It is funny, almost as funny as an entire cadre of people with “engineer” in their title who've never had to draw a free body diagram, learn circuit analysis, understand the basics of thermodynamics, or the mechanics of materials.
I hold a CS master degree from an Eastern European university and everything you listed was in our Bachelor degree program. It’s pretty funny because while studying material properties back then I always wondered how and when am I gonna use that. It kind of makes sense now that I think about it - some students preferred branching out to hardware.
That’s great, unfortunately it is quite rare for CS undergrad programs in the US to require the basic engineering and science classes the other engineering/science majors require.
No, it isn’t. Nobel Prizes are generally awarded to those who are either working toward a peaceful resolution to a specific cause or have achieved something relevant to advancing that cause. In the first case, the prize is often given as a symbolic gesture of support for whatever the winner is trying to accomplish, as long as it aligns with the values of the Nobel Committee — as in the case of María Corina Machado.
Overall, she didn’t achieve anything concrete, but she was receiving support in her fight against Maduro. She is a somewhat far-right, controversial figure who also endorses far-right movements worldwide, including in the U.S., Israel, and Europe.
She has also been quite vocal recently in favor of a military invasion of Venezuela and has explicitly endorsed a series of failed neoliberal economic policies as remedies for the country’s economic problems — especially nowadays, when both the right and the left are distancing themselves from neoliberalism across much of the Western world. Her videos in which she says she would sell everything in Venezuela to foreigners are particularly telling — as if doing so would suddenly attract people genuinely interested in developing Venezuela’s economy from the ground up, instead of a wave of rent-seeking foreign investors.
The fact that she is unwilling to work alongside other Latin American leftist leaders who oppose Maduro further shows how deeply she embraces far-right identity politics — especially compared with someone like Zelensky, who is open to working with anyone willing to help him fight against Russia.
She is, above all, a political force that tends to escalate conflict, believing she will prevail through chaos. Let’s not forget that many of her far-right allies have been involved in several coup attempts in Venezuela’s recent history — dating back to the early 2000s — and that they lack any coherent plan for real economic development to help the country recover from the catastrophe it faces under Maduro.
These are the main reasons her winning the Nobel Prize is so problematic and motivated the strong reaction from the Norwegian Peace Council. My advice is not to expect anything from Venezuela’s far right. They are at least as problematic — if not more — than Maduro.
My mistake was confusing this with the real Nobel Committee (or whatever they call themselves) which makes this story "Group B does not agree with the decision of Group A"
She did that because she is hoping he will invade and throw Maduro out of power. I dislike Trump greatly, but given the situation of her country, I can understand why she would want that.
It’s crude, but you can overcome the degraded quality imparted by gpu accelerated encoding by specifying a higher video bitrate.
Find a complex short scene in your cpu encoded video, extract it, ffprobe it to get average video bitrate, and take the same clip in raw and try gpu accelerated encoding at +20% bitrate. From there, iterate.
For a friend’s use-case that I helped with, +30% video bitrate bump overcame the degraded vquality.
Edit: strangely enough, if memory serves, after the correcting +30% was applied the actual ffprobe bitrates between the videos were very similar, maybe a 10% or less difference. Someone smarter than me can work that logic out.
AnandTech was one of the websites that helped me as a child. I found it around 2002, and the clear-headed manner in which it discussed chip fabrication, function, lithography and the associated engineering and scientific foundations of them - as well as general concepts of bios, motherboard, chipsets, slots, bandwidth etc - helped foster a curiosity and familiarity with electronic hardware that has served me well for my whole life.
It helped me dream larger than my surroundings; which in turn helped me get out of an unstable home, poverty, and a dead-end town. I was sad when [H]ardOCP went down, but this hits different.
On desktop, FF supports the best vertical nested tab tree I have seen. What I’ve seen on chrome is laughably amateurish with huge chunks of wasted space due to unmodifiable(?) padding elements
To get it that way takes a bit of code in the advanced options, and tinkering with a user definition file in FF to remove the top tab bar, but it's worth it.
The other killer feature of FF for me is the ability to containerize domains and control how cross-domain containerization occurs (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/containers-wi...). My interactions with google (for example) never leak out of my google container, so my search queries or browsing aren't explicitly linked to my google account, because I do that outside my google container. Want to watch a video on yt without it tanking your recommendations? Do it outside the google container.
Of course there are a lot of other ways for google to infer it's "me", so I don't know if this is pure security theater or it actually hinders them building my profile. Either way, it's nice to be able to explicitly determine when and where my google profile is built as I traverse the web.
I like Tab Center Reborn, then use userChrome.css to hide the native tabs.
I also set the preference browser.compactmode.show=true to enable the "compact density" in the customize toolbar section. Good use of screen real estate with these changes.
Tree style tabs is more stable and performant but also has a few nice addons (TST Colored Tabs being one of my favs). Sideberry can be infinitely customized but I found it to be extremely slow with 100+ tabs across multiple windows.
5233 Sidebery tabs here, in a single window/profile. Multiple Sidebery "panels". I am simultaneously running a few other Firefox instances with their own Sidebery extensions and at least hundreds of tabs each.
I will not defend this use model to any skeptics, but FWIW I have no performance issues!
Sidebery lets you set colors on tabs explicitly, or by pattern. I use this sparingly but it's very useful when I do.
You shouldn’t approach it from such a detached, cynical angle. The import is as if the OSI embedded senior agents in the postal system during the labor unrest in the US during the 1910s-20s, and the FBI in Ma Bell during the second red scare in the 40s-50s.
The possibility for gatekeeping primary modes of information exchange is quite real, and quite worrying.
Neither of those hypotheticals seem that far-fetched. Maybe that's just the cynical side of me talking,
> The possibility for gatekeeping primary modes of information exchange is quite real, and quite worrying.
It's distressing today. The US intercepts an insane amount of communiqué - we knew about India's involvement in the Canadian Sikhist assassination before it happened. American-made electronics leak insurgent battle plans, tattle on domestic terrorists, enable modem-level attacks and who knows what else. The only reason you and I aren't threatened by it is the decorum required to operate an above-ground surveillance network.
No US company, especially at scale, can promise protection against the state for it's users. There's precious little anyone can do about it, nobody is selling an "alternative product" without state oversight.
Exciting times! Any physicist here aware of how these two papers would impact the applicability or validity of Modified Newtonian Dynamics (MOND)?
background: my lay understanding of MOND is that it modifies the gravitational interaction parameter over cosmological distances. the force exerted on objects due to gravity is currently accepted to scale with distance in a certain manner (ex. 1/distance^2) while MOND postulates a different scaling relation (ex. 1/distance^3). Those are just examples, not actual values. The currently accepted gravitational interaction force scaling is what gives rise for the need for dark matter, and the corresponding lambda cold dark matter (LCDM) theory. Of course, we have not been able to observe dark matter, which is a problem for a theory. That is what has given rise to MOND, amongst other things. There are prominent, esteemed physicists who have recognized many issues with LCDM, some of which are addressed by MOND (https://astro.uni-bonn.de/~pavel/kroupa_SciLogs.html)
previous HN posts with interesting discussions / links re: MOND
It's of no relevance to MOND, at least none that I can see.
MOND gives a different scaling relation, and is therefore contradicting general relativity. Its goal is to explain the effects we associate with dark matter, without the need for dark matter.
General relativity is (we are pretty sure) inconsistent with quantum field theory. String theory tries to fix the issue by replacing the particles in field theory with strings. Oppenheim is trying to fix it by putting general relativity as a classical phenomenon that lives "outside" of quantum field theory.
They're trying to solve different problems. And, Oppenheim's classical gravity picture could be used just as well with MOND instead of standard general relativity, if that's what you wanted.
MOND is getting less popular every year as evidence for dark matter piles up. The Bullet Cluster is a particular instance where we can actually "see" the dark matter flying around, in a way MOND couldn't hope to explain. LIGO has also given us a lot of confidence we have the right theory of gravity, at least up to the quantum scale.
> The Bullet Cluster is a particular instance where we can actually "see" the dark matter flying around, in a way MOND couldn't hope to explain
This is not correct. In fact, LCDM can't even explain the Bullet Cluster [1]. The evidence is not so favourable to LCDM over MOND [2] when taken as a whole.
More recent observations on wide binary stars disfavour MOND more strongly, but the classic reasons you cite are not valid reasons.
That article linked does not completely rule out MOND. It is a great article, but it even mentions several difficulties that complicate their observations.
so i put on my scientist hat and started to write a reply going through the mechanics of beating water's heat capacity, first pointing out that what you want for these types of systems is likely high volumetric heat capacity rather than gravimetric. then i went on to discuss the density of room temp ionic liquids (RTILs), only to find myself digging into their heat capacity numbers and man, you're right! I forgot how well water stores heat compared to other liquids. RTILs vol. heat capacity has trouble breaking 2 J/cm3-K![1]
yes, but undoubtedly the UK's security services know that the best way to pass something unpopular is to recast it as helping
children
women
the vulnerable
much like the content of the 2010 CIA memo that wikileaks released[1] stating that the best way to increase public support for US military actions in Afghanistan is to emphasize the oppression of women
It's annoying being one of the seemingly few people who sees through these techniques. I seldom voice support for a position because it does 'one thing' and WE NEED TO DO THE ONE THING NOW!!! Instead, as best as I can, I try to see the net effect on everything this proposition touches.
Even forget spending hours stewing over facts and data, there is just an instinct inside me that picks up that it is a ruse, a fallacy, a cynical ploy.
While that sounds like tooting my own horn, and I admit I've been taken in by some tricks before, it just isn't easy to stand by and watch. And even if you argue and make the case for online freedom, someone else just needs to come along and go, 'AH!, but what about the children!' and the masses are swayed.
