> So why does walking speed even matter? It’s considered an important indicator of overall health. A hale and hearty speed signifies that your body’s systems—including your heart, lungs, muscles and nervous system—are working well together. “We call it the sixth vital sign”

1. The distinctive scent, caused by geosmin, which accompanies the first rain after a long, warm, dry spell. 2. The yellow organic oil that yields this scent.

From Wiktionary: "The term was coined by Australian scientist Richard Grenfell Thomas in 1964 for the article “Nature of Argillaceous Odour”, co-authored by Isabel Joy Bear and published in the journal Nature."

Some nuggets from the paper:

> There is some evidence that drought-stricken cattle respond in a restless manner to this 'smell of rain' which may drift with the wind for considerable distances.

> We have learned from the Indian Standard Association that the production and concentration of argillaceous odour from baked clay have been, for many years, the basis of a small perfumery industry centred near Kannauj, some 80 miles west of Lucknow, U.P., India. Baked clay disks, exposed there under the open sun during the hot summer months of May and June, are collected before the wet season and are steam-distilled and the vapours containing the odour and associated products are absorbed in sandalwood oil. The perfume so obtained is known as 'matti ka attar', which may be translated as 'earth perfume'.

> The diverse nature of the host materials has led us to propose the name 'petrichor' for this apparently unique odour which can be regarded as an 'ichor' or 'tenuous essence' derived from rock or stone. This name, unlike the general term 'argillaceous odour', avoids the unwarranted implication that the phenomenon is restricted to clays or argillaceous materials; it does not imply that petrichor is necessarily a fixed chemical entity but rather it denotes an integral odour, variable within a certain easily recognizable osmic latitude.

"Erlang is the strongest form of the isolation argument, and it deserves to be taken seriously, which is why what happens next matters."

It doesn't add much, and it has this condescending and pretentious LLM tone. For me as a reader, it distracts from an otherwise interesting article.

I had bought a ticket, which arrived as a link by email. The URL was something like example.com/tickets/[string]

The string was just the order number in base 64. The order number was, of course, sequential.

I emailed the organizer and the company that built the order system. They immediately fixed it... Just kidding. It's still wide open and I didn't hear anything from them.

I'm waiting for this year's edition. Maybe they'll have fixed it.

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/azure-sql/?p=4796

"Build a RAG App in 5 Minutes

Ever tried setting up an Al-powered project on

Azure and felt overwhelmed? As a student or first- time user to cloud computing, I've been there too. The idea of creating a chatbot or search app using GPT sounds exciting, but the process of setting up everything right from the vector database, provisioning OpenAl models, to integrating them,

it can f..."

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46280791

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96% AI generated according to gptzero.

Which I wouldn't mind, honestly, if it had something useful, insightful, or original to say.

In a way I'm glad it doesn't seem to be written by a human:

> What used to be a disagreement becomes “emotional labor.”

> A bad mood gets labeled “toxic energy.”

This sounds like someone who dismisses their partner's feelings as fragmented memes, and sees her as almost brain-washed by the algorithm.

It contrasts this against a time where a relationship was something entirely different, where he could know everyone she's interacting with.

> And it doesn’t stop there.

> She has friends.

God forbid...

If this was a person and not an AI, they would sound incredibly controlling. Maybe the "toxicity" and "red flag" ideas didn't form in a vacuum?