AMD is slightly delaying its Ryzen 9000 desktop CPUs ‘out of an abundance of caution’ https://www.theverge.com/2024/7/24/24205416/amd-zen-5-ryzen-9000-desktop-delay
How do modern CAPTCHAs work?
By letting Google examine your browsing history.
The more you know 🌠
Yes, this is a real thing Trump said about Elon Musk.
In conservative politics, there's always a bigger fish you're trying to suck up to.
Long before #Rosetta & 67P/C-G, there was Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 & its devastating 1994 encounter with Jupiter.
I was privileged to be part of the team that made & released the very first images of Fragment A impacting at ~20:15 UTC on 16 July, 30 years ago last night, as seen from Calar Alto in Spain.
The brightness of the impact plume was a huge surprise & the following week saw intense astronomical, media, & public engagement.
Today is Overcast's 10th birthday, and to celebrate, I'm launching a major rewrite of the app: https://marco.org/2024/07/16/overcast-rewrite
The first decade has been great, and this new foundation brings it into the next one!
(Spoiler alert: It's fast. REALLY fast. And there's more coming soon.)
Musk is inviting his red-state pals to prosecute people who dare advise advertisers to stay away from his toxic swamp.
This is what right-wing extremists like Musk actually think about free speech. (They hate it when it's directed, unfavorably, at them.)
Is there a list of current deadbird site advertisers? I want to stay current on businesses to avoid in my shopping.
Nike Pledged to Shrink Its #Carbon Footprint. It Just Slashed the Staff Charged With Making That Happen.
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Since December, Nike has lost about 30% of employees who worked primarily on #sustainability initiatives, due to layoffs, voluntary departures or transfers to other duties.
Already, the company was missing its targets for reducing #emissions.
#News #Climate #Clothing #Fashion #Business #Environment #Pollution
https://www.propublica.org/article/nike-layoffs-sustainability-climate-change
DOJ seizes ‘bot farm’ operated by the Russian government https://www.theverge.com/2024/7/9/24195228/doj-bot-farm-rt-russian-government-namecheap
Anyone need a molecular biologist? PhD + 14 years' industry experience. Expertise in HIV replication, general mol & cell bio, in vitro diagnostics, analytical and functional assay design, V&V, production, regulatory. If it involves a binding event I can build an assay for it. Management experience up to team of 20, familiar with cGxP and 21CFR820.
Current job not... bad... exactly, just getting very corporate.
A new “continuous sidewalk” in #Kitchener. The design differs from regular sidewalks in that it doesn’t dip down to road level at intersections. It continues at an uninterrupted height. This slows cars turning onto the street + reinforces pedestrian priority through the intersections. Same at the driveways, so you don’t get the up-down “roller coaster effect” when you’re #walking, #cycling or using a wheelchair.
Trump denies knowledge of Project 2025, allies' plan to transform US government
Scientific American podcast on Cleo, the Mysterious Math Menace: the anonymous math genius who haunted Math Stack Exchange with enigmatic answers before disappearing in 2015 https://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode/cleo-the-mysterious-math-menace1/
@GeorgeMari on Twitter; Husband, Dad, Software Developer
Ask me about fixing buffer bloat, and how it has changed my life.