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Jeremy Cherfas

It has been a very long time since my last refereed paper was published, but here we are again. What is Wrong with Biofortification makes the case that staples with enhanced levels of micronutrient are not a good way to tackle micronutrient deficiencies. https://authors.elsevier.com/a/1gvaP7sxZ%7EFqY4

Jeremy Cherfas

Replied to a post on matigo.ca :

A battle lost to protect the privacy of website visitors.

Jeremy Cherfas

Is today the day I stop being able to POSSE here from @withknown? One failed yesterday, but that could have been an error.

Jeremy Cherfas

If you are into -- a thing I learned about for my newsletter -- you might want to consider mercury levels. Sean Wittenberg talked to me about Safe Catch, and you can listen on Spotify at https://open.spotify.com/episode/3wu79IbLGEY8qozebf0bMb

Jeremy Cherfas

I've always used bayonet connection for the kind of lightbulb that does not screw in but is inserted and twisted a little.

Jeremy Cherfas

One reason I love Rome: some douchebag scraped my car, actually breaking the fixtures for the parking light. Yesterday I took it to the neighbourhood bodyshop (yes, there is one) and it was fixed this morning, plus most of the paint the douchebag had left removed, for €50.

Jeremy Cherfas

Trying once again to get a grip on my social media silos by taking another look at Monocle, and thinking this time it might stick.

Jeremy Cherfas

And there I was, foolishly thinking that somehow a weather Station had blocked Chuck's work that had been in progress.

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And having spent a happy couple of hours tinkering with occasional bits of success, I'm giving up again.

Jeremy Cherfas

My conclusion now is that WithKnown actually does a lot of the heavy lifting itself, with reverse geolookups and so forth. Maybe try something a lot simpler, and send only lat-long

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Calculating the signature not as easy as it seemed originally

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At home, thinking about a location shortcut for WithKnown, and starting with the easy stuff.

Jeremy Cherfas

There has to be a better music library manager and player for OSX than Apple's Music app, but which one? Your recommendations, please. Please!

Jeremy Cherfas

TIL about the Bismarck Archipelago in the Bismarck Sea. Who knew? Not me, obviously.

Jeremy Cherfas

My Dad would have been 100 today. I can't say I miss him every day, because that would not be true. But still.

Jeremy Cherfas

I wish I knew why @launchcenterpro had suddenly decided to lock most of the functionality, but hey, that kind of behaviour is unlikely to encourage me to pay anything.

Jeremy Cherfas

Does anyone know what happened to The Prince's Charities International Sustainability Unit? Did it turn out to be, er, unsustainable? Or something else?

http://pcfisu.org/

Jeremy Cherfas

Just to follow up and note that after carefully studying and then doing the set-up steps in the piece I linked, and then chasing down missing modules after nuking all `venvs` and tinkering in `.zshrc` everything seems to be operational. For now ...

Jeremy Cherfas

Prompted by In Our Time, we (re)watched Citizen Kane last night. It really is very good, and holds up remarkably well. Lots more to look out for, thanks to the discussion.

Jeremy Cherfas

I liked rss.app, but in all honesty is just is not worth $8.32 a month for me. I'll find another way ...

Jeremy Cherfas

Spending time cleaning up my RSS feeds in Newsblur and it isn't easy. I can export the OPML, and work directly on that, but is there a tool that will let me do so easily? Codebeautify's treeview doesn't let me edit the tree. opml.org seems dead. Is there anything else?

Jeremy Cherfas

My morning is disrupted. Something seems to be wrong @gocomics and I cannot get my daily dose of Nancy by Olivia Jaimes

Jeremy Cherfas

Indeed. Currently editing my next episode, from @ECLLD recent meeting in Budapest, celebrating how the new EU reg on OHM is allowing farmers and food producers to be more sustainable and nutritious.

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Hey @help. If I were to switch to a paid account (keeping my own domain) is there a way to import old posts from the RSS feed created by an export from Known?

Jeremy Cherfas

Feels stupidly good to be deleting ~5000 spam emails (since 9/21) and ~62,000 emails from Trash. I mean, they don't cost me anything directly, but still good to clear out. Also deleted everything pre 1/1/2018; nobody needs more than five years of email archive, do they?

Jeremy Cherfas

New Years Eve at some point crossing the Atlantic. Time zones are hard.

Jeremy Cherfas

I appreciate that other podcasters include transcripts of their shows, but can't you go the extra step of actually checking the transcript against delivery, as those speechifying press releases put it?

Jeremy Cherfas

New edition of Eat This Newsletter is out, with a few choice items and a reminder that the next podcast episode will go live on 24 December, for reasons. Read the newsletter at https://buttondown.email/jeremycherfas/archive/exchanges/ and, if you're so inclined sign up too. Thanks./

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Replied to a post on ruk.ca :

Well, that's a shame. I get a message saying No video with supported format and MIME type found. I was looking forward to watching "yeasty fireworks".

Jeremy Cherfas

This sounds exactly like Amotz Zahavi's Handicap Principle. Any signal should involve a cost, to prevent cheats from issuing false signals.

Jeremy Cherfas

Either I've enjoyed a step change in fitness -- avge heartrate during HIIT down from 125 to 116 -- or Apple has changed what my watch is doing. I know where my money is.

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Thanks Google. Three of the top 10 search terms that brought people to my podcast site involved wheat pennies. Alas, none wanted to hear about wheat and the growth of empires. https://www.eatthispodcast.com/empire-grain/

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Just finished tomorrow’s Eat This Newsletter so I am going to take a nap and then read, because I can.

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Shout-out to the intelligent, attractive, and discerning people of Ireland 🇮🇪 for helping put the podcast in the charts there. Brazil also gets an honourable mention 🇧🇷 for beating its previous best by quite a margin.

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https://ooh.directory/

So that’s what $project was! A new blog directory from Phil Gyford. Reminds me of Halt and Catch Fire s04.

Jeremy Cherfas

TIL just how easy it is to write functions in zsh to automate little chains.

Jeremy Cherfas

Broke out my IndieWeb reader and added some feeds to get going again, thanks to your prompt.

Jeremy Cherfas

Replied to a post on matigo.ca :

Is that the standard Activity display you have? My watch is a 6SE and I do not usually see heart rate because the strap is loose and never have the map or weather.

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What's missing, for me, is a solid social reader that is as easy to use as the Big Silo. I'm using one now, which gives a bit more context that a simple RSS feed and allows me to reply, I hope. A single place to interact, rather than N different places.

Jeremy Cherfas

Primed for Power: A Short Cultural History of Protein downloaded and ready to be read. Thanks @jessfanzo for the link to https://www.tabledebates.org/publication/primed-power-short-cultural-history-protein

Jeremy Cherfas

As CSNY never sang, Feed Your Children Well

When I published last week's episode, talking to @TinaMoffat3 about how important school meals are in showing children what it means to eat well, I had no inkling that this would be

https://www.eatthispodcast.com/small-bites/

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Just published the latest issue of Eat This Newsletter, concocted from bits and pieces of edible material found here and there. Read it at https://buttondown.email/jeremycherfas/archive/eat-this-newsletter-190-inundated-3184/ and while you're there, consider subscribing.

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Improvements over at searchmysite.net -- where searches can now be converted to feeds and, thus, subscribed to, definitely merit further investigation. https://blog.searchmysite.net/posts/lots-of-new-web-feed-rss-and-atom-related-functionality/

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Replied to a post on matigo.ca :

I've never really understood why Byword has not so far embraced micropub, which would enable posting to all sorts of different recipient systems. I never used it to post to WordPress because I has MarsEdit for that, but I would surely use it to post here.





Jeremy Cherfas

The Squeeze smelled something odd as we got on the plane. Minutes later, the captain agreed and called an engineer with a thick binder to confirm. Something was well dodgy, so here we are languishing back in the terminal and waiting for a new plane. The Romance of Travel.™️

Jeremy Cherfas

Currently reading: Dark Star by Alan Furst, ISBN: 9780375759994





Jeremy Cherfas

Finished reading: Our Man in Havana by Graham Greene, ISBN: 9780142438008





Jeremy Cherfas

Python dabblers: how do you avoid the dreaded "module not found" errors, when you know you installed the modules? I tried to get into virtual environments, but it seems like overkill. One nice all-encompassing install would do it for me, but it may be too late. Help!

Jeremy Cherfas

Created a portable install of Reaper, my digital audio workstation, which I hope will make it easier to work on sound wherever I find myself.

Jeremy Cherfas

When is a tangerine not a tangerine? When it is a tomato! Italians are embracing tomato diversity as farmers, breeders and eaters select new orange tomatoes to take advantage of loosening seed regulations in the EU.

https://www.eatthispodcast.com/orange-toms/

With @matteo_petitti of @retesemi