Normally #crashing is not a good thing, but in this case we see #nasa purposefully #crashing into an #asteroid to test their ability to change it's #trajectory https://hackaday.com/2022/09/26/watch-na.. This will provide #valuable #data in figuring out how to prevent #collisions with the #earth in the #future . Quite a cool moment!
#imagick is sadly a piece of insanely #valuable #software that is ridiculously #buggy https://www.jwz.org/blog/2022/07/imagema.. Sometimes mine forgets how to handle #png files. Sometimes it can't find #fonts .
Ouch, tonnes of #valuable #fuel #reserves #contaminated in #singapore as it was heavily #contaminated with #sulphur https://www.zerohedge.com/commodities/bu.. Apparently it caused the #engines to stop working and #corrode ! Really not great at all!
So #arxiv are having their #diversity bollocks: https://blog.arxiv.org/2021/10/20/save-t.. Apparently #africa needs its *own* #academic #research - despite it being in #english and apparently being as #valuable as any other #research https://info.africarxiv.org/ It's just ultra weird.
I never considered #uranium as a #precious #metal before, but it makes sense to hold it given how little there is and how #valuable it is to the #energy #industry https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/most-a.. Makes just as much sense as #coal at this point, perhaps even more so as #countries struggle with the #energy #crisis and have been forced to buy tonnes of #coal at terrible rates.
This is actually an interesting point being made - if the thing you purchase is too #valuable - you become afraid to make real use of it: https://elazzabi.com/2021/07/24/the-beau.. I also have a #cheap #smartwatch from #pine called the #pinetime - it's in the price range that if it gets damaged, I'll just buy another. It has already outlast every other smart watch I ever had and I get a ridiculous amount of use out of it, even convincing other people they would like one.