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Docs | Graze Turbostream
Details about the turbostream, a hydrated-reference variation of the jetstream
District cooling could be the solution we need to tackle extreme heat | New Scientist
Networks of pipes carrying chilled water have proven to be an efficient way to cool hospitals and universities. Now, they are expanding into cities as heatwaves increase in the US and Europe
Quick getting started notes on tap - Hitchhiker's Guide to the Atmosphere
Bluesky released a new backfill/firehose tool today called Tap. These are some quick notes on trying it out to make it easier for anyone to give it a go.
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Okay, it’s here! pdscheck.dev is LIVE!!! Thanks to @bad-example.com and @pds.dad for all their work on debug.hose.cam, and thanks to Claude for doing most of the heavy lifting. License is CC0 with an MIT fallback, and source is at tangled.org/chaosgreml.in/pdscheck, PRs OH SO WELCOME!
pdscheck — atproto PDS diagnostic
pdscheck.devThis one starts off a little slow but makes some really good points about the pressure to not work on the “middle part” (and how “infrastructure gravity” often means people do unnecessary innovation too low in the stack).
Aleksey Skorobogaty
Excellent article on positioning domain engineering between product engineering and infrastructure engineering. I fully agree with the financial model section. However, I prefer to call it ‘platform engineering: the hard parts,’ simply because in the middle, we face more volatile semantics.
Okay one more thought on moravec's paradox: - we (well, i) always say its harder to build a robot plumber than cider - what if that's not true? What if physical stuff really is easy and we just didn't have the data on hardware to do it?
Chris Paxton
Ant Group trained a robot vision-language-action model on 20,000 hours of robot data.
