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It’s easy to forget about all the tools found at lightroom.adobe.com (aka, “Lightroom on the web” or just “Lightroom web”) since I have an actual Lightroom app on all of my devices. That said, every now and then Adobe sneaks a feature into Lightroom web that’s worth checking out. Recently, an early access feature (meaning […]
Although America’s history is rife with rags-to-riches stories, American Industrialist Andrew Carnegie is probably the best embodiment of the American Dream. Carnegie first worked for pennies a day only to eventually become one of the richest men in history with a net worth of around $309 billion in today’s money. Additionally, other historic figures like Harland Sanders and Biddy […]
Support this show Enjoy Clockwise Unwound: Ad-free episodes and an extra Overtime topic every week. #571: I Am My Own Robot September 11th, 2024 · 29 minutes How we open our phone cameras, our post-Apple event spending plans, whether we want a robotic smart speaker, and what a new iPhone button of our dreams would […]
Cornell University researchers have created microscale robots less than 1 millimeter in size that are printed as a 2D hexagonal “metasheet” but, with a jolt of electricity, morph into preprogrammed 3D shapes and crawl. The robot’s versatility is due to a novel design based on kirigami, a cousin of origami, in which slices in the […]
11 Sep 2024 • 1 min read After pairing with Tony Robalik on a recent weird behavior I was seeing in Gradle, we encountered a deliciously evil bug in Gradle. It’s documented a little in Gradle 8.7’s release notes (see Better API for updating collection properties), but the basic premise is below. abstract class MyTask […]
In 1927, Belgian physicist Georges Lemaitre had arrived at a startling realisation about the Universe. Using Einstein’s then cutting-edge theory of General Relativity, Lemaitre was able to work out that the farther a galaxy is in the Universe, the faster it will recede i.e. distant galaxies would appear to be moving away faster than their […]
For a very long time, the Establishment (civil and military and mostly non-Baloch) has looked at Balochistan as a monolith. Balochistan is not a social, sociological, religious and political monolith, and hence needs different and nuanced policy formulation, calibration and implementation. Sociologically, the northern Balochistan including Quetta and surrounding areas including Kuchlak, Ziarat, Gulistan, Chaman, […]
The recent announcement of the CM Honahar Scholarship Programme 2024 for undergraduate students in Punjab marks a significant step towards promoting accessibility to higher education. Valued at Rs7 billion this year and backed by a substantial seven-year budget of Rs131 billion, the initiative aims to help 30,000 deserving students in the region during the life […]
It’s capitulation, to say the least. The government’s tendency to repeatedly cave in to the IMF’s pressure is now costing it its sovereignty. The decision to accept the Fund’s condition – that no new special economic zones or export processing zones will be established, and tax incentives already availed by the existing zones will not […]
This year, we had the exciting opportunity to participate in Google’s Season of Docs (GSOD) 2024. GSOD is a funding program designed to support open source projects to allocate technical writing resources to improve the documentation for their project. One of our key goals as part of this program is to drive an increase in […]