Author: Jones Prick

  • Macramé Art

    Macramé wall hanging – inspired by nature, 1m brown circle with knotted cords of cream, green and dark green, and long dangling cords beneath. Macramé Art

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  • Street art

    Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky. Rabindranath Tagore Clouds in the sky very much resembles the thoughts in our minds! Both changes perpetually from one second to another! Mehmet Murat ildan Photos : Filipa Moreira da Cruz Street art

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  • Flower Art

    Flower Art, the weather this past weekend was just perfect. Cool mornings, fire in the house stove in the mornings. I just love this time of year. I was doing some flower arrangements as well. You may not know this, but I was actually a florist at one time, many years ago. I arranged these…

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  • Stencil Street Art

    It is Mona Lisa – sort of. Not much stencil art on the streets or in the alleys. At first I didn’t like it. Now I do. Pics taken by Resa – August 2, 2022 Toronto, Canada The Artist? Stencil Street Art

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  • The Abortion Controversy: Data

    Sometimes it’s useful to go past the talking heads and look at actual numbers to see what people are really saying. We have to look at 2017, because that seems to be the latest year for which a full set of data is available. Of course, that’s pre-pandemic, which makes it a good year to…

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  • Data With a Grain of Salt

    “Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.” – Albert Einstein Talking with some blogging friends the other day, the topic of blog views came up. We were discussing all the different reasons that view numbers could be less this year than last year: people’s attention spans getting…

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  • Exporting Data from Old Gear Through LCD Sniffing

    [Jure Spiler] was at a flea market and got himself a spectrophotometer — a device that measures absorbance and transmittance of light at different wavelengths. This particular model seems to be about 25 years old, and it’s controlled by a built-in keyboard and uses a graphical LCD to display collected data. That might have been…

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  • Getting Serial Data Out Of An Old Spectrophotometer

    [Jure Spiler] came into possession of an old spectrophotometer, which measures the absorbance and transmittance of light in a sample. Getting data out of the device was difficult, particularly as the model in question was an educational version missing some functionality. However, perseverance got the old machine talking happily to a PC. After an earlier…

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  • Does a macOS update change the Data volume?

    macOS updates currently install to both System and Data volumes, although Apple claims the Data volume is unmounted during updating. Can an update cause problems with your Data volume, then? Does a macOS update change the Data volume?

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  • Data Center Heatmap

    At Automattic, our systems team manages over 10,000 physical servers located across 30 data centers on 6 continents. As our compute density has increased from 24 CPU threads/RU in 2013 to 128 CPU threads/RU in 2022 the maximum thermal thresholds have decreased. Older, less powerful servers could operate with inlet air temperatures up to 42C…

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