Is the World Becoming Uninsurable?
You are receiving this email because you are a subscriber to Charles Hugh Smith / Of Two Minds. I ask the question, “is the world becoming uninsurable?” not as an expert on the insurance industry but as a homeowner who can no longer obtain hurricane insurance, and as an observer of long-term trends keenly interested […]
Some Things to Expect in 2025
LWN.net needs you! Without subscribers, LWN would simply not exist. Please consider signing up for a subscription and helping to keep LWN publishing. We are reliably informed by the calendar that yet another year has begun. That can only mean one thing: the time has come to go out on a limb with a series […]
Learn Yjs Interactively
Welcome to Learn Yjs — an interactive tutorial series on building realtime collaborative applications using the Yjs CRDT library. This very page is an example of a realtime collaborative application. Every other cursor in the garden above is a real live person reading the page right now. Click one of the plants to change it […]
MuJoco Playground
Playground
Show HN: Real-time nonlinear optics simulation (JS/GLSL)
An interactive study of controlled nonlinear dynamics, implemented through the concrete example of coupled optical fields. Similar to how a simple pendulum provides insight into oscillatory systems, this project uses a specific optical configuration—coupled fundamental/harmonic fields interacting with an adaptive medium—as an idealized model for exploring how optimization processes can guide complex nonlinear systems toward […]
Starship Flight 7
To The space station On its flight to the International Space Station, Dragon executes a series of burns that position the vehicle progressively closer to the station before it performs final docking maneuvers, followed by pressurization of the vestibule, hatch opening, and crew ingress. On its flight to the International Space Station, Dragon executed a […]
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Potoooooooo (Pot-8-Os) Sire Eclipse Grandsire Marske Dam Sportsmistress Damsire Sportsman Sex Stallion Foaled 1773 Country Great Britain Colour Chestnut Breeder Willoughby Bertie, 4th Earl of Abingdon Owner Richard Grosvenor, 1st Earl Grosvenor Record 40 starts – 34 wins[1] Major wins 1200 Guineas Stakes (1778) Clermont Cup (1779, 1780, 1782) Jockey Club Plate (1780, 1781, 1782) […]
David Lynch, Twin Peaks and Muholland Drive director, dies aged 78
David Lynch, the maverick American director who sustained a successful mainstream career while also probing the bizarre, the radical and the experimental, has died aged 78. “It is with deep regret that we, his family, announce the passing of the man and the artist, David Lynch,” read a Facebook post. “We would appreciate some privacy […]
David Lynch has died
Director-writer David Lynch, who radicalized American film with with a dark, surrealistic artistic vision in films like “Blue Velvet” and “Mulholland Drive” and network television with “Twin Peaks,” has died. He was 78. Lynch revealed in 2024 that he had been diagnosed with emphysema after a lifetime of smoking, and would likely not be able […]
Same three bands appear in three different presentations with different labels
Nature Communications (2015) – Comments pubmed: 26586091 doi: 10.1038/ncomms9888 issn: 2041-1723 Peisu Zhang, Kotb Abdelmohsen, Yong Liu, Kumiko Tominaga-Yamanaka, Je-Hyun Yoon, Grammatikakis Ioannis, Jennifer L. Martindale, Yongqing Zhang, Kevin G. Becker, In Hong Yang, Myriam Gorospe, Mark P. Mattson