🔗 Articles: Wednesday 10.Apr.2024
Vox: Why are young people … getting cancer? The search for answers
Adults in the prime of their lives, often otherwise outwardly healthy, are dying of aggressive cancers that appear to develop more quickly and be more deadly than in the past, for reasons that scientists cannot adequately explain.
Clinicians have especially been noticing a rise in cancers in the gastrointestinal (GI) system – including colorectal, kidney, and pancreatic cancers – in adults younger than 50, the cutoff for what is usually considered early-onset cancer.
Scientific authorities around the world see this as one of the most pressing questions for modern medicine and are now funding an ambitious, globe-spanning research project to provide some desperately needed answers.
“It’s the disease of thinking that a really great idea is 90% of the work. And if you just tell your… all these other people that here’s this great idea, then of course they can go off and make it happen.”
“There is a tremendous amount of craftsmanship in between a great idea and a great product,” Jobs said, explaining how ideas evolve and that the final product is never as it was first envisioned.
Musk said, “Precisely.”
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Jobs then explained that while it’s possible to come up with several good ideas, not every one of them can be turned into a good product. A part of the problem here is that the technology — be it semiconductors, glass, plastic, factories, and even robots — is just not there yet.
“Designing a product is keeping 5,000 things in your brain… and fitting them all together.”
BBC: Scrabble: Mattel launches new version of game which is ‘less competitive’
Mattel is to launch a new version of Scrabble which is designed to be more collaborative and accessible for those who find word games intimidating.
The new double-sided Scrabble board will still feature the original game for those who want to play the traditional version.
But the new game on the flip side will include helper cards, use a simpler scoring system and be quicker to play.
The new board, Scrabble Together, will also allow people to compete in teams.
AP: A new version of Scrabble aims to make the word-building game more accessible
A spokesperson for Hasbro, based in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, confirmed to The Associated Press via email Tuesday that the company currently has no plans for a U.S. update — but added that the brand “love(s) the idea of different ways to play Scrabble and continue to attract new players to the game around the world.”
Lex Friedman: Lex’s Games
Daily grouping puzzles, inspired by The New York Times’s daily Connections puzzle. Sort 16 terms into four set of four.
Guardian: Farmers warn ‘crisis is building’ as record rainfall drastically reduces UK food production
Reduction in yields means UK will be dependent on imports for wheat in coming year and possibly beyond.
…and people are still behaving as if it isn’t happening.
PBS NewsHour: Ukraine will be outgunned by Russia 10 to 1 in weeks without U.S. help, top Europe general says
The top general for U.S. forces in Europe told Congress Wednesday that Ukraine will be outgunned 10 to one by Russia within a matter of weeks if Congress does not find a way to approve sending more ammunition and weapons to Kyiv soon.
The testimony from Army Gen. Christopher Cavoli, head of U.S. European Command, and Celeste Wallander, assistant secretary of defense for international security affairs, comes as Congress enters pivotal weeks for voting for aid for Ukraine, but there’s no guarantee funding will be improved in time.
Ukraine has been rationing its munitions as Congress has delayed passing its $60 billion supplemental bill.
“They are now being outshot by the Russian side five to one. So the Russians fire five times as many artillery shells at the Ukrainians than the Ukrainians are able to fire back. That will immediately go to 10 to one in a matter of weeks,” Cavoli said. “We’re not talking about months. We’re not talking hypothetically.”
Free Pascal wiki: ARM Embedded Tutorial - FPC and the Raspberry Pi Pico
The Raspberry Pi Foundation has released the Raspberry Pi Pico, a very cheap Microcontroller board with quite interesting specs.
To best use this tutorial you will need to buy (at least) two Raspberry Pi Pico, we will use one as a target and the second one as a debug probe. Do yourself a favour, invest $4 for a second device, being able to debug is worth so much more.
As the Pico is brand new and support for the board is a work in progress I’d recommend that you set up a dedicated installation of Lazarus and Free Pascal as you will need to use both trunk version of Lazarus and a specially patched version of FPC that includes the necessary adjustments so that FPC knows about the Pico. Also expect changes as we all learn along the way.
Last Updated: 10.Apr.2024 23:40 EDT