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From https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/missions/cassini/mission/grand-...

"Having expended almost every bit of the rocket propellant it carried to Saturn, operators deliberately plunged Cassini into the planet to ensure Saturn's moons remain pristine for future exploration"

Up and Atom did a video about Braess's Paradox https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cALezV_Fwi0

There was the $1k "I Am Rich" iPhone app that just put up an image of a glowing gem. The price was set by the author as a work of art so it's not directly related to the amazon book prices. 8 people bought it according to the Wikipedia page

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Am_Rich

Matt Parker's "When Spreadsheets Attack" video about EUSpRig

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yb2zkxHDfUE

The default interpolation for imshow is 'antialiased' so I think the calls to imshow should use interpolation='none' to avoid the line colors bleeding into the gray image

Numberphile has a Do Storks Deliver Babies? video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-n-d1ApBTFw

There's also the amusing Spurious Correlations site with several examples of convincing looking correlations

https://www.tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations

I use Murus to manage pf on a couple of Macs. They also have an application-layer firewall named Vallum. https://www.murusfirewall.com

Up and Atom has a video on Braess' Paradox, among others https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cALezV_Fwi0

New compression options were added in rsync 3.2. From https://download.samba.org/pub/rsync/NEWS#3.2.0

Various compression enhancements, including the addition of zstd and lz4 compression algorithms and a negotiation heuristic that picks the best compression option supported by both sides.

Tangentially related - The Cost Of Getting Your Money Back from NPR's Planet Money

https://www.npr.org/2019/06/26/736352315/episode-922-the-cos...

There's also Cauldron http://www.unnotebook.com/

A few people managed to get pictures of ISS transiting the sun during the eclipse in 2017 https://earthsky.org/space/iss-transits-sun-during-eclipse-a...

This article http://www.blog.pythonlibrary.org/2018/05/22/filling-pdf-for... mentions pdfforms https://pypi.org/project/pdfforms/ which uses pdftk to fill forms.

no starch press sells a Perl One Liners book. https://nostarch.com/perloneliners

Stuff You Should Know did a podcast about coyotes recently

https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-stuff-you-should-know-269...

all([]) returns True but any([]) returns False, which seems like a contradiction.

Alston Chase, the author of the Atlantic article, appears in this radiolab episode https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/episodes/91721...

A Persian friend told me about the historical use of underground tunnels to transport water from the mountains for irrigation - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qanat

Up and Atom did an episode on Braess's paradox https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cALezV_Fwi0

Stuff You Should Know did a podcast about the Cannonball Run in 2009 https://www.stuffyoushouldknow.com/podcasts/cannon-ball-run-...

Here are a couple of articles about attending PyCon

Trey Hunter's article "How to have a great first PyCon" including advice on how to overcome feeling like an imposter or an outsider https://treyhunner.com/2018/04/how-to-make-the-most-of-your-...

Al Sweigart's PyCon advice, including his shirt color trick for meeting new people https://automatetheboringstuff.com/how-to-do-pycon.html

Top Google hit, apparently from 1996 http://www.arrl.org/here-comes-the-sun

Some other sites http://www.solarham.net/index.htm https://hamradioschool.com/sunspots-and-propagation/

Strange. Downloading varnish-6.2.1.tgz with Safari 12.1.2 resulted in a 3,203,620 byte file that failed the shasum check on the three Macs I tried. The file does not appear to be a valid tar.gz file. Downloading with curl and Chrome on the two Macs resulted in 3,207,791 byte files that passed the shasum check. Changing the User Agent in Safari did not fix the problem. Open "safe" files is disabled.

Physics Today has an article about this

https://physicstoday.scitation.org/doi/full/10.1063/PT.3.420...

99% Invisible did a podcast on bees recently

https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/on-beeing/

Snopes rates this as False https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/unsold-cars/