The Rivers That Science Says Shouldn't Exist
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https://phys.org/news/2025-04-rivers-science-shouldnt.html <-- shared technical article
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https://doi.org/10.1029/2024WR039824 <-- shared paper
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#water #hydrology #network #river #bifurcation #GIS #spatial #mapping #divergence #Casiquiare #Orinoco #Amazon #distributary #tributary #Wayambo #Suriname #Echimamish #Canada #watershed #delineation #morphology #geomorphometry #ecology #management #waterresources #model #modeling #bidirectional #flow #geophysical

Folks, I do need some advice related to #hardware please. My #homeoffice desk and it's surroundings are home to 2 machines running #Win10 , 1 machine running #PopOS and one machine running the #ubuntu office server. I am obviously running out of space for input devices. Does anyone have experience with #bidirectional #USB #switch|es for more than 2 machines and more than 2 devices per machine? I think I really do need one of those, but have no clue, which one to buy.

please RT.
#usbswitch

It's so hard for me to understand what #mozilla is doing.

Its like they don't care about technology or users that much at this point and the higherups are looking for a cash grab.

That horrible decision in the terms of usage and license agreement and the fact that #thunderbird doesn't support RTL languages (Persian, Arabic, Hebrew etc.) And the whole RTL user base of firefox are depending on the bidi-mail-ui extension, which the maintainer says is so hacky because mozilla doesn't document and communicate changes, is INSANE.

It's 2025, and mozilla is totally disregarding ~15% of the world that use RTL writing.

Issues, discissions and requests for native BiDi support have been said for years. BiDi support is a basic ability.

@mozillaofficial

Hi @thunderbird
Could you please consider support for #bidirectional text in Thunderbird, too? (Like what other mail clients such as Roundcube, Gmail, etc have). So that there won't be a need to use add-ones to write RTL and LTR texts.

Here's a link to the issue:
https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/ideas/right-to-left-languages-support-in-thunderbird/idi-p/34300

A little good news! "#Zum has provided #Oakland Unified School District with a fleet of 74 #electric #school #buses and #bidirectional #chargers. Utility Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E) supplied 2.7 megawatts (MW) of load to Zum’s Oakland EV-ready facility. The #fleet will be managed through Zum’s #AI-enabled #technology platform."

https://electrek.co/2024/05/15/oakland-is-now-first-in-the-us-to-have-a-100-electric-school-bus-fleet-and-its-v2g/

Turns out rendering #Arabic is hard. No, you can't just implement the #Unicode #Bidirectional Algorithm and call it a day. It turns out the Arabic letters/symbols/? have different forms depending on where they are in the word and probably there are other non-trivial features. Yeah, I guess I just postpone this.

So my 1000 IQ workaround for now is to just render all arabic characters as U+FFFD REPLACEMENT CHARACTER for now.

I have been working on a plugin for #logseq to add #bidirectional text support. It is almost ready to be released, and I would like to get it tested on actual projects before making a public announcement.

If you are a #logseq user and you want to create or actually have been creating mixed content in both LTR and RTL language, please let me know.

https://piped.video/watch?v=e2XfHbi9V0o

A nice survey on #bidirectional conversion. One of the topics that are near and dear to my heart.

I used thunderbird and a mail and RSS reader but have had enough of it: too much CPU intensive and too picky about semi-broken RSS feeds.

In mail I switched back to mutt. It now works well. For RSS: I decided to try something different and looking into #elfeed (and #emacs RSS feed reader). Unlike terminal-based ones, it seems to have reasonable support for #bidirectional (#bidi) languages, like #Hebrew .

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How to Develop a #Bidirectional #LSTM For Sequence Classification in #Python with #Keras - Machine Learning Mastery #machinelearning #neuralnets http://machinelearningmastery.com/develop-bidirectional-lstm-sequence-classification-python-keras/