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.
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
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| 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.
The concept of 'steelmanning' is the opposite of 'strawmanning'
When you are arguing, building a 'straw man' is a cheap way of attacking an opponent by misconstruing their argument and destroying the 'straw man' rather than the real argument. For example, if the opposing view is something like 'I am against animal testing', the straw man argument might see a response like 'so you would prefer us to use untested drugs on people?'
The concept of 'steelmanning' is the opposite. Instead of trying to construct a weak version of your opponent's position to tear apart, build the strongest possible version of their point and then consider it based on its merits. For example, you might choose to interpret 'I am against animal testing' as 'I believe that we can avoid using animals to test cosmetics'. You can then review this with your opponent and see if this point can be supported or refuted.
There's a lot of interesting stuff in this article.
A sequence of individually minor mistakes led to an engine exploding in a Qantas A380.
This was an interesting read but very long and dry. The key take away for me on this I think is that given how thorough this review was and how many minor issues it found in a process as subject to scrutiny as aviation safety, it seems as though similar problems must be hiding everywhere.
Cosmic rays ruin photos in space, so Nikon built custom firmware for space cameras which increases noise reduction at low ISO/shutter speed settings
Sat, 9 Dec 2023The SVG spec allows you to use “foreignObject” to insert arbitrary HTML, which will display properly if your SVG is being rendered by a browser
Fri, 8 Dec 2023The brain may have a self-defence mechanism against epilepsy which impacts cognitive performance
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-11-brain-epileptic.html
This observation suggests that the cognitive difficulties—in particularly, memory deficits—experienced by individuals with epilepsy may be attributed, in part, to the brief impairments induced by these slow waves.
If you want to write a video web app, you cannot avoid transcoding video if you want it to work on all browsers
Safari uses video/mp4, which other browsers can't record to.
Facebook spends about 6 billion USD per month and has about 3 billion monthly active users (meaning Facebook’s monthly cost per user is around $2)
Wed, 29 Nov 2023There are already people calling collections of AI models “zoos”
Like here, where machine learning models are being gathered together like animals in a zoo. I’ve actually started a novel about AI, this idea of “model zoos” will for sure make an appearance.