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Candy cap in the neighborhood. The owner of the patch had no idea! They're very fragrant mushrooms once dried. Their smell is reminiscent of maple syrup. They go for about $1/g on eBay ($30/oz)!
mykoweb.com/CAF/species/Lactar
ebay.com/itm/374436001206

Really thought this was some AI sci-fi art at first. Photo from anti-mining action in Germany by @mariusmichusch

This is how 2022 ends: not with a bang, nor with a whimper, but with a sploosh. It's very wet in #PaloAlto today.

This is Adobe Creek. If you're familiar with Palo Alto you'll know that it often has just a trickle of water even in the winter.

[in response to a FB post about "inorganic" mushroom farming]
Note that in chemistry, and generally in science, "organic" is said of anything that contains carbon such as carbohydrates, proteins, DNA, psilocybin, and pretty much any large molecule involved with living organisms. "inorganic" is anything that doesn't contain carbon such as table salt, water, many rocks, and metals.
It is to be distinguished from the marketing term "organic" which means something like "I don't need no school to know what's good for me".

If I understand what a graph automorphism is, what I want is a name for the graphs that satisfy:

For each vertex pair (u, v) there is an automorphism f such that f(u) = v.

A symmetric graph is not exactly that, and I'm a bit confused. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symmetri

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How do you call a graph where all the nodes are equivalent in the sense that each node sees the same graph structure from its own perspective? "isotropic", maybe?

Examples:
- a polygon
- an infinite grid
- a complete graph
- a toroidal grid
- n nodes 0 ... n-1 such that each node i is connected to nodes { (i+offs) mod n | offs in offsets }, given a list of offsets i.e. a subset of [1, n-1]

I kind of like Mastodon's multicolumn "advanced web interface", except that the columns are fixed-width and far too narrow.

Apparently the way people mess with this if they want to is to adopt a user stylesheet, but this is probably too much to ask of most users (the world intended by CSS's designers in which user stylesheets are universal, sites are all designed to work well with them, and there are popular tools to manipulate them never really came).

I started a repository of little experiments.

github.com/mjambon/dev-random/

The rules are:
- each experiment must take no more than a day, and ideally no more than 4 hours;
- there must be some text that explains the idea;
- there must be some that illustrates the idea.

I hope this will be fun and easily fit into my personal time. At a pace of 2 per month, that's 24 ideas with code per year, which would be pretty great. I could also get 5 of these done over a vacation week without ruining my family time.

There's something about bands named after one of their early songs. I can think of 4 such bands right now. Enjoy.

In chronological order:
- Indochine youtube.com/watch?v=QTJkVdXrr7
- Partenaire Particulier youtube.com/watch?v=o58Jx7GUEu
- Embargo! youtube.com/watch?v=tz3OJMYwQB
- Kaelan Mikla youtube.com/watch?v=oVdZ-MEf_q

I'm translating an figure for a article. I have an alignment problem due to the being not available everywhere. Is there a way to right-align text boxes independently of the actual font being used? I want them to remain editable as text. I'm using .

This is the file's page: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fil
In my browser (Chrome on Ubuntu), the text is misaligned (image 1). Image 2 is the screenshot of the relevant SVG code.

From what I can gather, text-anchor:end is indeed what we want to ensure right-alignment but it's not working. Any idea on how to make this work?

Why GPL? "Using the GNU GPL will require that all the released improved versions be free software. This means you can avoid the risk of having to compete with a proprietary modified version of your own work." More at u.fsf.org/3kr #GNUGPLFAQ

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