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I have settled on a way to do append only notes by having a "journal" user on my xmpp server, and I take notes by sending them asciidoc formatted messages. I have been too lazy to do it so far, but I could extract the messages from the server and compile them into something more easily browsed.

I had a very convenient setup using linked files stored in Dropbox that worked very well for 15 years. The Zotero 6 to 7 upgrade completely broke this, and modified the database so that rollback is not possible. There was no warning that this workflow would be completely broken on upgrade.


Last Time I tried to store the Database in a Cloud Synced Folder there were like 100 warnings to click away that exactly this would happen...


I think there’s a plugin called Attanger that replicates that workflow


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huf_Haus Construction of a Huf Haus in the UK featured in the 2004 series of Grand Designs.


Those are awesome, does anyone export this to the states? We just got a prefab studio from Schildr that's manufactured in Turkey and disassembles into a sea container. I imagine something similar would work for Huff houses?

https://schildr.com/en/@schildrusa


In this context energy=wavelength=frequency, and hard x-rays means x-ray with energies > approx. 5 keV. I am assuming properties they are after in their particular context are <i>tunable</i> hard x-rays with with relatively narrow bandwidth, such that they can tune the energy/frequency/wavelength of their beam to be above the absorption edge of particular elements in the pigments in paintings and compare the x-ray fluorescence maps above and below the absorption so they can see where particular pigments are and thus paintings hidden below the visible painting.

One big advantage synchrotrons have is flux over a broad spectrum. When you want monochromatic x-rays you can start with broad spectrum x-rays from a synchrotron source and throw almost all of the photons away, and still have orders of magnitude more x-rays in your 1 eV bandpass beam than the flux of a laboratory source, (even if it has a peak in its spectrum at the energy you want). The plots on slides 4-6 linked in the first comment [1] demonstrate this clearly.

However, the energy range where inverse compton scattering sources seem most attractive are at energies >100 keV where it appears there is the potential for inverse compton sources to approach and even outperform synchrotron bend-magnet sources (slides 31 to 35), particularly in comparison to bend-magnets/wigglers at synchrotrons with lower storage ring energy than facilities like ESRF (6 GeV). High flux at higher energies (>100 keV) is difficult to generate at the more common 2.0-3.0 GeV storage rings.

[1] https://indico.cern.ch/event/1088510/contributions/4577523/a...


Lots of interesting experiments with solar collection here: https://www.youtube.com/@sergiyyurko8668/videos


Whaoo, super interesting, thanks for the link.

Some of their projects follow the same idea of a grid of small square mirrors.

However, they choose to put the mirrors on the ground (which is simpler) and move the target at the focal point (which is not simpler).

Good source of inspiration, I will watch their videos.


Including one of the hardest of them all: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allocasuarina_luehmannii


McMaster-Carr seems to have done it OK


I have progressed from Dokuwiki -> Tiddlywiki -> Gollum. I can now write everything in asciidoc.


The core itself (Xtensa) is from a US company, Tensilica.

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


Interesting - I always wondered what happened to Tensilica.

They seemed ahead of the game in manycore, but manycore doesn't seem to have panned out.



This appears to be a really nice series of articles, but wow, what an annoying format. Just give me a .PDF or single .html page, don't make me click 'Next' thirty times. :(

He's not even doing that to show ads. He's just doing it because, hey, it's not like he wants to read it.


I've been using his arduino PID library to stabilize a camera platform and the library works pretty well.


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