@sundogplanets @marcoshuerta One reason I always hesitated to use that approach when writing tests was that I feared now I'd be testing test taker strategy along with subject matter. You always do that to some extent, of course, but I always feared that the "choose your own adventure" test style would make that worse. That being said, I do think that students like it.
If anyone has Instagram, my PBS station is doing March Madness brackets for our programs.
It’s just for fun, but I’d be grateful for any votes for the series I write & host, Serving Up Science ⬇️
https://www.instagram.com/stories/wkarofficial/3333817734138645701?utm_source=ig_story_item_share&igsh=c2JobDMwODg1Zzdi
It’s a show all about where our food comes from & it’s impact on our bodies & the planet.
Thank you ☺️
@yojimbo @adamshostack @campuscodi @sambowne
I’m not sure it’s social engineering. We can send a “perfect” password prompt using ESC sequences (and hide the banner), exactly when a user types their password correctly. I know that for me, if I type my password for ssh or sudo, and they output “password incorrect, try again”, I’ll just type it in again assuming I made a mistake. This allows priv-esc from low privilege users. And no, it definitely did not need a logo :)
"If all experts communicated clearly about the continued risks of the virus [covid, SARS-CoV-2], Dr. Lara Jirmanus [MD, MPH, Harvard FXB Center for Health & Human Rights] thinks people might be more open to precautions like masking, staying home when sick, and getting vaccinated" -TIME https://time.com/6960789/covid-19-cautious-americans/
With quotes from @luckytran and @lindyg.bsky.social
The words "under God" were added to the US Pledge of Allegiance in 1954, during the Cold War, under the Eisenhower administration, to mark a distinction between the USA and so-called 'godless' communism of the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China.
When people today quote "one nation, under God" as evidence that the founders of this country created a Christian Nationalist country, they are repeating historical inaccuracies. You are welcome to correct them.
Why spaceflight is hard, part 3: space is big.
The moon is 250000 miles away, which is 3 days at 3500 mph. Mars is 140–1000 times farther, and the stars farther still. A leisurely 420 year trip to Proxima Centauri requires "only" 1% c, but that looks scarier in more familiar units: Δv=3000 km/s.
Using the rocket equation, generously assuming propellants with vₑ=10 km/s, we get the ridiculous mass ratio 2×10¹³⁰. Nope. Experimental nuclear thermal rockets might get up to vₑ=50 km/s, bringing the mass ratio down to 10²⁶. Still nope. Maybe we can somehow find something even more exotic that gives us another factor of 10, with vₑ=500 km/s? That's a mass ratio of 400, meaning 99.8% of the ship is fuel, and it gets worse when you remember it also needs fuel to slow down.
Going fast enough to get to another star within one lifetime is harder still, let alone going so fast that time dilation gets interesting. Those "lighthugger" and "NAFAL" ships are almost as magical as warp drives and TARDISes and fairy rings.
Oregon Governor Signs Nation's First Right-To-Repair Bill That Bans Parts Pairing https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/24/03/27/2311200/oregon-governor-signs-nations-first-right-to-repair-bill-that-bans-parts-pairing?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon
OMG 😧 Playing doom using windows task manager
https://youtu.be/hSoCmAoIMOU?si=mvZ3YrFtRziyjw-A
Me trying to explain modern development practices to normies:
Me: yeah, we don’t know how long it will take, or how much it will cost, tbh we don’t really know what we’re going to make. We need to figure that out. Get a feel for the people and the problem, make some stuff that seems useful and see how it goes.
Them: What kind of hippie bullshit is this???
Me: You should’ve seen the crap we made when we thought we knew what we were doing…
Them: Who would go along with this nonsense?
Me: … the people who had to deal with what we made before…?
Them: What part of this even partially resembles Engineering???
Me: so… the thing… that we’ll figure out is the thing we should make?
Them: yeah?
Me: Well, we’ll do that… But At Scale!
Them: what on earth does that even mean??? Gimme my money back!!!
RSS is making something of a comeback (it never went away, though Google and Facebook did their best to kill it), because forward-looking publishers see the value.
The excellent @404mediaco news site explains "How We Built a Full Text RSS Feed" on the Ghost newsletter/blog software, and shared the process with all Ghost users. Kudos all around.
https://www.404media.co/email/4e6c0b81-03f6-4370-8fc8-98dab30bfd45/?ref=daily-stories-newsletter
the fact that we've gotten 19 replies and almost all of them are recommending different readers helps us know that supporting RSS was definitely the right decision, so you can read us wherever you want!
I (jason) am going to try out feeeed
You can read the first two chapters of my new novel MORPHOTROPHIC here:
https://www.gregegan.net/MORPHOTROPHIC/00/MorphotrophicExcerpt.html
You can read more about the image above here https://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2023/cena/ and browse the Chandra photo gallery to see some of the other incredible images and science the Chandra Observatory has brought us. #SaveChandra
Theoretical physicist by training (PhD in quantum open systems/quantum information), University lecturer for a bit, and currently paying the bills as an engineer working in optical communication (implementation) and quantum communication (concepts), though still pursuing a little science on the side. I'm interested in physics and math, of course, but I enjoy learning about really any area of science, philosophy, and many other academic areas as well. My biggest other interest is hiking and generally being out in nature.