The Aranet4 runs on two AA batteries and the smartphone apps are still well-supported. The apps also support CSV export of trend data which is nice. In addition to CO2 ppm, it also records temperature, air pressure, and relative humidity (these other readings are probably used to adjust the CO2 sensor readings to account for temperature/humidity/air pressure conditions). I carry one of these with me while traveling and its high alarm beep (I have it set to sample every 60 seconds) is a convenient reminder to circulate air or consider wearing a mask if I am in a public space. The air pressure reading can be used as a crude altimeter, especially if you have two of the devices: one in a stationary location and another on your person as you take a hike; subtract the two values and you get a pressure difference that is a function of elevation.

Reminds me of a quote from Galactic North (2006) green marking the start of a galaxy-wide disaster (terraforming bots making the galaxy terrifically habitable).

It was impossible for stars to shine green, any more than an ingot of metal could become greenhot if it was raised to a certain temperature. Instead, something was veiling them – staining their light, like coloured glass. Whatever it was stole energy from the stellar spectra at the frequencies of chlorophyll. Stars were shining through curtains of vegetation, like lanterns in a forest. The greenfly machines were turning the Galaxy into a jungle.

Synology is a NAS Iʼd recommend. However, after you become more familiar with the command line and if you are building your own Debian machine with a motherboard that supports many hard drives, I would recommend something like this procedure; this applies especially if you are the only one who will be accessing the files and are just wanting a way to combine the storage capacities of multiple hard drives.

Wow, satellite photography sure has improved since 1965.

I landed at Domodedovo in Moscow in 2013. Ready to see this incredible new place I’ve never experienced before, I walked out into the main arrivals area, and right there was a Cinnabon.

Reminds me of the penultimate verse of the Complete History Of The Soviet Union, Arranged To The Melody Of Tetris (2010) by Pig With The Face Of A Boy.

And now the wall is down, the Marxists frown
There’s foreign shops all over town
When in Red Square, well don’t despair
There’s Levi’s and McDonald’s there
The US gave us crystal meth
And Yeltsin drank himself to death
But now that Putin’s put the boot in,
Who’ll get in our way?

• Map key (and split map copy): “Back Matter” PDF (19 MB) from the map + article at geoscienceworld.org
• Text explanation in article without map at USGS.gov (see page 7 of 28)

Unfortunately, I cannot find a non-rasterized digital version even though the original clearly was a digitally typeset document.

Correct me if I’m wrong, but tomorrow 12:00 Finnish time is:

UTC        2024-06-26T09:00:00+00    (2024-W26-3, 2024-178) (1719392400 seconds since 1970-01-01T00:00+00)
LOS ANGELE 2024-06-26T02:00:00-07    (2024-W26-3, 2024-178) (PDT; Wednesday; Wed 26 Jun 2024 02:00:00 AM PDT)
NEW YORK   2024-06-26T05:00:00-04    (2024-W26-3, 2024-178) (EDT; Wednesday; Wed 26 Jun 2024 05:00:00 AM EDT)
LONDON     2024-06-26T10:00:00+01    (2024-W26-3, 2024-178) (BST; Wednesday; Wed 26 Jun 2024 10:00:00 BST)
HELSINKI   2024-06-26T12:00:00+03    (2024-W26-3, 2024-178) (EEST; keskiviikko; ke 26. kesäkuuta 2024 12.00.00)
SYDNEY     2024-06-26T19:00:00+10    (2024-W26-3, 2024-178) (AEST; Wednesday; Wed 26 Jun 2024 19:00:00)

Yours!

Elective surgery though…

Time colonists!

GNU Steve Irwin

Sony is the one doing the stomping, though.

So, Fuwamoco are Italian or Bangladeshi?

Banks will use progressively less energy per capita as bulk data processing becomes more energy efficient, assuming they donʼt transition to using proof-of-work.

Ultimately, mining should be banned from the surface of Earth. Let miners build orbital solar panel infrastructure close to the Sun where power is plentiful. See Bitcoin developer Peter Todd’s 2017-09-10 presentation on the subject (transcript).

Edit: Fixed URL. Edit2; Add transcript link.

See List of mergers and acquisitions by Alphabet for the graveyard list. Sorting by Price helps. Some other notable companies that Google acquired rather than compete with:

• Nest Labs (home automation)
• DropCam (home automation)
• DoubleClick (advertisement)
• FitBit (wearables)
• Waze (GPS navigation)
• Skybox Imaging (satellite mapping)
• Like.com (shopping)
• Meebo (social network)
• GrandCentral (VOIP)
• Picasa (photographry)
• Tenor (GIF search)
• PhotoMath (LLM; became Bard)

The artists could have chosen not to sign their long-term rights away for short-term discounts on recording studio costs.

I can’t pinpoint exactly when the fall started.

In my opinion, it was when anti-trust laws did not trigger upon Google acquiring YouTube because Google Video couldn’t compete. That meant it was open season on start-ups that otherwise might have grown to kill Google or other big tech companies like Apple, Facebook and Microsoft.

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