hours per year: [ https://simpleflying.com/the-worlds-most-flown-boeing-737s]
Apple hosts individual databases for each application for each user using Cassandra and FoundationDB to build a “data layer” for application engineers to interact with
Wed, 17 Jan 2024Musical notes are weird in Hungary
Let’s take a look…
Most common | C | C♯ | D | E♭ | E | F | F♯ | G | G♯ | A | B♭ | B | C |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Less common | C♮ | D♭ | D♮ | D♯ | E♮ | F♮ | G♭ | G♮ | A♭ | A♮ | A♯ | B♮ | C♮ |
Rare | B♯ | B♯♯ | E♭♭ | F♭♭ | F♭ | E♯ | E♯♯ | F♯♯ | B♭♭ | C♭♭ | A♯♯ | B♯ | |
Hungarian | C | C♯ | D | E♭ | E | F | F♯ | G | G♯ | A | B | H | C |
Depending on a note’s role in a scale, it may be written weirdly. For example, you rarely would refer to a B♯ on its own, but it’s the third degree of the G♯ major scale.
SvelteKit's Node adapter limits incoming requests to 512kb by default.
This is documented, I just missed it. https://kit.svelte.dev/docs/adapter-node#environment-variables-bodysizelimit
BODY_SIZE_LIMIT=100000000
will fix it for you (obviously set this to whatever you fancy. Integer numbers of bytes work, string representations of human readable file sizes such as 100mb
do not seem to).
Apple Music doesn't let you see the 'last played' date of any tracks which are not in your library
And given that it doesn't integrate with Last.fm, it's a bit of a pain.
Problem statement:
I want to have a list of all the music I've listened to on Apple Music.
Challenges
The circulation of the Hindustan Times is almost double that of The Times (of London)
Although it should be noted that that's based on data from 2020 as circulation numbers are not being reported by The Times and several other newspapers since then.
There is some evidence that SIDS is preceded by seizures
This adds to the similarities between SIDS and SUDEP. https://www.neurology.org/doi/10.1212/WNL.0000000000208038
Nestlé have outstanding grinding technology which means that their Nespresso pods can beat third party pods even with objectively worse coffee
They also have some patents such as a rubber gasket on the back of the pods and a paper liner to distribute the water which make it difficult for third party pods to extract as evenly and as successfully.
Switzerland used to have massive problems with goitre and developmental birth defects
It turns out this was because during the ice age a permafrost layer locked iodine under the ice. This discovery ultimately led to iodising salt.
The same guy helped Orbán and Netanyahu to power: George Birnbaum
He did it (unsurprisingly) by dividing people. In Hungary, demonising Soros was his idea.
We have a sample of meteor rocks on earth which we can’t get into
Some of the screws broke so now Nasa are making new screwdrivers to open the container.